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May 19, 2005
Star Wars, Damn!
Anthony Lane took apart Star Wars: Episode III in the current (May 23) New Yorker in his ineffable way (I regularly use his hilarious review of Jurassic Park III in writing classes). I was happily not going to see it, as I happily didn't see II, after hating I. I also -- from the 2005 and not 1977 perspective, of course -- hate all the Star Wars movies, except The Empire Strikes Back, which is dark and operatic, at least against the backdrop of the others. Louis Menand's piece in the Feb. 7 New Yorker about how the blockbuster is killing Hollywood (although, as he argues, something has always been killing Hollywood, which keeps on living anyway) perfectly sets up this last one. ("I can't watch anymore," says Lane, quoting Obi-Wan).
But now I learn in the newspaper of record that the wacko right is reading the film as an unfair attack on Bush and the Iraq War and is boycotting it. Sigh. I guess now I have to see it. Maybe I can just buy a ticket and then sneak in to see something else, before the summer film season has us fully by the throat again.
Posted by johnn at May 19, 2005 09:53 AM
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Buy the ticket, then theatre-hop to HGTTG.
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at May 19, 2005 03:20 PM
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