As documented by the U.S. State Department Office of the Historian, during a 1965 meeting at the White House, President Lyndon Johnson voiced "serious concerns" about whether westerners stood a chance, "in the absence of intelligence," of winning the Vietnam War.
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It might seem impossible, trying to nail down the realities of the Star Wars universe. The events described in the movies, books, and video games occurred, allegedly, far, far away, and not even recently. Still, the good folks at MythBusters never let a childish premise stop them.
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Fans of Star Wars have been trying to undo Lucas' litany of changes to the first three movies for decades. Some have even succeeded...
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Muhammad Ali is arguably the world's most famous boxer, but for years, he was denied the right to fight and stripped of his titles. The reason? He refused to fight in the Vietnam War due to his beliefs.
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Some of the Star Wars saga's flaws are certainly hard to overlook (hi, Jar-Jar!), but others weren't quite as bad as we made them out to be.
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Listen, Solo: A Star Wars Story, was awesome. There's plenty to love in this fantastic standalone flick about Han Solo's early days, but it wasn't all Wookiee smiles and rainbows. Here are just a few dumb things everyone ignored in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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Star Wars is confusing, somehow most hated by the people who most love it. That all came to a head in 2017 with Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi. Episode VIII broke a lot of new ground and was quite a romp of a movie. That made it easy to ignore these dumb things in The Last Jedi.
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The Star Wars franchise is unlike anything else in pop culture history. While you can't deny just how massive Star Wars has been, it's not all sunshine and Ewoks. Star Wars has had plenty of negative effects on people. Here are lives destroyed by Star Wars.
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So many unfathomable difficulties occurred during the filming of the Star Wars movies, you would think they had some kind of curse placed on them.
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There's dozens of things in Star Wars that didn't come from George Lucas (or Mickey Mouse), but from the books, comics, and games of the old Extended Universe.
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