Recently, during one of my hourly space-outs at work, it occurred to me that there are quite a few films that feature a huge beam of (usually blue) light reaching into the sky. The longer I sat there, staring at the wall with an untouched report in front of me, the more films I thought of which feature a sky-beam. For the most part, it seems to be the go-to visual representation of some cataclysmic craziness.
Here's my beam list:
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| The Avengers (2012) |
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| This Is The End (2013) |
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| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
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| The Last Airbender (2010) |
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| Transformers (2007) |
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| Iron Man (2008) |
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| Cloud Atlas (2012) |
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| Wreck-It Ralph (2012) |
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| Thor (2011) |
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| Tron: Legacy (2010) |
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| Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) |
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Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Sky-beams are rapidly becoming quite an action movie cliché. However, having said that, I don't actually dislike their use in a blockbuster. They're undeniably cool to look at, but I fear that we'll get very sick of them very soon, due to sheer over-exposure. Kind of like when I foolishly ate everyone else's Wagon Wheels at Ben Charles' 10th birthday party and as a result, to this day, the mere thought of marshmallow makes me gag.
How about mixing it up a bit every once in a while, Hollywood? Why not throw a sky-helix or a sky-zig-zag in there from time to time, for the sake of variety? Please don't let the sky-beam become cinematic marshmallow. I can't stomach it.
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