Ok, so let's face it: Star Wars: Episode I didn't exactly knock our socks off like we were expecting. Even the guys waiting in line since 5AM opening day in full Darth Maul costume had to eventually admit ... we're willing to give him two more cracks at it. The critics, however, were not so understanding. For the next six months the media proceeded to rip poor Lucas a new one. Several went as far as to call Episode I the worst movie of the summer. PCGamer said it "sucked a piece of ass the size of an Imperial ... it is indicative to what often happens to fantasy movies. Episode I got special ...

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... lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynching, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, wars." But "nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies." (Ch. 27) This is an attack not just on Hollywood, but on ... "stars," who are, after all, entertainers by profession, are the most admired members of society, more than the rulers and certainly more than the intellectuals. This new attitude did not appear spontaneously; it was successfully cultivated, but by whom, and for what reason? I ...

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