Bingowings said:
Think Apocalypse Now's helicopter runs but against Ewoks and Rebels (mockup quality as always is limited to source material and only there to illustrate a concept not to be a representation of a final scene).

This could be really cool; would there be a way of getting the 501 and filming some short scenes of them on a Huey firing a machine gun? You could finagle the image so they are at the back end of one of the 2 TIE bomber pods, with background images of the jungle below them.

On that note, I always imagined that one could add similar sequences to the Hoth battle in EMPIRE by having a door or a port on the side of the AT-ATs to allow the snow troopers inside to shoot at the snow speeders as they flew by (either shooting their heavier guns out gun slits or having a full opening ala a Huey firing a laser machine gun).

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On a side note, I just don't get the hate ID4 gets. I LOVED it when it came out.

Is it realistic? Nope. But you know what? It was a really fun movie with some (still) impressive FX and action sequences and the characters are pretty good (which I know some can debate, but that is for another forum). All it boils down to is TOWERING INFERNO with George Pal's WAR OF THE WORLDS with a lot of 70's and 80's references slipped in, of which they at least use.