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We at State Controlled Media  took a little vacation from bloging for the last month. While we are away we did keep track of our stats, we were neither surprised or disappointed to learn that our most popular post for the last month was the  Hot Naked Chicks, Hot Naked Men post. Possibly the most lame post we ever put up as a little social experiment proves time and again to validate our theory that you are all sick and twisted. Well done.


We knew it was time to start up again when we were overcome by the burning desire to entertain, enlighten, educate and amuse. (I.e. Mrs. PSBE said “Are you ever going to get back to your blog?) So here we are, back at it. During our time away we were bombarded with internet memes. This wouldn’t be a problem under normal circumstances; however these once cleaver and entertaining memes have become unfunny and repetitive. We started ignoring them until we saw this one:

Totally absurd. The PSBE had a succinct response: 

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Telling You What to Watch…

Recently, Mrs. PSBE purchased a new automobile. Said automobile came with a limited free subscription to Sirius XM . This satellite radio has a channel called backspin. This is old rap and hip-hop music. This is one of the PSBE’s favorites. Once while driving down the street the first few notes of a 2 LIVE CREW song came on. With cat like reflexes the PSBE had the station changed before the State Controlled Media Children could hear what was coming. This story may not seem pertinent to what comes next but trust us.


We at state controlled media went to see the Dark Knight Rises. Coming in at a svelte one hour and fortey-four minutes, we expected a slow plodding boring movie; or a movie that was trying to fit to much into one movie as is common in the third movie of franchises (talking to you Sam-Spider Man 3-Raimi). We were pleasantly surprised that the movie held our attention the whole time and was a pleasure to watch. Without giving to much away it was a gripping tale of turmoil and betrayal, of torment and hard choices, sacrifice and  commitment.


It was a drama that could be held up to some of the best Oscar winners of years past. It was that good, but we could not help leaving the theater a little disappointed. We know, it is difficult to reconcile how good the movie was and how sad we were when we left. It maid the PSBE hum a song on the way home:


“Everybody say heeeeeeyyyyyy we want some Bat Man…” if you are familiar with 2 LIVE CREW (sorry) you know the song. If you are not- DO NOT LOOK IT UP- trust us the allusion is hilarious. The character missing the most from the latest Batman movie was…Batman. He was just a minor character. We didn’t get this guy:

This Guy:

This Guy:

OR even this sad rendition:

No all we got was this guy:

Great actor, great actor. We loved him from Empire of the Sun. in fact the movie has a cast of some great actors and it uses their talents well. Even in the most understated roles it comes through to the viewer how powerful the performance was. This movie truly had to be a labor of love of Christopher Nolan. It truly was a masterpiece. Even if it did make us a little sad.

Love George Lucas...

Everyone goes on and on about how George Lucas has ruined the Star Wars Movies by making the three prequels. That they veer so far from the original story lines that it changes the very fabric of what some people have come to own over thirty plus years. After watching ThePeople Versus George Lucas, I have come to a fundamental understanding of what the problem is. The six moves were made by two different men. You don’t understand what I mean? Ask yourself this, who was the main character of the movies? Darth Vader. Even when he is not there his presence is. Every story is about him or revolves around him.  Previously I have examined who exactly were the bad guys in this movie. It depends on your point of view, but I tend to believe the rightfully elected government is more legitimate and deserved to be in power more than a band of religious zealots who represented antiquated monarchy’s who were desperate to maintain control. Keep this in mind, it will come up again.

The first set of movies was made by George Lucas, a bitter, slighted, struggling film maker. The tone and tenor of the movies reflected his rebel attitude and the spirituality of the hippie mindset of the film maker.  Lucas had fought the Hollywood system and wanted to make movies his way. This attitude made millions of disenchanted youth fans of his movies which reflected that attitude. He even let the so called bad guy win in the second movie, and in the third he made the bad guy the hero. Darth killed the emperor and saved his son at the cost of his own life; rebel story telling if there ever was. Lucas embraced the spiritualism of the Jedi and the force. He made it clear that regardless of the circumstances that the spirit could overcome.

The second set of movies was made by George Lucas, a one of the most powerful, influential Hollywood producers alive.  He is the very person that George Lucas Despised and worked against in making the first set of movies. AS is common with all-powerful Hollywood producers they didn’t make a movie to make a statement but made them to make money.  In this respect the movies were perfect. It appealed to the broadest audience as possible only excluding the most hardcore Star Wars purist. George Lucas made them near perfect. Ignoring facts that were set in stone by wiki editors and changed the things we found inconvenient. The spiritualism was replaced with alien parasites. The force was no longer a spiritual journey that any believer could attain to an elite tool that only people infected with the right amount of midichlorians. This is the single most devastating change in the franchise. Not the time lines, not Jar Jar, not the NNNNNOOOOOOOOOO. It took away form all the fans the idea that they could become Jedi. That was stolen from them. Since there is no spiritualism there is no good and bad, no light and dark sides of the force.

George Lucas was a spiritual rebel and turned to a corporate bigwig atheist. Anakin Skywalker turned to Darth Vader. The six Star Wars movies are the story of George Lucas Jedi and Sith lord. The first movies portrayed the Jedi as pure good and there was no ambiguity as who was right and wrong. The revisionist prequels showed ambiguity. The Jedi made the storm troopers and they were fine with exploiting clones. Let me say this again, The Jedi took engineered Humans to be used as cannon fodder against a robot army. They help create an army of people for the sole purpose of dying. It was only after they tried to overthrow the Empire that they became “EVIL”.  The Jedi kill without remorse or regret thanks to their moral clarity. Only the SIth focus on the emotions of their actions. Only the Sith acknowledge the individual.

Although I am not sure Lucas’s intent was to make the Empire and Sith sympathetic with the prequels that is what happened. The Emperor manipulated and schemed to gain power over others, the Jedi just wave their hand and make people do as they say. What really is the difference? Anakin was not seduced by the dark side, he was enticed with power as much as the ambiguity of right and wrong made him loose track of where the line is. Even Obi Wan said it, “…you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”

I think If George Lucas (young) could say something to George Lucas (now) it would be this:

You anger and your lust for power have already done that. You have allowed this Dark Lord to twist your mind, until now…untill now you have become the very thing you swore to destroy.

Though I don’t hate or despise what George Lucas has become; I understand how it makes people feel who believed in the vision of the young George Lucas only to be betrayed by him. You should thank George Lucas the elder, really.  In effect, he has made you more a part of the Star Wars mythos than you could have ever hoped to be before. You, the fan, are now part of the story. You understand the betrayal Obi Wan felt and tried to describe to Luke, you understand better than you could have ever hoped.  Without the prequels you would just be a fan, a viewer of cinema. Now you own a part of the movies from the pain and the hurt you experienced. The newest fans who loved the prequels, the young fans, don’t understand it and they are just another set of movies to them. So next time you hate on Lucas, you cry for your lost youth, give Lucas a little love.

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