quick off topic history lesson

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm

Whoever designed that avatar needs to grow a brain too - because it looks like a Hindu Swastika, not the Nazi one which is angled - so in a way, it's a veiled compliment.

(Unless, of course, that's what it was meant to be - in which case, I retract the brain thing)

Maybe, but your also human trash.

Thanks for the history lesson aba, I knew a little bit about the history of that symbol but didn't realize it's use went that far back. In regards to the av, that symbol will mean the same thing for who knows how long. Either you want the attention or you're just ignorant, c'mon man you know you're asking for it with something like that

That's the point. He's either ignorant, insensitive, or hateful.

Fuckin' pillar of humanity.

Nobody's arguing his right. Go back to school.

Don't know if this has been posted yet. If so, sorry. The Onion review (they liked it, with qualifications).

http://www.theonionavclub.com/cinema/in ... e=4120&r=1

I see the title of the thread in the index, and find something completly different inside. Weird.

I think a "My Political Standpoint is Better Than Yours, Motherfucker" thread should be put in General Dis or Reservation. That'd be fun.

to each critic his or her own...

but some of the negative reviews i read were appalling , i mean , do they even know that Star Wars movies are not Shakespearian plays?

SW is meant to be cheesy , coz Lucas wanted SW to be a Saturday afternoon matinee- like movie, and obviously these non-fan critics didn't know this.

can u imagine cartoon fans reviewing Shawshank Redemption?

i try not to...

btw Star Wars rules!!!!!!

Mike, I'm going to have to disagree with you on your assessment that a 5/5 review is as absurd as a 0/5 review.

The 0/5 review implies that the acting is of the worst kind, the dialogue is unbearable and laughable, there is no redeeming feature of the story that makes it watch able, the special affects are worse than the variety offered by Ed Wood, the editing makes the movie difficult to follow and the film was accompanied by booing and hissing during it's entirety because the film made you dumber watching it.

However, according to your logic the 5/5 review is equally absurd because it requires perfection. But then what is perfection? What is good dialogue, what is poor dialogue, what is good acting, what is poor acting? I don't think it is simple as saying 'the man' denotes what's good and what is not good. Good is reliant on the eye of the beholder, the critical eye who is reviewing a film. To me there is two ways of looking at it.

The first is film as an art form. The reviewer looks at whether this film pushes the boundary in acting, directing, dialogue, editing, framing and visuals. This approach would never result in a 5/5 score simply because no film can ever do this. Not Citizen Kane, not The Godfather, not Schindler’s List. Each film has revolutionary aspects but each film can also be critiqued on areas of the film which are not performed well.

The second is film as what it offers to the reviewer. This offers a way for the 5/5 review because different reviewers and audience members go into the movie with different expectations and different needs. Some will go in to be intellectually stimulated. Star wars is not the answer, hence a poor score i.e. 2/5. Some will go into the movie with the express intent of looking at the film as an art form. Again Star Wars is not the answer, particularly as the visuals are stressed more than the dialogue and the performances which from an art form perspective are sub par. However, some audience members/reviewers will simply watch and critique a film based purely on whether they enjoy the film.

Neither need is wrong or right particularly as film, to be brutually honest, is the common leveller that can be enjoyed by the elites and the peasants. It is not high art but someway in between it and it's low art brethren.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on your assessment that a 5/5 review is as absurd as a 0/5 review.

Yes, look at the distribution. Anthony Lane is WAY out of the mainstream and no where near anybody else with his pitiful 10 on Metacritic. Everyone else is at least a 50! But there are three 90's and four 88's, so the 100 is more reasonable than the 10.

NPR's Morning Edition ran a piece about Lucas this morning, and also had Kenneth Turan reading his review.

Audio will be available soon at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4655787

Don't know if it's been posted yet (and I wasn't able to grab the article) but the SanFranciso chronicle said they saw revenge of the sith and the force was not with it.

Entertainment Weekly

Grade: B-

At least Lisa Schwartzbitch didn't review it.

Baltimore Sun, Michael Sragow:

"In 'Revenge of the Sith,' George Lucas pulls off a cataclysmic 'Star Wars' masterpiece... The movie's sky-high lift comes from its virtuoso kinetics and from the way Obi-Wan's alertness and sensitivity and Anakin's arrogance shape the combat. McGregor's foreshadowing of Alec Guinness' wry, sagacious older Obi-Wan ranks with De Niro's portrayal of Brando's Don Corleone as a young man in The Godfather Part II. McGregor is superb. He gives Obi-Wan's concern for Padme a loving overlay that provides fuel for Anakin/Darth Vader's jealousy."

4/4 stars.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/n ... 556085.stm

A link to an interview with GL.

BET Gives it 3 1/2 of 4

Very positive. His only complaint is the 'birth of vader' scene. If already posted...then ignore.
bet.com review

MSNBC at the movies show is on this weekend a whole hour of SW, travers and another critic will be going head to head reviewing the film.

Wow, Travers looked like a fucking moron, He run out of bad things to say about it, I mean the guy says, "The only dialogue, I liked in the movie was from Chewie" and he did bring up the kool-aid, "Star Wars fans have give me alot of crap for saying that"

Here's the page of the show vote for SITH they will show the result in next week's show.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6862436/