PT Rebuttal: RLM's Attack of the Clones Review

Actually, since storytelling is a human artform that has been perfected over the course of more than 5,000 years, it is quite easy to point out a fundamentally flawed story that does not adhere to time-honored storytelling rules. Meet the PT.

It's fine to like a bad film/story, or to not like a good film/story. THAT is opinion. But it's pretty easy to point out when a story is just plain bad.

 

Ah, so you get to decide what is a good film/story. Thanks for the heads up. I was always under the impression that all art forms and their quality was subjective. There was a time when paintings had to be realistic and there couldn't be anything abstract about them. At that time, that was what was considered to be good art.

Good thing fellas like Van Gogh didn't listen to that tripe.

As far as storytelling and writing is concerned, I think Virginia Woolf is crap and I don't care for stream of consciousness writing. That doesn't mean it's bad. It just means that I don't care for it, even though it's obvious plenty of others do.

 

Sounds more like your opinion to me. When I watch the PT, I see a good story being presented. A much better story than what we get in movies today.

 

This is fun. Who is the everyman of the PT?

 

Or you don't know the basics of good storytelling and you just inhale whatever pap is thrown your way, uncritically. I'm sure there are people who think Michael Bay's Transformers films are epic and have good stories, too.

 

No, I didn't miss anything. You appeared to miss my point though that art, which includes storytelling, is ever evolving. There is no one way to tell a story.

My, how...condescending of you. Just because you don't like how the story was told in the prequels doesn't make your stance on storytelling a fact. I love how you draw a line of "This is right" and "This is wrong" on something that comes down to subjective opinion. It's cute.

Would you like it if I told you that you were wrong for hating the PT and that you were ignorant for thinking otherwise? You wouldn't? Didn't think so. You know why I don't tell anyone that hates the prequels that? It's simple. Because I respect their opinion. Those movies didn't do it for them. Fine. I got enjoyment out of them and I think they're brilliant. But my opinion should be no less valid than yours and vice versa.

 

*Sigh* Will do. I enjoy constructive conversations with those who have opposing viewpoints. That in itself is interesting. Not this, "You like bad movies so you must be a drooling buffoon who doesn't criticize anything he sees" crap.

 

One thread gets locked, so another gets revived? Makes sense.

What is to be accomplished by constant complaining using the same opinion-based arguments?

 

Apparently, nothing.