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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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Africus aut Europaeus?
Slow news day?
...Jim Beam?
Yeah, I'll be quiet now...
Sampizcat
The most fearful one is the sunbeam. It makes people turn browner. It's why I hide in my mom's basement under the cool glow of flourescent tubes and LCD monitors all day long, to avoid the terrible sun beams...
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Why isn't Buzz Lightyear's blinking red LED (with SOUND!) on the list?
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
How about video games?
The Freespace 2 slicer beams were the coolest sounding beams I've ever seen.
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So completely off topic it hurts, but when I was a teenager sometime I saw Logan's Run, and wondered if it would be mentioned to me on the day I turned 30. That thought stayed with me any time I heard of logan's run, or thought of my 30th birthday.
:)
Turns out you are the person who mentioned Logan's run first, today, the day that is my 30th birthday.
So how's it feel to be part of a prophecy fulfilment?
Dalek scary 'turns the whole world negative' for the over 25s and 'turns people into x-rays' for the current kiddy-winks. Plus it's the only beam with a catch-phrase...
Justin.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
"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."
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Okay, so that's a fair bunch of beams from movies, but what about from computer games?
I think I'll have to say that my personal favourite would have to be the beam weapons from FreeSpace II.
It was something grand with piloting your little fighter craft in a dense nebula and all of a sudden have a massive beam cut through just beside you, and then seeing a cruiser come out of the mist just as it's preparing to fire again... The knowing that if you'd been just slightly further in that direction you wouldn't even have had time to blink before you were reduced to space dust... That game had really nice atmosphere (pardon the pun)!
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die."
- Roy Batty, Blade Runner
Great speech to go out on. Most spectacular beams in movies and they're not even shown. Sometimes what you don't see is the most compelling of all.
Sailing over the event horizon
I have a theory about the Care Bear Beams: every time they used them, the Care Bears lost a little bit of intelligence, but it felt really good to use them.
At the start, they rerely used them. It was like the Care Bear Stare was some terrible weapon. As time progressed they used them more and more. So the first time they used them it was "We can't do that! Don't you know what it will do to us?" but the more they used them the less intelligent they got, but they enjoyed it. Now they are all locked in a room somewhere, drooling like idiots, using the stare every few seconds because it feels so good.
The best ray in Doctor Who is the defabricator and it's devestating effects
Blessed are the pessimists, for they have made backups. -- 0 1 My two bits
Anyone that thinks that the [adjective] beam from [TV series] was superior clearly has [disgusting substance] for brains.
The [adjective] coolness of my choice is [superlative].
But I suppose the [adjective] beam from [book title] was really the winner. If they'd only made that into a [visual medium], it would *so* beat all the other choices.
Argue with that.