This whole
Darth Vader as George Bush thing detailed
here,
there, and
every which where is kind of fun to follow and also rouses my curiousity more than I expected. Though I am, in point of fact, still dreading seeing the actual film.
Oh, I know you're not supposed to judge a movie before seeing it. But consider how desecrated my childhood memories of
Star Warsand
Empire Strikes Back felt once I first spotted Anakin "Yippee" Skywalker in
Phantom Menace, the CGI creation: the one who shall not be named, and realized that the only cool new character in a series that used to have gazillions of cool characters would meet a quick light-saber demise after just a few minutes of screen time, how am I too feel otherwise. I'm still shocked at how much I hated
Episodes 1 & 2.But anyway. Politics. This new Star Wars debate is all kinds of funny and all kinds of sad ---It takes a blockbuster movie to get the mainstream media to notice some of the creepy stuff that's been going down in our country? Discuss it we must.
...and by *'it' I mean the country's direction and not whether or not this new
Star Wars film is a smidgeon better than the last two. Not that that would be a difficult feat to accomplish. And by 'not a difficult feat' I mean the quality of the movie and not the conversation this country needs to keep having, which won't exactly be a pleasant one.
