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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 Aatube@kbin.social to c/theonion@midwest.social
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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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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 6 months ago

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

[–] palebluethought@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How is Independence Day not here, they invented sky beams

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

LMAO this is actually a pretty decent list

[–] Cap@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

They left out that newer star trek movie.

[–] ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mr Bean

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

*Mr Beam

[–] Ilikecheese@lemm.ee -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
  1. The Hard Drive is a satire website, and the writing here is very humorous.
  2. Half of the selections are quite awful and the justifications are quite... flimsy. The concept here is also a bit satirical
[–] Ilikecheese@lemm.ee -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

the writing here is very humorous.

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

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 0 points 6 months ago

Oh, yeah? I hate cheese now >:(