Posted on 08/15/2016 7:04:30 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
USA TODAY link and title only.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/08/14/hollywood-movies-guns-politics/87751648/
A look at the virulent left and Hollywood guns vs gun control.
Unstated is the income generated by the gratuitous gunplay.
Also left out, the after effects. Seldom see any complain about their new colostomy bag or the financial effects of the firefight.
Many who watch the pseudo violence are unaffected, the know it it is fake. Unfortunately others believe this the real world and given the chance act it out.
Maybe the movies should have to put orange tips on the end of the gun barrels.
“Maybe the movies should have to put orange tips on the end of the gun barrels.”
Yes, and make the actors go “bang, bang!” Remind them that they’re only actors.
The only thing Hollywood gets right about guns is that bad guys can always get them.
And protect yourself and your family from criminals and a corrupt government who's trying to frame you for something you didn't do...
I’ve seen the hypocrisy in Hollyweird for years. I read a story a while back about the woman who plays Katherine on the original CSI saying she was against guns, and I thought, so why do you make your living with a gun in your hand?
Same for Matt Damon. If he’s so strongly against guns, why does she make his living with one in his hand?
TV has been doing this for years,. You never see anyone smoke on a TV show, it’s bad for your health. But the majority of TV shows are based on violence. CSI is one of my all time favorites, and fortunately focuses on the investigation rather then the event, but then you have Cold Case, NCIS, and others, all featuring actors who pull a gun in every episode. Most of these same actors are left leaning gun control fanatics. Isn’t shooting someone bad for their health too?
To be honest, I watch little TV except for news. I like M*A*S*H when I can find it, CSI and that’s about it. Otherwise I watch quite a few documentaries on a variety of topics, news and Looney Tunes. Hard to beat Roadrunner and Foghorn Leghorn...Other than that, standard TV programming is garbage.
I hate reality TV, I’ve never even seen a Kardashian except for magazine covers when I go to the grocery store, people tell me every time I go into town I look like one of the guys on Duck Dynasty, I’ve never watched it. Before that it was Swamp People. Apparently one of them looks like me too. Never saw it either. I watched a few minutes of a couple of reality shows a few years ago, thought it sucked, never watched another one.
I like a good action movie now and then, I have all 3 Mission Impossible movies on VHS, several Bruce Willis movies, all the Matrix movies, Full Metal Jacket (yeah it’s not your standard action movie), and a few others, but I realize it’s all fiction.
But I still think if all these Hollyweird actors are so strongly against guns, they should not use them in movies. I don’t care what it pays. If it goes against your principles, don’t make a movie where you do it. Problem solved...
I watch KDramas now for entertainment, I turned my back on Hollywood and their garbage.
Those countries don't have Chicago, #BLM morons or President They Bring a Knife We Bring a Gun stirring the pot.
Back in the ‘60’s, the USSR showed clips of drive by shootings out of 1930’s mobster cars from “The Untouchables” TV series on their news programs. They said that was actual footage of life in the USA...
I can’t tell you how many movies where these Rambos are loading up magazines with cartridges that have no primers.
For anyone of “the older” demographic, I highly recommend “Dear my friends”
“Featuring a veteran ensemble cast — including Na Mun Hee, Kim Hye Ja, Go Du Shim, Kim Young Ok, Joo Hyun, and Park Won Sook — a group of vivacious ajummas befriends a group of considerably younger people. At the eve of their lives, but ever young at heart, this group shares their hard-earned wisdom and timeless antics with adults in the prime of their lives.”
There are so many good dramas out right now that have just recently concluded, I’ve been able to escape when reality begins to be too much.
I dumped Hollywood for Seoul almost 5 years ago and I couldn’t be happier.
Dear my friends is available with English subtitles at
Dramafever.com
There is an undercurrent of truth here, at least in intention. They'd be fine with gun prohibition for "common" citizens secure in the knowledge that they are not "common" citizens and can do pretty much whatever they want regardless. Nice system if you can manage it. In practice, however, it's just another ruling class fantasy that's - dare I say it? - shot to hell.
I’m watching “W” now, it’s the best one I’ve seen so far.
You have that right!
Having been shot (RVN 69), I will say that it cannot be duplicated by watching a movie.
Most people have been in a minor auto accident, please show us a movie that equals such an event.
Expanding that to a serious trauma; I do not believe a movie can take you there.
A side note. I hate to recall how many times I had to explain that Russian Roulette, was a literary device in the Deer hunter! (The randomness of war.)
Thanks to ME-TV, I learned to love the classic Untouchables series.
I was a teen in the ‘60’s and it was was very popular back then....
The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them.— Moshe Ben-David
I too, watch near zero TV or movies.
My newest hearing aides and the closed captioning devices are superb!
Still, I avoid them.
The Chicongo Tribune had a long series on locals murders over a year.
In the end they noted that if you subtract the "underprivileged", the crime rate for USA, Canada, Europe... about the same!!!
IMO:Not a lot of serious readers in this group. Lots of TV. The TV becomes their reality.
I vaguely remember it as reruns as a 70s kid but it didn’t take with me then.
No matter how implausible that show is, I will take it over 99% of what’s on now.
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