Re: Most disappointing films.

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:31:58 +0000, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

On 05/03/2025 16:46, Paul S Person wrote:

I saw /The Empire Strikes Back/ last night. The two-seater aircraft
(pilot and gunner, back to back) used to attack Imperial Walkers
towards the start of the film are "Rogue 2", Rogue 3", and Rogue 4",
per the credits not just on IMDb but shown on the film itself --
which, BTW, is the original unaltered LD version Lucas grudgingly
allowed to be put out on an extras disk. Hey, at least it letterboxed!
No "Rogue 1" is listed, but then, that call sign was no doubt retired
after the events in /Rogue One/.

>
I think it may be that #1 is (1) "Rogue Leader"
and (2) a named character.  I think Luke is in
that fight but in an X-Wing?

If one were to go to
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cst_sm> and
search on "rogue", one would find "Rogue 1", "Rogue 2", and "Rogue 3"
but no "Rogue Leader".

Luke is in a two-person fighter. His gunner (Dak) is listed, as are
the other two gunners. Attempts to find a model number have been
unavailing, no doubt due to my normal lack of search skills. The
phrases I tried all led to /star/fighters, and I'm not sure these were
space-capable. Why would a gunner with a harpoon be needed in space?
We see in the movie how useful they are against Imperial Walkers.

When he evacuates Hoth, he does indeed switch to an X-Wing. He is
shown doing this; it isn't that he is suddenly in space with Dak's
corpse still in the rear seat.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"