What are the most ANTI-gun movies?

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There are two movies named American Gun that came out in the last few years, both are extremely antigun. One's about a man that tries to find his teenage granddaughter after his daughter was killed in a Hollywood-stereotypical fashion and the other's about a school shooting and the family of the perpetrator after the fact.

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+1 to Runaway Jury and Open Season. The were playing Open Season on a loop at Best Buy on every HDTV in the place last Christmas or the one before that, and I decided then and there that I was not going to let my kids watch that drivel. Same with Bambi and The Fox and the Hound.

I unwittingly went to see Runaway Jury in the theater with some friends a few years ago. I hadn't heard of it and my friends just gave me the bare bones of what it was about- Based on a John Grisham book, 2 jurists try to scam the plaintiff and defendant out of money to influence the decision. No mention of the fact that it was a firearms company that was being sued or that the 2 jurists had a anti-gun agenda. Made my blood boil. It was a tobacco company in the Grisham book, but I guess the screenwriter decided that he liked guns less than cancer.
 
I just watched Predator II lastnight, and wow, the beginning scene was incredibly outlandish. Gangs with semi-auto rotary grenade launchers, battle rifles, machine guns, .50 caliber rifles...and cops with pistols. Yeah, right.

The beginning was like a Brady educational film.
 
Ironically, if you read Bambi, the original novel, you guys would probably like it. I did. It's an allegory about the cruelty of nature and the evils of militarism.
 
Yes but it never implied or expressed the concept that the guns were in any way related to their being unbalanced. I think that's the main difference.

You know how we say "guns don't kill people, people kill people". Well then, this movie is not anti-gun, since it's not the guns that are doing the bad deeds, but the people. The people would be unbalanced whether they had the gun or not.
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Maybe the term we're looking for isn't anti-gun, but contributing to anti-gun sentiment?
 
Runaway Jury made me very angry, especially since it hides the strongest anti-gun sentiment for the end and makes you realize how much time you just wasted :mad:

Runners Up:
Hot Fuzz: The most ridiculous nonviolent shootout scene at the end, a Rambo-esque compilation of weapons and I don't think anyone was even hit by a bullet.
Lethal Weapon 2: "cop killer bullets" 'nuff said
Predator: Lets abandon our massive firepower and hunt the Predator with sharp sticks and a bow & arrow...right :rolleyes:
 
Come on, Hot Fuzz was not a political commentary piece. It was a comedy that was obviously poking fun at other movies. There's nothing subtle about their intentions or some kind of gun control message worked into the plot.
 
Ease up on Predator too. How much ammo do you think Dutch can carry by himself? Guns run out of ammo and become worthless. More basic weapons are always effective when used properly. The message had nothing to do with gun control. The message was related more to how the character reverts back to "primitive" tactics and tools in order to beat the alien who had vastly superior technology in his weapons. It's an underdog story obviously. Not a gun control message.
 
The Hills Have Eyes (the remake from a few years ago) was a bit anti-gun, not in the sense that any characters espoused anti-gun views, but that the grandfather, a private citizen who owned a gun, was portrayed as a big-mouth macho careless moron who handled his gun (and let a kid handle it) with little regard for gun safety. It painted gun owners in a very negative light.

I'd love to see a movie where an armed private citizen is portrayed using a gun responsibly.
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I can see why you'd say that there's little regard for safety because of the scene in the beginning when he's pointing the gun at the other guy while he says "don't worry the safeties on." This is the only part of the movie that i thought could be interpreted as anti-gun. And what do you mean he let a kid handle it? Of course he did. And you could barely say he was a kid because he seemed to be around 16.Was he going to leave his family there alone and unarmed? Was he going to give the handgun to someone who had no experience or the "kid" who did have experience? It's a no brainer in my eyes. I handled my first handgun around age 11. Do you consider my dad a bad dad because of this?

And they did have regard for gun safety. The characters made a point that in every single scene a gun was involved, they had their fingers off the triggers pointed down (unless using it for SD or the scene i mentioned earlier.)

I think overall it was pretty pro gun.
 
Maybe the term we're looking for isn't anti-gun, but contributing to anti-gun sentiment?
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No, it's anti-unbalanced-people.

...with guns
...or sharp objects
...or baseball bats
...or a voter registration card
...or any other dangerous thing

It's not anti-gun, or contributing to anti-gun sentiment. It doesn't reinforce a stereotype. The stereotype gun owner is not (around here) either a repressed homosexual bigot, neither is it an unbalanced suburban white woman. The stereotype that movies frequently reinforce is gang bangers, street criminals, villians and super-cops. These are not routine gun owners, and IMHO do no contribute meaningfully to a bad image of gun owners. Nobody confuses Will Smith's "Bad Boys" character with their uncle Harold who has a couple of deer rifles and a revolver.

However I have yet to see any movie that portrays, even remotely accurately, anyone legally carrying a concealed handgun. I think that's because Hollywood writers as a rule don't believe in nor understand the concept of legally carried concealed handguns. Of course, if it's concealed, it's concealed right? How would we know if the characters we are watching in a movie who are not openly handling guns are "gun owners", CCW carriers, or not? Given that maybe 50% of American households own guns, it would stand to reason that 50% of the characters in movies should be presumed gun owners, not just those who are actively using them.

IMHO!

All this talk makes me want to go watch some more movies :)
 
Kharn said:
There are two movies named American Gun that came out in the last few years, both are extremely antigun. One's about a man that tries to find his teenage granddaughter after his daughter was killed in a Hollywood-stereotypical fashion and the other's about a school shooting and the family of the perpetrator after the fact.
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I watched the second movie you speak of, I was annoyed by most of it but I liked that gun store owner's grand daughter who learned to shoot after being assaulted. It had one good story and a couple of other bad and depressing ones.
 
Even some excellent pro-gun movies can send a negative message just before the closing credits.The Train(1964)is a perfect example.
Burt Lancaster,playing a French railway station master has just kept the Germans from taking a vast load of precious art worth untold millions from French museums, onto a special train headed for the Reich.Through skill,ingenuity,bravery and down right good luck, Burt(doing his own stunts, being a trained acrobat) saves the precious collection from leaving France.In the process, with his trusty rifle, he takes out a large piece of the Wehrmacht.
But as the last German is dispatched and Burt knows he's won what does he do?
He's throws the rifle down in a disgusted manner,leaves it by the roadside(and any intelligent viewer is gonna be thinking he may just need it again!) and limping badly, heads for home.
Until that final scene this was one of the finest movie's I'd ever seen.It's still worth watching.But even in 1964 Hollywood sometimes couldn't help itself.
 
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Predator 1 and 2

Lethal Weapon, though one of my fave series is full of leftist crap Save the Dolphins, South Africa is evil, Whites are bad, pro illegal immigrant etc etc etc


I dont see how Shooter is anti-gun, maybe anti Bush and anti-oil but i dont see any anti-gun message
 
shooter doesnt nearly live up to point of impact..........

i like the character way more in the book,
 
Better yet, who's hauling around all that Minigun ammo? Hopefully not the guy carrying the Minigun. Those things are pretty heavy by themselves. I can't imagine hiking through a rain forest with that.
 
But seriously, if you look at the credits for the movie, you'll see a bunch of guys who make movies that typically aren't on the must-see list for any Brady Campaigners. Everyone from the screen writers and director to the producer himself are associated with action type flicks that have a lot of gun "flash" (pun intended). I'm quite certain that these aren't left leaning nuts trying to make a gun control message or any message at all. They just make action films that are meant to entertain the basic testosterone senses.
 
You want a anti-gun movie that comes in under the radar?

The Shootist, with John Wayne.

Go watch the very end, and tell me its not an anti movie. He knods in approval when Ron Howard throws the gun away across the saloon. From about mid point in the movie it starts to drop crumbs here and there about an anti-gun message. Especially the scene where young Ron Howard is reporting on how his (Ron Howards older punk mentor) reacts when told he's going to meet Books at the saloon. "He turned kind of white." mused Gillum.Books was trying to show Gillum, (Ron Howard) that guns weren't the way anymore.

The very last scene in the movie tells it all.
 
Ironically, I popped in Bambi after deer season.

It was all I could think about out in the woods.
 
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