5. Congo
OMG yes. Laser versus gorilla army! Faced with an army of super-gorillas, Laura Linney grabs the communications laser they've been testing on the island, puts a priceless blue diamond into it, and utters the immortal line, "Put 'em on the endangered species list." Awww, Laura.
4. American Ninja
Two words: "Ninja laser." A few more words: "a ninja
shoots lasers out of his knuckles." This being a superpower that ninjas only have in America, because fuck yeah.
3. Tron
What zaps Jeff Bridges into the computer world, by disassembling his body and digitizing him? That's right. A laser. It's actually something he was developing as part of a teleportation experiment, in between running a video game arcade, and it's used against him. Laser teleportation is actually pretty common in movies — see more examples in the "runners up" section. Above: the laser "light show" that was put on when Tron Legacy came out.
2. Real Genius
Val Kilmer is working on a super-laser, which he finds out is going to be misused by the military. So he turns it against his adviser — who hates popcorn — by using it to pop a ginormous amount of popcorn in the guy's house, turning it into Jerry's House of Popcorn. Awwwwesome.
1. Goldfinger
Pretty much every James Bond film (and almost every Bond spoof) has some kind of great laser action, including Diamonds are Forever's laser satellite and Goldeneye's laser watch. And Moonraker's space battles. But the prize has to go to Goldfinger's incredibly famous "laser crotch" scene, where James Bond looks genuinely freaked out at the laser beam inching up the table, and Goldfinger delivers the immortal line, "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die." As celebrated by
The Selecter.
Sources:
IMDB, plus this amazing site which includes the biggest mistakes people make in depicting lasers. (Including: They move slower than light, they have recoil, and they are visible.)onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com The 10 Greatest Movie Moments Involving Lasers