Not Good The Review Is

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The reviews for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith are in and most of them are positive. Well, positive in the sense that it is a lot better than the first two prequels. I haven't seen it yet and probably won't for a couple of weeks. (I can't stomach the idea of fighting the masses for a good seat to a movie I'm not really all that jazzed to see.) Anthony Lane's review in The New Yorker is an all-timer. Hilarious. I was reading it aloud to B last night for laughs. Like Roger Ebert, Lane's funniest reviews are for movies he absolutely hates. Here is my favorite bit. (The last line is my new catch phrase.)

...The one who gets me is Yoda. May I take the opportunity to enter a brief plea in favor of his extermination? Any educated moviegoer would know what to do, having watched that helpful sequence in “Gremlins” when a small, sage-colored beastie is fed into an electric blender. A fittingly frantic end, I feel, for the faux-pensive stillness on which the Yoda legend has hung... Also, while we’re here, what’s with the screwy syntax? Deepest mind in the galaxy, apparently, and you still express yourself like a day-tripper with a dog-eared phrase book. “I hope right you are.” Break me a fucking give.

Question: If the original trilogy never existed, would people really be lining up for this stuff?