Podhoretz on The Anti-Bush Star Wars

[Mojambo]

Warren, it's all there, but believe me, the movie's plot is so confused that it doesn't really matter. At one point, Natalie Portman complains that "this war happened because of a failure to listen." But the war she's talking about was started by the good guys! It was the Jedi who secretly built the Clone army that appeared in the movie before this upcoming one. And, of course, the Rebellion that Luke Skywalker joined in the first trilogy was conducting a war against the Evil Empire which included blowing up Death Stars and arming Teddy Bears. Evidently 25 years into the Star Wars empire, George Lucas decided he just doesn't like war. Now he tells us. The whole confusion is reminiscent of the last Matrix movie, which is all about a noble truce between our heroes and the computers that have been using all of humanity as batteries. So that a few people could survive to have orgies in the underground city of Zion, billions of people had to remain in the Matrix. Inadvertently, both Lucas and the Wachowski brothers (who wrote and directed the Matrix movies) reveal with their brainless anti-Bushism the essential cowardly vapidity of pacifism.

"This war was started by the good guys..."

Yeah, you idiot because they were manipulated into it by the lies of their leader. Sound familiar, jackass?

What an ignorant tool.

[erichzann]

1. That sounds pretty stupid to me (nt)

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. yeesh

and why bring the matrix into it? as far as i understand it the wachowski bro's have never really commented on how one should interpret the matrix.

and he obviously didn't pay much attention during attack of the clones....

[Placebo]

3. Anyone who has read the script...

for Episode III or seen the film already will see the glaring criticisms of Bush in regards to war. :)

[AlCzervik]

4. Why the nerve of Lucas not liking war!

well I guess he's lost the iron triangle vote.