May the force go screw itself...

I know that as an American, I'm supposed to join the mob of perpetually-single dorks, nerds and socially-unfit dingleberries racing out to theaters at 12:01 tonight to see the latest George Lucas mess.

Here's the problem: I don't care that much. The first couple movies (the old school ones) were good. Not "cream your jeans" good, but okay. I went to see the first new one a few weeks after it came out and it sucked. Bad. I still haven't seen the second one, and have no immediate plans to see either it, or the new one.

It's something like the "Matrix" trilogy; I loved the first one, the second one was basically the same director and same cast trying to milk another 90 minutes out of the same special effects they used in the first one, and I still haven't even considered watching the third one. It has actually been on my Tivo at home for six months or more, and I haven't even started it.

Maybe people should stick with making two movies in a series.

Think about it: The Godfather Parts 1&2, Vacation/Christmas Vacation, even the original Star Wars trio (see: rant in Clerks about the Muppets in Jedi). They all had a couple good to great entries, followed by crap.

The only notable exception I can think of was the Indiana Jones Series. That was nails from start to finish. They'll ruin that one with the new episode (coming soon).