Here we go again
Aug. 11th, 2008 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lazypadawanThe main disadvantage of having seen CW already is that it is killing me I can't discuss it with you guys yet! However, I was able to go through my trading cards and start reading the book ;).
Poking around online, I've seen stuff on how George Lucas is in it just for the money or this is just to sell toys or lure children to Satanism or whatever. I don't get it. What's wrong with making money? *Shrug.*
As predicted, some critics have just downloaded their old reviews and changed the names. Others seem to have missed the point: this isn't meant to be a New SW Movie, it's promoting a t.v. show (I'm looking at you, Empire and Harry Knowles). For that reason, part of me wonders if it really was smart to subject what was originally conceived as a t.v. pilot to film critics. It doesn't help there's an entrenched internet movie/geek culture that loathes George Lucas, SW, and most of you reading this and they've been doing everything to talk this down. It's going to be up to SW fans, the kids, and their parents who don't base their opinions on what the online "tastemakers" say. (The $64,000 question is where EW will fall in its review. It hates SW, especially recent SW, yet CW is under the same conglomerate umbrella as EW. Talk about a dilemma.)
Speaking of which, I heard that Lucasfilm made AICN remove their reviews. Other sources have posted their reviews and so far, no C&D for me. I didn't sign anything, so there. I have no idea what went on with AICN or why, but it isn't because Knowles didn't like CW since Moriarty's positive review was also taken down.
Concerning T.V. Guide's multi-cover CW extravaganza, I knew somehow deep in my gut they'd pull a fast one. The article on CW itself is fine. But flip a few pages before the article and there's the Cheers & Jeers column. After mentioning Natalie Portman's recent turn on "Project Runway" as a judge and her no-critters-used shoe line, out of nowhere they make a lame comment on how she must know how to work with natural materials given her wooden dialogue in SW. I bet it took all day for Mr. Cheers & Jeers to think of that one :/. Suckazz.
Well, on the positive side, here's coverage of the L.A. premiere yesterday:
http://www.starwars.com/theclonewars/news20080810.html
Apparently Janet Jackson was there as well.
And I hear there's Clone Wars Lunchables available at your local supermarket.
Poking around online, I've seen stuff on how George Lucas is in it just for the money or this is just to sell toys or lure children to Satanism or whatever. I don't get it. What's wrong with making money? *Shrug.*
As predicted, some critics have just downloaded their old reviews and changed the names. Others seem to have missed the point: this isn't meant to be a New SW Movie, it's promoting a t.v. show (I'm looking at you, Empire and Harry Knowles). For that reason, part of me wonders if it really was smart to subject what was originally conceived as a t.v. pilot to film critics. It doesn't help there's an entrenched internet movie/geek culture that loathes George Lucas, SW, and most of you reading this and they've been doing everything to talk this down. It's going to be up to SW fans, the kids, and their parents who don't base their opinions on what the online "tastemakers" say. (The $64,000 question is where EW will fall in its review. It hates SW, especially recent SW, yet CW is under the same conglomerate umbrella as EW. Talk about a dilemma.)
Speaking of which, I heard that Lucasfilm made AICN remove their reviews. Other sources have posted their reviews and so far, no C&D for me. I didn't sign anything, so there. I have no idea what went on with AICN or why, but it isn't because Knowles didn't like CW since Moriarty's positive review was also taken down.
Concerning T.V. Guide's multi-cover CW extravaganza, I knew somehow deep in my gut they'd pull a fast one. The article on CW itself is fine. But flip a few pages before the article and there's the Cheers & Jeers column. After mentioning Natalie Portman's recent turn on "Project Runway" as a judge and her no-critters-used shoe line, out of nowhere they make a lame comment on how she must know how to work with natural materials given her wooden dialogue in SW. I bet it took all day for Mr. Cheers & Jeers to think of that one :/. Suckazz.
Well, on the positive side, here's coverage of the L.A. premiere yesterday:
http://www.starwars.com/theclonewars/news20080810.html
Apparently Janet Jackson was there as well.
And I hear there's Clone Wars Lunchables available at your local supermarket.
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Date: 2008-08-12 02:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-13 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-13 05:22 am (UTC)If so, I feel kind of sorry for him, that that's the best "quip" he could come up with. It's lame, as you said, and quite honestly, it doesn't even really make sense.
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Date: 2008-08-12 07:33 am (UTC)http://www.aintitcool.com/node/12260
Funny, I don't see a damn thing here about "surviving Hayden and a wooden Natalie Portman". A lot of the stuff he says about the movie (with specific regards to the romance) is pretty insightful. It's been said that his scathing Clone Wars review was a big "I'M SORRY" to Darth Fanboy for actually liking the PT, and after reading this I have to agree. It just shows you how quickly someone can do a complete about face when confronted with that kind of peer pressure. It also makes me wonder how many other people would actually admit to liking the prequels, if there wasn't such a stigma attached.
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-12 11:13 am (UTC)I'm hoping I get to see it in the theater, but I don't hold out much hope. I didn't get in to see Indiana Jones or Get Smart or Narnia this summer, either. *sigh*
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Date: 2008-08-13 02:55 am (UTC)