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You have got to be kidding me. Seriously, both the left and right wing fanatics need to calm down. IT IS A MOVIE PEOPLE!!! Leave it at that, please.

Latest ‘Star Wars’ Movie Is Quickly Politicized
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER

Published: May 19, 2005

LOS ANGELES, May 18 - For sheer lack of subtlety, the light-saber-wielding forces of good and evil in George Lucas’s “Star Wars” movies can’t hold a candle to the blogging, advertising and boycotting forces of the right and left. (Or left and right.)

More a measure of the nation’s apparently permanent political warfare than of a filmmaker’s intent, the heroes and antiheroes of Mr. Lucas’s final entry, “Episode III - Revenge of the Sith,” were on their way to becoming the stock characters of partisan debate by mid-Wednesday, hours before the film’s opening just after midnight:

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