It’s not just that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is my favorite Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back; it’s how damned easy it was for me to come that conclusion. Like, not a fraction of a second of hesitation. For those of you who just wanted the opinion & would prefer to hang back from the actual review (which will, for the record, have its share of […]
For this week’s edition of Hit Me with Your Best Shot, Nathaniel has gone as current as he could dare, selecting the gargantuan 2015 hit Star Wars: The Force Awakens for this week’s subject. It’s an intriguing choice, and not one, I’m afraid, that gets me terribly jazzed up to hunt for a shot. There are many very lovely, very iconic images from the film, but I don’t know, I’ve […]
This review is based on the most commonly-available copy recorded from the broadcast by the CBS affiliate in Baltimore, MD, with all commercial breaks intact. When we began our little retrospective of the Star Wars franchise, I asked you to do something unfathomably difficult, and pretend that it was 1977, and you just saw Star Wars for the first time, and you didn’t know yet that it was the kickoff […]
I don’t know when the statute of limitations for spoilers runs out on a movie that makes crazy-ass wackyland fantasy amount of money in its first weekend, but I do know that the internet is full of geeks, and there are are almost surely literally hundreds of reviews of Star Wars: The Force Awakens that say the exact same spoiler-free version of the thing I would say if I had […]
This review is based on the 2011 Blu-ray, a version that is different from the theatrical release in the form of one minor scene extended by a couple of lines of dialogue, and a redone visual effect. The consensus of opinion has been that Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is the best of the Star Wars prequels basically since the minute its premiere ended, and while […]
This review is based on the slightly extended cut released to digital cinemas at the time of the film’s initial release and the direct basis for the initial DVD release, prior to some re-ordering of shots in subsequent home video releases. Out of the seven subtitles given to the theatrically-released live-action Star Wars films as of 2015, they are mostly, let’s be honest, pretty bad (the exception is the stately, […]
This review is based on the extended cut available on the initial DVD release of the film, 3 minutes longer than the original theatrical cut and lacking some CGI embellishments made to the later home video editions. I come to bury the Star Wars prequels, really I do. But that’s easy and obvious, and with everybody on the internet having by now encountered the Red Letter Media reviews, it’s also […]
The focus of this review being its subject’s position in the context of filmmaking in 1977, it is not based upon the series of “Special Edition” re-releases in theaters and on home video that have routinely happened since 1997. Instead, I take as my source material the “Despecialized Edition” reconstruction by fan editor Harmy of something akin to the original 1977 release. Legality notwithstanding, it is at present the closest […]
Although Star Wars: The Clone Wars was born to be a whipping boy, I’d like to suggest that it’s not wholly without merit; it has a certain honesty about its intentions to be nothing of any particular importance, and damned if it doesn’t meet that goal. Besides which, it provides a solid argument that a Star Wars prequel is better, the less pretense it has to being anything else than […]
By far, the best reason I have for dreading Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls is the presence of George Lucas, the man who was able to make 2.5 completely awful Star Wars movies in the last nine years. Now, if you are like me, you consider that in the entire prequel trilogy, the one part that is genuinely great on the level of the first two films is the lightsaber […]
To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies – a review of the last 7-days of movie new…with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie news and Carrie will only be able to pick 5 ‘Aeronauts’ Trailer Sees Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne Fighting for Their Lives in Hot Air Balloon New ‘Purge’ Thriller Finds Lead in […]
A review requested by Gabe, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Do you have a movie you’d like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page! Starship Troopers is maybe the clearest articulation I can name of the disappointing fact that you can never, ever make satire too obvious for some people. I take it to be the case […]
