Kurt Russell - Great RKBA Quote

[sixgun_symphony]

The thing that I did not like about "Escape From New York" was that they took the handguards off the M-16 rifles. It looked cheesy.

If they wanted to have weapons that would look unfamiliar to much of the audience, they could have used AR-180 rifles or some HK 91 rifles. I think somebody was making a shotgun in bullpup configuration back then, which would have looked futuristic to audiences in 1979. Heck, they could have just left the handguards on the M-16 rifles.

Anyway, I hope to see Kurt Russel in some more westerns. Lawman for sure.

 

[Blackhawk]

Great RKBA Quote.

Yep.

 

[Cosmoline]

Kurt Russel is one of the few actors you could actually have a brewskie with. He doesn't suffer from an inflated ego, if the commentary to The Thing is any measure.

I liked his description of getting Hyderized If he retires up here in AK, he'll fit right in.

 

[MAKOwner]

I believe I saw on a biography special or something that Kurt is very pro-gun, and organized some celebrity hunts for charity or something out there in Kali in the late 80s I want to say. (someone correct me if I'm wrong). Donate the meat to the homeless kinda thing. After a couple years of it they quit due to hippy liberal bastards just hounding them to no end about killing helpless animals or some such nonsense. Seems like a real standup guy.

 

[hansolo]

Reply to post: Kurt Russell's donating hunted meat to poor people for food and "... liberals...harassing him", so he stopped.:banghead:

I wonder if these hypocrite liberals would criticise the Native American's hunting of buffalo, deer, elk, squirels, etc.

Idiots

 

[Baba Louie]

Waterdog,

Captain Ron... hilarious

Stargate, Overboard, (What was the one he did with Mel Gibson, he played a cop to Mel's drug dealing...had M. Pfiefer in it too)... aw heck, just about all of his movies are worth a watch or two.

Several are definitely worth owning.

Good acting, Montana rancher, Goldie...

Adios

 

[John Harrison]

Actually this was a re-make of a 1949 movie, "The Thing (From Another World)". The plot is roughly the same, but the monster (James Arness as a QUOTE "7-foot tall carrot" UNQUOTE) was not a shape-changer, merely a blood-thirsty humanoid. He was more like a plant than a mammal. Pretty good for it's time.

Actually the Carpenter version was much closer to the source work than the first movie. It was based on the short story by John W. Campbell titled "Who Goes There?", and it was written in 1938.

 

[Rod M]

Backdraft

I grew up watching the Disney movies with Kurt Russell in them, and I can't think of a single movie he's done that I don't like. Backdraft was one of the great ones.
Rod M

 

[Bainx]

Newshooter.....

you have got to be kidding me!

"PS- I loved Big Trouble in Little China!"

this dribble has GOT To BE the WORST piece of film I and the wife have ever seen!!!


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[Kahr carrier]

Its Cool that Kurt Russell thinks that way ,Nice quote.

 

[Matt G]

If you ever want to see a movie that will make you, as a gun owner, bang your head repeatedly against the nearest solid object, [:banghead:] see Breakdown (1997, Kathleen Quinlan, J.T. Walsh). See!: A couple driving cross-country through the desert, unarmed. See!: That same couple depend on the kindness of strangers, and get bitten for it. See!: Kurt Russell's character on two or more occasions rely on the bad guy's firearms, and NOT USE THEM when they're needed to save his and his wife's lives.

If Kurt Russell is of the RKBA persuasion, he may very well have been trying to send a message with the ludicrous actions of his character in this movie.

 

[FPrice]

John...

" Actually the Carpenter version was much closer to the source work than the first movie. It was based on the short story by John W. Campbell titled "Who Goes There?", and it was written in 1938."

You are correct. Except for the description of McReady. Don't sound like no Kust Russell I ever saw!

But thinks for the reference, I'll have to pick it up and read it.

 

[D.W. Drang]

I believe I saw on a biography special or something that Kurt is very pro-gun, and organized some celebrity hunts for charity or something out there in Kali in the late 80s I want to say. (someone correct me if I'm wrong). Donate the meat to the homeless kinda thing. After a couple years of it they quit due to hippy liberal bastards just hounding them to no end about killing helpless animals or some such nonsense.

I saw in an interview somewhere or other that Kurt Russel said that his career suffered for this, that he was actually blackballed for trying to organize these things!