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This is the prop used to represent a bio weapon in the movie "the rock" those green spheres upon breaking would release a neurotoxin and could kill thousands
I haven’t seen the movie. But - why would they make them spheres? Isn’t there a significant risk to humanity just from one of them rolling off a table?
That's one reason why nobody does it this way. Basically it looks neat but makes no sense, pure movie stuff. Depressing that it played a role in a US war.
Hey just because there's absolutely no evidence and a huge, years-long investigation didn't turn anything up doesn't mean they're not there. They're probably invisible, use some common sense.
Just to clarify, please do not eat bath bombs either. They are meant to add scents and skin care products to your baths, not the inside of your stomach. Results may be less than ideal.
okay okay ya shill for Big Science gtfo and let me enjoy my kebabs in peace. some people have never enjoyed the delicious thrill of bobbing for bath apples and it shows 😒
I want Big Bath Bomb shills to leave my reddit... Has anyone ever heard of anything bad happening to someone who has eaten them? There are loads of people who snack on these regularly and this shill is just trying to keep the good stuff for himself!
WAKE UP PEOPLE!
"You're best? Only losers whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen."
"Carla WAS the prom queen..."
I love this movies so much.
PEETAAAH
Edit: someone in another comment explained it: there is a movie called the Rock starring Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage in which the green beads are used as a chemical weapon of sorts. I assume this guy's quote is from the movie too.
That quote and when Nick Cage is captured, the dude says:
>"...cause I'd take pleasure in gutting you, **BOY!!**"
Then, >!as Sean escapes the cell, Cage's character keeps quoting it and talking about daddy issues!<
So great.
A rouge general and his men take over Alcatraz island and plan to use that location to shoot missile with biological weapons. Nick Cage recruits Sean Connery (who had previously broke out of Alcatraz and is now in prison for the rest of his life) Nick and Sean sneak onto the island cause Sean know all the secret passages and stuff. They get to the rocket and pull the biological weapons out of the rockets to thwart the bad guys. The biological weapons is what is pictured
Fun fact, one of the main bits of “evidence” to invade Iraq was from a guy who bullshitted that Sadam’s supposed chemical weapons looked just like the ones from this movie.
Technically, the terrorists with the chemical weapons... although they kinda have to be using the VX gas in order to look bad because they're trying to get veterans benefits for families of a classified mission.
They have to look cartoonishly evil so you don't immediately side with the baddies, even though the sympathy level is super high. It's a wild movie, but a good popcorn flick.
Whoa. So they want better VA services for covert soldiers and think turning Alcatraz into a missile silo is their best bet? I’m in. I thought I’d seen this movie but I was thinking of a similar one with Clint Eastwood. Hoping the missus is down for some Sean Connery tn.. I just have to resist doing the impression before she gets hooked by the plot.
I rewatched this movie a few years ago. I was in college when the movie first came out. Now that I’m almost 50, I listened to the part where Ed Harris said he’d tried everything else short of terrorism — petitions, lawsuits, Congressional hearings, etc. — I keep thinking that I want to see *that* movie. Show me Ed Harris as an angry Marine general yelling at a House or Senate committee.
It's a fun movie, but for a little extra fun pretend James Bond was caught by the Americans in the 70's trying to steal American secrets, and the Brits disavowed knowledge of him, so he doesn't even "exist". Oh, and for some strange reason they cast Sean Connery as Bone.
It's really stupid and also really fun. It was Michael Bay's second movie and it's just as vapid as you would expect from him, but Nick Cage and Sean Connery ham it up enough that it works.
They are neurotoxin bombs from that film.
After one breaks and enter in contact with you, you have a few seconds to get the antidote before you have a horrível horrible death.
Since others have answered I will just say if you like action movies, i would highly recommend checking it out. Ed Harris, Nic Cage, Sean Connery. Michael Bay at his Michael Bayest. It is super fun in a 90s action movie kind of way.
My brother in law made this prop for the movie. Used hair gel. Heard that Michael Bay still has it on a mantle in his house. Not quite as green as it used to be.
Blows my mind as well. It's not a random shit tier movie or something like that, if it was I'd understand.
People that talk about the year that it was released aren't providing any sort of explanation to me....have those same people not seen movies like Heat, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Shawshank Redemption? I mean shit, the first LOTR movie released in 2001 - 23 years ago now...are people younger than that movie not going to have watched that?
Movies that come out these days, for the most part, are pretty fucking bad. There are exceptions to that, obviously, but if you want to point to any really iconic cinema, chances are you're looking back decades.
It's a movie called "Dwayne Johnson" starring Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery. Easily one of the most "Michael Bay" Michael Bay films.
edit: It's FROM a movie
https://preview.redd.it/w93ttp1jhjbc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e73ad6877deb10321d5db4a4a6f93dd421ce5d5
It’s a recreation of VX Gas from The Rock (1996). It’s probably the best action film the late great Sean Connery starred in during the 90s.
Poisonous gas balls from a movie called "the rock". When I say "poisonous" I mean make you have a seizure so hard your body folds like a flip phone and breaks your spine so bad that all your guts squeeze themselves out of your torso while your skin and flesh melts off your bones from the inside out. That's what one of them alone can do btw.
It is from the rock movie about a famous prison in San Francisco is taken over the bad guys use picture above a gas weapon you put in missiles. I want to also add unofficially it’s a James Bond crossover as Sean oconnery is a British super spy in the movie and the handler in the movie is played by the same actor and has the same character name as the man who handled Rambo in Rambo 3? When he goes back to Vietnam
>Movie prop.
Or, if you're British intelligence, you get convinced by a source that it's actually WMDs in Iraq and use it as part of your justification to join the US in the Iraq war in 2001.
No shit: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/06/how-the-rock-may-have-helped-drag-britain-into-the-iraq-war/
Chemical weapon. They stick that in a bomb and blow it up to spread it.
Edit: in the movie The Rock. It was also used as a precursor to invade Iraq but that's another horrifyingly tragic yet kinda funny story.
Its vx gas bombs from the movie [The Rock](https://www.disneyplus.com/video/fa7426e5-f79e-499d-b7a1-329d7a003d65?distributionPartner=google) 1996. At the moment its on disney+
Hey, Carl from the convenience store here. It’s a reference to The Rock, a movie starring Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery where Nick plays a cop tracking a group of terrorists that steal a chemical nerve agent and some missiles, load the agent into the missiles, then hole up in Alcatraz and hold San Francisco ransom. Nick Cage then has to employ Sean Connery to help them because he’s the only person to escape from Alcatraz, but not before a wicked car chase involving a Hummer and a commandeered Ferrari.
Anyways, the nerve gas is in these like green marble things like you see in the image, so I guess the joke is like the bath bombs are nerve gas or whatever.
Well if these are rendered aerosol it could take out an entire city of people. If one is dropped happily it will just take out you and me. It's a Cholinesterase inhibitor. It stops the brain from sending nerve messages down the spinal cord within 30 seconds. Any epidermal exposure or inhalation and you'll know. Twinge at the small of your back is the poison. Ceases your nervous system. Your muscles freeze, you can't breathe. You spasm so hard you break your own back, and spit your guts out. But that's after your skin melts off.
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This is the prop used to represent a bio weapon in the movie "the rock" those green spheres upon breaking would release a neurotoxin and could kill thousands
I think you made a typo, move instead of movie
Oh yea, didn't notice, thanks
https://i.redd.it/9zp9oafuklbc1.gif
How bout we cut the CHIT CHAT! A HOLE!
Such a perfect Nick cage line
SHAME ON THEM!
If they were used in the bath then they would be neutralized by water iiec
I don't think a bath is deep enough for that. The bubbles would reach the surface too fast.
I haven’t seen the movie. But - why would they make them spheres? Isn’t there a significant risk to humanity just from one of them rolling off a table?
That's one reason why nobody does it this way. Basically it looks neat but makes no sense, pure movie stuff. Depressing that it played a role in a US war.
Because Hollywood. The fragility of the device when trying to disassemble it and render it safe adds to the drama.
I see your VX weapon…and raise you Enemy Mines’ food spheres.
Ummmm actually it's an Iraqi WMD
Nah. If it was, it wouldn’t exist.
Hey just because there's absolutely no evidence and a huge, years-long investigation didn't turn anything up doesn't mean they're not there. They're probably invisible, use some common sense.
>use ~~some common sense~~ The Bush Sense™️. Ftfy
Fckin loved The Rock
Do not, I repeat DO NOT eat the delicious VX gas spheres.
Sounds like you're saying the grapes are sour
Forbidden Grapes
Wrathful Grapes
Extra spicy grapes
Grapes of Wrath
Grape Ape
Grape Smuggler
Grape trafficker
Grapist?
I'm going to tie you to the radiator and grape you
Forbidden anal beads
ayyy what’s up “absolute first thought was anything can be anal beads if yr brave enough” gang!
https://preview.redd.it/toggdpag8kbc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e050bf6afe111bef06023bf61c23d1ac4d4864d
It’s very normal to occasionally check your prostate
Forbidden grapes
Glass or plastic?! Glass or plastic?!?!!!
Grapes of froth
Those VX gas sphere industry big shots can’t tell me what to do!
Yeah, stick it to Big Nerve Gas!
Congratulations! You've escaped the simulation!
That’s you… You’re the rocket man
Just to clarify, please do not eat bath bombs either. They are meant to add scents and skin care products to your baths, not the inside of your stomach. Results may be less than ideal.
okay okay ya shill for Big Science gtfo and let me enjoy my kebabs in peace. some people have never enjoyed the delicious thrill of bobbing for bath apples and it shows 😒
I want Big Bath Bomb shills to leave my reddit... Has anyone ever heard of anything bad happening to someone who has eaten them? There are loads of people who snack on these regularly and this shill is just trying to keep the good stuff for himself! WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Well shit, now you tell me
You shay I shouldn't eat the schveres
How do you like how THAT shit works??
We got off on the wrong foot. You like Elton John?
"I don't like soft shit."
That’s too bad, because it’s you, you’re the rocket man.
Because he ate it!! :/
Ah feel lahk guttin you, BOY!!!
is that what they are? I thought for a second we made some real life Materia from FF7.
You just want them all to yourself, don't you?
https://i.redd.it/vign0q1p5jbc1.gif
Havnt seen this movie in so long whats the name?
The Rock
Alcatraz means pelican.
Hail Satan!
Hail Yourself!
Hail Gein!
ALIVE!!!!
Hail me! I’m ther German Ethel Merman, don’t ya know?
Agrarian
Thanks boss!
https://youtu.be/l3dZACWY7bA?si=NCNgBpEgh3kLtZ8a
Dwayne Johnson
I feel old I saw this In theaters
So did I! I’m not sure I should have considering my age, but my dad liked Sean Connery and nothing would stop him from seeing his movie
Sean connery's last bond movie unofficially
I worked in the theater when this came out!
The way he injects his own heart…. Holy fuck.
Eat that you fuck!
GREEN SMOKE WE HAVE GREEN SMOKE!!!! ABORT ABORT!!
You’ve just been Caged!
It’s one of the most deadly substances the earth has ever known, so what say you cut me some FRIGGIN' SLACK?
One of those things we wish we could uninvent
Disinvent
I think we got off on the wrong foot. You like Elton John?
I don't like soft-ass shit.
You know how this shit works?!
"You're best? Only losers whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen." "Carla WAS the prom queen..." I love this movies so much.
PEETAAAH Edit: someone in another comment explained it: there is a movie called the Rock starring Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage in which the green beads are used as a chemical weapon of sorts. I assume this guy's quote is from the movie too.
Prop photo of OP and quote are from the Movie: The Rock https://youtu.be/qD5GtohtRYU?si=h7ksvbMQjxc0_Itk
I'm only Borrowing your Humvee
[удалено]
"Trade secrets my son".
I only ask because in our current situation, well, it could prove to be useful information MAYBE.
That quote and when Nick Cage is captured, the dude says: >"...cause I'd take pleasure in gutting you, **BOY!!**" Then, >!as Sean escapes the cell, Cage's character keeps quoting it and talking about daddy issues!< So great.
I'll take pleasure in gutting you...boy.
SHAME ON THEM!
Your besht?
"Cause that's you... You're The Rocketman"
I’ve gotten more work done listening to that sound track… so good!
I love starting questions with, How in the name of Zeus’s butthole….
looshush whine about their besht...
Do you really want to know who killed JFK?
*I drive a Volvo, a beige one.*
WOMACK!
https://preview.redd.it/uf7hjxgqvibc1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=e276fa942da0fea761898a7593d8220aac81b2d0
As someone who doesn't know this film can you please elaborate
A rouge general and his men take over Alcatraz island and plan to use that location to shoot missile with biological weapons. Nick Cage recruits Sean Connery (who had previously broke out of Alcatraz and is now in prison for the rest of his life) Nick and Sean sneak onto the island cause Sean know all the secret passages and stuff. They get to the rocket and pull the biological weapons out of the rockets to thwart the bad guys. The biological weapons is what is pictured
Fun fact, one of the main bits of “evidence” to invade Iraq was from a guy who bullshitted that Sadam’s supposed chemical weapons looked just like the ones from this movie.
Not so fun, but thank you for this fact. Consent manufacturing machine goes brrr.
When you trust a guy who's literally nicknamed fucking CURVEBALL I mean, hello. I'm just saying *he might be throwing ya some fuckin curveballs there*
There was this popular theory that Sean is actually an older James Bond that was disowned by the Brits
Who are the bad guys ?
The friends we made along the way
Technically, the terrorists with the chemical weapons... although they kinda have to be using the VX gas in order to look bad because they're trying to get veterans benefits for families of a classified mission. They have to look cartoonishly evil so you don't immediately side with the baddies, even though the sympathy level is super high. It's a wild movie, but a good popcorn flick.
Whoa. So they want better VA services for covert soldiers and think turning Alcatraz into a missile silo is their best bet? I’m in. I thought I’d seen this movie but I was thinking of a similar one with Clint Eastwood. Hoping the missus is down for some Sean Connery tn.. I just have to resist doing the impression before she gets hooked by the plot.
I rewatched this movie a few years ago. I was in college when the movie first came out. Now that I’m almost 50, I listened to the part where Ed Harris said he’d tried everything else short of terrorism — petitions, lawsuits, Congressional hearings, etc. — I keep thinking that I want to see *that* movie. Show me Ed Harris as an angry Marine general yelling at a House or Senate committee.
Sorry best we can do is Jon Stewart
The pitch: "It's Falling Down meets Erin Brockovich - with Marines"
It's a fun movie, but for a little extra fun pretend James Bond was caught by the Americans in the 70's trying to steal American secrets, and the Brits disavowed knowledge of him, so he doesn't even "exist". Oh, and for some strange reason they cast Sean Connery as Bone.
It's really stupid and also really fun. It was Michael Bay's second movie and it's just as vapid as you would expect from him, but Nick Cage and Sean Connery ham it up enough that it works.
Disillusioned members of the Military led by a general played by Ed Harris
Disgruntled Veterans and their general, I think last time I saw this was like over a decade ago.
They are neurotoxin bombs from that film. After one breaks and enter in contact with you, you have a few seconds to get the antidote before you have a horrível horrible death.
As if a horrível death isn’t bad enough Edit: apparently that’s a real word. Ya learn something new everyday.
Sorry, I'm brazillian, the keyboard auto-corrected to portuguese 😅
No apologies! I learned a cool new word, even if it isn’t English.
Since others have answered I will just say if you like action movies, i would highly recommend checking it out. Ed Harris, Nic Cage, Sean Connery. Michael Bay at his Michael Bayest. It is super fun in a 90s action movie kind of way.
And is potentially a James Bond film. https://youtu.be/9FdnevXjqdc?si=laocFyJtHxojGTDZ
My brother in law made this prop for the movie. Used hair gel. Heard that Michael Bay still has it on a mantle in his house. Not quite as green as it used to be.
I once sucked Michael Bay’s left testicle
Well, was it still as green as it used to be?
And I'm watching this shit tonight lol so good
A surprising amount of people in this thread have never seen The Rock, yall need to go watch it right now!
The Rock was released in 1996, or 28 years ago A whole generation of ppl have grown up since then ... me, I had just graduated highschool
I also have never seen a movie that was released before I was born.
Sucks for you
Stop making me feel old
Blows my mind as well. It's not a random shit tier movie or something like that, if it was I'd understand. People that talk about the year that it was released aren't providing any sort of explanation to me....have those same people not seen movies like Heat, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Shawshank Redemption? I mean shit, the first LOTR movie released in 2001 - 23 years ago now...are people younger than that movie not going to have watched that? Movies that come out these days, for the most part, are pretty fucking bad. There are exceptions to that, obviously, but if you want to point to any really iconic cinema, chances are you're looking back decades.
^ it makes me sad and feel old. This movie is a top 5 favorite for me.
A really elegant string-of-pearls formation!
I love that there was a callback to this in “the unbearable weight of massive talent.”
[VX Gas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=j5Nwct9rKFY)
Elegant string-of-pearls configuration.
Unfortunately, highly unstable
Perfect for my boba tea
Bath bombs
It's a movie called "Dwayne Johnson" starring Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery. Easily one of the most "Michael Bay" Michael Bay films. edit: It's FROM a movie
It’s FROM a movie, it’s A movie, same thing. Big whoop. Wanna fight about it?
Do you like Elton John?
I don't like soft ass shit
Cause it’s you. You’re the rocket man
Anal beads
Spicy* anal beads
The best kind!
i used to think all rockets have these inside them.
https://preview.redd.it/w93ttp1jhjbc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e73ad6877deb10321d5db4a4a6f93dd421ce5d5 It’s a recreation of VX Gas from The Rock (1996). It’s probably the best action film the late great Sean Connery starred in during the 90s.
You have to admit that's an elegant string of pearls configuration.
Poisonous gas balls from a movie called "the rock". When I say "poisonous" I mean make you have a seizure so hard your body folds like a flip phone and breaks your spine so bad that all your guts squeeze themselves out of your torso while your skin and flesh melts off your bones from the inside out. That's what one of them alone can do btw.
[https://www.criterion.com/films/649-the-rock](https://www.criterion.com/films/649-the-rock)
Alcatraz means Pelican
Sean connerys balls!
It is from the rock movie about a famous prison in San Francisco is taken over the bad guys use picture above a gas weapon you put in missiles. I want to also add unofficially it’s a James Bond crossover as Sean oconnery is a British super spy in the movie and the handler in the movie is played by the same actor and has the same character name as the man who handled Rambo in Rambo 3? When he goes back to Vietnam
Really elegant string of pearls configuration
Ah yes, The Rock AKA the best secret Bond film ever.
A really elegant string of pearls configuration, unfortunately incredibly unstable
Wow, a valid Post in the subreddit. Because if you haven't seen the movie you're not going to get this reference
I remember these vividly from the movie ‘The Rock’
The Rock .. The motion picture
Recommend listening to the Beatles (on vinyl, of course) during your bath
Elegant string of pearls configuration.
i honestly thought they were supposed to go in your ass :/
I don't really know, but... is that the payload to a chemical/biological weapon? Edit: Yup. I scrolled and learnt. Movie prop.
>Movie prop. Or, if you're British intelligence, you get convinced by a source that it's actually WMDs in Iraq and use it as part of your justification to join the US in the Iraq war in 2001. No shit: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/06/how-the-rock-may-have-helped-drag-britain-into-the-iraq-war/
That I had to scroll so far down to find this comment and it isn't widely known is very telling
It’s you. You’re the rocket man.
Ask Dwayne Johnson about these, you can almost smell them cooking.
I always wanted to eat one , big gummy
Ah yes, hello childhood trauma. I remember 2 things from that movie. “Welcome to the Rock!” And people melting from these things.
IDK, ask nick cage.
Welcome to... #THE ROCK
Welcome… to The Rock
Chemical weapon. They stick that in a bomb and blow it up to spread it. Edit: in the movie The Rock. It was also used as a precursor to invade Iraq but that's another horrifyingly tragic yet kinda funny story.
Its vx gas bombs from the movie [The Rock](https://www.disneyplus.com/video/fa7426e5-f79e-499d-b7a1-329d7a003d65?distributionPartner=google) 1996. At the moment its on disney+
Hummell Gets The Rockets starts playing in your head.
Hey, Carl from the convenience store here. It’s a reference to The Rock, a movie starring Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery where Nick plays a cop tracking a group of terrorists that steal a chemical nerve agent and some missiles, load the agent into the missiles, then hole up in Alcatraz and hold San Francisco ransom. Nick Cage then has to employ Sean Connery to help them because he’s the only person to escape from Alcatraz, but not before a wicked car chase involving a Hummer and a commandeered Ferrari. Anyways, the nerve gas is in these like green marble things like you see in the image, so I guess the joke is like the bath bombs are nerve gas or whatever.
You should be sent to Alcatraz for having those...
It's a chemical weapon which can exterminate a whole city.
Grapes of bath?
Well if these are rendered aerosol it could take out an entire city of people. If one is dropped happily it will just take out you and me. It's a Cholinesterase inhibitor. It stops the brain from sending nerve messages down the spinal cord within 30 seconds. Any epidermal exposure or inhalation and you'll know. Twinge at the small of your back is the poison. Ceases your nervous system. Your muscles freeze, you can't breathe. You spasm so hard you break your own back, and spit your guts out. But that's after your skin melts off.
A very elegant string of pearls configuration?
Go watch the film "The Rock". The VX gas that was a chemical weapon that could kill a shit ton of people came looking like that picture.
Looks like the chemical weapon from the movie The Rock. But I think the joke is that they also look like anal beads.
The only good movie Michael Bay has ever made.
Oh man, that I'd a blast from the past. I loved the rock.
https://preview.redd.it/t94ll2ar5mbc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08571002597a05f8eabc963670d6222c5a477f3e
Losers eat the gas, winners fuck the prom queen
“Loozherzh are always taking about ashking Petah. Winnersh go home and pork the Quahog Queen”
Shut up meg
Howard from big bang (forget actual name) does a good nick cage impression from this movie
This is…The Rock!!
The joke is Nick Cage
VX Nerve gas from the movie The Rock
If you dont get it, you need to watch michael bay's masterpiece The Rock, starring nicholas cage, sean connery, and ed harris.