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| RE: Top 10 Movie Weapons | Do you ekschpect me to talk?
Bond I expect you to die!
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grucl About me | | 08:49, 05 September 2008 | Report This Post |  | | | | RE: Glamdring | True, any weapon that can smite a Balrog's ruin upon the mountainside is formidable but come on, when that mace was unfurled in front of Eowyn did you not just think to yourself "ohhhh shit, this poor horse-maiden is in for a beat-down?" ... Read More
Vito_Andolini About me | | 13:44, 04 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | RE: Glamdring | Do you remember the line "You shall not pass!!!" in the Bridge of Khazad-Dum?
Then Gandalf falling, gripping the sword known as Glamdring in his hand and smiting the Balrog?
A f**king Balrog for crying out loud! ... Read More
Incanus About me | | 03:09, 04 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | RE: Gaget Weapons | The Witch-King of Angmar's mace in Return of the King, now that shit is badass!! Which is how I believe Tolkien himself described it... ... Read More
Vito_Andolini About me | | 12:00, 03 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | RE: Gaget Weapons | Machete's gun from Planet Terror was the sh*t.....wish it was listed...
was way cooler than Rose McGowan's leg!! How does she pull the
trigger on that thing again?
Planet Terror was such a let down after that kick ass trailer Machete...
....he gets the women!!!! they f**ked with the wrong Mexican!!!
PS: The list is missing the Feral Kid's razor sharp boomerang from
The Road Warrior - that thing is bad-ass!! ... Read More
MR T's GOLD CHAINS About me | | 05:05, 03 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | Rubbish list | So Dirty Harrys 44 gets let out but ol painless is in. Questionable at best. (although deffinaely the coolest)
Few ommisions i thought of.
The gas powered crosbow from van helsing.
The plasma Caster From predator (See avpR for a hand held version)
The Staff weapon From Stargate
The Pencil From TDK
The Laser Bow from Blade Trinity. ... Read More
livewire About me | | 13:02, 29 August 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | RE: RE: | I was going to suggest Dirty Harry's dirty 44. Magnum but then i remembered the best revolver was Jack Nicholson's 'Joker' - the trouser long revolver - golden ... Read More
Jay Foulds About me | | 17:30, 28 August 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | RE: | Joe Pesci and his pen!! ... Read More
JonathanMardukas About me | | 16:52, 28 August 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | RE: T2!! | Bugsy Malone Splurge Guns - Nuff Said!
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Vito_Andolini About me | | 15:48, 28 August 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | RE: RE: | Much as I love the Smart Gun, I'd also nominate the BFG - if only for the hours of cathartic fun I've had with it on the Playstation.
Pretty good list though. ... Read More
elab49 About me | | 15:29, 28 August 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | RE: | What about the humble biro from The Bourne Identity? But some good choices there (nice to see Braindead and ED2 getting mentions) ... Read More
Heskin Radiophonic About me | | 15:23, 28 August 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | |
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Owen Williams explains his choices...
The key to this list is the word "movie". Films are often violent, and violence calls for weaponry, but there is a certain class of movie weapon that is purely fictional, whether because it simply doesn't (or couldn't) exist in the real world, or because it does exist but couldn't possibly be used in the way portrayed.
Unfortunately this means a lot of iconic weapons have to be left out. Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world that could blow your head clean off, is a real gun that works. Similarly you'll find no Beretta or Uzi 9mm, M16, Colt .45 or Winchester '73 here; no bullwhips (Indy uses it creatively but doesn't do a lot of damage); no knives; no Anton Chigurh cattlegun and - almost - no swords. No bombs, either: not even, after much soul-searching, the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, which, when all's said and done, was just a hand grenade with a silly name and a costume.
This list is about weapons that are either cool or ridiculous, or both. You can't own them. Or if you can, they won't work like this. And for those who feel a Death Star would be even better than a lightsaber, consider the admin involved: it needs over a million staff, so its payroll department alone would be a nightmare. Plus, all that Imperial efficiency still doesn't stop the Rebels taking it down twice.
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This top ten first appeared in Empire Magazine Issue 231.
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