The Phantom Blemish
Dec. 21st, 2009 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jamesqFound this wonderful deconstruction of everything wrong with The Phantom Menace via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shunn. It's long but worth it.
Be warned though - the guy who wrote this decided on a weird framing device: The film reviewer is actually a serial killer. And it fails badly. On the Light Side, all the Star Wars stuff is brilliant and funny.
It's like a really good, rich ice cream with chunks of cauliflower in it. You love the treat but keep having to work around these irritating annoyances while consuming it and you wonder WTF they were thinking when they mixed the two together.
In the end, the analysis can be boiled down to "Nobody wanted to tell George Lucas 'NO'" (or Hell No).
shunn. It's long but worth it.Be warned though - the guy who wrote this decided on a weird framing device: The film reviewer is actually a serial killer. And it fails badly. On the Light Side, all the Star Wars stuff is brilliant and funny.
It's like a really good, rich ice cream with chunks of cauliflower in it. You love the treat but keep having to work around these irritating annoyances while consuming it and you wonder WTF they were thinking when they mixed the two together.
In the end, the analysis can be boiled down to "Nobody wanted to tell George Lucas 'NO'" (or Hell No).
