Star Wars is crap. The whole thing, all of them -- crap, crap, crap. An insult to the intelligence of our kids.
John Podhoretz at The Weekly Standard:
Ever since he began making his second set of Star Wars movies a decade ago, Lucas said that Episode III: Revenge of the Sith would be the unvarnished story of the young knight Anakin Skywalker's degeneration and conversion into the black-helmeted, black-outfitted Darth Vader, the villain of the first three films. The tale of woe it really tells is that of George Lucas himself, the final chapter in the sad degeneration of a vital, vivid, and highly amusing moviemaker into a dull, solipsistic, and humorless incompetent.
Anthony Lane at the New Yorker (hat tip Galley Slaves): (rough language)
No, the one who gets me is Yoda. May I take the opportunity to enter a brief plea in favor of his extermination?
I'm sure we'll hear from plenty of others shortly. I'll keep adding as I find them.
1:28PM Robert E Schnakenburg at PopPolitics.com:
Chinatown. Taxi Driver. Midnight Cowboy. Network. These were some of the mainstream features Hollywood produced in the decade before Star Wars.
Gremlins. The Goonies. Ghostbusters. Beverly Hills Cop. These were the witless, soulless individually wrapped slices of cinematic cheese that followed in its wake.
5/18 Duane Dudek in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
...the finale feels less the inevitable conclusion of some great saga than the predictable mooing of a reliable cash cow.
11:53am Heh.
1:05pm Mike at Het2Blog has never seen a Star Wars movie:
I fell asleep watching one of them with my oldest son several years ago. According to my wife, sleeping on the couch while she watches a chick flick doesn't count as watching a movie with her, so I will apply the same rule here.
5/19 11:49 Ann Althouse: "I'd love to blog about it, but I'd have to go see it, and, for that, I would need to be paid. I think $500 would be a fair price."
4:26pm David Letterman: "It was a beautiful day here in New York City. It was so nice out I saw a guy putting sun block on his light saber."
