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Personal logo etotheipi Sponsoring Member of TMP30 Oct 2020 5:07 p.m. PST

Yeah, that. The Star Wars movie. I mean THE Star Wars movie.

SWMBO and I just started watching it on TV.

So, for all you SW trivia buffs … Do the stormtroopers kill more people in the first five minutes of this flick than in the ensuing 8.9 movies?

Personal logo Parzival Supporting Member of TMP30 Oct 2020 5:59 p.m. PST

Well, they're pretty successful at the start of The Empire Strikes Back. After that, not so much…

KeithRK31 Oct 2020 2:14 p.m. PST

Stormtroopers are only bad at hitting the "heroes" of the movies, who are wearing plot armor.

USAFpilot31 Oct 2020 6:23 p.m. PST

It didn't start with Star Wars. Pretty much any action movie in which lots of bad guys firing automatics at the hero and miss. Somehow if the hero runs really really fast, he can outrun a bullet (or laser); rather stupid. Still have to admit, as a 9 year old kid in 1977, Star Wars was the best movie I ever saw.

Personal logo Tacitus Supporting Member of TMP02 Nov 2020 12:59 a.m. PST

Don't forget, the Force has its own designs on "balance" in the universe. That's why the Stormtroopers miss the heroes and why, searching for the droids in Tatooine, they knock on a door and move on because no one answers. I guess they needed a warrant?

Personal logo javelin98 Supporting Member of TMP03 Nov 2020 8:33 a.m. PST

They were still better shots than the A-Team!

Old Wolfman03 Nov 2020 9:21 a.m. PST

Or COBRA.;^)

clibinarium03 Nov 2020 4:31 p.m. PST

Just saw this today, I thought it was pretty funny, with an explantion of Imperial shooting. Minor spoilers for the Mandalorian I suppose.

youtu.be/gKppwACQ-qk

Personal logo etotheipi Sponsoring Member of TMP03 Nov 2020 5:47 p.m. PST

They were still better shots than the A-Team!
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I love it when an armour-plated bus comes together!

explantion of Imperial shooting.

I think the actual conversation was more nihilistic. But, still, almost as good as the original short film, The Existential Cowboy.

Tumbleweed Supporting Member of TMP06 Nov 2020 8:12 a.m. PST

The school bus reminds me of the Clint Eastwood movie "The Gauntlet."

von Schwartz ver 218 Feb 2021 7:09 a.m. PST

How about Taken 3, driving a stolen Turkish cab into direct fire from a M2 .50 cal as well as several M4s at the American Embassy, neither Liam nor the girl who played his daughter had so much as a hair outa place.

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