you know what?

reading the N+1 take on TDK makes me realize one important thing and something I emplore others to take into account:

Nikil Saval isn’t a film critic and this wasn’t flim criticism. If it was, my God, then that whole “Internet=Bad Writing" thing Armond White and Dave Kehr harp on about may as well be true.

This is a banal, rehashed by-the-numbers reaction piece that has been written far better and far earlier by the likes of Andrew O’Hehir, Michael Tully, David Edelstein, Keith Uhlich, David Denby, Stephanie Zacharek, Michael Sragow and Vadim.

To call Saval’s piece a “review" is to dumb down that process into the most general exercise in list writing since an eighth grade English class. To assume no one can possibly fathom the writer’s own “genius" and ability to view something that has been pointed out repeatedly is merely lazy. Saval’s criticism is bad, and may the world take note on that.

This is like getting a really atonal child to tell you about Star Wars,having it peppered with “And then…And then…And then…And then…And then Luke is the hero…And then the bad guy wears black, but we don’t know anything about him…And then…"

Now to get off my high horse and finish a review of Clone Wars.