Film
- In The Last Starfighter, a "meteor gun" or mass driver is used to destroy the Starfighter base.
- Eraser involves a conspiracy to sell portable railguns with x-ray sighting attachments to terrorists. The user would be able to see and kill a target through any solid obstacle.
- In Earth Star Voyager, the crew fires a railgun projectile to mislead a pursuer, and later uses the same weapon to disable the pursuing ship.
- In Black Mask, the main villain in the film uses a railgun.
- In Demolition Man, the main villain uses a weapon called the "Magnetic Accelerator Gun".
- In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a railgun is used in the final battle to destroy Devastator with a single shot.
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.”
—François Truffaut (1932–1984)
“[Film noir] experiences periodic rebirth and rediscovery. Whenever we have any moment of deep societal rift or disruption in America, one of the ways we can express it is through the ideas and behavior in film noir.”
—John Briley (b. 1925)
“Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man’s ken now are but poor- mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents.
Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance,
Ignorance bringing them nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)