Greatest Beams In Movie History

_Laban_ writes "Vue Weekly has summarized the greatest beams in movie history. From the article: 'They slice us, they disintegrate us, they roast us alive, they level our greatest monuments and pinpoint our deepest fears.'"

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe

[Beautyon]

"Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

Re:"Slice 'em up" beams

[Baloo Ursidae]

Except for one major problem: The Cube featured not laser beam one. The scene you describe was a razor-sharp screen of cyclone fence.

Re:Babylon 5!

[DickBreath]

I actually preferred the purple "slicer" beam from the Shadow vessles. Pretty cool how they would fire the beam, it didn't first touch its target, but then sliced through the target, until it emerged from the other side of the target, once again firing into empty space. In one of the episodes, about midway through the saga, a shadow vessle slices an entire Narn battle cruiser in half. (This is when main Narn force is diverted to a battle that they believe will give them victory, but are ambushed by Shadows, thus destroying their main fighting force, while the Centuari meanwhile attack the Narn homeworld using mass drivers.)