dustind
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Is Dawn of the Dead the movie where at one point the good guys are in a camp and people are taking pot shots at zombies in a pen and wrestling with the zombies?
28 Days Later--British Fools
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Cosmo; There is an SA-80 proped in the window-sill of the house in the last scene, you have too look closely. He dumped the only rifle he ever got his hands on when it was #1 out of ammo and #2 stuck bayonet first into a soldier, who ran into it. He emptied the remainder of the mag, John Wayne style, cutting the chain the pet zombie was attached too. The Stories Hero was an English bike delivery guy....No Commando. The Gal was a Pharmacist.....No Commandet. After it came out I PM'd a bunch Of THR Brits about getting firearms. All but one exception told me they really didnt know where they could get one if The SHTF. 
eXe
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I found myself yelling throughout the whole movie "PICK UP A GUN ALREADY"
Could not believe not ONE of them thought to get a gun from someone somewhere.
Could not believe not ONE of them thought to get a gun from someone somewhere.
lazhuward
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I didn't really like "28 Days Later", but it was a pro-gun movie. Check out the alternate endings on the DVD, especially with the commentary.
In the main alternate ending, the little girl picks up a pistol at the very end of the movie. It shows that she's evolved in her choice of weapons and will likely have success against the zombies in the future.
The radically different alternate ending also has pro-gun epiphanies. Characters who used bats and blades against the zombies suddenly realize how effective guns are.
If you want a British anti film, check out "Road to Perdition". It's a good movie, but it's also the most anti-gun movie that I've seen. Deleted scenes on the DVD help bring its theme into focus.
In the main alternate ending, the little girl picks up a pistol at the very end of the movie. It shows that she's evolved in her choice of weapons and will likely have success against the zombies in the future.
The radically different alternate ending also has pro-gun epiphanies. Characters who used bats and blades against the zombies suddenly realize how effective guns are.
If you want a British anti film, check out "Road to Perdition". It's a good movie, but it's also the most anti-gun movie that I've seen. Deleted scenes on the DVD help bring its theme into focus.
I gotta admit. I loved the movie. Brit's don't have guns, and the few remaining people wouldn't have been able to scour any up, everyone else was infected. The only people with guns were SURPRISE the military. Completely accurate as far as the UK is concerned. If the movie was based in the US I would cry BS! If there were hundreds of uninfected people all over the place, they could have found a gun somewhere, but they were barely able to find TWO other people! And there are no gun stores either!
Great movie, I recommend to anyone.
anyone see the Men's Journal 50 greatest guy movies? Where was Red Dawn!!?!?!?
Great movie, I recommend to anyone.
anyone see the Men's Journal 50 greatest guy movies? Where was Red Dawn!!?!?!?
Kaylee
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so... about those SA-80s....
*hint hint*
*hint hint*
Well here's an evil, gun hating Brit who has a house full of guns in the US, and who had firearms in Britain, as did a lot of his friends, even from childhood.
I get the impression that there is still the mistaken belief that guns just don't exist in Britain, whereas the truth is that there are a LOT of shotguns in private ownership. Indeed far more shotguns than there were ever pistols, I knew many people with shotguns, but I never ever met anyone in the last 30 years of shooting in Britain who owned a pistol.
Clay Pigeon shooting is the third largest participation sport in Britain after soccer and golf, and whilst not common, rifles are certainly not rare, especially in rural Scotland.
Let's not confuse a handgun and semi automatic rifle ban with all firearms, and "British Fools" isn't really a very nice way to talk about us just because we don't have enough guns for your liking.
I believe the aircraft was a Hunter, maybe a T.11, but I'd have to check.
I seem to recall that the main character (who was Irish anyway) did pick up an SA80A2 towards the end of the movie, and I doubt that you find many countries outside of the USA, Angola, South Africa, former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Chechen Republic etc where the people would know how to easily get their hands on assault weapons.
I get the impression that there is still the mistaken belief that guns just don't exist in Britain, whereas the truth is that there are a LOT of shotguns in private ownership. Indeed far more shotguns than there were ever pistols, I knew many people with shotguns, but I never ever met anyone in the last 30 years of shooting in Britain who owned a pistol.
Clay Pigeon shooting is the third largest participation sport in Britain after soccer and golf, and whilst not common, rifles are certainly not rare, especially in rural Scotland.
Let's not confuse a handgun and semi automatic rifle ban with all firearms, and "British Fools" isn't really a very nice way to talk about us just because we don't have enough guns for your liking.
I believe the aircraft was a Hunter, maybe a T.11, but I'd have to check.
I seem to recall that the main character (who was Irish anyway) did pick up an SA80A2 towards the end of the movie, and I doubt that you find many countries outside of the USA, Angola, South Africa, former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Chechen Republic etc where the people would know how to easily get their hands on assault weapons.
Balog
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Newton: "assault weapon?" Sounds like someone's been reading too much propaganda from VPC and the Brady Bunch.
Balog
I believe the term "Assault Weapon" is now enshrined in US law, if it's good enough for the Feds then it's good enough for me.
Thanks Keederdag.
I was also wrong about it being a Hunter T.11, seems it was a T.8b, most likely this one http://www.hawkerhunter.co.uk/
I believe the term "Assault Weapon" is now enshrined in US law, if it's good enough for the Feds then it's good enough for me.
Thanks Keederdag.
I was also wrong about it being a Hunter T.11, seems it was a T.8b, most likely this one http://www.hawkerhunter.co.uk/
dustind
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Isn't talking about wether a move is pro or anti gun on topic for the high road?
fish2xs
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I loved it!!
I bought it before Halloween, turned out all the lights, lit a fire, cracked a bottle of
vino, cranked up the 5:1 surround sound to 7 and checked my disbelief at the door.
Once in this mode, I thought it was Excellent!
OK - now that it's over:
"Military is bad" - what else were you expecting???
"Poor use of guns" - It's the UK, what else were you expecting???
Actually, my main 'realistic' beef with the movie is that if the 'virus' was that fast moving,
that fact by itself would have isolated the disease to the island. The longer the incubation
period, the more widespread it becomes.
Sure, there are 'issues', but I didn't let it keep me from enjoying what I thought was a VERY
suspensful and well done movie.
I bought it before Halloween, turned out all the lights, lit a fire, cracked a bottle of
vino, cranked up the 5:1 surround sound to 7 and checked my disbelief at the door.
Once in this mode, I thought it was Excellent!
OK - now that it's over:
"Military is bad" - what else were you expecting???
"Poor use of guns" - It's the UK, what else were you expecting???
Actually, my main 'realistic' beef with the movie is that if the 'virus' was that fast moving,
that fact by itself would have isolated the disease to the island. The longer the incubation
period, the more widespread it becomes.
Sure, there are 'issues', but I didn't let it keep me from enjoying what I thought was a VERY
suspensful and well done movie.
Tommy Gunn
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Just the usual Leftist crap from the film industry.
In this film, we see that "guns are bad" and the "anyone wearing uniform is a pig" mentality.
My advise is to boycott this Leftist agitprop.
In this film, we see that "guns are bad" and the "anyone wearing uniform is a pig" mentality.
My advise is to boycott this Leftist agitprop.
Ok, thanks for the info.
But...
Heyyyy... What's the Irish thing supposed to mean?
Since we're on Brit weapons...
I've been catching a little bit of "SAS, Are you tough enough?" on T.V. .
Has anyone seen them carry anything else besides M-4's and it's variants?
Justin
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This one's already been talked about pretty heavily in a number of other threads:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50254&highlight=days+later
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46170&highlight=days+later
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42392&highlight=days+later
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32660&highlight=days+later
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50254&highlight=days+later
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46170&highlight=days+later
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42392&highlight=days+later
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32660&highlight=days+later
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