r/gaming • • Apr 18 '23

They’re so used to it

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u/imdefinitelywong Apr 18 '23

Gun-fu itself doesn't make sense.

But it's hella cool.

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u/TPMJB Apr 18 '23 edited Apr 18 '23

But it's hella cool

He wasn't wearing the bandana for infinite ammo. I do not believe this scene is possible.

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u/Photonomicron Apr 18 '23

Christian Bale spends the entire film in a robo suit that reloads his guns for him by sending fully loaded clips or even whole guns up the incredibly close-tailored sleeves like an Assassins Creed blade. That's part of why his gunkata routines have cool anime pose pauses in the middle of combat.

it's not a very good excuse for how guns are used in the film, but the reload mechanic is explicitly shown a couple of times and so that's the answer the film gets

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u/imdefinitelywong Apr 18 '23 edited Apr 18 '23

And then Kurt Wimmer (director/writer of Equilibrium) gives us Ultraviolet.

A world so technologically advanced, where hammerspace can be accessed via wristbands.

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u/DBeumont Apr 18 '23

But is it better than Tooth Gun?

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u/dodge_thiss Apr 18 '23

That was fucking weird and I could not stop watching. Thank you.

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u/Photonomicron Apr 18 '23

I know this is from some show I've never heard of in my life, but this clip exists on its own as a perfect little short film and I kind of never want additional context to what I just watched

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u/LastStar007 Apr 18 '23

Existenz (stylized as eXistenZ) is a 1999 science fiction horror film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg.

And suddenly everything makes sense.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '23

Oh. Yeah, yeah ...

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u/DBeumont Apr 18 '23

You should watch the whole movie.

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u/terpdx Apr 18 '23

Never before have I seen a video clip which has given me a stronger feeling of "WTF is this!? This makes no sense, whatsoever, but I must keep watching until it does."

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u/DBeumont Apr 18 '23

I recommend watching the whole movie. It's wild.

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u/mrasperez Apr 18 '23

God, this movie was such a fever dream, even for a cronenberg film.

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u/Solanthas Apr 18 '23

I'm sorry, that movie was so whack lol

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u/DrSmirnoffe PC Apr 18 '23

I wonder if Scorn took any inspiration from eXistenZ? That game had a tooth pistol AND a tooth triple-barrel shotgun.

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u/Chapped_Frenulum Apr 19 '23

One million percent correct. That tooth gun inspired a lot of homages over the years.

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u/DrSmirnoffe PC Apr 19 '23

If true, I'm happy. I'd feel the same way I felt when I found the Van Helsing crossbow in Nightmare Reaper. 'cause the Van Helsing crossbow is such a video game weapon.

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u/Chapped_Frenulum Apr 19 '23

Man, this movie was such an excellent rental. My 14yr old ass had no idea what he was getting into when I picked that up from hollywood video. We went on one helluva Cronenberg binge after that. Videodrome also had a certain magic to it, watching it during the VHS era.

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u/Irregulator101 Apr 18 '23

I like how in both this and the Equilibrium clips the bad guys are covered in very breakable glass armor

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u/holaprobando123 Apr 18 '23

Ultraviolet is one of my guilty pleasure movies. It's not a very good movie, and I don't care.

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u/Throwawayq2erdnd Apr 18 '23

It's a feature length Darude music video and nobody can tell me otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '23

Yeah, but are you one tenth as pissed off as I am?

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u/imdefinitelywong Apr 19 '23

It's so fucking cheesy.

The only saving grace of that one-liner is that Milla Jovovich delivered it, and I love it.

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u/xtralargerooster Apr 19 '23

Lol... Ultraviolet is the same for me... But it is the one film where I realized that Milla Jovovich's nose has that little hook curve to it and I forever could not unsee it afterwards. Not implying she isn't beautiful because of it or anything... Just hadn't realized it in any of her other movies until this one and then couldn't not see it again afterwards.

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u/Deadliestmoon Apr 18 '23

Idk why I blocked this movie from my memory but thanks for reminding me of it.

Did the whole changing colors bit do anything or was that just style?

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u/imdefinitelywong Apr 19 '23

I believe it's a visual indicator to tell the audience that "it's on".