"but that's fine; when a movie has good character and dialogue and is zippy, there's really not much point spending a lot of time nitpicking the rest of it."

"Another flaw with this movie: There's so much diversity. And diversity is great! But on the other hand, diversity doesn't matter at all and is stupid."

Well I've no idea who Tim and Eric are, so I was fine with it *shrug*

"defending the sand line is straight up denial. that is a terrible, awful scene and it hurts to watch, and "a great romance when communicated visually" is coincidentally the nicest way anyone has ever said "shit dialogue"."

"2. Would those mocking voices have made comedic sense if there wasn't a grain of truth to their point that your prequel defenses were weak?"

"this video, which on the whole is actually kind of shitty and boring"

Malaysians thoe

AOTC is a pulp spy plot with some great atmosphere, that's how I'd sum it up (minus the HC subplot which sucked).

da moon; da starrs

"and found any 'insights' to be either very obvious or completely fucking stupid."

a) Correct.

Hey you know who else made some good points behind the stupidity and misogyny??

"racist caricatures"
"inserting terrible, unfunny, misogynistic, and entirely unrelated "bits" into their"

I'm gonna have to check out Cinefix…

Schnarchtoberfest more like it.

Yep - if you watch them, all the glaring ways in which they don't live down to slatings like this one, almost obscure the copious amount of flaws they actually they actually contain.

> The first half at least is just a rebuke of the supremely idiotic "ring theory", and all the other moronic prequel revisionism that has been shat all over the internet in the last couple of years.

The whole "intrigue" part of your post isn't really best responded to with a point-by-point thing, I'd have to restructure it a bit - for now though:

""I'm pretty sure RLM don't get to talk about any of that.""

No you can't.