Except for that it wasn&#x27;t supposed to be a remake, rather this was just a case of everyone involved phoning it in. I think Andrew O&#x27;Hehir said it best, &quot;it&#x27;s the Citibank of movies, literally too big to fail.&quot; Right now everyone has been brainwashed into loving it because of Disney&#x27;s billion-dollar marketing spend. But much like Bush&#x27;s popularity after 9&#x2F;11, sooner or later reality is going to catch up.<p>As a kid part of the magic of Star Wars was that you could sort of imagine there was an entire universe of interesting stories and characters beyond what was pictured in the movies. But J.J. Abrams has made it abundantly clear that no, actually, there was never anything else there.