Zero Stars For Star Wars VI (Spoiler Alert)

cbsnews.com ^ | May 16, 2005 | John Podhoretz.

[Destro]

This..pains...me....

[Horatio Gates]

I have a bad feeling about this...

[Borges]

Why the surprise about bad writing? Lucas has no ear for dialogue and never has. He makes James Cameron look like David Mamet.

[anonymous_user]

Good relations with the Wookiees I have.

Sounds like a line out of a porno. Buh-baw-baw-chicka-baw-baw...

[The Iguana]

Judging by what's at Rotten Tomatoes, John Podhoretz is one of very few voices crying out in the wilderneess. Or hollering outside the multiplex, at any rate.

I haven't seen it so I can't say. But I get the feeling that by and large, fantasy flicks are not his bag.

That's all right. I still like his writing.

[redgolum]

And I had such hopes....

[MaryFromMichigan]

Bad review. Pain me it does.

[Yo-Yo]

For the DVD I must wait.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Now I have more reason not to see it other than the gratuitous, thinly-veiled Bush-bashing.

Thanks, John!

[BenLurkin]

By the lake at Nauvoo? http://www.nauvoo.net/

[Sola Veritas]

"He's been tricked. He's not a villain. He's a schmuck."

Kinda says it all.

[blueblazes]

Not surprised, am I. Full of brown remnants of male cows, it is.

[longtermmemmory]

alas poor Yoric....

[RobFromGa]

Still go see it I must.

[OpusatFR]

Also a bad feeling about this I have.

It started with that whiney annoying kid in the first one. It's all downhill from there.

[timtoews5292004]

And what of George Lucas? He is, by leagues, the most commercially successful moviemaker in history.

Spielberg is no slouch either. In fact, I think they're pretty close in terms of wealth +/- a billion or two.

[surely_you_jest]

"You should never have come to Naboo, Dooku!"

Nanu, nanu!

[JennysCool]

Podhoretz is right about Lucas's own dark transition. The new "Star Wars" flicks are almost devoid of the sense of fun that Lucas brought to "American Graffiti" and "Star Wars." It's as if the prequels exist in another, much more humorless, universe entirely.

[kromike]

But that's the trend these days in movie-making. Villains aren't blatantly, flat-out evil, they're just "confused" and "misunderstood". They had a bad childhood, blah blah blah.

Lucas should have let Paul Verhoeven ("Starship Troopers") write & direct "Sith". Now, THAT would have been something to look forward to.