Empire Movie Magazine, or as I like to call it ‘My Movie Bible’ has launched a blog within the last month. The magazines contributor’s post on a mixture of movie and media related topics, giving time to ideas and topics I wish I had more time to develop here. Most recently they have written on the sorry fate of many quality TV series. The site accompanying the magazine http://www.empireonline.com/ is my first choice for movie news.
0 Tuathal Aug 15th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Attack of the Clones. 5 Stars.
5 stars means “Classic” on the Empire scale. The day Empire gave “Attack of the Clones” 5 stars was the day it lost any chance of credibly being described as a “Movie Bible”.
And to top it all they had the audacity to re-review it a few years later, admitting their error, and gave it only 3 stars (”Good” on the Empire Scale).
So that’s twice now that they’ve reviewed that movie and they still haven’t given it an accurate rating.
Bible? Yeah right.
0 Betty the Sheep Aug 15th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Every movie reviewer makes a mistake once in a while, but for the most part ‘Empire’ is a good movie magazine. I was addicted to it when I was younger but now I only buy it once in a while. I’m looking forward to checking out their blog now.
0 Tuathal Aug 15th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
I agree, Betty the Sheep, that any movie reviewer can make a mistake. However, I think we can also all agree that there are mistakes and then there are mistakes. The sheer scale of the mistake here boggles the mind.
If Empire is to have a reputation of something close to a “movie bible” then giving a movie like Attack of the Clones 5 stars is not really on (unless you’re using something like a 20 or 30 star system).
5 Stars out of 5 is totally and galatically off. Empire is supposed to be a dedicated magazine to movies. I.e. knows something about movies.