I can not Contemplate well the Bad Guys motives or their gain
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Eraser
DarklordRB — 14 years ago(August 06, 2011 11:49 PM)
I'm not very clear on James Caan, his Boss, and Cohorts motives for trying to sell very advenced and powerful weapons to terrorist for 52 million dollars. To people like them that is a small amount of money and i'm sure they want to make billions than millions. They are very abhorrent that's clear, but what I don't understand is their obliviousness to nearly almost causing severe mass destruction on a world wide scale by selling many Railguns to Terrorist for a small sum amount of money.
If Arnold didn't stop them there would've been wide spread assinations with such swiftness and ease in little time, whole platons and armys of allied troops would be wiped out in seconds through one sniper, probably military vehicles of all kinds would be easily taken down, whole nations would've fall and would 've been taken over with ease. Arnold's assertion of a whole new ere of World Terrorism is an understatement, starting World War 3 would've been more accurate.
There must've been an ulterior motive or something for the badguys because they couldn't be that oblivious. James Caan's speech to Arnold on who gets rich and who gets dead through winning and losing wars made a little sense but not a lot, but i'm sure there's more to their plans than just selling Railguns to Terrorist and causing world wide Havok for a mere 52 million. -
MonteCarloMan — 14 years ago(August 21, 2011 11:58 PM)
That is what I didnt like about this movie aside from Arnold's weak character role throughout it. The movie's producers tried to play this movie's backstory seriously to it's audience but fully failed in it's believability. It probably could have been done better in an "Enemy of the State" sort of way with CIA/NSA intrigue/suspense. BTW James Caan stole the show bigtime from Arnie. This was definitely one of Arnold's weaker efforts in his career.
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jannispetersen — 14 years ago(March 26, 2012 04:50 PM)
Well, the weapon receivers wouldn't pay the whole sum upfront, so much is clear. You never pay all of the money upfront, just a bit of it to get the deal going. The major share would be paid when the deal is done or at the moment of transfer. So 52 million as an appreciation upfront payment is totally understandable.
Another fact is, they would probably split the payment over multiple accounts. You would never pay several billion in one go, not even on a swiss account and especially, if you haven't received your ware yet. Maybe they paid more upfront already on several accounts, but Arnie hadn't time enough to check all data before it got erased! -
DarklordRB — 13 years ago(July 03, 2012 09:37 PM)
That makes sense I guess, splitting up the profits to accounts and just receiving only the upfront payment. Now for their rationality for not caring about the damage they'll cause to the world, I don't know how their going to make more money that way. I guess they must be extreme war profiteers who lack any empathy and are very indifferent. I guess the bad guys of Eraser are just like Juno Skinner from True Lies.
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mike-mika — 11 years ago(January 24, 2015 11:02 AM)
It's utterly unbelievable, these guys will officially make billions anyway by selling these to their own Government, especially if they were selling the separate scientific/technological+metallurgical secret "formula steps" that were required to research and develop in order to squeeze this http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/navy-prepares-to-take-rail-gun-to-sea/ into the size, shape, weight, recoil, ammo capacity and practical longevity/functionality of this http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/infantry/rifle/M107.html.
and don't get me started on that magically detailed and precise x-ray scope, that piece of targeting scope super-tech breaks so many visual perception/radioactivity limitations of physics (the US Army Snipers will be beep invincible with that stuff) that i refuse to believe that it was manufactured by human hands, no way that thing being made by some Extraterrestrial geniuses is way more plausible.
but the best they could come up with is to sell it to a bunch of rus/chechen terrorists ? for some 50+ million bucks ?