There's been at least some debate over the quality, narrative and tone of the critically lauded "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," with not a few conservative and men's rights commenters attacking the film, and its actors, for its perceived slights to white men.
Into this fray waddled one Alex Jones, who would like you very much to know that he's perturbed by the franchise's newly found narrative equality between male and female characters.
In a video published by the Infowars host Des. 29, Jones said, "This new film, if you call it that,
'The Last Jedi' is like the last 'Star Wars' movie I think I can ever watch, because it’s like Russian roulette to go see this." Oh? Really? How so?
"It had some great graphics and some fun stuff in it," Jones admitted, "but subjecting myself and my children to every bad guy being a man and all of the commanders being women, like seven deep, like, 'This commander dies, so it’s this woman and then it’s this woman,' and then they go, 'The chain of command, it goes to this woman, and the chain of command.' And it’s all about women are in the chain of command. Beat me over the head. Beat me over the head."
One can imagine how that must have been difficult for Jones.
This is not to say that Jones was against women being generals, senators and whatnot. "I mean, I get, like, don’t have stereotypes," he said. "Show that women can be in power positions, as if that hasn’t happened throughout history. Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, you name it."
But he noted that some of these historical women were not quite heroes, at least according to him. He noted the "bad role" of early reproductive-rights campaigner Margaret Sanger and Queen Elizabeth II, whom he called "a known admitted Nazi-heiling Hitler, but that’s OK, according to everybody, because she’s liberal."
Returning to "The Last Jedi," Jones added, "but this is just the beating you over the head to patronize women, and show them in SWAT team uniforms running around, and to be the police, and to be in charge and the men are a bunch of idiots that have to be put in line, and it just goes on and on."
He then turned his attention to the late lamented star of the franchise, Carrie Fisher, who passed away a year ago last Wednesday. "And then poor Carrie Fisher, you can see her tweets and videos before she died, and that was during the filming, she died right at the end of filming, she died right as it ended, she flew back, he said."
He continued, "I’m not saying it’s a star murder or anything, but we know in Hollywood sometimes when they think you're finally done, if you die right after your last record, your last movie, then it triples or quadruples your portfolio." So, no, Jones wasn't claiming that Disney and other forces conspired to kill the beloved actor and author in order to increase the box-office totals of what was already likely to be the highest grossing film of 2017 — but, then again, who can say, really.
He then said of Fisher, "But she just completed it perfectly. Flying back, I guess celebrating or whatever, had a bunch of different drugs in her systems and things. And I’m very sad for her, thought she played the goddess archetype very, very well, did a great job in the first films, had a long life, a lot of substance problems."
Not that Jones was insulting Fisher. "I don’t put her down," he said.
He then noted that seeing her in the "The Last Jedi," was "like watching an under-the-bridge dweller, like we have near the office, who I try to bring food and stuff, who, she looked like a basically an old lizard that lived under a bridge or something that could hardly talk."
And that, everyone, is how Jones capped off 2017, hating on the highest-grossing film of the year — one that owns a 91 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes — and saying its beloved, fiery star resembled a barely articulate reptile. He also said that "Communist China saves us in almost every movie," these days because the state has bought "controlling interest" in all the major Hollywood studios, so there's that.
See the whole segment below, though note that there are spoilers for "The Last Jedi."
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