Star Wars almost caused military mobilization on the Tunisia-Libya border

So... mentioning the sandcrawlers...

When Obi Wan sees the destroyed sandcrawler he says the blast marks are too accurate to have been done by sand people and must have been Empire troops. But we see all through the series that stormtroopers can't shoot for shite. How god awful does that make Tusken Raiders with weapons and how completely pathetic does that make Shmi's husband Cliegg Lars inability to rescue her when she is kidnapped?

There are worse plot holes. Like how Beru is 18 in AOTC then 20 years later is in her 50s to 60s.

Sand people...You mean like from Star Wars?

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There are worse plot holes. Like how Beru is 18 in AOTC then 20 years later is in her 50s to 60s.

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Double suns are terrible for the skin.

I hardly see how Sand People anywhere in or near the Middle East starting or almost starting a war is noteworthy.

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Life on Tatooine will do that to a person

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Obi Wan and Owen were age appropriate compared to their appearance in the prequels.

On a somewhat related note, Ridley Scott had to get special permission during the filming of Blackhawk Down, as he used actual 160th SOAR pilots and 3rd Ranger Battalion "stuntmen" for the fast rope scenes and bringing a large, elite foreign military force into a nation (in this case, Morocco). requires quite a bit of coordination, assurances and oversight.

The authenticity of the movie, while a Hollywood film, is pretty good (some liberties of course, like the names on the helmets, some compression of timeline, some composite characters, a couple of outlandish scenes) and is validated by this fact:

This is the first/only military film where the units portrayed are played by the actual units, specifically the 160th SOAR flying the helicopters and 3/75th Rangers doing the fastroping scenes - down to a handful of individuals who had participated in the Battle of Mogadishu some 8 years before.

Obviously there have been situations where actors portray themselves (Audie Murphy) or, for example, in The Longest Day, some of the actors took part in the Normandy Operation almost 20 years before. But Blackhawk Down was relatively unique in the unit level participation.

This has been discussed ad nauseum across the internet for ages.

BHD is an amazing movie, I always enjoyed it. It's neat to go back and see how many in it are big stars or at least known actors now.

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hardly see how Sand People anywhere in or near the Middle East starting or almost starting a war is noteworthy.

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it's because the Sand People are rough, and course, and irritating....and they get everywhere