Saturday, April 24, 2010

Plot Holes and Pizza Rolls

I've been meaning to post about RedLetterMedia's "Plinkett Reviews" for a while now. While the site has apparently been doing reviews of Star Trek films for a while now, it gained the most recognition for its review of Star Wars: Episode I, which clocks in at nearly half the length of the film itself. The latest review, of Episode II, takes things even further.

While the reviewer-as-serial-killer "subplot" (hard to explain until you see it for yourself) is hit or miss, the critiques of the storytelling and filmmaking are mostly spot on, and I found myself nodding in agreement with many of the insightful criticisms. As a taste, here is the site's (relatively short) review of Avatar, a film most of our faithful readers have probably seen:


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