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"Signs" like the monkey show PC indoctrinated

96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
My wife, daughter and daughter's fiance went to see the movie "Signs" this weekend. My wife related the story line to me and told me had the same situation that ocurred in the movie taken place at our house fireams would have been grabbed and loaded and the threat greeted with an arsenal. She said she wasn't surprised Hollywood had neglected to include firearms in the plot due to political correctness.

What gets me is how Hollywood goes out of it's way to protray real life and show all the sick perverted lifestyles and blood, guts, and violence but ignores the fact that part of that real life is ,we Americans have firearms in our homes. This movie ,even though I haven't seen it and won't until it comes out on tape or PPV is another attempt to destroy our unique culture. According to my wife the guy was limited to a baseball bat to defend his family.

My daughter commented to old dad that he wouldn't like it. She went on to say that "Dad if that ever happened here, the only story line possible would be that you blasted the threat to bits thereby eliminating any further story line." I'm glad they see guns as an asset.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of Hollywood's oldest favorite plot tricks is to have the protagonist drop his or her gun down some long chasm, thereby eliminating the possibility of retrieving it and mounting a directly effective defense. Next time you see the hero drop his gun for no good reason, know that it's because the writers needed him not to have it.

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    "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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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    Note: some of this may contain spoilers, so if anyone is planning to see this crap-tacular excuse for a sob story, then you'd best cease reading.

    That simple fact ruined the movie for me too, 96harley.

    It's not like they had some sort of a plausible reason why no weapons were available, they just simply acted like it was completely normal for a male farmer with children living in an isolated rural area not to have a single firearm.

    I couldnt get into the plot at all, because I kept realizing that all it would have taken was a $50 used side-by-side and there would be ZERO threat to this family.

    The whole plot progression just seemed so Liberally nonsensical to me. They think there's aliens coming, so they sit around and soul-search and rationalize. Then they're sure there's aliens coming, and what do they do? Sit around and rationalize and soul-search some more.

    At the risk of making too much out of it, I know anyone from this board, myself included, would have had electrified barbed wire and burning gasoline trenches surrounding that house the first time they suspected their family was in danger. You'd have locked, loaded, and staged a reenactment of the Alamo. But you damn sure wouldnt have held hands and cried for 8 hours, then frantically nailed up a few boards and cowered without any weapons.

    I know helplessness is integral to a horror/suspense movie's plot, but I despise the very concept. No one is ever helpless unless they purposely choose to be so.
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  • thesoundguy1thesoundguy1 Member Posts: 680 ✭
    edited November -1
    In the dark ages(before I owned firearms)I would see situations in movies where the "hero" would have several weapons,except a gun,my
    response would be "Wow, if that were me, I would want a gun!"
    So I went out and bought one(then another,and another...)So I'm proud to say the P.C. crap did not work on me!

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  • Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you want a real hoot sometime watch one of those horror moveies, expecially the "kids in the woods" type-- with the sound turned off and make your own dialogue.

    Works best with several friends, good food and drink.

    Wild Turkey"if your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail"
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  • HighballHighball Member Posts: 15,755
    edited November -1
    WELL,WELL,WELL....finally some feedback similer to my own.
    These 'aliens' came across light-years of space...but were stopped by....GASP.....BOARDS !!????? Mel Gibson became a dithering idiot,wringing his hands and TALKING ? With a direct threat to his family ??? This looks like a sell-out to someone,after ruffling LOTS of feathers with Patriot and Braveheart.....

    God,Guts,& GunsHave we lost all 3 ??
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  • garandfangarandfan Member Posts: 271 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    First of all, I'm not saying that I liked the movie or not, but I think that they were trying to focus on suspense and fright, and to have that you need the scared people there, not some people that just kill the aliens with ease. I don't think they were trying to make an action movie where at the end Mel Gibson takes out his 12 gauge and blows away every alien. I also don't think they were trying to make the movie exactly true to life, I mean, it was about an alien invasion. Yea, of course if that really happened, any normal person would arm themselves and fight them off, but it was a movie that was focusing on suspense and fright, not a shootout. I don't really care for mel gibson but to say that someone sold out just because they didn't make a movie with guns in it is kinda strange to me. Patriot and Braveheart were war movies. Still, I would have liked to see a shootout in the movie, and although I know many holllywood movies are liberally biased, I find it hard to believe that every movie without a gun in it is being politcally correct, there just might be another reason for it.

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    effectual means of preserving peace"-George Washington
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  • HighballHighball Member Posts: 15,755
    edited November -1
    Friend,I don't need guns to be dangerous...and nowhere in my post was there a reference to guns.(except the profile signature)Surely Mel could have been more effective then hand-wringing.
    The fright thing ? Any high school boy could put together more 'suspense' then what was in that show.


    God,Guts,& GunsHave we lost all 3 ??
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  • garandfangarandfan Member Posts: 271 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yea, I'm not saying that I thought it was scary, but I'm just saying that's what I thought they were going for. Sorry if I misunderstood your point.

    "To be prepared for War is one of the most
    effectual means of preserving peace"-George Washington
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