The Great Movie Thread

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Post by Penner » Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:52 am

Hanarchy Montanarchy wrote:
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A significant part of the Republican think thank world agrees. It's sickenning.
Have you ever been to this subreddit before? There is some pretty shocking stuff there about the Rebellion!

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmpireDidNothingWrong/
Come on! It is a guerrilla force fighting against her own, technically legitimate state. Obviously they are terrorists.

Did ya'll think the rebellion never did anything morally questionable in their fight to bring down a galactic empire? And unless the Empire has full, lifetime conscription or something, the rebels definitely hurt imperial civilians.
But didn't the Prequels state that all Strom Troopers were Boba Fett clones??? :o
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Post by Speaker to Animals » Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:56 am

Easily one of the greatest film scenes of all time.


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Post by Okeefenokee » Sat Dec 31, 2016 11:51 am

Penner wrote:
Hanarchy Montanarchy wrote:
Penner wrote:
Have you ever been to this subreddit before? There is some pretty shocking stuff there about the Rebellion!

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmpireDidNothingWrong/
Come on! It is a guerrilla force fighting against her own, technically legitimate state. Obviously they are terrorists.

Did ya'll think the rebellion never did anything morally questionable in their fight to bring down a galactic empire? And unless the Empire has full, lifetime conscription or something, the rebels definitely hurt imperial civilians.
But didn't the Prequels state that all Strom Troopers were Boba Fett clones??? :o
Did Finn look like a clone of Boba? Later troopers aren't clones.
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Post by TheReal_ND » Sat Dec 31, 2016 4:16 pm


This one was pretty good. Set during the Times of Trouble, a slave has to impersonate his killed Spanish mercenary master, and goes on to nearly become Tzar.

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Post by Montegriffo » Sat Dec 31, 2016 4:34 pm



This is one of those films which you end up thinking about for days after you have seen it. From 2011 a low budget independent movie well worth watching.
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Post by Ex-California » Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:37 pm

The greatest

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Post by Speaker to Animals » Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:38 pm

California wrote:The greatest

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Also one of my favorites.

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Post by SuburbanFarmer » Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:28 pm

Okeefenokee wrote:
Penner wrote:
Hanarchy Montanarchy wrote:
Come on! It is a guerrilla force fighting against her own, technically legitimate state. Obviously they are terrorists.

Did ya'll think the rebellion never did anything morally questionable in their fight to bring down a galactic empire? And unless the Empire has full, lifetime conscription or something, the rebels definitely hurt imperial civilians.
But didn't the Prequels state that all Strom Troopers were Boba Fett clones??? :o
Did Finn look like a clone of Boba? Later troopers aren't clones.
Yes, but he was ordered to report for "re-education" or something when he failed to follow orders. So apparently, the empire brainwashes them into following commands and not shooting well.

The storm trooper hit rate in the first scene of Episode VII is their greatest military victory in all 8 movies so far. :twisted:
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Post by Okeefenokee » Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:40 pm

I don't know much about Star Wars, but I've heard the clones were the first batch, but later on they weren't clones anymore.
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Post by SuburbanFarmer » Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:42 pm

Okeefenokee wrote:I don't know much about Star Wars, but I've heard the clones were the first batch, but later on they weren't clones anymore.
Nobody knows anymore. Disney wiped out 30 years of Expanded Universe, so it's all about what's in the movies now.
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