KBintheSLC
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I watched a couple of gun-related movies this weekend that threw me for a curve.
The first was "Lord of War" which was obviously put together by someone who knew their guns pretty well. However, at the beginning of the film, a guy took cover behind a 2" thick wooden dinner table from incoming full-auto AK fire. Apparently, the table stopped the bullets
, and the guy stood up and gunned down the 2 AK-armed men with a pistol. 
The second was "Lakeview Terrace". I couldn't tell if this movie was attempting to be pro or anti gun. At one point the guys father-in-law asks him "how do you intend to protect your family?". He replies sarcastically "I gonna get a huge arsenal of guns... lots of guns". But later on in the film when he realizes that he really needs a gun, he ridicules the 10-day CA grace period. :banghead:
Hence my confusion. I know that Hollywood is typically full of anti's that hypocritically glorify gun violence on the silver screen, and claim to support gun control off-screen. But lately, some of the films I am seeing are really sending mixed messages... both political messages, and messages about what guns can and cannot do.
The first was "Lord of War" which was obviously put together by someone who knew their guns pretty well. However, at the beginning of the film, a guy took cover behind a 2" thick wooden dinner table from incoming full-auto AK fire. Apparently, the table stopped the bullets
, and the guy stood up and gunned down the 2 AK-armed men with a pistol. The second was "Lakeview Terrace". I couldn't tell if this movie was attempting to be pro or anti gun. At one point the guys father-in-law asks him "how do you intend to protect your family?". He replies sarcastically "I gonna get a huge arsenal of guns... lots of guns". But later on in the film when he realizes that he really needs a gun, he ridicules the 10-day CA grace period. :banghead:
Hence my confusion. I know that Hollywood is typically full of anti's that hypocritically glorify gun violence on the silver screen, and claim to support gun control off-screen. But lately, some of the films I am seeing are really sending mixed messages... both political messages, and messages about what guns can and cannot do.
