On The Clone Wars
The Clone Wars: A Movie Review
By John David Ebert
And so after insisting that he would never make another Star Wars film, George Lucas has now given us a seventh Star Wars film.
I would like to point out that I saw this film on a Saturday night at eight o’clock, on the film’s opening weekend, and was surprised to find the auditorium largely empty. There were maybe twenty or twenty five other people in the theater, and after the film began, several of the audience members, twentyish looking, walked out. For a Star Wars film, this was a first. I have never been to the opening of a Star Wars movie that wasn’t swarming with eager, enthusiastic people, most of them twenty year olds. And it struck me as a little odd that the film’s cartoonish sensibilities offended the twenty year olds who got up and walked out (one can mentally supply their dialogue: “Dude, this is stupid, let’s get outta here”) since the twenty year olds of today mostly read graphic novels, play video games and collect action figures. Read the rest of this entry »
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