It's a reference tothe war criminal, isn't it? Hey, at least he's not a tattooed thug with a blood grudge against someone from his homeland… or is he?

They showed a trailer for this before Magnificent Seven and I didn't know it was the same actress. I thought, man, there are so many budget Jennifer Lawrences these days.

You don't understand what I'm saying.

I'm saying there is no such thing as a documentary that "lets the facts speak for themselves". And that you seem to expect that same principle of "just hard facts" applied to a non-documentary as well.

By this definition, there is no such thing as a documentary. Which is fine, but it's strange you'd pick a movie to make your argument.

I can understand why someone would make the mistake, but this is not a documentary. And even if it were, why would taking sides disqualify it from being a documentary?

There is also a lot of talk of tone and pacing across all reviews. I also remember them criticizing the opening scene of Ep. III for its lack of clarity and sense of space etc. etc.

I do have false/implanted memories, but I don't see how that relates to this particular point. Which part is incorrect? Jesse's claim or the fact that Plinkett goes into great detail about how pedestrian the direction is?

You must have mistakenly commented here. Reddit is that way —->

Yeah, I got that. In fact, I think he liked it so much that he had to work hard to come up with a good criticism that wasn't about similarities to A New Hope. Apology not needed nonetheless!

I don't think they're that egotistic (if they were, listing parallels between TFA and their earlier suggestions would go on for much longer), but I agree that spending so much time addressing prequel apologists seems petty and, worst of all, dull.

I actually agree with you on most points. It's just that responding to all the newly minted prequel apologists felt beneath Plinkett somehow. And those parts dragged on for way too long.

I was surprised (and a little disappointed) that Plinkett went through such trouble answering Jesse and other critics, when the original reviews can speak for themselves. E.g. Jesse made an argument that the "it's so dense" criticism doesn't consider framing, editing or composition, even though the Ep. III review…

I had a good home but I left

I don't know if I agreed with him on that, especially since ep. IV didn't really have thay much romance either.

Which is why I thought it was pointless to spend so much time on it. They could have made a blog post about it for all the uber-geeks. Watching it was kind of a chore for me.

Since he's comparing it negatively to a trilogy that had a similar first instalment, I'd say that's a fair sentiment. He contrasted the underdeveloped romance with moments from eps V and VI. However, A New Hope had about the same amount of romance as the new movie.

I actually think it would have been a better idea to wait until all three movies are released to make a Plinkett review. A lot of his speculation and criticisms (like the underdeveloped romance) will probably be addressed in future films.

Disappointing stuff. I truly don't care about Plinkett dismantling deep cuts of prequel apologia, especially since he repeated a lot of the same arguments from the original reviews.

That was a genuinely great Trump impression. The fact that it used a lot of actual quotes probably helped.