{"id":5177,"date":"2018-02-28T22:01:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T13:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2018-02-28T22:01:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T13:01:32","slug":"interlude-star-wars-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/interlude-star-wars-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Interlude — Star Wars Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Aren’t you a little fat to be a StormTrooper?”<\/p><\/div>\n

The last time you saw a conservative movie was probably Iron Man<\/em>, and before that, The Incredibles<\/em>.\u00a0 In Iron Man<\/em>, Tony Stark, Billionaire Playboy, debated and demonstrated the role of private industry and its responsibility to its country and its people.\u00a0 With great power comes great responsibility.\u00a0 This thesis was ignored in the second movie, and thoroughly countered in the third movie, which is why it was all special effects and nineteen Iron Men.\u00a0 The plot had fallen apart, the moral argument abandoned, and Hey look — another explosion!<\/p>\n

Everybody hates Star Wars<\/em>, but especially conservatives.\u00a0 George Lucas is feeling the lash by now, with characters he worked hard to create (and destroy) simply being written out of storylines so that newly-minted girl power nobodies can carry the scene.\u00a0 Imagine the power of whatsername’s pink-haired death scene if it had been somebody we knew since 1976?\u00a0 These annoyances may be new to the left, but since the first retchingly awful prequel Phantom Menace<\/em>, the politics have been front and center.\u00a0 The Trade Federation agent “Nute Gunray” was explicitly a stab at Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan.\u00a0 Lucas’ own childish misunderstanding of politics, based on conspiracies, informed by Victorian parliamentary documentaries, and modeled on lunatic Marxist caricatures of how things actually work, is just one more reason why none of the prequel movies work.\u00a0 This is why he keeps throwing yawn-inducing political speeches at a supposed juvenile audience.\u00a0 Lucas is writing a political critique, except he doesn’t even know what he’s mad about.\u00a0 He’s just mad.\u00a0 Well, now he’s not writing anything, and the Disney leftists have the wreckage left behind by Lucas to play around in.<\/p>\n

God Bless The Incredibles.\u00a0 Let’s see how that goes in the sequel, coming out this summer.\u00a0 Meanwhile — I’m going back to watching ever-more detailed explications of The Shining.\u00a0 I remeber lefty hoser Stephen King complaining that Kubrick had ruined his novel.\u00a0 First off, as somebody replied to him, “Your books are all there on the shelf — they’re just fine,” or something to that effect.\u00a0 Second, those books will stay on the shelf without people like Kubrick to put decent stories under them.<\/p>\n