Posted on 04/29/2009 7:13:46 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
1) Not Joining the Dark Side
No, seriously! Luke gets dumped on his whole life—his adoptive parents get killed, all his friends get injured or killed, the girl he falls in love with turns out to be his sister, his father turns out to be one of the most evil people in the galaxy, his hand gets cut off. Then he gets a chance to co-rule the galaxy. Who wouldn't take that offer at that point?
What has Luke had to look forward to after the original trilogy? Mostly trying to start up the whole Jedi Order by himself, which is a ton of work, and watching Han have almost constant sex with Leia. Between that and ruling with Vader, it's not unlike a choice between working in your local library and becoming President. Not really much of a choice there. And ou can comment all you want about the Dark Side being a path to pain and suffering and a loss of humanity, but let’s face it—the Dark Side is simply cooler. Members of the Sith have neat custom lightsabers, get to slap everyone around, and just plain look cooler. For Halloween, how many Luke costumes do you see people wearing nowadays? Zero. How many Darth Vader costumes do you see? Still too many to count. Bad is good, baby.
>>>Jesse ventura and the indian were by far the two most likeable characters in that team
The Indian was a rare fellow. One of the very few professional male porn stars who made the transition to legitimate films. He also played Billy Bear in “48 Hours” with Nick Nolte. Good actor back in the 80s..
>>>Also in my opinion the single most impressive 30-second show of hand-held firepower ever on screen when firing blindly into the jungle.
I enjoy it also, but we aren’t supposed to. That scene was intended to be satirical of American gun culture, a video sneer. The director was amazed when audiences loved it.
“you got time to duck?”
Heinlein's "Tunnel in the Sky"
And the moral of that part of the book was: having a big gun is counterproductive, if it makes you so overconfident that you let somebody sneak up on you from behind...
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