I always thought ANH doesn’t do the best job of conveying the passage of time so it seems like Luke just integrates with this rebel squadron randomly in like an hour.
How long is it supposed to be?
two hours
I think it depends on the old EU versus modern Disney but I think in the old EU he was there for like a week or two.
So many things out right now where the protagonist’s superpower is being old and tough/wise. And all the opponents are “young upstarts/punks”
“The old man” probably a but on the nose.
Tulsa King, Yellowstone etc
Everyone can relate to an underdog
problem is, you need the underdog to actually fail at least once
I’m the sequel, I don’t think at any point he was the underdog.
Is he was a woman, people would say he was a mary sue
And then you need a montage
Is Tom Cruise an underdog at this point?
I was thinking more of the character not the actor
Wait, did tom cruise drop the bomb in the new movie? I thought he was just the teacher on the ground?
Nope he literally teaches the young pilots how to do the mission perfectly then at the end he goes “fuck it” I’ll do it myself and almost get myself killed for no reason.
I assume you meant “himself” but I am amused by the idea that Tom Cruise’s character nearly kills a single member of the viewing audience, in real life, as part of the movie’s climax for unexplained reasons.
s/1970/1977
s/2025/2022Anon can’t tell time.
That’s how I feel about Nobody, the action movie with Bob Odenkirk. A 59 year old beating up a bus of young punks, such a power fantasy, but it’s just so hard to believe.
He also got his ass handed to him in that scene…
Skill + strength. It’s not always about how hard you hit someone but where and how.
As the old boxers say, timing beats speed. Precision beats power.
I like the one in Secondhand Lions. Similar theme. Perhaps more believable.
Ohh, young Haley Joel Osment and Robert Duvall. I don’t know how I missed this movie! As in, I didn’t see it when it came out. Might be worth a watch later today.
It’s a quite enjoyable watch!
So is pretty much every movie, mate. The point is to make it believable as you possibly can, without tipping over into farce. You can believe that an experienced fighter can beat an inexperienced one. Thats not an issue. The issue, for me anyway, usually comes when they take a hit. Thats usually when I start blowing big watery farts at the screen. See also small women beating up massive built dudes. Like The Woman King, seeing 50something Viola Davis taking haymakers from 25 year old heavy weight like they are nothing. Each punch enough to knock just about anyone on the planet out cold.
John Wick is another one. The gun play and stuff is fun, but as a tactical exercise, John Wick regularly gives up good cover for more sensational action shots that should have gotten him killed a million times over. The trick is making it fun. If you can do that, the audience forgives any bullshit. If you cant make it fun, the audience will nitpick it to fuck.
Yeah I feel like movies in general wayyyyy downplay how bad taking a full force bare-knuckle punch right to the chin is. Irl you’re very likely getting knocked out and also whoever threw the punch has a good chance of breaking their hand.
John Wick is always safe because offscreen enemies with guns have to run into frame and engage him at close range. It’s like videogames rules - like how the mobs form into concentric circles and attack you one at a time from the inner ring.
Yeah but it’s fun anyway, because Bob Odenkirk is awesome.
This, plus the brutality of the fight scenes were incredible
Luke used to do some dangerous piloting in canyons, so he was already doing crazy piloting even though he wasn’t being shot at.
Also, TG:M is the ANH trench run. Not even trying to hide it.
Sadly the movie only really communicates this with a line said almost in passing.
The original Rogue Squadron game has a mission where you fly the canyon path the way Luke did. Get gold on that and you’ll get an idea of just how good of a pilot Luke already is before he ever touches an X-Wing. And on the topic of the X-Wing, it is arguably the most advanced fighter ever made at that time, yet another untold portion of the movie that was intended to already be part of the lore lol.
Luke also used to shoot womprats while racing his T-16 around the canyons, and womprats are smaller than the Death Star’s exhaust port. Combine all that with his latent force power and the trench run is actually not a far fetched feat for him at all.
Yeah seriously this is kinda nonsense, it’s more akin to a professional level stunt pilot who is independent. Scouted out and recruited to a company that does air shows.
He’s already highly skilled, practiced and knowledgeable in the field. He at most just needs a few weeks to learn the routine of the new company and he’s good to go.
Even ignoring the space magic. He was already one of the most skilled pilots because he’s been flying for his entire life at extremely high levels.
Also, you know, he’s the son of the most powerful force wielder in the universe. Tends to help with piloting a bit.
Very true.
Boomers all think they’re the main character
Everybody thinks GenX are Boomers.
Everyone is falling for the “lets turn different age groups against each other instead of fixing actual problems” thing
They fell for the ploy and entrenched us in the cycle before we had a chance to speak about it, and presently are obstructing the fixing of actual problems, problems that are a result of their negligence.
It’s because they’ve been right about that their entire lives.
They’re called Boomers beause they’re the largest generation. Being the largest generation means that you’re the generation with the most purchasing power, the most cultural cache, and the most voting power. Corporations, the media, and political parties have spent the past 50-60 years making the Boomers the foundation of their strategy.
The whole of mainstream society has been telling the Boomers for their entire lives that they’re the most important people in society.nIt’s only now that they’re dying off in a significant way that this strategy is starting to fail.
Lucas was 27 when he started writing Star Wars…
Independence Day did it better, than Tom Cruise at least.
the first one or the 2nd one, the 2nd one was terrible.
The 1st. “Up yours!!”
