The Star Wars’ lightsaber has been named the favourite movie weapon of all time.
The Jedi’s blade beat James Bond’s gun and Indiana Jones’ bullwhip in the poll.
Other weapons in the top 10 include the samurai sword from Kill Bill and the bow and arrow used in Robin Hood.
The survey of 2,000 film fans, commissioned by 20th Century Fox, also named the vengeful bride in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill the UK’s favourite “weapon-wielding movie hero”.
The poll was carried out to mark the DVD release of Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest.
The top 10 favourite movie weapons were, in order from first to last: the Star Wars lightsaber, Dirty Harry’s .44 Magnum, Indiana Jones’ bullwhip, the samurai sword used in Kill Bill, the chainsaw from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, James Bond’s golden gun, Robin Hood’s bow and arrow, the machine gun in Scarface, Star Wars’ Death Star and the bowler hat used by James Bond in Goldfinger.
Interesting little list.
I made a poll, but it said I had too many options, why did it let me make too many options in the first place. Oh well list your favorite, from the list or from another movie.
After contemplating this for a while, I keep returning to Han Solo’s Blaster.
The lightsaber is a super sweet weapon, thought it does lack the ingenuity of a bowler hat. I agree with you Valentine that Han’s blaster was a great weapon too. The loading robot from Aliens was also a super sweet weapon.
M134 Minigun from Predator anyone? Silly it was, but also very very cool. If only it were actually possible.
Topper Harley’s knife from Hot Shots Part Deux!
I could go on and on about existing weapons used in movies (F-14 from Top Gun, AV-8B from True Lies, etc etc), but I think that kind of defeats the purpose. Yeah, I know very well the minigun is a real weapon, but it’s far to heavy and impractical for individual use, so it counts as a fictional weapon in this case.
RT, the weapons don’t have to be fictional, they just have to be used in a movie. Dirty Harry’s .44 Magnum exists.
I’m a little unsure about the inclusion of the Deathstar, I don’t think vehicles should be included. I would have listed Little Nellie from Bond if I were including them.
One of the worst movies ever, Judge Dredd had one of the coolest guns ever. It changed the way it shot based on a voice command. Also, there was a grenade in Eraser that launched a container into the air and then exploded, sending nails in a scatter all around the room…and the rail gun things in that were sweet too.
Someone should make a Half-Life film so I could nominate the Gravity Gun. Actually, they probably shouldn’t because it would be awful as all films based on video games are but that’s beside the point, it’s still cool.
Aside from that, lightsabres are pretty hard to beat. Not the stupid doubled-bladed ones though.
I’d love to have the power to watch Heros. WAY too many story lines and diffrent settings then even Lost might ever have.
They need to make a Portal movie too so we can nominate the Portal gun along with the gravity gun. (you can get the Portal gun in HL2 BTW, but file editing is need)
