I've been thinking about some of the criticism for the movie, and I have a theory on why many fans don't like this movie. All of them are going in expecting A New Hope or The Empire Strikes Back. There are multiple references about how things were "better" in some other movie, and I think it's gotten to the point where anything new isn't tolerated.
I believe the same thing happened with fans of SEIII after Aaron released the SEIV demo. They all wanted their right-click menus back. Some complained about the new production model. Playing styles had to be adjusted... "how can we play with only twelve research and twelve intel projects?". They wanted another SEIII, and SEIV was something new.
Just a theory
