Get Cynical

A lot of people have made comparisons to the climax of “Star Wars Episode IV” and the old WWII movie “The Dambusters.” So, as a joke, I took the audio from the Death Star scene and put it with clips from “The Dambusters.”

From Wikipedia:

The attack on the “Death Star” in the climax of the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is based on the climactic sequence of The Dam Busters. In the later film rebel pilots have to fly through a trench while evading enemy fire and use a single special weapon at a precise distance from the target in order to destroy the entire base with a single explosion; if one run fails another run must be made by a different pilot. Some scenes from the Star Wars climax are very similar to those in The Dam Busters and some of the dialogue is nearly identical in the two films. These scenes are also heavily influenced by the action scenes from the war film 633 Squadron, which depicts a fictional air raid. Star Wars also ends with an Elgarian-style march, like The Dam Busters.

Ice Cubes 1, Cat 0.
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This is one of our blind dogs, Callie the Dachshund, who always pretends not to hear us when we’re calling all the dogs to go out one last time before bed. She rolls over and pretends she’s dead … except her tail gives her away.

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Watch the dancer and see which way she is spinning.

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood — between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense, to the natural.

Robert Green Ingersoll – “Myth and Miracle”(1885)