Question......why do ALL futuristic movies that have weapons, ALL LOOK LIKE THE SAME OL' FIREARMS OF

[a kennedy]

TODAY, ONLY A TAD MORE STYLISH??? It’s kinda funny that weapons with bullets no matter what time frame always look the same.

[rsdsharp]

1. Han Solo's blaster was a dressed up Mauser C96 --

the Broomhandle Mauser, introduced in 1896.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Because gun like objects look menacing and scary.

Replace it with something that looks like a hairbrush or pen and it looses
the ominous feel.

Movies only have an hour and a half to create a story and mood.
They don't have time to retrain on emotive movie symbolism.

[a kennedy]

3. Damn Irish_Dem......always loved your reply's.....and thanks.

💚 ☘️ 🍀

[Irish_Dem]

4. Well I have to help out someone named Kennedy.

Goes without saying my friend.

[hunter]

5. I doubt gun-toting humanity has much of a future.

But we can pretend until the curtain comes down.

[John1956PA]

6. It's a phallic thing. To its credit, "Star Trek, The Next Generation" has tasers which look like hand-held scanners.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. You Beat Me To It

They even have the light phaser which is about the size of 2 Bic lighters.
The phaser rifle, however, looked kind of like a light machine gun with a phaser attached to the end & the pulse cannon looked like a cross between an RPG & a shotgun .
So, they went back to the gun look fir the heavier weapons.

[John1956PA]

8. I like the scene in the first TNG movie in which Worf is brandishing one of those monster weapons.

He bids one of the enemy Borg attackers to "Assimilate This!"

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Technically, The Second Movie

It was, however, the first movie with only the TNG cast.
Generations had that whole cast, but Kirk, McCoy, & Chekov were also in it.
Another thing I liked in that scene was Picard releasing his mag boots to jump all the way to the other side of the deflector dish. Good FX. Obviously a boom harness, but it looked cool.
Also, in Insurrection, Worf used one of those shoulder held pulse cannons to take out the drones. Back to the conventional gun shape.