New Jodie Foster Movie Pro CCW?

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I saw the trailer for The Brave One with Jodie Foster last night. Looks like it might be good. Whatever it does, it doesn't seem to be taking the line that guns are bad, and Foster looks like she's packing a nice little Kahr or S&W.


I wonder if it'll be any good.
 
I don't think the movie is Pro CCW at all. It appears that she goes vigilante after her attack. I don't see how this will do the pro crowd any good.
 
Well, I guess I felt it might be pro since it wasn't obviously anti, which is a pretty good step for Hollywood.
 
This will not be a pro-CCW movie, at least not to folks who aren't already pro-CCW. Even by the tagline it sounds as if the moral line becomes blurred about what she's doing exacting revenge.

I also HIGHLY doubt Jodie Foster would sign on to a Punisher-esque movie. There will be a liberal spin to this, somehow. Count on it.
 
I want my dog back. BOOM.

Looks okay to me.

Pro or anti? She's victimized, put in a coma, and her husband murdered by bad guys. She was unarmed. She gets a gun, now she has power.

We'll see what they do with it.
 
Does an action movie have to be pro CCW? I mean, people in action movies do things all the time that would get a lawful gun owner thrown in the slammer. Way of the Gun? Heat? You name it.

Besides...a realistic portrayal of a typical armed self-defense encounter wouldn't make much of a movie.
 
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I don't think the movie is Pro CCW at all. It appears that she goes vigilante after her attack. I don't see how this will do the pro crowd any good.
That was my take, as well.
Just saw the trailer yesterday, and I agree.

CCW = good.

Vigilante, taking the law into her own hands = not good.
 
Besides...a realistic portrayal of a typical armed self-defense encounter wouldn't make much of a movie.

Robber: "Give me your wallet"
Good guy presents CCW
Robber runs away
No shots fired

Rest of the movie is 2 hours of filing out a police report.

Nightcrawler...I have to agree...more boring movie ever.
 
I saw the trailer on Monday, and I thought that her actions would eventually fall into the negative category--a Hollywood example of what will happen when normal citizens get guns. You know, blood running in the streets and all that. My guess is that she will kill a few bad guys then kill the wrong person.


On the other hand the psychology of the film could be interesting.
 
I haven't seen the trailer, but I can't see a truly pro-gun movie coming out of Hollywood today. Everything has to have a "slant" to it.:cuss:
 
It might have a pro-CCW message, but I highly doubt it in today's Hollyweird. Almost every movie that comes out of Hollywood seems to have a strong left wing political message. Now that is not always a bad thing but many times they beat you over the head with their political messages to the point to where it becomes aggravating. I feel this movie will be in the same vein.


I saw the trailer on Monday, and I thought that her actions would eventually fall into the negative category--a Hollywood example of what will happen when normal citizens get guns. You know, blood running in the streets and all that. My guess is that she will kill a few bad guys then kill the wrong person.

That pretty much sums up my opinion of what the movie will be about.
 
I'm not counting on ANYTHING until I see it and evaluate the film myself. Assumtions and pre conceptions aside, at least she's doing something to get back and using a gun (looks like a KAHR) seems a wise choice, as opposed to a baseball bat or rock.

Think I'll actually view the flick before I pass judgement on it.

Given her well known problem with stalkers, I'd bet she does pack..heavy.
 
Movies are based on drama to sell. People are not in a hurry to purchase tickets to watch most real life ccw holders. People in movies either have guns or they do not. Pretty much anyone with one uses it, this right here conflicts with reality for most people.

The real pro ccw message is the normal average joe armed that never uses thier firearm, never goes on vigilante sprees, and if they ever do use it, it is a split second decision to save thier life or someone else's. That does not make for an interesting plot with pre meditation, drama and suspense. It makes for normal mundane life with one quick confrontation measured in seconds.

So while it might give a fighting spirit to some women, which can be a positive, it will also be more of the same in painting armed individuals as people that take punishment into thier own hands. That is never a good message for voters when deciding if other people should be allowed to have dangerous weapons. This goes for the 2nd, and it goes for CCW. People feel they are entitled in this day and age to remove or create laws and restrictions on anything they see as a potential threat, old papers like the constitution be damned.

If it comes from Hollywood, is filled with ticket selling drama, and in any way involves a gun in the plot you can be sure that gun is used. If people imagine that people with guns will be using those guns, then the decision they feel they are making is whether they want people shooting or not when voting whether you can CCW. When the real decision is whether they want people to be capable of self defense if the need arises, or wish to the give the predatory criminal the advantage (who will often be armed illegaly regardless).

Those are very different images. So while we may enjoy gun play in action movies, it only reinforces the belief that anyone with a gun will find a reason to end up using that gun. That never helps CCW.

The real message you may be recieving that can be good is that people should not be complacent victims and should take action. However in the interest of necessary ticket selling drama those actions are taken beyond a pro gun message into an anti gun message.
 
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Foster herself packs, you can bet on that.

With her history, I'd bet a crisp new dollar that she does.

I'll wait until I know more about it before I criticize it too much. It sounds right now like it could be a very good movie, or a very sickening propaganda piece. We'll see.

Wes
 
Think I'll actually view the flick before I pass judgement on it.

Dude! That's crazy talk! This is the interweb, so by golly, I'm going to exercise my right to hyperbole, and negativity about everything. And I'll be sure to throw in a bunch of smilies to show my anger! Like these! :cuss::banghead::fire: Take that Hollywood! Feel my righteous fury!

Sometimes I feel like I'm locked in a room with several hundred of those blue donkeys from Winnie the Pooh, (E-Oar?).
"Hey, look, there's a movie with a gun in it!"
"Oh... it's gonna suck. Everything sucks. I'm gonna go lay here and pity myself..."
"Well, you haven't seen it. It might be good."
"Nope... nothing is ever good. There has never been a single positive thing in a movie, ever..."
 
I don't know what the angle on it is, but I agree with the folks who stated it looks very much like a remake of the original <I>Death Wish</I>, which, despite its reputation (and awful sequels) wasn't exactly a pro-CCW movie, but an excellent, multifaceted presentation of institutional decay and society's (and individual's, particularly the protagonist's) reaction to it. It really is a spendid psychological movie and piece of commentary, and Bronson's characterization is terrific. The rest of the movies stunk, though. :)

The Michael Winner-directed film was based on a novel. Anybody read it? I've never run across a copy.
 
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