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   Shane W to All   
   Re: WIRED cover story: Lucas = Droid   
   29 Apr 05 00:47:21   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.starwars, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise, rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc   
   From: carbonbaseunit2@[NOSPAM]yahoo.com   
      
   While I was eating my Bantha Chips, Green Jihad spilled my blue milk and   
   said ... :   
   > George Lucas is the perfect example of 21st Century cybernetics. His   
   > so-called "films" (all digital now, so nothing filmic about them) are   
   > tributes to android existance. Even the "real" actors in his little movies   
   > are like robots. Some of the worst acting of all time can be found in SW   
   > 1-6. He lifted character and plot backbones from real films like Kurosawa's   
   > HIDDEN FORTRESS and real stories like Frank Herbert's DUNE, but turned them   
   > into tinfoil twaddle for the video game adolescent (of all ages). Now he is   
   > building a new empire in an old Army base. What a perfect setting! The   
   > military industrial complex is the greatest villain of the last fifty years.   
   > The greatest warrior of WW2 warned us about it, but we paid no attention, so   
      
   >   
      
   I watched Star Trek last night after I got home in my SUV from my job   
   cutting down trees for the toothpick factory in my hometown.  God life   
   is good.   
   --   
      
   Shane....   
      
   "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances, ...   
   could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess,   
   absurd in the highest degree possible" -Charles Darwin   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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