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What would you do if you found a magical object that could instantly create anything you asked for? Or a clock that could stop time? This is the type of thing that comes up in movies all the time. And for the most part, what the characters choose to do makes no freaking sense. Just look at how they used... #6.
Tesla's Anything Copier (The Prestige)
The Item: In the surprisingly awesome non-Batman Nolan movie, The Prestige, David Bowie invents a teleportation machine for Wolverine because he thinks Batman killed his wife. In a shocking twist, it turns out the Teslaporter works sort of like a fax machine: It doesn't send the user from one place to another, but rather makes copies of him. The bonus here is that you have no way of telling who the original is.
The Usage: Jackman's idea was quite simple. Use the machine to perform a magic trick, and sell tickets to make a nice living. Of course the Jackman copies had to be killed by rigging a water tank under the receiving end of the machine so that a clone would appear into the world, presumably with all of the original's memories, and immediately die a horrifying, drowning death. His plan was to repeat this existential nightmare a couple dozen times in hopes of luring Christian Bale backstage, frame him for murder and possibly molest his daughter in the future.
What It Should Have Been Used For: Hey, how about putting a slab of gold in that machine and becoming an instant billionaire? Yes, it can clone inanimate objects--the first thing we see it copy is hats. Then he could bribe the right people and wham, Bale will be having his bat-anus stretched in prison before dinner. Good lord, this is the early 1900s we're talking about. In those days, magicians were below dung collecting pedophiles in the social hierarchy. There just had to be better uses for the teleporter besides (possibly) committing clone homo/suicide on stage every night and leaving huge vats of floating evidence behind.
Due to that, Jackman actually plans to destroy the "ungodly" teleporter. No, Hugh, it's a machine that can instantly manufacture anything, using nothing but electricity. It's only "ungodly" when you use it in the most retarded and sadistic way possible, you psychopath. Use it to multiply food supplies, end the social disparity of 20th century England, fuel the industrial revolution and save the lives of millions of children. If you're not the altruistic type, create a 10-million man army to take over the world. Create your own harem made up of a single woman who loves you thiiiiiiiis much and is very open about 12-somes. Come on, man, just exhibit SOME thought process beyond that of a boiled carrot. #5.
The Tablet of Akmenrah (Night at the Museum)
The Item: Used by Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum, the Tablet of Akmenrah is an ancient Egyptian artifact at the Museum of Natural History which grants life to all of the exhibits during the night, with the added bonus of turning them into dust if they venture outside when the Sun comes up. So, basically it's an artifact that turns statues into vampires. Awesome. The Usage: With the power of resurrection in his hands, Stiller harnesses the magic of the Vampire Tablet to... hang around and talk to the exhibits? Granted, Teddy Roosevelt was among them and we would all sacrifice our left ball to be in farting distance of the man but... why did they have Robin Williams play him?
What It Should Have Been Used For: Well, seeing as the Tablet also endows the resurrected exhibits with the personality and memories of the person depicted, it could solve pretty much all of the mysteries of history. Oh, and there's the minor point of being able to resurrect all of the planet's greatest geniuses and putting them to work on today's problems ("Global warming?" asked Roosevelt. "Have you tried ripping its heart out with your bare hands?") One is left to wonder, what are the limitations here? What about a statue of Jesus? Would it be able to tell us if there's a God? Could we make a new statue, like a hot chick and label it "Hot skank for Internet comedy writers"? Maybe if Stiller stopped playing fetch with the skeleton of a T-Rex we could find out.
Stiller's misuse shines even brighter when you consider that the Tablet apparently lets you "walk into" any painting you want, also making it a Time Machine/Teleporter. The possibilities with such a set up are literally endless...
#4.
Hypertime Watch (Clockstoppers)
The Item: Making an appearance in the Nickelodeon movie, Clockstoppers, the hypertime watch is a device which speeds up the molecules of your body to the point where the world around you seems to be standing still. We're pretty sure that would cause you to burst into flames, but, it's a Nickelodeon movie. The Usage:
Terminator's Kyle Reese plans to use it to usurp the U.S. government. For some reason, Jesse Bradford and that chick from Harold & Kumar think that's a bad thing and try to stop him. Not by using the watch. No, that's reserved for important things, like helping a friend win a DJ competition: What It Should Have Been Used For: If you want to take over the U.S., you don't need the hypertime watch to barge into the Oval Office and repaint it with the president's brain matter. Simply pimp it out for commercial gain.
How about strapping the watch to the fastest rocket we can come up with and achieve faster than light travel? It'd work, right? The molecules of the ship and astronauts are accelerated while people back home feel time pass normally. You make a 10-year round trip and they think you've only been gone five minutes. Wait, do you age faster under the influence of the watch? Fine, apply it to crops, grow them to harvest in seconds, end world hunger. The hypertime watch would be to scientists what a fully functioning Batsuit would be to us: Our wildest wet dream dipped in chocolate cocaine. And they use it at the end of the movie to lose a patrol car... |
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I enjoyed this article. Tbh I never thought about using the Testla device for building a harem, that would be awesome beyond belief.
@Flashpenny: Did you miss the part where he gets the remote again, after the dream?] And, anyways, it's not really just a dream any more than the spirits who visited Scrooge were just a dream. He was given a second chance, rewound back to before he got the remote.
How about "Bruce Almighty"?
id stop time and grab boobs
ANGEL OF DEATH. that solves that... anyway having time control tops all else... though the creating a harem of docile godesses is pretty close hahahaha
Actually I dunno if Click is fair. At the end of the film it was revealed to be all a dream.
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Don't forget Bruce Almighty: Man inherits the omnipotent power of God - uses it to make his wife's boobs bigger and get a small promotion at work. That's some imagination you've got there, Bruce.
Now if only we could bring Molly Malone to life *and*teslaport her :D
I think that the painting at the end of #5 proves that even in the romantic era, they had silicon breasts.
Now if only we could bring Molly Malone to life *and*teslaport her :D
Now that I think about it, after that I might GET sued...DAMN YOU LEGALITIES!
I'll have to agree with dondadon here... Naughty naughty things would ensue with the click remote.
The Statue from no.5 is here in dublin, alcohol and hot statues to rub when consuming alcohol we have it all here in dublin
Oh my god you forgot the best one....the movie ticket from Last Action hero!!! otherwise an outstanding article.
Oh my god you forgot the best one....the movie ticket from Last Action hero!!! otherwise an outstanding article.
Did this article just insinuate that Robin Williams' power to destroy is greater than Teddy Roosevelt's power of awesome? Article fail.
Cracked is usually funny, but I have to just post here to say that I particularly enjoyed today. handy akku
I saw this article and I immediately thought of the Omega-13 from Galaxy Quest. Well, I guess you can't really say it was wasted in the movie since it was [SPOILER] used to keep it out of the hands of the evil space despot, but we never found out what happened to it after that. Did the Thermians take it with them? Or did it crash-land in LA? If the latter happened then the Omega-13 could definitely be used as a colossal "do-over" switch for humanity, assuming it could be used again.
@pat1993 Dude, is that, or is that not the whole point of the article...say it with me now "H-U-M-O-U-R" And with parents wired on keeping their children like glass, i wouldnt be surprised theres children getting grey hairs or bags from worrying about "the day mummy told me the world might end"....sad what some childhoods have come to
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