The third time I watched Highlander, (the original movie) I realized that the girl Connor Macleod saved from the Nazis in a flashback, and his secretary in the present day are the same person.
Earth Girls are Easy was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I just watched it again last night and noticed that after Valerie sleeps with Mac and has that alien nightmare she pops multiple birth control pills as an ersatz morning-after pill.
Legends of the Fall. I rewatched it a couple of weeks back and something occurred to me. This grand epic tale - the boys go off to war, Samuel dies, the boys come back, Tristan and Susannah hook up, Tristan leaves to see the world, Susannah marries Alfred, the colonel has a stroke, the ranch deteriorates, Alfred becomes a congressman, Tristan comes back and marries Isabel Two … takes place in only like 6 or 7 years. I always got the impression of decades flying past, the boy growing from impetuous boys to responsible young men and all that shit, but then Isabel Two was 13 when they left and 20 when she married Tristan. That kind of flipped my beanie.
Derek Smalls plays a double neck bass.
It is a fun film, i concur.
It has long been n issue with Star Wars that Stormtroopers are renowned for heir great aim yet throughout the franchise couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance. But let’s look at the original quote that started it.
These blast points are too accurate for sand people. Only imperial stormtroopers are that precise.
He is not necessarily saying stormtroopers are great shots; the first sentence also works if sand people are horrible shots and that stormtroopers or for that matter a energetic womp rat would be more accurate than those chumps. And precise may just refer to the Stormtroopers targeting key points rather than what most people would do and shoot all over the place.
You have just put more thought into the subject than ol’ George ever did.
I’ve had to warn my kids that looking for continuity between Star Wars movies is futile, and you have to assume an ADHD womp rat was writing them.
eta: I LOVE Taika Waititi’s take on the subject, when, during the big battle in The Mandalorian, he cuts to two storm troopers miles away, trying to shoot a can in the desert:
Here’s one of the all-bass preformances…
This parody from nearly 30 years ago has them a little more accurate and explains a lot.
If you rewatch the opening scenes of “A New Hope” when the ship is being boarded, it is clear stormtroopers are good shots. It is just that the stars are protected by either The Force, or plot armor.
That’s the popular joke, but it’s not actually supported by the events of the OT. Stormtroopers win every conflict they take part in, and win handily, up until Endor. They take Leia’s ship easily, they steam roll Hoth, they conquer Cloud City with hardly a casualty, and they completely get the drop on and disarm the Rebels on Endor, before being blindsided by a native uprising. The one time they don’t absolutely dominate is during the escape from the Death Star, where we’re explicitly told, on-screen, that the Empire let the heroes escape so they could track them back to the Rebel base.
The whole “Stormtroopers can’t shoot” thing literally comes from one time in the OT where they were missing on purpose.
It’s a funny scene, but it has an actual narrative purpose in the context off the show beyond just making jokes about how much Stormtroopers suck: these are troopers from a unit that’s largely given up on any sort of discipline, esprit d’corps, or even much basic training. They’re meant to contrast with the Stormtroopers under Moff Gideon’s command, who are still the crack commandos from the height of the Empire’s power, and who utterly annihilate the incompetent troops under Werner Herzog’s command as soon as they’re introduced.
As usual, @Miller states what I was coming into say in a much more eloquent way than I would have.
There’s a cartoon I’ve seen a few times, where a Stormtrooper is taking on a redshirt from Star Trek. The joke is that the Stormtrooper misses with every shot, but the Redshirt dies anyway.
The problem is that Star Trek “redshirts” are those random characters–security guards, low-level engineers, communications officers, etc.–who are Not The Heroes, and thus not protected by narrative convenience. They are precisely the kind of characters that Stormtroopers would plow through with no trouble at all.
Stormtroopers covered head to toe in battle armor, particularly the ones on the Death Star, were The Empires finest soldiers. And yet Farm Boy, Princess, Smuggler and Dog Man go blasting through a moon sized base guns blazing and never stub a toe.
Narrative convenience is for other tales, this world has The Force and two of that YOLO group were the strongest in the universe with it. We didn’t know it at the time so jokes, but turns out it’s thematically consistent with the later films.
Like I just said:
I have wondered about the seeming uselessness of Stormtrooper armor. Have we ever seen it resist or mitigate a blaster hit?
That armor didn’t do much against rocks thrown by 3 foot tall teddy bears.
I assumed it was just easy to clean. After a battle, all the stormtroopers come back to the barracks and the sergeant just hoses them all down.
I think it was Rogue One where fully armored Stormtroopers were getting taken down by being kicked.
There is that as well.
However I was speaking of The Force making those shots miss at any point in the story within this universe. The camera only follows Force wielders and their friends, we don’t ever get to see how these Stormtroopers put their boot heel on every planet in the Galaxy.