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The Road to Perdition : Anti-Gun Propaganda

thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
I went to see 'The Road to Perdition' last night.
It's about Tom Hanks, who plays a hitman (an unusually dark role for Hanks) seeking vengeance on the murderer of his wife and son. This sounded like a truly unique and original story. Unfortunately it turned out to be more anti-gun garbage! I noticed but casually overlooked the ominous portrayal of the guns through out the movie. It was tolerable as the movie was fairly interesting. The movie almost made it to the end without actually stating it's antigun bias, when low and behold we were subjected to the line... "At that moment it was obvious I would never be like my father, and I've never held a gun since." I was completely disgusted. None the less, it was over and I knew there were only a few more minutes to ride out. I overheard a conversation behind me, "See if everyone thought like that the world wouldn't be such a bad place.". I felt ill. I was so frustrated I left before the movie could finish. I felt like I had been duped. I cursed the whole way home, because the honest, sad, and true fact is most people today have no problem giving up their rights, as long as they're promised security. It still makes me hot thinking about it.

The Pissed off Munkey


Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks for the heads up. I will not bother to go and see it now.On a little different note, on the TV series Witchblade last week, they were discussing why they had both became cops. Her answer was "I like to play with guns" I just had to smile, she could play with my guns anytime.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Awww! the issue is mass populance programation and control .....
    I think if we JAM all TV and Radio Stations for a week crime will drop off 90% on the streets .... 10% remainders will be rap and rasta music Fans goin nuts to the tune of do-me-in..

    BUMMM BUMMM BUMMMM DAWWWW! BUMMM BUMMM BUMMM DAWWW!

    (screws and nuts falling off the car ) cats and dogs killing
    themselves ...Etc.

    JD

    Good...? , Bad...? Who cares ? as long I am the one with the the gun.....
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    UNFORGIVEN was definitely a turning point for Clint Eastwood in terms of his gun message, but he still plays practical roles that can't deny the place guns have in keeping order -- IN THE LINE OF FIRE for instance. Then we have Indiana Jones, who proves the odds-evening power of the gun when he drops the scimitar-wielding Arab in RAIDERS with one round from his revolver.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "I overheard a conversation behind me, "See if everyone thought like that the world wouldn't be such a bad place."."

    I trust you put them in their place and didn't just let it go...?

    Stand And Be Counted
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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, if we stood up and be counted by sending letters and e-mails to the producers of such trash we could make a difference, look how a few concerned mothers got the rating system started. we should boycott movies with known anti-gun messages and or anti-gun stars. also organizations that contribute to anti-gun causes, slogans, or whatever. respt submitted dads-freehold

    rodney colson
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Evil,
    I probably should have, but the movie was still playing, and for every person we help, their are 1000 more ignorant fools to educate. It's just a little overwhelming.
    Munkey

    Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Monkey, thanks for posting this. I had planned to see it yesterday but circumstances intervened. Now I won't contribute to the coffers. It's reaching the point that there are virtually no films I can patronize because of the content or actors' politics. And Tom Clancy only writes so many books . . . .
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Offeror- Did you find "unforgiven" to be pro gun control, or anti gun control?
    I have a hard time figuring that one out.

    "The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
    -James Madison
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