| The Top 10 Movie Weapons |
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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: Top 10 Movie Weapons | Best movie weapon has to be Jason Voorhees Machete ... Read More
goonie 4eva About me | | 01:21, 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 | | | | | Newspaper- Bourne Supremacy | Jason Bourne visits the last Treadstone Agent in Berlin. Priceless ... Read More
mayun About me | | 17:23, 01 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | "Star Wars: Episode I may have been a massive let-down to all but the criminally insane"
Insane...like Empire for giving it a 5 star review?
Ol' Painless should have been #1. FACT! ... Read More
coljohnmatrix About me | | 17:20, 01 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels | Death by dildo. Say no more. ... Read More
walkswithbears About me | | 15:38, 01 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | Desperado's cello case | What about the nifty rocket launching cello case from Desperado? ... Read More
The Bantam Menace About me | | 14:40, 01 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | Kill Bill Vol. 1 | That... "Thing" that Gogo carries around. Like a Buzz Saw Yo-yo. ... Read More
The Jackle About me | | 13:55, 01 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | The Last Boy Scout | The palm of Bruce Willis' hand. He *told* him he'd kill him if he hit him again... ... Read More
sowasred2012 About me | | 13:08, 01 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | Shoot 'Em Up | Carrot through the eye socket! ... Read More
kungfuollie About me | | 10:33, 01 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | Robocop | Robocop's gun, for anyone that can remember.... ... Read More
inkee About me | | 10:27, 01 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | how bout cherry darling's machine gun leg and........? | u missed cherry darling's machine gun leg and the mariachi's guitar cases (desperado)!!!! ... Read More
elayjc About me | | 09:51, 01 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | Shoot 'Em Up | Carrot through the eye socket! ... Read More
kungfuollie About me | | 08:59, 01 September 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | what about teeth? | What about the film Teeth; the girl with a dental vagina, that is a pretty badass weapon to have.
I also agree on the comment about the gas canister in No Country For Old Men. ... Read More
spotless mind About me | | 22:42, 31 August 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | The meat-pistol from Existenz! | Yeah, I know that sounds dirty, but that's more or less what it is. Also the sick-sticks from Minority Report. Non-lethal maybe, but they'd keep you safe walking around town on a Saturday night. ... Read More
the ageless stranger About me | | 21:44, 31 August 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | Gaget Weapons | Batman's Arsenal? James Bond Weapons that he uses and not his enemies??? ... Read More
jgarret About me | | 04:12, 31 August 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | Hasta la vista baby. | what about the silent shotgun in No Country? And I really miss THE ultimate movie weapon on this list: the terminator! ... Read More
de aap About me | | 15:18, 30 August 2008 | Report This Post | | | | | Next Page |
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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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