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Hey Medved!

I like that.

Tosh, the problem is not that people watch and like films like SW. It certainly has its place in the Universe. It is not the worst film ever made, far from it. Lucas is not the worst director to ever walk this Earth, by far.

The point is the Great Hoopla that surrounds it.

You probably recall how many people comment on what they call "art" film vs. the rest (it is really good films vs. bad ones). They tend to say: "Well, OK, on some days I eat at the best French restaurant, on others I just get a Big Mac!"

Put that way there is no problem. But "just a big Mac" is NOT what we are having here.

Instead we are having people getting dressed up, reserve the tables, hire limo's, all the stuff you normally associate with some ritzy place, only to go and get that dreaded Big Mac.

In other words, like it or not, the SW becomes the "fine cuisine" of 2002 America.

It is NOT what is served, it is how you treat it. And treating this mediocre work as if it were some great event does make it into an event.

It teaches the kids that this "stuff" is what movie making is all about.

So they grow up having watched each episode twenty times, and knowing nothing else.

So the SW would not do any harm to someone who already has some knowledge. But in our time it is pretty much the choice of SW vs. the Titanic vs. the Gladiator...





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