Hadn't thought I'd be interested in seeing George Lucas's last installment of the Star Wars epic -- since the last one I paid to see, "The Phantom Menace," purely sucked -- but now it appears the right wing is going nuts on how "Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith" covertly bashes the Bush administration. So now, in my never-ending quest to send my soul to hell, I may have to break down, shell it out, and go.
According to today's NYTimes, one conservative website, "Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood," has added Lucas to its list of boycotted entertainers (and not because he's been making unwatchable films but because he supposedly thought a negative thought against El Presidente). We gotta check this out now, and I just know I'm gonna hate "Episode 3."
At the Cannes Film Festival, Lucas evidently made oblique comments that have fueled the politics. He said that he had first devised the "Star Wars" story during the Vietnam War. "The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable," he said.
Hmmm.
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