Open thread - So I saw Star Wars....

SPOILER WARNING - I DON'T REALLY GIVE AWAY THE PLOT, BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE, YOU DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO READ ON...
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1. Yes, the acting sucked. Yoda was good. As was the lead evil guy. Anaken, or whatever, is cute, but as an actor, good God. Even Ewen McGregor, or whoever was Obiwan, was pretty crappy and one dimensional. The lead femme, same thing - pretty, and boring. They even managed to make Jimmy Smits suck.

2. The story. Ok.

3. The script. Yes, it's as bad as they say it is.

4. There's been some brouhaha with Republicans complaining it's an anti-Bush movie. Is the movie about George Bush? Yes.

Okay, it's not ABOUT George Bush, i.e., a criticism of Bush per se, but it's clearly an allegory of our times. Republic at war, freedoms slipping away, evil head of government has his own plans that don't involve keeping the country democratic, weak congress gladly hands more and more power to the evil leader, and on and on and on. They'd have to be brain dead not to have known their story kind of sort of resembled the current debate in our country. They even throw in the "if you're not with me, you're against me" line (or something close).

As for whether the movie is "anti-Bush," well, that depends on whether Bush is a megalomaniac set out to undercut our Republic by taking advantage of a war and a weak Congress to undermine our democracy. If that doesn't define George Bush's presidency, then no, it's not an anti-Bush movie.

:-)