There comes a point when deconstructing the flaws of a movie stops being educational and becomes masturbatory. With the prequels, it reached that point many years ago and still never stopped. There's nothing left to be mined there, anything more is just people circlejerking because it makes them feel clever.
Two things always come to my mind with this stuff. One is that line in Ratatouille about how 'the average piece of junk is probably worth more than the critics' words declaring it so', and the other is that quote from Truffaut (I think?) who said the best way to criticize a film is to make your own.
So many people point at the redlettermedia reviews like they're great lessons in how to make a movie and tell a story. They actually have the means to create original work of their own, but what have they actually gone on to do with their supposed enlightened knowledge? They've put more into deconstruction than almost anyone, yet tearing down other people's work seems the only thing they can do that finds an audience. There's some choice irony in the way they themselves now find themselves going back to that well again and again to diminishing returns.
Just saw that this is basically just a longer version of what Ambler just said, oh well.
Edited by Paul C - 3/10/12 at 11:41am
