Get a grip

Is there really a documentary coming out that’s all about hating on George Lucas? Come on, people. There are some things that are worth kvetching over and some where all your whining just comes off as being the by-product of feeling like you’re hot shit and are oh-so-enlightened because you’ve jumped on the “George Lucas is Evil” bandwagon.

Disappointed by the Star Wars prequels? Deal with it. Lucas doesn’t owe you a thing. He’s making the movies he wants to make. See them, don’t seem them, whatever. If you hated The Phantom Menace and were writing him off after that you were under no obligation to see Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith or for that matter Indiana Jones 4.

Here’s an idea as well: Get some freaking perspective. If you went into The Phantom Menace expecting at age 24 to feel the same sense of wonder you did when you saw Empire Strikes Back when you were five you were setting yourself up for disappointment. And if you’re still walking around four years after the release of the last Star Wars movie with a grudge against Lucas because he didn’t live up to the unreasonable expectations you had setup for yourself you’re obviously just doing it for the attention and probably don’t have a family to provide, a house to maintain or anything else going on in your life.

Even more than that, you obviously aren’t capable of enjoying a movie for what it *is* and instead are always looking for what a movie *isn’t* and for that I feel sorry for you.

From the sounds of this movie it might just wind up being unwatchable. The only purpose it seems to serve is to allow all these movie writers who are salivating over it with a chance to get a mean-spirited laugh in.

Thanks, but I’ve got better things to do. Plus, I’d rather see a good movie than one whose only purpose is to throw the hate around.