Agreed. He still looked great in this movie and portrayed the typical larger than life action hero. After this, he started portraying "regular" characters and that, combined with getting old, spelled the end of Arnold's heyday.
I love this film! I also remember the studio hoped that Arnold could start a new catch phrase with "You've been erased." But when the teaser was shown with Arnold saying that phrase, people were laughing out loud in theaters and they stopped marketing the film with that catch phrase. 😅
Eraser was perfect. It was the best movie from Warner Bros that Arnold has ever done in the 1990s. It’s the closest we got to a sequel to true lies and terminator 2 which was very similar in a way. I think it’s better than Batman and Robin and terminator 3.
It still holds up well as a guilty pleasure after many years as part of Arnies undercooked list of blockbusters, better than last action hero in my opinion
One testament to the movie's popularity and influence was how this pretty much made rail guns a thing. You had 1997's Shadow Warrior (and the quote, "Time to get erased!) when picking it up), the rail guns in Quake II and Quake III, and Red Faction (which also kept the thermal vision).
Collateral Damage was the last "Proper" Arnie film. it has the quote "I'll give YOU Collateral Damage!" Thats underrated like hell, only found it at the video rental store in 2003ish and remember thinking "Cant wait for the next Arnie movie i can watch with my dad"
Funfact - i was a kid in the 90's growing up in Hyderabad, India. Very close to our play ground was a theater named Skyline Theater. They used to play english hollywood movies ONLY. They continued to play Eraser till the early 2000's. Every time you entered the theater, you always saw a giant eraser poster. Anytime english movies were far from releasing, Skyline theater would start playing Eraser and this movie kept that theater alive for many years. They would play T2, Rambo, Predator reruns but none as much as Eraser. After the death of high octane action movies, Skyline Theater lost its charm and got sold. Now there is an apartment builder there. Thank You Eraser and Skyline. Good childhood memories. As i am trying this, i recall riding the escaltor to the upper level of theater over looking the giant poster of Eraser.
In my humble opinion, not only Arnie's greatest movies, but one of the greatest movies ever made. I grew up on this flick. I hear angels sing every time we see Arnie duel wield those iconic rail guns. Awesome video.
Eraser is an awesome movie! Always liked it - just as Last Action Hero and End of Days also. (T2 and True Lies of course are true masterpieces.) ..but. dunno. Who am I to say. I like Jingle All The Way also..😁😁😆🤣🤣
Definitely not one of Annie’s best, but it’s a solid entry into the pantheon. I saw this back when it came out and it was a fun and entertaining film that didn’t take itself too seriously. The sequence on the plane was a real highlight. Shame that Arnold didn’t follow this up with some other great action flicks.
Eraser can best be described as "Diet Arnold." They were clearly trying to make a more serious, mature vehicle for Arnold without all the cartoonish violence and excesses of his previous movies like Total Recall, which is perfectly fine...if you're someone like Clint Eastwood or Mel Gibson who had more range as actors. Eraser wasn't a bad film, it was a perfectly solid action flick with a smart script, a good cast and some fun set pieces, but it obviously didn't break any new ground. And it pales in comparison to what might've been, because this was also just around the time when Arnold and Paul Verhoeven were all set to go on their medieval epic, Crusade, but the production was sadly abandoned when Verhoeven couldn't secure a budget of what today would be a modest...$120 million! I've actually read Walon Green's screenplay online and it was so awesome! And while I kind of doubt Arnold had the emotional range to carry a period epic of such scope, it's a movie I'd have loved to see on the big screen!
I don't agree that this is Arnold's last great action film, but it is one of his best. This was actually the first of his movies I saw in theaters and it was the first R-rated movie I saw in theaters.
Since Pamela Anderson is nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the first time (and she looks gorgeous at freakin 57 years old. She has come a long way during her Baywatch years), can you guys do an Awfully Good video on Barb Wire?
True Lies is really the last great Arnie action film. Eraser may have made money but that was due to hype, marketing and people wanting another Arnie actioner. Despite its 100m budget, it looks and feels cheap which is a shame bc Arnie still had the goods here. For me it's in the same category as some of Sly's mid actioners Assassins and The Specialist that came after Cliffhanger.
You sound ridiculous dude. Eraser not was Arnold schwarzenegger last great action move but it was very underrated. It was hype and marketing because it Arnold schwarzenegger was the the biggest action movie star in the world in 1996 so of course it was going to be hype. 😂 I always a goofy bozo like saying most dumbest thing. Troll attempt fail get off the internet weirdo
Well ackchyually... ☝🤓 the very first game that featured the railgun was Shadow Warrior that came out a few months prior to Quake II, on May 13th, 1997! Sorry bro, I had to. 😆
Me and a couple buddies saw it in a theater. It wasnt bad but it was forgettable. And thats not a good thing, its worse than being really bad and memorable.
Eraser was perfect. It was the best movie from Warner Bros that Arnold has ever done in the 1990s. It’s the closest we got to a sequel to true lies and very similar in a way. I think it’s better than Batman and Robin and terminator 3. Plus you got the late James Caan as Arnold’s friend and mentor who was the bad guy which was cool. And Alan silvestri did the best music for the movie and it sounds similar to his other work in judge dredd a year before in which Arnold was considered for the lead role before it went to his pal Sylvester Stallone.
I didn't know there was a reboot of this film. I'll always remember Eraser for one of Arnold's famous one liners: "you're luggage" upon shooting the crocodile
Vanessa Williams was the weakest part of this film. It’s like they just needed a woman in the movie. She’s a good actress too, so it didn’t make sense why she was so underutilized.
Surprised there's no mention of the LD release which is the most notorious LD pressed as far as Laser Rot is concerned. Such horrible rot on nearly all discs pressed. Pretty sure it's impossible to find one that doesn't have laser rot. You get multiple copies on LD so you can find a copy with minimal rot. Can't count how many copies I've had my hands on over the years looking for a decent pressing.
This movie holds special memories for me, as it was playing in a theatre on the first stop of my first ever road trip on my own as a teenager. A last big hurrah for Arnie.
The rail gun can be seen in N64s perfect dark game. With the ability to use xray to shoot thru walls at skeleton players. Needless to say it was cheap asf
Eraser is definitely one of his most underrated films and one that I revisited a lot with Last Action Hero. A version of the EM-1 Gun can be used as well in the Red Faction game series.
There was another classic video game tie-in: 1997's "Shadow Warrior" There was a railgun very clearly patterned off the movie weapon you could get in the game, and when acquiring or deploying it, the hero would say "Time to get erased! Ha ha!"
Eraser felt underrated, even to me as a 10 year old or whatever. I saw it randomly one time and always remembered the X-ray snipers! We were more of a True Lies and Twins family
Mel Gibson's Conspiracy Theory came out a year after this, but back then i thought it would be fantastic if we had a mocie showing Arnold vs Mel's villain Patrick Stewart. Even just hearing them share dialogue together would have been worth it -- now THAT'S timbre in the voice.
I have seen Eraser, probably 100 times. Not because it was my favourite film or anything. But because when I was 12, me and my cousin had a bunch of DVDs between us, and this movie was one of the most rewatchable (along with The Matrix, Point Break, Broken Arrow, some other I can't remember right now. Oh Blue Streak, National Security. Kickboxer on VHS. There were like 20 movies we'd cycle through). So this has a special place in my heart. Also we never actively bought an Eraser DVD, so I have no clue where it came from 😂
This movie is the first time I saw a kind of massive database, where information is stored on many many tapes, and you had to look up the tape you want in some other database, then use robotic arms to retrieve that tape. The only other time I saw anything like that was in rogue one.
@0:50 now wait just a gosh darn minute, pal! Jingle All The Way was an awesome movie. It had Sinbad AND Phil Hartman (RIP) "Cookies?.. Who told u, u could eat my cookies? Put that cookie down.. NOW!!!"
I would more liken the railgun to Quake 2 and Quake 3, than Unreal Tournament. In the quake sequels the gun was actually called railgun and felt much heavier to shoot (harder impact) with the rotating field around the main beam than the lightweight shock rifle (which is awesome in it's own right) in Unreal Tournament.
The problem with this film is that it was going to fail (SOMEWHAT) no matter what. Reason being: it came out a scant two years after the massive 1995 hit True Lies. Here's how one critic at the time put it, "It just doesn't have the same bite as True Lies". Spot on! Also the action scenes just weren't on Cameron's level.
I like the movie, but the tech in it was kind of absurd. Railgun projectiles don't travel anywhere near the speed of light. They can move ~2KM/second (which is scarily fast for the size of the projectiles real ones are firing), but that's a far cry from light's 299,792.458 KM/s. Light is near 150,000 times faster than a railgun projectile on average. If the movie's railgun somehow managed to shoot a projectile near the speed of light it would cause an explosion comparable to a small nuke, I think. Naturally, the magic X-Ray scope is also fairly absurd, but it's less absurd I guess. Still, it's a pretty fun movie aside from its nonsense physics (check out: What if you threw a baseball at nearly light speed? by XKCD's What If? channel if you're interested).
The funny thing is the "x-ray" scope is the most feasible part of the weapon system. What you see on screen would be an interpolation of the IR / SONAR / RADAR capabilities that are possible in the early 2000's. You just needed a truck with a ton of processing power to make it work.
@@Laugh1ngboy Indeed, you could get something in the ballpark, function-wise, but the scaling down to something the size of a scope is the improbable part. Maybe with several big breakthroughs in technology we could see something similar some day.
@@ThatSoddingGamer That's just it we now have the processing power necessary to make such a scope work sitting on my lap. We have infrared scopes for sporting riffles. We have robotics kits for kids that are sonar capable enough to map a room. We also have a camera system that can track a human body well enough to use as a motion controller for a video game. The only thing we are lacking is the x-ray scanner thing because it required you to be on both sides of the element being X-rayed. In reality though you could use a graphical overlay to make it look like you are seeing the targets skeleton. The main problem we have is there isn't a weapon capable enough to shoot though walls. That's really the only reason we haven't built a handheld targeting system like this yet.
@@Laugh1ngboy Interesting. Though there are rifles that can shoot through walls (even concrete and metal plates). Really purpose-designed armour piercing stuff.
This film still holds up well. I need to revisit again soon. This is Schwarzenegger's last great ride as an action star.
I enjoyed this one. James Caan was good in it too, as usual.
@ he was. Caan was a great villain.
Loved this film. I do argue that this was Schwarzenegger's last major boxoffice hit. Also F that dumbness reboot called Eraser Reborn.
@@noellezcano It definitely was last hit in terms of pure starpower. Terminator 3 made a ton of money, but it was a francise film.
Wheyd you saying jah? Clone baby 3 made lots of money jah
Great Arnold movie, saw this in theaters when it came out. RIP James Caan, Robert Pastorelli, Andy Romano and James Coburn
Eraser is one of my favorite movies! Appreciate you covering it!
This movie was actually the last truly great Schwarzenegger flick
Agreed. He still looked great in this movie and portrayed the typical larger than life action hero. After this, he started portraying "regular" characters and that, combined with getting old, spelled the end of Arnold's heyday.
Awesome movie
Commando released about 5 years after and was great
@@HULK-HOGAN1 Commabdo was released years before Terminator 2, which came out years before Eraser.
@@pascalg.-berardi9242 my bad brother. Thanks for the correction
The Last Action Hero had no reason to be flop. It's one of my favorite Arnie movies.
"Careful Jack! He killed Mozart!"
"Mo who?"
"Zart"...
I love this film! I also remember the studio hoped that Arnold could start a new catch phrase with "You've been erased." But when the teaser was shown with Arnold saying that phrase, people were laughing out loud in theaters and they stopped marketing the film with that catch phrase. 😅
Arnold Schwarzenegger said in interviews the script was constantly changing and being rewritten, and the director and producer didn’t get along
Yes, I too watched the video above...
Hahaha @@Jaydogg222people
Eraser was perfect. It was the best movie from Warner Bros that Arnold has ever done in the 1990s. It’s the closest we got to a sequel to true lies and terminator 2 which was very similar in a way. I think it’s better than Batman and Robin and terminator 3.
You've already talked about this movie on the channel, yet I'm happy to revisit it again. You should definitely do a video on The 6th Day (2000) 🙏
This was one of the Arnold films I watch constantly.
It still holds up well as a guilty pleasure after many years as part of Arnies undercooked list of blockbusters, better than last action hero in my opinion
I LOVED Eraser as a kid, really bought into the "realistic" futuristic weaponry and James Kahn played his role really well.
James Caan
@@KthomasritchieHe's talking about the Bollywood version.
@@Kthomasritchie Caan what?
@@Jaydogg222 Caan do very little. He dead.
@@Kthomasritchie
Eraser 2: The Wrath of Caan
It was a great movie. And Vanessa Williams was absolutely stunning in it. Also my first tantalising look at a Panerai!
I loved the guns in this movie! So did Turok the Dinosaur Hunter.
One testament to the movie's popularity and influence was how this pretty much made rail guns a thing. You had 1997's Shadow Warrior (and the quote, "Time to get erased!) when picking it up), the rail guns in Quake II and Quake III, and Red Faction (which also kept the thermal vision).
Thanks!
_”He caught a train.”_
Eraser needs a 4K release
Amen
John: Where is this?
Kid in the Junkyard: Earth. Welcome!
This is honestly one of my favorite Arnie Films
Mmmm Vanessa Williams
Yes,she looked-GORGEOUS-in this film.
..save the best for last...
"Youre luggage" ...best quote of film
"he caught a train"
Collateral Damage was the last "Proper" Arnie film. it has the quote "I'll give YOU Collateral Damage!" Thats underrated like hell, only found it at the video rental store in 2003ish and remember thinking "Cant wait for the next Arnie movie i can watch with my dad"
The last good Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie in the 90s James Caan was great as the villain
Best video game version of the rail gun was the farsight gun in the original Perfect Dark.
1996 had some great movies !! ..
I loved this film. Especially Vanessa. Damn.
The only reason to watch that film was Vanessa Williams.
Watched this on Bluray recently. And yes, this still holds up really well. I miss the films of yester-year.
I love Last Action Hero :)
This was a fun time at the movies. The scene with the alligator was cool.
Cool as in awful cgi
this movie rules! I miss action Flicks
I have a soft spot for this movie for some reason. Maybe I was just young when I saw it but I love it still.
I have a soft spot for a lot of mid 90s action and comedy films. My family saw a lot of them premiere on hbo.
Funfact - i was a kid in the 90's growing up in Hyderabad, India. Very close to our play ground was a theater named Skyline Theater. They used to play english hollywood movies ONLY.
They continued to play Eraser till the early 2000's. Every time you entered the theater, you always saw a giant eraser poster. Anytime english movies were far from releasing, Skyline theater would start playing Eraser and this movie kept that theater alive for many years. They would play T2, Rambo, Predator reruns but none as much as Eraser.
After the death of high octane action movies, Skyline Theater lost its charm and got sold. Now there is an apartment builder there.
Thank You Eraser and Skyline. Good childhood memories.
As i am trying this, i recall riding the escaltor to the upper level of theater over looking the giant poster of Eraser.
eraser and last action hero and kindergarten cop are great movies.
Eraser was a cool action movie... underrated, good video, Congratulations to everyone 🏅🥇🥳🎖️
In my humble opinion, not only Arnie's greatest movies, but one of the greatest movies ever made. I grew up on this flick. I hear angels sing every time we see Arnie duel wield those iconic rail guns. Awesome video.
Eraser is an awesome movie! Always liked it - just as Last Action Hero and End of Days also.
(T2 and True Lies of course are true masterpieces.)
..but. dunno. Who am I to say. I like Jingle All The Way also..😁😁😆🤣🤣
Definitely not one of Annie’s best, but it’s a solid entry into the pantheon. I saw this back when it came out and it was a fun and entertaining film that didn’t take itself too seriously. The sequence on the plane was a real highlight.
Shame that Arnold didn’t follow this up with some other great action flicks.
Eraser can best be described as "Diet Arnold."
They were clearly trying to make a more serious, mature vehicle for Arnold without all the cartoonish violence and excesses of his previous movies like Total Recall, which is perfectly fine...if you're someone like Clint Eastwood or Mel Gibson who had more range as actors. Eraser wasn't a bad film, it was a perfectly solid action flick with a smart script, a good cast and some fun set pieces, but it obviously didn't break any new ground. And it pales in comparison to what might've been, because this was also just around the time when Arnold and Paul Verhoeven were all set to go on their medieval epic, Crusade, but the production was sadly abandoned when Verhoeven couldn't secure a budget of what today would be a modest...$120 million! I've actually read Walon Green's screenplay online and it was so awesome! And while I kind of doubt Arnold had the emotional range to carry a period epic of such scope, it's a movie I'd have loved to see on the big screen!
I don't agree that this is Arnold's last great action film, but it is one of his best. This was actually the first of his movies I saw in theaters and it was the first R-rated movie I saw in theaters.
End Of Days is my favourite. Such a fun movie.
Immediately was hoping to see some end of days appreciators when it was mentioned. "YOU'RE A CHOIR BOY COMPARED TO ME!"
Choir BOY! AAAAGH!
I slept on this movie a long time and barely heard of it, finally saw it a few years ago, one of my favorites along with last action hero
Since Pamela Anderson is nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the first time (and she looks gorgeous at freakin 57 years old. She has come a long way during her Baywatch years), can you guys do an Awfully Good video on Barb Wire?
“Johnny???”
True Lies is really the last great Arnie action film. Eraser may have made money but that was due to hype, marketing and people wanting another Arnie actioner. Despite its 100m budget, it looks and feels cheap which is a shame bc Arnie still had the goods here. For me it's in the same category as some of Sly's mid actioners Assassins and The Specialist that came after Cliffhanger.
You sound ridiculous dude. Eraser not was Arnold schwarzenegger last great action move but it was very underrated. It was hype and marketing because it Arnold schwarzenegger was the the biggest action movie star in the world in 1996 so of course it was going to be hype. 😂 I always a goofy bozo like saying most dumbest thing. Troll attempt fail get off the internet weirdo
I'd pick end of days.
Yet the first shooter that came with a railgun was Quake2. And it was inspired by Eraser.
Well ackchyually... ☝🤓 the very first game that featured the railgun was Shadow Warrior that came out a few months prior to Quake II, on May 13th, 1997! Sorry bro, I had to. 😆
The only bad Arnie movies in existence are the ones after he became governor
eraser is one of the best movies for Arnold Schwarzenegger
i enjoyed eraser regardless of what anyone says
i don't pay attention to critics or rotten tomatoes audiences: it's all a matter of preferences
I always have fun with this tbf. Caan is a blast in it.
Eh, it was so-so. After watching it in the theater, I went home and watched my VHS tape of "True Lies".
Yep, only so-so...
Yeah, I thought the movie was just alright
I thought it was so-so too,not one of Arnold's better films that's for sure.
It gets better with age. Proper action here.
Eraser has one of the most badass opening scenes and main character introductions ever put to film.
Me and a couple buddies saw it in a theater. It wasnt bad but it was forgettable. And thats not a good thing, its worse than being really bad and memorable.
I have met Carlos, (serval times). ... He was a very nice and very humble man.
Sadly chuck Russell is NO james cameron
Eraser was perfect. It was the best movie from Warner Bros that Arnold has ever done in the 1990s. It’s the closest we got to a sequel to true lies and very similar in a way. I think it’s better than Batman and Robin and terminator 3. Plus you got the late James Caan as Arnold’s friend and mentor who was the bad guy which was cool. And Alan silvestri did the best music for the movie and it sounds similar to his other work in judge dredd a year before in which Arnold was considered for the lead role before it went to his pal Sylvester Stallone.
I didn't know there was a reboot of this film. I'll always remember Eraser for one of Arnold's famous one liners: "you're luggage" upon shooting the crocodile
Portions of the rejected MISSION IMPOSSIBLE score by Alan Silvestri made it into the final cut of the movie.
..last semi-OKAY Arnie-flick!
Vanessa Williams was the weakest part of this film. It’s like they just needed a woman in the movie. She’s a good actress too, so it didn’t make sense why she was so underutilized.
Her looks were the best thing about that movie.
Surprised there's no mention of the LD release which is the most notorious LD pressed as far as Laser Rot is concerned. Such horrible rot on nearly all discs pressed. Pretty sure it's impossible to find one that doesn't have laser rot. You get multiple copies on LD so you can find a copy with minimal rot. Can't count how many copies I've had my hands on over the years looking for a decent pressing.
right below the speed of light? The fuck?
12:26 - Audio error. A small dialog clip was placed in the wrong spot
It's just been erased.
Still seeing the terminator, how come john never came up with a name for his father figure ?
12:47 - That's the wrong clip. The EM-1 shows up near the beginning of the movie.
He was erased.
I love Eraser
Eraser was Arnold's last good movie.
The Last Action Hero was Schwarzenegger's last good film.
This movie holds special memories for me, as it was playing in a theatre on the first stop of my first ever road trip on my own as a teenager. A last big hurrah for Arnie.
One of my favourite Arnie films
True Lies was the last great Arnie movie.
So T3 wasn't considered succesful? Or did you forget about that Schwarzenegger action movie?
The rail gun can be seen in N64s perfect dark game. With the ability to use xray to shoot thru walls at skeleton players. Needless to say it was cheap asf
Eraser is definitely one of his most underrated films and one that I revisited a lot with Last Action Hero. A version of the EM-1 Gun can be used as well in the Red Faction game series.
There was another classic video game tie-in: 1997's "Shadow Warrior"
There was a railgun very clearly patterned off the movie weapon you could get in the game, and when acquiring or deploying it, the hero would say "Time to get erased! Ha ha!"
Real talk, this is in my top 5 favorite Arnie movies of all time
WTF happened to Chuck Russell?
Eraser felt underrated, even to me as a 10 year old or whatever. I saw it randomly one time and always remembered the X-ray snipers! We were more of a True Lies and Twins family
Mel Gibson's Conspiracy Theory came out a year after this, but back then i thought it would be fantastic if we had a mocie showing Arnold vs Mel's villain Patrick Stewart. Even just hearing them share dialogue together would have been worth it -- now THAT'S timbre in the voice.
I saw it at the movies and owned the VHS. Classic.
The double holding weapon is lit...
Railgun, Coilgun, Gauss gun - "I have so many names" 😈
Deguerin: Say “goodbye” Jon. 😈
(Jon sets up Deguerin’s demise and Deguerin sees it) 😧
Jon: Goodbye! 😠
This movie was what introduced railguns to video games. OG Shadow Warrior was first at that I think.
I loved this film. Very underrated. But no more than the Last Action Hero. That was a fun movie. Can't understand why people hate it so much.
It’s very underrated not his best but I still love it.
I have seen Eraser, probably 100 times. Not because it was my favourite film or anything. But because when I was 12, me and my cousin had a bunch of DVDs between us, and this movie was one of the most rewatchable (along with The Matrix, Point Break, Broken Arrow, some other I can't remember right now. Oh Blue Streak, National Security. Kickboxer on VHS. There were like 20 movies we'd cycle through). So this has a special place in my heart. Also we never actively bought an Eraser DVD, so I have no clue where it came from 😂
This movie is the first time I saw a kind of massive database, where information is stored on many many tapes, and you had to look up the tape you want in some other database, then use robotic arms to retrieve that tape. The only other time I saw anything like that was in rogue one.
@0:50 now wait just a gosh darn minute, pal! Jingle All The Way was an awesome movie. It had Sinbad AND Phil Hartman (RIP)
"Cookies?.. Who told u, u could eat my cookies? Put that cookie down.. NOW!!!"
I remember watching this movie on my PlayStation 2, what a fun movie.
Such a re-watchable film.
I would more liken the railgun to Quake 2 and Quake 3, than Unreal Tournament. In the quake sequels the gun was actually called railgun and felt much heavier to shoot (harder impact) with the rotating field around the main beam than the lightweight shock rifle (which is awesome in it's own right) in Unreal Tournament.
I wanted to see this in the theater but missed out. I loved it on home video though.
The problem with this film is that it was going to fail (SOMEWHAT) no matter what. Reason being: it came out a scant two years after the massive 1995 hit True Lies. Here's how one critic at the time put it, "It just doesn't have the same bite as True Lies". Spot on! Also the action scenes just weren't on Cameron's level.
I like the movie, but the tech in it was kind of absurd. Railgun projectiles don't travel anywhere near the speed of light. They can move ~2KM/second (which is scarily fast for the size of the projectiles real ones are firing), but that's a far cry from light's 299,792.458 KM/s. Light is near 150,000 times faster than a railgun projectile on average. If the movie's railgun somehow managed to shoot a projectile near the speed of light it would cause an explosion comparable to a small nuke, I think. Naturally, the magic X-Ray scope is also fairly absurd, but it's less absurd I guess. Still, it's a pretty fun movie aside from its nonsense physics (check out: What if you threw a baseball at nearly light speed? by XKCD's What If? channel if you're interested).
The funny thing is the "x-ray" scope is the most feasible part of the weapon system. What you see on screen would be an interpolation of the IR / SONAR / RADAR capabilities that are possible in the early 2000's. You just needed a truck with a ton of processing power to make it work.
@@Laugh1ngboy Indeed, you could get something in the ballpark, function-wise, but the scaling down to something the size of a scope is the improbable part. Maybe with several big breakthroughs in technology we could see something similar some day.
@@ThatSoddingGamer That's just it we now have the processing power necessary to make such a scope work sitting on my lap. We have infrared scopes for sporting riffles. We have robotics kits for kids that are sonar capable enough to map a room. We also have a camera system that can track a human body well enough to use as a motion controller for a video game. The only thing we are lacking is the x-ray scanner thing because it required you to be on both sides of the element being X-rayed. In reality though you could use a graphical overlay to make it look like you are seeing the targets skeleton. The main problem we have is there isn't a weapon capable enough to shoot though walls. That's really the only reason we haven't built a handheld targeting system like this yet.
@@matthewdaley746 Depends on when you realize that mankind is the failure.
@@Laugh1ngboy Interesting. Though there are rifles that can shoot through walls (even concrete and metal plates). Really purpose-designed armour piercing stuff.
To answer your opening question, the best movie is Last Action Hero.
Facts!
I have no idea why Last Action Hero flopped. Critics truly missed the point of the film.