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Dumb nitpick..Energy weapons - no impact or weight to them


Again, I love this movie, but one thing that always bothers me is that weapons, look like they have force or impact when the beams hit.

There is a famous documentary in making Empire Strikes Back (I know 30 years later) but he says " you have to make the bloody things work" and he made the actors have a recoil effect.

The cool energy weapons have no force or weight when they are discharged.

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Sure they do - the energy creates heat on contact. Between the expanding air, expanding moisture (steam), and the body's own natural propensity to recoil at any sudden pain, it all fits.

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I meant in Forbidden Planet, a movie I love! I did not like the way the beams seemed to have no recoil or impact.

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