Fuck Star Wars
Yeah, that's right, I said it. Right now my fiancé is no doubt drunk as a skunk with his friends, a mere hour away from a fest of fist-shaking and yelling at the screen that will be the midnight screening of Revenge of the Sith and quite frankly, I'm not jealous. No I don't hate Star Wars. I watched the first 3 faithfully with my father during my childhood and while I've never been a fanatic, I did enjoy it. However, the following Star Wars movies were pretty lack luster and this new one, Revenge of the Sith has saturated the consumer market so thoroughly that any desire I might have had to see it, has been sapped. Is marketing the fuyck out of everything you can find at Target really the best message to send to kids? While I'm sure seeing Star Wars plastered on every Burger King, Kellog's Pops, lottery tickets, O.C. episode, that 70's show episode (just to name a few) has been an movie-gasm for every young at heart boy out there, I'm sick of it. As if George Lucas isn't wealthy enough, as if Star Wars doesn't have a loyal enough fan base as it is, as if we need to encourage children to become consumers for the sake of consuming, well to borrow from Clueless, as if!
And just so I can bitch about one more random thing- I saw Petra Nemcova on Larry King Live (think, newcaster on CNN with suspenders who is infinitely inferior to the classy and intelligent Aaron Brown) and it was just this tragic story about how she was a tsunami survivor. In fact, the title line read "supermodel tsunami survivor." While the fact her boyfriend died and the fact that she clung to a tree for 8 hours is indeed depressing, the only fucking reason anyone gave a shit about HER story is because she's a supermodel. I felt that promoting her story was degrading to the REAL survivors- the ones who had entire families died, the ones whose entire way of life was destroyed. She told her story in such an earnest way but I still wanted knock her pretty little face in. Who does she think she is, thinking that her story is so compelling because she's famous. Get over yourself lady and look at the real lives and the real tragedies, the ones that aren't being shown on TV. Those stories aren't being told because those people are trying ton rebuild their lives and people and don't have time to toss their hair in a charming manner on Larry fucking King Live.
I'm sorry I'm so vitriolic tonight kids. Guess I need to go to sleep.
Addendum: So here's the debate occuring between my fiancé and I- would someone who is a "true" Star Wars fan STILL thing George Lucas' ridiculous amount of marketing on Revenge of the Sith is obnoxious or would a "true" fan love any kind of marketing irregardless of the amount or level? Since I am non "true" Star Wars fan and he is a "true" Star Wars fan its hard to have any real debate about this so I need someone to speak up for me who is also a "true" Star Wars fan but objects to so the saturation of marketing. Anybody? *shouts into emtpy room.* Sigh.
And just so I can bitch about one more random thing- I saw Petra Nemcova on Larry King Live (think, newcaster on CNN with suspenders who is infinitely inferior to the classy and intelligent Aaron Brown) and it was just this tragic story about how she was a tsunami survivor. In fact, the title line read "supermodel tsunami survivor." While the fact her boyfriend died and the fact that she clung to a tree for 8 hours is indeed depressing, the only fucking reason anyone gave a shit about HER story is because she's a supermodel. I felt that promoting her story was degrading to the REAL survivors- the ones who had entire families died, the ones whose entire way of life was destroyed. She told her story in such an earnest way but I still wanted knock her pretty little face in. Who does she think she is, thinking that her story is so compelling because she's famous. Get over yourself lady and look at the real lives and the real tragedies, the ones that aren't being shown on TV. Those stories aren't being told because those people are trying ton rebuild their lives and people and don't have time to toss their hair in a charming manner on Larry fucking King Live.
I'm sorry I'm so vitriolic tonight kids. Guess I need to go to sleep.
Addendum: So here's the debate occuring between my fiancé and I- would someone who is a "true" Star Wars fan STILL thing George Lucas' ridiculous amount of marketing on Revenge of the Sith is obnoxious or would a "true" fan love any kind of marketing irregardless of the amount or level? Since I am non "true" Star Wars fan and he is a "true" Star Wars fan its hard to have any real debate about this so I need someone to speak up for me who is also a "true" Star Wars fan but objects to so the saturation of marketing. Anybody? *shouts into emtpy room.* Sigh.