I think I've basically only seen Charles Dance in LAH but with that movie, and that picture, I think it's safe to say he is a pretty cool guy.

I don't really even know who is in it besides Cavill and Russell Crowe. When I know I will be watching a film I usually go into lockdown mode.

Given how much folks seem to like IM3, the distaste for this film leaves me a little baffled.

Anyway, it's only a film. None of this is worth a fight over.

avatar wrote:

And he's planning to build Death Star v3.0. He'll do this by going back in time and extracting the first and second Death Stars through a worm hole just before they were destroyed and then combining them into an overclocked turned-up-to-11 Death Star.

Don't call it Star Wars, and you've got yourself a greenlight in my book.

I wanted to come out of this thrilled, and amped for Episode 7, but instead I'm already putting the walls back up.

I just didn't care, I was having fun.

avatar wrote:

One thing it didn't cover,

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did Khan take out one or two Klingon Birds of Prey with a hand-held gun? Did I see correctly? Tell me that didn't happen.

Luke Nieto wrote:

I'm pretty sure he's just super-strong and that wasn't technically a hand-held weapon... even though he was handling it with his hands. But still, yeah. That happened.

Nope, that did not happen.

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Those were pretty clearly not Birds of Prey, they were the equivalent of scout/patrol ships or shuttles. They bore a resemblance in their design, probably as both a nod to the fans but also because usually a race's smaller ships look like their larger ships. That isn't out of the ordinary in Trek.

As for taking them out, clearly the bigger weapon he had was not a normal hand-held weapon. At the time I remember thinking that it was probably a smaller ship's phaser or something that he modified to use the way he did. Plus, they established how powerful it was, and it wasn't out of the realm of believably in the Trek universe. It fried a handful of people, and it tore a hole in a shuttle/patrol ship, causing it to go down (it didn't make the whole thing explode in mid air or anything).

If, in actual reality, you can down a helicopter or low-flying plane with an RPG (a hand-held weapon), then it's not the most ridiculous thing in the world to think that Kahn could down a shuttle/patrol ship with something he could carry.

Unless you're arguing that they ships "would/should" have had shields to defend against it, which is getting a little into the weeds of absurdity. But even then, there's no established moment where ships that small have shields anyways -- the shuttle in the beginning didn't have them (I think), the ship the Crew took to Kronos didn't have them, so again it's perfectly believable that the Klingon scouts didn't have them.

*shrug*

Again, there are enough legitimate criticisms to not waste time nitpicking things like this.

everythingshiny wrote:

The implication that Americans can just fly around the world, spreading their democracy and fixing the world

Isn’t that what’s happening right now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_atta … Statistics

If Iron Patriot existed in the real world he'd be blowing shit up in the middle east right now.