[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....

[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.

[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.

[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.

[GraniteStateConservative]

But the Darth Vader we see at the end of Revenge of the Sith hasn't been seduced. He's been tricked. He's not a villain. He's a schmuck.

The problem is that Vader never was a superior villain. He never tried to vanquish The Emperor (or this President guy John talks about) so he could be the undisputed heavyweight bad guy champion of the world, so to speak. That's what makes a great villain. He has to be fearless-- just like a great hero. It's all about sides of the mirror-- the same, but opposite.

[gridlock]

Like the movie Podhertz did not...

[LAURENTIJ]

CBS news strikes again, rottentomatoes has it getting a quite nice rating.

[theFIRMbss]

>But the Darth Vader we see at the end of Revenge of the Sith hasn't been seduced. He's been tricked. He's not a villain. He's a schmuck

Just damn. I had hoped
the Jedi's constant mistakes
were a subtle plan

to mis-lead the Sith
and set up the victory
of Vader's son . . . But

I guess Jedi just
are incompetent losers
and the Sith should rule!

[ReagansShinyHair]

Ping you, I must.

[timtoews5292004]

A review of star wars critiquing poor dialogue by lucas? Shocked. Shocked and awed I am </sarcasm>. Everybody knows Lucas can't write his way out of a paper sack. Judging this movie by this review alone is a bad move, I think.

2 days and 7 hours till it opens, for me, anyway. I picked up tickets to my local theatres midnight showing.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Lucas hires million dollar CG experts - why can't he hire a decent ghostwriter?

[Ragnorak]

Return of the Jedi had some serious plot problems, but was enjoyable and one could watch it without projectile vomiting.

I still haven't recovered from the whole "The Force" is a bacterial infection that leads to virgin births thing.

As I recall, Lucas was sued by his ex for claims that she was the real creative force behind Star Wars. I think she needs to reopen that lawsuit...