Update [2005-5-19 16:1:36 by Armando]: This is now officially an Open thread.
For more thoughts on Star Wars, here is
Markos' previous post.
I haven't seen the movie and don't know anything about it, but this is quite the headline - Latest 'Star Wars' Movie Quickly Politicized:
For sheer lack of subtlety, the light-saber-wielding forces of good and evil in George Lucas's "Star Wars" movies can't hold a candle to the blogging, advertising and boycotting forces of the right and left. (Or left and right.) More a measure of the nation's apparently permanent political warfare than of a filmmaker's intent, the heroes and antiheroes of Mr. Lucas's final entry, "Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," were on their way to becoming the stock characters of partisan debate by mid-Wednesday, hours before the film's opening just after midnight:
The liberal advocacy group Moveon.org was preparing to spend $150,000 to run advertisements on CNN over the next few days - and to spread leaflets among audiences in line at multiplexes - comparing Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, to the movie's power-grabbing, evil Chancellor Palpatine, for Dr. Frist's role in the Senate's showdown over the confirmation of federal judges.
Conservative Web logs were lacerating Mr. Lucas over the film's perceived jabs at President Bush -as when Anakin Skywalker, on his way to becoming the evil Darth Vader, warns, "If you're not with me, you're my enemy," in an echo of Mr. Bush's post-9/11 ultimatum, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
My reaction to all of this - huh? I am sure you folks will explain it all to me.
Update [2005-5-19 15:57:39 by Armando]: markos posted on this this morning. I missed it. and now this thread has been commented to a degree that I will leave this up. Besides, I am agnostic on this, kos called the Times "idiots."