Feel-Bad Movie: "Wristcutters"

Breakpoint with Chuck Colson ^ | 5/18/2007 | Chuck Colson

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[DieHard the Hunter]

> That said, this sounds pretty sick, and another example of how when a person gives up on God, they’ll believe anything.

Amen, brother!

I have a feeling that this particular film will not get past our Censors. It is a crime in New Zealand to incite or assist suicide — a very serious crime. This movie could well do that.

There are and should be limits to Freedom of Speech.

[Enterprise]

I didn’t see the original “28 Days Later.” So I wasn’t up to speed on the overall plot. But nothing good happens to anyone in “28 Weeks Later.” I thought, well maybe this person or that person will make it, but NOOOOOOOOOOOO. No one gets a break! (Except the two kids)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“As its title suggests, the film Wristcutters: A Love Story presents an utterly bleak view of life—and a not very inspiring view of the afterlife, either.”

Look for Oscar nominations all around from the Left. Yeesh! What cr@p.

Kids? Get the mental health help you need, or you’ll just end up “thinning the herd” and you’ll be another one who wasted their Gift of Life.

Which brings up another thought. Since the Left wants as many children as possible killed in the womb, is it ANY surprise that they’d exploit the “survivors” for monetary gain, through their constant drumbeat of ‘The Culture of Death?’

[Marysecretary]

I have noticed more and more occult programs aimed at young people on TV, and now these kinds of films. Don’t tell me satan isn’t after our youth. he KNOWS that their generation will usher in the Kingdom of God. We need to pray against these kinds of movies and let Hollywood know what we think of them, especially with our pocketbooks.

[Quix]

VERY VERY TRUE on all counts, Mary, Dear.

[Fire_on_High]

If that’s the movie I’m thinking of, it was just plain tragic. He was trying to save her as best as he knew to do and didn’t want to have anyone else take her away.

[Mr. Blonde]

I'm pretty sure that isn't the plot of Less Than Zero, unless it is tremendously changed from the book.

Most of the books by the author of Less Than Zero are tremendous satires of many of the things conservatives don't approve of. American Psycho is probably the hardest read I ever had. Not because it wasn't good but because of the graphic depictions of violence. And the four page cd reviews.

[Mr. Silverback]

Since the Left wants as many children as possible killed in the womb, is it ANY surprise that they’d exploit the “survivors” for monetary gain, through their constant drumbeat of ‘The Culture of Death?’

Nope, no surprise at all.

[Mr. Silverback]

It is lireally true that these are the best of times and the worst of times.

[Mr. Silverback]

The soldier who jumps on a grenade to save his buddies, even though it won’t explode for eight seconds, is an excellent example.

Sorry, but I have to blow the whistle on this one. Most grenade fuses only last 4-5 seconds total, and some of that is used up in throwing time and the momnet it takes for the target to realize that a grenade has entered their position. That cuts it down to somewhere between 1 and 3 seconds to act, and that's if the enemy threw it without holding onto it an extra second or two to reduce thyour available reaction time.

If you're clustered in a fighting position with your buddies and a grenade rolls in, you all have to get at least five meters from it to get out of the kill zone, while under fire...in 1 to 3 seconds. Or somebody can jump on it. Unless they react quickly enough to throw it back, that's the choice.

[Quix]

Essentially, yes.

Certainly the birth pangs toward the worst of times.

Affording many chances to stand as light against the rising darkness and lawlessness.

Just learned from a fellow pottery person that some of her kids that she’s dealt with in her job . . . come back bragging of doing drugs with . . .

THE JUDGES that they were sent before . . . for drugs.

[Mr. Silverback]

thyour=your

BTW, what's the origin of your screen name?

[Popocatapetl]

I’m from the peacetime army where the live grenades were most likely dropped at the feet of someone who had just screwed up.

Of the several accidents I heard of, one was an instructor who accidentally pulled the safety of a grenade on his belt, and was so blase about the whole thing, he didn’t even try to pull it off and throw it, just saying “That’s the sort of dumb thing only a trainee would do”, before being killed.

Another was of a Captain safety officer on a grenade range who walked out onto the range to pick up an UXB, and was carrying it back when it exploded.

Lastly was a soldier who took apart a dud to find out why it hadn’t exploded.

For a while there I thought that every time you were issued a grenade, you temporarily lost 10 IQ points.

[Popocatapetl]

It’s a slight misspelling of the name of a large volcano located South of Mexico City.

Popocatepetl.

[Mr. Silverback]

For a while there I thought that every time you were issued a grenade, you temporarily lost 10 IQ points.

One of the scoutmasters I work with was an Army doctor back in the day. He says the special forces guys working in the backwoods in Honduras used to go fishing with them.