You are also being pretentious and hypocritical and presumptuous.

Let take this for example: "The villain is, by far, more complex than Darth Vader in ANH. That is undeniable. So, if your criticism is that the movies are too similar, there goes your argument."

so according to you, if a person believes two things are similar, you point out an aspect that's not similar between the two and that kills the argument? No. If I would have said these movies were exactly the same, then yes you would make a point. But highlighting an aspect of a movie that's different from ANH doesn't dismiss all the other similarities.

"No, it isn't. What youre suggesting simply wouldn't work on screen. You are ignoring some pretty basic limitations of filmmaking to suit your narrow perspective."

That's you being pretentious and narrow minded. As if what we got on screen was the only thing that could have worked and you came to this conclusion without hearing any other ideas. It must be your advanced knowledge of film making and your broad perspective.

"These are shallow, facile observations about the movie. Criticizing the movie on the mere basis of its various settings, rather than the story or character dynamics is, as the original poster said, not very interesting and much more a matter of taste--therefore kind of trivial."

This is you being presumptuous. Acting as if my lone criticism of the movie was the setting. No dude. I was pointing out that the poster I responded to had described elements of the movie as "New" which is only a half truth. For example the planets- They may be new in name but they are blatantly copies of other established planets. Which leads me to this-

"This is a very cynical take on the movie. And it is shallow. It is facile. You are only looking at superficial elements of the film, i.e. setting, plot devices, rather than looking at the story arch and the big picture."

When you judge a movie you you judge it as a whole - The plot, the characters, setting, wardrobe, acting, etc. The whole nine yards. At least if you judge it critically. So you ignoring those elements is just as "shallow" as you assuming I only based my opinion of the movie on it's setting alone. That's you being hypocritical again.