IMO I still hate TFA the most
TLJ and TROS only happen because of the precedence set by TFA. This is what TFA did that set up the fall for the rest of the trilogy:
- ruined the OT characters (Han loser regressed smuggler, Leia incompetent ineffectual general, Luke absent without good reason)
- reset the stakes to zero by returning the empire to the dominate force (and just renaming it First Order, thus negating the entirety of the OT plot); all without explanation or sensible reasoning (that it is possible) making it feel unearned. You get this 'it is just there deal with it' type of feel. "don't think just consume product".
- mary sue force lore breaking Rey (one of the worst characters ever put to screen); this "annoyingly good at everything" character that the plot bends over backwards (and breaks itself) to put her at the center of attention and never at a position of defeat or weakness.
- Turned the force into magic powers like magic system thus ruining the more mystical religious like feel of it
- was a complete and obvious rehash of the ANH plot almost to an absurd level.
- Did not provide likeable interesting characters to 'pass the torch' to. Finn had potential until they turned him into a bumbling side kick that had a personality not matching his background. Poe was supposed to die in the film and it shows. Leaving only Rey, who (see above for criticism).
-Weaker, wimpy pathetic versions of Vader and Tarkin. Plus Carbon cut out stand in for the Emperor; who was such a stand in character they got away with literally making him just a clone of the emperor.
- Bad scenes with bad acting (Rey meeting BB-8, Kylo and Snoke discussing Han scene, Hux speech, Maz's bar ) are just a few stand out.
-Horribly paced scenes, rushing from action scene to action scene (that also have terrible frame rate per second causing mind numbing visuals (but at least it is not shaky cam)).
-Boring uninspired music that told no story. John Williams clearly didn't know what story they were trying to tell because it shows in his music.
- Mediocre CGI; it is only been 5 years and the effects already look data. It took more than 20 years before ANH started to feel dated.
Anyone that says TFA was great and Rian Johnson just ruined everything must have not been watching the same film I did. When people say Johson ruined it, I am like "ruined what, there was nothing left to ruin" except maybe Luke; but since he was just absent in TFA IMO he was already semi ruined.