What Does Jim Cameron Think Of New Star Wars?

A video surfaced today (via IndieWire) from an interview in which Jim Cameron gave his thoughts on The Force Awakens in a very James Cameron (ie. candid) way:

“Well George Lucas is a friend of mine and he and I were having a good conversation the other day about it. I don’t want to say too much about the film cause I also have a lot of respect for J.J. Abrams, and I want to see where they’re taking it next, to see what they’re doing with it. I have to say that I felt that George’s group of six films had more innovative visual imagination, and this film was more of a retrenchment to things you had seen before and characters you had seen before, and it took a few baby steps forward with new characters. So for me the jury’s out, I wanna see where they go with it.”

So… I just checked the typical mainstream verdicts on this movie, now that the dust has settled.  Yep, something not right here; 8.2 on IMDb, 81% on Metacritic and 92% on RottenTomatoes.  Come on now, this movie is leaps and bounds behind the original trilogy.  So why is it being treated like it’s a masterpiece.

The question here is, are these people stupid or simply weak?