[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

It may be so but what does this have to do with New York or New Yorkers?

[poet]

I gave it a 7 on 1 to 10 scale. Does that mean I'm also on the dark side? I enjoyed Spiderman much more even with its continuity gaps.
There was much more spark between Mary Jane and Parker than with Anakin and Senator Amadela
It's just a movie, so my question, how can one's dislike or lack of being enthralled by a movie be related to defacating (your word) in America's living rooms?
I have talked with some rabid Star War fans who also think Lucas has lost some of his spark. The first three were fabulous storytelling, but, the last two were not so hot IMO.

[AAABEST]

You're right about the Star Wars haters, it truly is a strange phenomenon. Lucas makes some of the most facinating and spectacular movies ever created, and these retards (mostly from the left) come out every time and attempt to tear him to shreds.

They try everything from calling him a racist to insisting that because the story line isn't as deep as "War and Peace" the movie is a flop.

Bottom line. They're mostly a bunch of sour-puss losers and nobody gives two craps what they say because every SW flick goes on to make a gazillion dollars despite all of their insignificant whining.

[steve-b]

The New York Times Embraces the Dark Side

In other news: Pope Expounds Catholic Doctrine, Bear Defecates In Woods.

[metesky]

Homer composed his Iliad

In the Iliad, he managed to write 15,673 dactylic hexameter verses about a pair of jealous warlords brawling over who gets to sleep with a female captive.

Some might consider this a minor quibble, but Homer never wrote anything.

Homer was a blind poet who transmitted his work orally. Some think that his works weren't written down until long after his death.

A complete overview of Homer and his works online can be found here.

[valkyrieanne]

George Lucas is free to do with his own story whatever he wants, but the sad fact is that Star Wars got very, very stupid with Episode I and hasn't recovered.

Dorothy Sayers wrote this really good book years ago, The Mind of the Maker. In a way the creator of a story acts in a way "like God." He can break the rules if he wants, but when you do it too much, you do violence to the story.

By introducing this stupid "midichlorian" idea (a faux-scientific explanation for The Force), and by turning Ep I into a three-ring kiddie-pandering circus that satisfied neither kids nor adults, Lucas did violence to the integrity of his own story.

In Ep II, Lucas lays hands on his own story universe again, by introducing this really *dumb* idea that "Jedis don't get married." This is just stupid because it's inconsistent with over 10 years of Star Wars novels and back-story, as well as inconsistency even with Ep I. (One of the Jedi Council members has not only one wife but *five.*)

It's basically movie-making driven by focus group marketing. If that's not "going over to the Dark Side," I don't know what is.

[Hank Rearden]

It is a pretty bad movie - some of the worst actors, acting and writing I've ever seen outside of high-school film class.

Did you even listen to the dialog? Wince-inducing. Who's that homo playing Anakin, anyway? He's completely incompetent as an "actor". Just a Ken Doll for the 11-year-old girls in the audience.

Expensive special effects don't carry a movie. Sharp writing, wit and creativity do. Oh, and people who can actually act a part.

[LaBradford22]

I don't see what this has to do with New Yorkers in particular. I'm a Texan, I thought that Episode II sucked big time, and I've talked to others from all over the place who agree...