Star Wars: AOTC Reviews Pour In

Dork King writes "The New York Time's Review of AOTC (free reg, yada yada) notes that Attack of the Clones doesn't look good for fans. Thankfully, I'm not a fan." Also, dw5000 writes "The BBC has a favorable review of Attack of the Clones on its news website, as well as an executive summary of what the UK papers are saying about AotC. The populist tabloids love it, while the broadsheets are giving cautious approval. Hmm. Maybe I won't wait for DVD ..." I also noticed Variety has a review up as well. Also, for those who have lost all hope for Star Wars, I submit to you the date of the Spider-Man sequel: May 7th, 2004. You should know that spoilers exist in one or more of these stories. Beware!

Comments

spoiler

[dirvish]

Spider-Man spoiler? How is that possible? Anyone who is a fan knows every possible story line they could use in the sequal.

recipe for comments in this discussion:

[jdbo]

mix-n-match to your pleasure:

claim to righteousness:

• "I haven't seen it, and..." (modded up as insightful)
• "I have seen it, and..." (lying, modded up as informative)
• "I have seen it, and..." (true, modded down as troll)

claim of truth:

• "...it sucks!..." (modded up as insightful)
• "...it rocks!..." (modded up as insightful)
• "...it sucks and (LOTR/Spider-Man/Matrix) rocks!..." (modded up as insightful)
• "...it rocks and (LOTR/Spider-Man/Matrix) sucks!..." (modded up as insightful)
• "...[perverse rant about Natalie Portman]..." (continously modded up as interesting and down as troll)
• "...what about the MPAA?..." (modded down as flamebait)
• "...[actual thoughtful review]..." (modded down as redundant)

parting declaration:

• "...Lucas has lost it!..." (modded up as insightful)
• "...Lucas is the king!..." (modded up as insightful)
• "...the FX are incredible!..." (modded down as redundant)
• "...I've done better FX on my basement 486 using POVRAY..." (modded up as interesting)
• "...it's OK. Go see it if you're interested, ignore it otherwise, and by all means wait for the swarming masses of raving geeks to dissipate..." (ignored by moderators)
• "...[desparate plea for a date with Natalie Portman]..." (modded up as funny)

Ripoff

[miracle69]

This movie is an obvious ripoff of two highly successful movies from two different eras: Strange Brew and Spiderman

Let's Compare.

Strange Brew : Star Wars EP II
Flying Dog : Flying Green Muppet
Plot to take over world : Plot to take over universe
Evil hockey players : Stormtroopers
Beer is source of power : "Midichlorion" microbrew
Bob and Doug : Obi and Anakin
Based on Hamlet : Based on ancient myths
Max von Sydow : Ian McDiarmid

Clearly, this movie is just a poor-rehash of Strange Brew with one twist - Spiderman special effects and the "spider sense" redone in an effort to trick the viewer into liking this poor-rendition of the greatest movie ever made, Strange Brew.

I don't buy it.

Kooookokokokokokokooooooo!

AOTC

[Anonymous Coward]

Since I have nothing witty to say, I will state for the record that Chewbacca is a better actor than Worf.

Britney?

[Ogerman]

Is it just my imagination or is queen Amidala dressed almost precisely like Britney Spears in that one scene? Tight vinyl pants and top, belly showing, etc. Except it's a white outfit instead of red.. How lame can you get? Lucas has definitely sold out to corporate America. Sad really..

Re:NYT accounts deleted (karma whoring too)

[Stormie]

Anyone else notice the blah/blah and yada/yada login/passwords don't seem to work at New York Times anymore.

Well, I created a new account to read this. Username is something like sdkfgdkfs and password is something like pwejorowebn. (email is sdkufgsdf@ksfsdf.com)

If they want another one like that added to their database every time they have a story linked to by Slashdot, they're more than welcome to it.