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Top 10 Movies That Have A Climax Involving a Giant Beam in the Sky (hard-drive.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why was Hollywood so obsessed with sky beams? I mean they cared more about making sky beams evil than making sure we knew how evil their producers were.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

The conceptual failure of orbital lasers: https://youtu.be/ntLc4hHWqHs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How is Independence Day not here, they invented sky beams

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

LMAO this is actually a pretty decent list

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They left out that newer star trek movie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mr Bean

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

*Mr Beam

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Hello....Dune! That part might have been the most visually stunning in the entire movie!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What does this have to do with the Onion/parody sites? Isn’t that a legit list?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The Hard Drive is a satire website, and the writing here is very humorous.
Half of the selections are quite awful and the justifications are quite... flimsy. The concept here is also a bit satirical

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

the writing here is very humorous.

We’re gonna have to agree to disagree on that one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Oh, yeah? I hate cheese now >:(