1. the music
2. the fact that when on the ground, it doesn't look like one or two real people acting in front of a gigantic green screen (which is what made the prequels and the LOTR movies uninvolving - that and the fact George Lucas can't write a good screenplay to save himself and I am completely uninterested in Tolkien-lore)
3. Harrison Ford looks better than expected as a aged Han Solo
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I think you're being a bit uncharitable. My reasons for being buzzed:
1. BADASS LUKE CYBORG SKYWALKER Y'ALL
2. The set design - the star destroyer hulk in the desert, the (exogorth?) jaws ringing the exhaust, fleshing out the post-Empire world in pleasingly authentic fashion.
3. The words "Chewie... we're home" send a shiver up the spine of every fan, it's a promise that they won't stuff this one up (yet to be delivered upon of course).
My enthusiasm for the film is tempered by the fact that I don't hold JJ Abrams in much regard as a director. I have complained for years that his cinema work looks like TV work - he fills the screen with way too many face close ups in every one I have seen. He's not exactly a outright bad director - his work doesn't offend me as such - he's just a mundane one who I think is way overrated. He seems a nice enough fellow in interviews, though.
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