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Lasers make everything better...NOT!


This movie is corny and yet loads of fun, but

WTF's up with the Black Star Ninja shooting lasers out of his hand. Or was I doing too much shrooms?

That’s like watching When Harry Met Sally and Godzilla walks through the set.

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it was probably supposed to be some kind of projectile like a dart but the pot plant exploded too late and it was cheaper to get George Lucas to add a Laser to explain the delayed explosion than to reshoot the dangerous stunt-flip that Dudikoff had to do.

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Your wisdom precedes you sir.

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Hello! Look, there are just some movies - sort of like taboos - that we should never ever question(although I think I do remember that scene with the laser).
Even with a legitimate basis to do so, we should never ever question the greatness that is The Greatest American Ninja!!!!!!!!!!

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I remember as a kid watching this movie 10-20 times, and it never bugged me untill I saw it as an adult. It sucks getting old!

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The laser bothered you - what about the flame thrower and machine gun thing he had?

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What, you didn't know ninjas could fire lasers, flamethrowers, and machine gun's out of their hand??


LOL

"It's only hubris if I fail"--Caesar, Rome.

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LOL that site is bad-ass

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Black Star Ninja thought in touch with ninja tradition, is still a ninja a the modern day AND the future!!

"That’s like watching When Harry Met Sally and Godzilla walks through the set."

WHAAAAAT?? So that DIDN'T happen?

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Jeez... what's a movie without the use of... random lazers.


Yeah, um, mmm, *cough* *cough*

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hey moron go back with your other apostle's

every movie from the 80's has some cornyness so don't go picking on ninja's or you won't get any sleep at night when shuriken's are being thrown at your bedroom post

IMDB "Earth's Biggest Virtual Warzone"

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... laserguided shurikens ...

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...I love the fact that it has got be George Lucas who adds the laser beams. That made me LOL. Awesome.

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Before Lucas got ahold of this, Joe actually shot first .

'Cause there's thunder in your heart... every move is like lightning!

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That laser shooting out of the hand stuff was flat-out freakin' hilarious!

I'm a totally bitchin' bio writer from Mars!

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