Monday, July 26, 2004

Star Wars & 9/11

"Revenge of the Sith" is the title of Star Wars Episode III. Perhaps slightly better then "Attack of the Clones" but not by much. However upon reflection, all the Star Wars movies had bad titles, we just don't criticize the Holy Trilogy. "Empire Strikes Back", guess what happens in that movie. Does like the Empire, you know, strike back or something; yes I believe it does. Further, I sould note that the original title of "Return of the Jedi" was "Revenge of the Jedi" but a fan pointed out that Jedi's would not take revenge. Also this is a good title since it could be Jedi as in the plural not necessarily the singular, i.e. Luke. Thus is it the return of the Jedi order as a whole, Luke being the first who will go on to train more people. So maybe this new title ain't so bad.

And now for something completely different:

I finally saw Farenheit 9/11 last night. It was a really good documentry but I must say that I liked Bowling for Columbine a lot better. This is because Columbine did not have a clear thesis in it. It was analyzing a problem in American society and not really offering a clear solution or even a cause for it. I really liked that after watching it you could have many long discussions about the film and your own experiences with guns and the related issues. Farenheit lacked that because I found it was much more straightforward. "Bush is Bad" and here are all of the reasons he is bad. I know Bush is bad and I knew a lot of the reasons why before.

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