You see, I thought their central dilemma was that they were being threatened with imminent destruction by the First Order.
I appreciate the additional world-building.
Why NOT care about them? I did.
A common thing that's been said in this thread is that it's not WHAT happened, it's HOW it happened.
Yes, the central dilemma was being threatened with destruction from the First Order ~~but that's a very broad statement. The first order could have threatened them with hugs or rainbows. For the vehicle of this threat to be "we have 6 hours of gas left" is fucking absurd. That is just a terrible plot considering we're in a movie with light sabers, light speed warp travel and Wookies. "I don't have gas" is mind numbingly stupid to me.
The casino. I'm all for world building. The casino didn't do that. That was a nothing scene. We learmed that there are rich people that liked to gamble...wow. so new. The casino served no purpose to further the story. Rose falls in love with Finn during this adventure because. .what? They shared a jail cell together for a few hours? Finn and Rose's purpose for being there was to get a hacker.
Instead, they get arrested for PARKING in the wrong spot, they then were ready to leave the planet WITHOUT what they came for...it was the random hacker who ended up saving them...for reasons unknown.
Why would you care about any of the characters? What do you know of them to care? I don't care about them because i know nothing about them.
Who is Finn? Why is he so infatuated with Rey? Who is Rey? Ah...just the daughter of a drunkard couple. Who is Ren? What does he want? Who is Snoke? Is this all that Luke is now? We had 3 movies with him as our hero. ..now he's just an old asshole drinking sea walrus milk? Even when the movie starts to do some character development, it then instantly kills the mood with a stupid joke.
"My sister died for the rebellion. .im sad......"20 seconds later" im gonna taze u, bro because ure tryin to hop outta here"
The character development, story, and tone made it impossible for me to give a shit about any of these people.
I don't know if you watch The walking Dead, but i had a similar feeling watching this movie. I didn't give a shit about any of these people