Bill McCuddy recently had the absolute gall to celebrate Skywalkers: A Love Story as his #1 film of the year.
I responded as follows:
Not to mention that below-the-title slogan — “What will they risk to touch the sky?” Words fail.
I should be more open-minded, I realize, in part due to Variety‘s Owen Gleiberman having put Skywalkers on his ten-best list. But that title is so repulsive that I really don’t want to see this film, ever. My life will not be even slightly diminished by my avoiding it.
Skywalkers opened last summer and nobody jumped up and down. Not in my orbit, they didn’t. Flatline flatline flatline. And then all of a sudden McCuddy and Gleiberman perform last-minute cartwheels.
