@ShitpostGate One time in the Army we were in the field and a bunch of guys began wondering aloud what stars were. When I started to tell them they were faraway suns and planets and shit they were mystified.
Gaethje passing by Teddy Roosevelt, moments before he beats the shit out of the foreign sitting champion on the South Lawn in front of a crowd of 80,000. This is America.
George Lucas revived the monomyth for a new generation by wrapping it in a Flash Gordon-style pulp space adventure. He paired it with John William’s Wagnerian opera score complete with some of the most imaginative visuals ever put on screen. Just pure cinematic magic that has reshaped our culture forever.
Anakin Skywalker's sociopathy was foreshadowed even as early as Episode I as he was shouting "woo!" and having the time of his life as various aliens ate shit and died screaming in fire around him.
yoda: troubled by this news, you are?
luke: it's just, uh, she kinda... kissed me full on the lips a while ago
yoda [smirking]: kissed you, she did?
luke: cmon man i didn't know
yoda [visibly texting, trying not to laugh]: no worries, understand, i do,
mass effect 1: in the future guns can make their own ammo so the limiting factor is they overheat sometimes and need to cool down
mass effect 2: we have developed a new technology to store heat in "clips" that you can "reload" by pressing R