Its reminded me of star wars the whole time because I always thought star wars was so unrealistic the idea that a ragtag group of rebels could take on an empire with handmade spaceships (pickup trucks) and untrained kids/solo was a stretc but this thing seems almost exactly like it if you ignore nato.

Also there was another movie where someone was a God (I think it was ancient egypt but could be wrong) and all the rebels/slaves ambushed the capital and when the God came out they all bowed to him and layed down their arms. That kind of reminds me of what is going on now since the rebels rolled right into tripoli, captured saif and now saif is freely being escorted around by rebels claiming victory.

Also, its pretty crazy how 65,000 fighters could just vanish. This reminds me of a heist or bank robbery movie like the town where they all blend in with hostages once the cops arrive and then escape forever or come back later to get the money (inside man/clive owen).

Then its scary and some old story similar to something like a reverse trojan horse where you let your enemy straight in and then destroy the city. This is what gadhafi could be doing and its a scary thought since he has stockpiles of mustard gas/WMD.

8/22/2011 7:46:32 PM

Look. That's too many words about a thread about Libya. Cut your shit down or provide a TLDR section. Know your audience. We don't want to feel like we are IN Libya when we read your verbose post.

8/22/2011 7:52:13 PM

tldr

8/22/2011 7:52:17 PM

In before the post of the cnn picture of the rebel dude shooting his rifle while on an office chair in the middle of a god damn street...

8/22/2011 7:53:15 PM

^^the post is just a joke post comparing it to cinematic situations and movie cliches. Each paragraph stands alone so you can skip one or two and not miss anything.

8/22/2011 7:53:26 PM

and also tldr

8/22/2011 7:53:52 PM

The rebels weren't using handmade spaceships. Their spaceships were better and more expensive than Imperial ships, they just didn't have as many.

8/22/2011 7:54:55 PM

^only person who actually read. And yes, I agree. Did OP not know of the history before the original trilogy?

8/22/2011 7:56:18 PM

you mean like the x wings and lasso ships vs thai fighters?

Solo's ship was old as fuck and just fast but barely worked and it did damge in battles. ewoks took out walkers with fucking logs. rebels took out HUGE walkers with cables. Simple shit taking down dominant emperial weaponry.

They had a friggin death star for heavens sake picking off planets one by one.

8/22/2011 8:01:15 PM

which brings the question. what kind of propulsion system did the death star have to get that son of a bitch to blow up said planets?

8/22/2011 8:05:42 PM

Yeah the x-wings and a-wings were way better than tie fighters.

The snowspeeders took out a few AT-ATs but the rebels still lost that battle and had to retreat.

The ewoks took out like 2 AT-STs, which are like the Star Wars version of humvees so it's not as impressive as you might think, but they were still about to be massacred before Chewie stole one.

8/22/2011 8:07:11 PM

fusion beam, yo

8/22/2011 8:07:18 PM

dont you have a game to get?

8/22/2011 8:08:35 PM

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"thai fighters"

8/22/2011 8:11:50 PM

might as well label them the "foo fighters"

8/22/2011 8:56:14 PM

hey lets get back to op

8/22/2011 10:12:38 PM

Quote :

"Also there was another movie where someone was a God (I think it was ancient egypt but could be wrong) and all the rebels/slaves ambushed the capital and when the God came out they all bowed to him and layed down their arms. That kind of reminds me of what is going on now since the rebels rolled right into tripoli, captured saif and now saif is freely being escorted around by rebels claiming victory. "

stargate?

8/22/2011 10:14:12 PM

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"I always thought star wars was so unrealistic the idea that a ragtag group of rebels could take on an empire with handmade spaceships (pickup trucks) and untrained kids/solo was a stretch"

That's what you thought was unrealistic? Not the whole fighting in space thing?

[Edited on August 22, 2011 at 10:15 PM. Reason : ]

8/22/2011 10:15:30 PM

damn this is hilarious, fuck the lightsabers, aliens, the force thats all believable but the ragtag group of rebels taking on an empire that shit is just not realistic haha

8/22/2011 10:20:31 PM

8/22/2011 10:21:37 PM

^^ All of that stuff is established as real within the setting itself and can be taken at face value and treated as realistic, at least within the movie.


In the star wars universe, lightsabers, the force, faster than light travel are all real so showing those things is perfectly realistic within the setting, it would actually be far more unrealistic if there was someone using a device that exists in our world but has never been seen and wouldn't logically exist in theirs.

[Edited on August 22, 2011 at 10:30 PM. Reason : ]

8/22/2011 10:29:47 PM

lightsabers are considered an old art in star wars anyway. simply a noble way of hand to hand combat.

8/22/2011 11:57:05 PM

like samuri's

8/23/2011 1:04:56 AM

tie fighters don't even have shields

of course incom fighters with four cannons, shields, and hyperdrive could roll over some tie fighters

8/23/2011 1:50:40 AM

outnumbered like crazy with planes that are inferior at maneuvering ("I can't shake em")

8/23/2011 6:49:53 AM