Does anyone else love hilariously pretentious movie reviews? Because I do. Reading this is like some of those pitchfork reviews where is seemed like the reviewer took acid before he wrote the review or was just trolling the readers by making the dumbest possible metaphors and references to piss off fans of the band/artist.
Here's a taste. From the New Yorker.
Is it time to abandon the Star Wars franchise?
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Lobotomized and depersonalized, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” the latest entry in the film franchise, is a pure and perfect product that makes last year’s flavor, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” feel like an exemplar of hands-on humanistic warmth and dramatic intimacy. Sure, J. J. Abrams’s movie offered merely effectively packaged simulacra of such values—but at least he tried. The director of “Rogue One,” Gareth Edwards, has stepped into a mythopoetic stew so half-baked and overcooked, a morass of pre-instantly overanalyzed implications of such shuddering impact to the series’ fundamentalists, that he lumbers through, seemingly stunned or constrained or cautious to the vanishing point of passivity, and lets neither the characters nor the formidable cast of actors nor even the special effects, of which he has previously proved himself to be a master, come anywhere close to life.
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http://www.newyorker.com/culture/ric...wars-franchise
I mean, seriously, why would you even review it if you are just going to bash it for not being an emotional art house dark dramedy.