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Mr Peck,
I happened to stumble upon your review of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith today, and it caught my attention, for all the wrong reasons.
For starters, throughout the whole review, it is apparent that your opinion of the film is less important than the satisfaction of hearing your own voice (in this case, reading your own text). I, for all my trying, could not find a place in the whole article that screamed any sense of cohesion or structure, just a long string of venemous ramblings from a self-important windbag who wants a bit of controversy and headlines.
I am sure that you will recieve what you desire, as I know that I am most likely not the first, nor the last fan of the Star Wars saga that will e-mail you, and with good reason. The "review" was a rambling exercise of pretension and hyperbole, and franky, I expect something a bit more professional from one who supposedly is paid for this craft.
Also, as stated before, there is no sense of cohesion to your review at all. You seem to think that you are being clever in "tieing together" references from as many sources as you can, in order to make yourself sound "better" than the average American. Let it be known that many have seen right through your scheme. There is not one ounce of intelligence in the review, no matter how verbose you get.
In a review of Revenge of the Sith (which i see you have renamed, Revenge of the Shit, wow, you are the ONLY one who has ever thought of that, kudos to you), I see one, possibly 2 paragraphs devoted to the movie at hand. Through the rest of the review you slam not only the original trilogy (critically accliamed, in which the second, Empire Strikes Back, is considered the strongest of the three, which I see you consider "mediocre", again, in an attempt to garner attention to yourself), but the fanbase in general. Sir, let me tell you what right you have to go ad hominem towards quite possibly the largest movie fanbase on earth. The simple answer is none! I have never understood why reviewers feel the need to attack the fans, instead of focusing on the movie, which is what they are paid to do. In fact, the lack of attention to the movie itself, the review reads like one that you had already had planned months in advance of you seeing the film, needing only a cursory glimpse at a couple of spoiler sites/trailers to fill in your reqired space devoted to the film in question.
I do not expect you to read this, nor reply, but will be pleasantly surprised if you do. Thank you in advance for your time.
Justin M. Steranko
Star Wars fan
P.S. The reason the Vader quote is misquoted and "awkwardly phrased" is because you take it out of context, it was never meant to be a standalone line. That dialogue goes as follows:
Vader - Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father
Luke - He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
Vader - No, I am your father
In the above dialogue, it is easy to see that the last Vader line, taken on its own, is awkward, and clumsy, but put in the context of the narrative, is the most logical thing for him to say.
meh, it's not my best writing (and thanks to some on here whose phrases i lifted verbatim.
