It's a cute irony, realizing they are the soldiers of evil in the original trilogy, and then meeting one of these awesomely nice 501st Legion guys in person at some charity event.

But the irony isn't why we love them. It's the nostalgia. Plus the fact that they didn't actually kill anyone we liked in the original trilogy, and seeing someone in full stormtrooper gear doing everyday things is pretty damn funny.

Only an idiot would confuse movie nostalgia with real life fascism. We like Darth Vader too but that doesn't mean we'd want to be on the frizzy side of his lazystick in real life.

I met the 501st at the Motor City Comic Convention on the last day of the convention. (Documented here: [www.medeasmemoirs.com])
They were awesome. They even responded en masse in my comments inviting me to join. A pox on anyone who says a single word against the 501st.

Maybe it's because I have an extroverted protuberant vagina, but I totally agree with you.

As for the article, way to try make one of the best movies of the war sound kind of boring.

@TychoCelchuuu: Agree. You have cracked the code!

@Charlie Jane Anders:

Hancock is a good summer movie. Do we really need a two hour movie of drunken superhero stunts? Or explaining why the two superbeings are "gods?" Or "superheroes are our modern mythology?" It packs a lot of concepts within a short time span, but it takes the superhero genre to a new place for movies at least. The whole vengeance/redemption thing is done to death, or at least "superhero death" meaning it will be revived soon enough in the name of ...

PROFIT!!

Christian Bale clearly does not know of the various incarnations of Robin in Bat-thology.

God, that was one of the stupidest scenes in Batman Begins.

Sure, the ending of the movie, other than attitude, is nothing like the book ending. The movie ending is actually encouraging you to do something with your life. The book ending is telling you to take your superhero story expectations and fuck off.

I was kind of doubting the X-Men references but the green-eyed girl does seem to have two white streaks in her hair that highlighting wouldn't explain. So maybe.

1. talk tiny THEN TALK IN CAPS LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!
2. Talk really fast.
3. Repeat everything you say twice.

Thank you, God of Games, wherever you are.

Blah, this looks like bantha poo.

Seriously, they should just make a SC type game with Star Wars or Lucasfilm characters. That would at least keep some of it in context.

But IF they did put in the Mandarin, the only politically-correct and safe-for-Hollywood version would have to be someone who was NOT Asian, so Tahir's character would make sense. Otherwise, it will just be another flashback to the yellow peril and Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

The current version of this is capsule endoscopy, same thing minus the magnets. It just travels through your digestive system like a peanut that won't dissolve, taking pictures along the way and you eventually poop it out. Most of the time.

Rarely, when it doesn't come out (perhaps getting stuck behind a kink in the bowel), they have to go in there with the full colonoscopy or blast you with heavy-duty laxatives (ironically called GoLytely).

Making it magnet solves this problem, hopefully.

(in Family Guy Blue Harvest Magic Johnson voice) No, but seriously, esurance girl is hot.

Izzy? Bailey? Are there going to be articles about which sci-fi guy is the McDreamy-est of them all next?

It's enough to make General Grievous cough up his crippled Force-squelched lungs.

Et tu, io9?

Plus, would it kill them to put a turret on one of those cars, or at least the truck?

I agree with the other posters though that there is absolutely nothing in common with GTA and Deathrace. If you need a relevant comparison, look up Car Wars, Autoduel, Road Warrior, Carmageddon, or watch the original movie which was the granddaddy of all the above.

I can't wait.