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Roger Ebert Answers Star Wars Questions
pamri writes "Roger Ebert, in his weekly answer-man column, answers Star War related questions, chief among them being, why he gave the "Revenge of the Sith" 3.5 stars despite his criticism of the acting and whether George Lucas be faulted for violating his own work?"
Given your low slashdot number I'll assume you were making an attempt at humour, and not trolling.
Anyone who has followed Ebert knows that for decades he has hated the star rating system, but subjects himself to it since its whats expected by newspapers. His 'thumbs up, thumbs down' was an attempt to abstract this a bit, saying "its worth watching on its merits" or not. You can't compare Citizen Kane to Die Hard...both are 'good' movies, but one clearly transcends its medium whereas the other is just good ass-kicking goodness.
Kiss kiss, bang bang.
John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
He bought the account on eBay. I'm not making this up. Now is he a troll?
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
As an aside, there is also an annoying difference between C3PO's voice in the new trilogy and the voice in the original trilogy.
I haven't gone back to listen to the movies to see if there is something odd about C-3PO's voice, but Anthony Daniels has always done his voice.
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He is terrible in Star Wars. I wouldn't say he is terrible in general. I thouhgt he was great in Shattered Glass. The same it true of Natalie Portman. Good in just about everything else but Star Wars.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The story is a dupe, the topic is boring, the facts weren't checked. WE GET IT!!
Hmm, I think you need to turn your humor down a little lower. His response was a combination of humor (Natalie Portman missing pants would be noticed) and burn (get a life, I'm a move critic not a SW geek, I don't care about continuity that much which is why I'm not giving you a serious answer).
Fuck the reviewers. They're nothing more than shills nowadays. Tell people the movie is crap, you don't get any more "previews", so you're out of a job.
Try the Independent's review
It got a whopping one star out of five. It's an entertaining review, as well. I can't say whether it's accurate or not though, because I haven't seen the film. Ep. I was bad enough that I just rented Ep. II later on. Ep II was dull enough that I haven't bothered with Ep III at all.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
What? Julie Andrews character doesn't fall in love with a young man who becomes a Nazi; she falls in love with the father. It's one of the children she cares for who falls in love with Rolf, who later becomes a Nazi.