Fat man's Menace: Episode Dumb
By Jonathan Hamlow
I remember seeing Star Wars when I was five or six, being absolutely
entranced, and playing a lot of space war games with my friends
afterwards. My memories of my first viewing of the second two movies
are more vague. I never caught the Star Wars fever the way some did and
viewed the announcement of the fourth movie with a fairly cynical eye.
Having not yet seen it (sometime later when the great wank tide recedes
back into their dens of rank semen reeking arrested adolescence), I'm
not a bit surprised that most reaction to it has been negative, not that
lukewarm critical response has done a thing against the box office
receipts (proving that Hollywood has reduced insulting us to a virtual
science). I already knew it was going to stink based on the most
minimal and obvious information available to anyone.
Consider:
- "Return of the Jedi" was the worst of the original three. Bad
Vuggum.
- George Lucas is now a billionairre. Anybody who holds that
distinction is no longer a part of the human race at large. Acquiring a
billion dollars or more involves the total application of oneself to
money, no matter what it takes, (and it always takes some serious
fucking of other people) and once a person chooses to go down that road
he can never turn back. Like all billionaires, Lucas can put on a good
show of acting human but he's just another canker on the ass of the
masses.
- It fits in with the general tone of the closing of the second
Christian millennium in America. Mainstream (and the majority of
"Alternative") America has about as much art and creativity left in it
as a shit sandwich at this point, and nothing is going to save this from
being a stupid, boring, shit sandwich of a millennium. A crappy
money-machine Star Wars sequel fits perfectly on the path towards our
coming fecal apotheosis.
I considered the previous three points to be bad omens. When I
really knew it was all destined for shitsville was when I saw the Taco
Bell/KFC commercials that were released shortly before the picture began
to run. It's sweet, good ol' Kernel Sanders, that archetype of
slave-owning confederate Southern Patriarchy, of course wields the light
saber, a job for a good old boy for sure, while the anonymous and
hitherto unknown Taco Bell girl (nice ass, nice tits, never to be seen
again) must satisfy her penis envy with a mere blaster...And what is
this intrepid duo fighting? Arterial health, perhaps, or the ideal
weight? No, of course, they're fighting the Empire...The evil empire of
extortioners who have replaced a diversity of privately owned
restaurants and diners with wave after wave of form molded plastic
hellholes run by a sinister fast food/soft drink syndicate, millions of
robot clone ranks of franchises that the Body Corporate runs with an
iron fist, propped up by an army of dissaffected, disenfranchised (a
nice pun, that) stormtroopers who battle it out in the front lines for
the sake of their low wage, dead end jobs...
Oh, sorry, that's the
empire these characters represent. Boffo deal, George. Glad to see
you're not just in it for the money.:
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