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:

  1. "Return of the Jedi" was the worst of the original three. Bad Vuggum.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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