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Ebert Gives 'Sith' Positive Review
emerald demon writes "The world's authority on reviewing movies, Roger Ebert, has released his review of "Star Wars--Episode III: Revenge of the Sith." I noticed that Ebert & Roeper gave it a two thumbs up, but I assumed that Ebert was going to go for the minimum for giving his thumb up--two and a half stars. I was delighted to read his three and a half starred review. It seemed like he let a few things slip, but it's obvious that he enjoyed it. '"Episode III" has more action per square minute, I'd guess, than any of the previous five movies, and it is spectacular.' Bad dialogue as usual: 'To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.'"
"I'm french and I never heard about this guy, the world's authority you quote."
Haha, silly [FREEDOM]man!(1) Don't you know that US=World?
(1) Typographical error corrected by Homeland Security proxy.
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Your kidding me? This is the same guy that wanted to put "The Preacher" on the big screen with BEN AFFLECK as Custer and Cameron Diaz as Tulip. C'mon! BEN AFFLECK! Christ, when will their love affair end already!
Entertaining reviews, but I'm not so sure about intelligent. They could have been written years ago.
Lucas had so much to work with, but his mind is feeble. There was room for a fantastic twist in the films which could leave doubt in people's minds about the empire.... the empire growing out of necessity to obliterate a corrupt senate. Anakin on a quest to put a stop to the corruption which led to his and his mother's enslavement when he was a child. Make the original three films suddenly look like a fools errand to free the universe of an orderly, albeit ruthless dictatorship... and open the way for the last three films when the empire weakens under the loss of Vader and struggles against their numerous enemies, finally ending when the Jedi are revealed for the brainwashing cult of religious anarchists that they are, forced to accept that the dark side saved the universe from a dark age of corruption.
I think I'll try to recut the films, AoTC would splice nicely with the Lord of the Rings, count Dooku and all so as to allow me to introduce some new footage. I just need some voice actors :-)
You should be able to see epsiode 3 followed by episode 4 and have it not look like you're jumping from 2005 filmmaking technology to 1977 era special effects.
What would have been cool would be to slowly shift the look over the course of III back to 1977 filmmaking technology. Do it gradually so it's not jarring. Then if you watch the films back-to-back it would look better.
Of course, if George wanted my opinion, he'd ask me!
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The Grauniad is a "loony left" paper in the UK with a political axe to grind (let's bash the Yankee moneymakers!) and little time for any SF, good or bad. Their ultimate directors are people like Lars von Trier (Oooh! Dogma is so iconoclastic!) or Ken Loach, writer of kitchen-sink dramas about squalor in post-Thatcherite Britain. Star Wars will never find any favour with The Grauniad, because it says little about the daily reality of people's lives - i.e. they don't believe in escapism. "Embrace the misery that is your life!"
I can't say I'm IN a terrible hurry to go and see Sith, I can't stand fighting queues, but (as others have already said) Ebert's review is more valuable because of its clarity. Neither tPM or AotC get an entry in my Great Movies list, but Sith is still one of my "should see" movies this year. (But what about Batman Begins..?) Comparing The Grauniad's reviewer to Ebert is like comparing Film to The Movies...
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