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Darth Yan wrote:This article is some months old but
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I will give a 30 second version of this. Because Star Wars gives an unrealistic view of reality, in exactly the same fashion as every other work of fiction, it is bad. I don't see why one should blame this on Star Wars, given that this also applies to James Bond movies, which also had the absurd fantasy for adults in the 1960s, or to "gritty" 1990s reality based dramas or thrillers, in which issues are resolved by defeating a concrete bad guy, even in cases where this shouldn't apply(like the corruption inherent to business and politics or to overreaction to terrorism*).

In other words, people watch and read fiction to be entertained and have an escape from the dull nature of reality, not to have their eyes opened to some ground shattering truth. While this is in some ways problematic, it is also human nature. We shouldn't blame films for society's problems, we should blame society.

* For the politics example, see The American President(Michael Douglas), which had a Republican opponent in the election as an actual villain, who was never once shown as reasonable. For the terrorist example see The Siege, with Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis as the heroic FBI supervisor and largely villainous US Army general respectively. Both also starred Annette Benning, as the love interest for the President and a CIA officer respectively.

Yawn; pseudo intellectual dislikes modern fantasy because of its fantastical elements; it's not even worth a second glance unless he's also willing to say that the Odyssey is the same for its time, or that Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream is lightweight and asinine (men's heads being replaced by faeries!!!111). I wouldn't even bother commenting unless the author is willing to swear down to those two premises.

Galvatron wrote:Here we go.

*snip self-satisfied asshole's pretentious video*

One of these days, sometime soon I hope, someone will do an "Everything Wrong With Cinema Sins And the Smarmy Asshole Who Makes It."

U.P. Cinnabar wrote:

Galvatron wrote:Here we go.

*snip self-satisfied asshole's pretentious video*

One of these days, sometime soon I hope, someone will do an "Everything Wrong With Cinema Sins And the Smarmy Asshole Who Makes It."

Conceded, then. I'll go fuck off now.