Posted on 05/16/2005 2:07:19 AM PDT by Savage_Nation
This dialog doesn't even have a good cadence. Oh, wait.. I forgot... dialog in Episode I and II, bad they were.
Thank you! Well said.
My point is that we helped arm and support two of the three in the axis of evil. One of these coutries we have already defeated in war. But we left Saddam still in power. My point is that this country does not always do the smart thing. And as a result, people die and money is spent like it is water.
Thanks for that witty insightful post. I shall ponder your infinite wisdom thoughout my day.
STFU
We left Saddam in power because the UN resolution did not permit us to march into Bahgdad in 1991.
Saddam broke the peace agreement of the first Gulf War. Even Clinton and Kerry realized this and planned to resume the war in 1997/1998.
I would not bother to pay to watch the drivel that comes from Lucas.
The last installment I saw was on par with the old Flash Gordon movies in terms of special effects.
The script was awful.
Now we get Lucas political bias too?? No thanks.
Most people don't want to politicize every moment of their lives. If I ignored everything I disagreed with you'd have to to throw out most of Western culture. Most American writers of the first half of the 20th century were borderline communists for instance. However if you want to live in a cave feel free.
I understand the parallels he was getting at. But my main question has to be is did he deny the comments that he allegedly made at Cannes? Also, What did you mean by when you said he's not a part of Hollywood?
He works independently. Lucasfilm is in Northern CA not one of the Hollywood studios. Not all movies made in America are made by Hollywood. I don't see any reason to think he didn't make the comments attributed to him. I just think they've been taken out of context by these articles. And they were pretty innocuous to begin with. (My movies are about war...and there is a war on now! What a coincidence!)
It's a movie. It's entertainment. See it or See it not.
I think this is why the last two movies he produced were much inferior. He used them to grind his political axe. If he would have stuck to character development and personal relationships, his legacy would have been one of best producers in history. Now we have to hold our nose a bit when we say that.
You're right about his film being about war and there's a war going on. The article was probably for domestic consumption anyway, Considering the newspaper.
Like exactly when did we begin to give a rat's a$$ about the U.N.? The current Bush in power seems not to care about the wishes of the U.N. Bush I did not have the testicular fortitude to finish the job when there was a real reason to remove Saddam from power. How many Iraqis did we leave to be tortured and killed by Saddam when we left the country high and dry after not finishing the job the first time? At least then, we had a real coalition of allies and not one where we end up the ones stuck paying the check at the end of the evening. Sadly, the price for two Bush presidential screw ups is being paid in American soldiers and more Iraqi civilians blood.
So you are saying that in 1991 when we did listen to the UN we should have violated the resolution. This time we ignored the UN and did not wait for a resolution.
It is worse to break a resolution than to decide you don't need one.
Again, Clinton and Kerry both defended the right of America to go to war against Saddam for what was in our own best interest (this was back in 1997). The quote and link is on my profile page and I invite you to take a look (click on my name "weegee" at the end of this post.
Good grief! Has Dubya done ONE dam* thing you agree with?
Shut up George and write 7,8 and 9... while you're at it kick Bob Salvatore's butt for killing off Chewie in Vector Prime...
I dunnot about Anakin necessarily killing Jar Jar (not necessarily), but my question will be, who's gonna kill Mace Windu? Will it be Boba Fett, driven to revenge from Mace killing his father a few years eariler in the battle on Geonosis, or will it be Anakin, whose training in the Jedi Order was opposed from square one by Jackson's charachter, and also opposed promotion to Jedi Master...
Well he has to show how a semi-democratic aristocratic republic can become a tyranny, it's not a "political axe" that I can see. As much a combination of Hitlers rise as Lincoln's abuse of power or anything else. I don't think any connection with Lincoln is really intentional, or with any other of so called good dictators per se. It's just how it always happens, democracies become dictatorships by a combination of demagoguery, warmongering, and/or enfranchisement. There are limites to what he can represent, he can't make the government more democratic by giving power to the capite censi for example, that would look too much like a knock on democracy itself.
hayden is a wimp & now we know that dorky-vader is just a whoosie in a black cape!
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