The first time I saw “The Force Awakens” my entire review was “this is just the original three films slammed together into one film”

Which translates to me not being that impressed.

I remember it still drew some pretty heavy criticism at the time, don’t let the rose-tinted glasses fool you. Rey as a character had quite a lot of legitimate flaws in her writing IIRC (not about whether she was a good or bad person, about whether she was handled well as a protagonist with substance to her character, importance and story)

What are you on about? The Force Awakens is just a poor remix of A new hope, but with bad characters and an stilted script. It’s the most boring of the new trilogy.

I’m with you OP!

I was a kid when the original movies came out and it had a huge impact on me. Force Awakens has it’s flaws, but I liked it then and I still like it now.

Just want you to know, you’re not alone!

(bracing for the inevitable downvotes!)