Kali Tal

George Lucas Should Quit Making Bad Movies

I went to see the latest Star Wars disaster, Revenge of the Sith, and I have to say I was appalled by its blatant stupidity. It's not that the movie was bad--bad doesn't even half begin to describe it. It's that the film was made by and for stupid people--and by "stupid" I mean unthinking, undereducated boobs with no sense of taste or judgement beyond (bad) video game plotting and graphics. I always want to like Star Wars films, but the truth is that since The Empire Strikes Back they've all sucked. I'd wanted to like this movie in particular because it took a bunch of pot shots at George W. Bush, Jr., American politicians and members of the public who support him. Unfortunately the swipes at The Shrub were so ham-handed and simplistic that I could hardly feel cheered. Instead I found myself thinking that idiocy on this level explains why the Democrats are doing (and deserve to be doing) so badly against an opponent whose credibility, intelligence and ethics are obviously and pathetically absent. The characters were utterly unbelievable, their motivations nonexistent, and the holes in the plot were big enough to drive a Death Star right through. I keep saying "America Makes You Stupid," and Star Wars is stupidity writ large--expensive stupidity. That was another thing I kept thinking: How is it that we can support idiotic films like this, so that they earn the studios and directors and stars millions upon millions of dollars, while on the way to the theater we pass homeless people? Talk about the decadence of empires... we're living it. I might be moved to excuse suffering for good art, but suffering for bad space opera is another story entirely. Is Lucas truly such an egomaniac that no one working for him can tell him that his films have turned into great sucking black holes of artistic hubris?

Posted by kalital at May 27, 2005 6:44 PM

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