What are the most ANTI-gun movies?

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While other movies have had more blatant, club you over the head anti-gun themes ("Bowling..","American Gun", "Dear Wendy")
Lethal Weapon 3 was a subtle hymn to gun control, weaving all of the fears and anti gun assertions into the background of the plot.

It had wide success in 1992, which came at a critical moment in the national consciousness.

It was part of the propaganda payload that helped fuel the moral panic that brought us the AWB.

As such, it was probably the most effective anti-gun movie ever.


We dare not underestimate the effect of popular enterainments in fueling moral panics which lead to legislation.

While popular entertainments tend to fail at creating moral panics from thin air, what they're very good at is reflecting and magnifying themes and fears that are already present in society, by giving them focus and concreteness.


For example, "West Side Story" gave focus, concreteness and magnification to fears of juvenile delinquency, juvie gangs, and ethnic tensions.

The legislative consequence of it was our current set of state and federal level anti switchblade statutes, which stand to this very day.
 
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Winner. It took so many ridiculous shots at gun manufacturers, the NRA, and Republicans. It was just beyond any liberal standpoint that I've ever seen come out of Hollywood. And that's saying a lot. Many times messages will be subtle or hinted at. Not in this movie. It should be more than enough to make anyone on this forum's blood boil.
 
Not a movie, so technically off topic:

I am a fan of Doctor Who, but the show is profoundly anti-gun, anti-weapon, anti-violence, anti-self-defense.

Only bad guys ever carry weapons, and the stalwart good guys surrender without a struggle whenever the bad guys show up, but somehow always prevail with their wits alone.

It explains a lot of what is wrong with the British mindset: "Better to be killed by a criminal than to resort to their methods in self-defense."
 
Ferchrissake, people. Go slap your teachers around, and tell them that you got shortchanged.

I didn't really see Lord of War as an antigun movie... More of an anti opportunistic carpetbagger kinda flick.

Documentaries, even badly crafted ones, don't count.

Shoot 'em Up was stupid.

Major damage: Back in the 80s/early 90s, when every action movie had the bad guy gangs running around with Uzis... Sigh...

Anyone ever see Blue Steel? Ron Silver and Jamie Lee Curtis - He's in a stop'n'rob and when it goes down, he picks up a gun... And it proceeds to turn him into a nutjob.

I don't think I've ever seen Lethal Weapon 3 - Did they ever make a 4?

One thing to consider: They more overt ones generally don't do all that well. But they keep making them...
 
I'm going to have to vote for Lethal Weapon 3. When a parent comes up to Danny Glover and says, "You need to find the man who put a gun in my boy's hand," was when I turned it off. Yes, let's ignore the fact that your son was a thug and a scumbag, and that you're not a hell of a good parent, either -- let's blame the hardware. An inanimate object made me do it!!! :rolleyes:

Anyone ever see Blue Steel? Ron Silver and Jamie Lee Curtis - He's in a stop'n'rob and when it goes down, he picks up a gun... And it proceeds to turn him into a nutjob.
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While I agree on the point that the movie wasn't very good, I more got the impression that the dude was already a psycho.

I did like the one-handed revolver reload Jamie Lee Curtis did near the end... you don't often see that.

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+1 for anything by Michael Moore being Garbage. Check out the movie Michael Moore Hates America, if you don't like Michael Moore. Specifically talks about some of the stupid things Moore has done to give the image of "Crazy right wingers clinging to their guns" and has a pretty darn good Pro Gun vibe, though it focuses more on correcting a lot of the things Moore has falsified.
 
I don't think I've ever seen Lethal Weapon 3 - Did they ever make a 4?
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Yes a 4th one was made. I don't even remember what it was about other than having Jet Li and Chris Rock in it.

But yeah the 3rd one was very anti-gun...they were using all the anti-gun terms including "cop killer bullets" :rolleyes:
 
Lethal Weapon series wasn't that bad. It taught me proper shooting form. If you roll your neck before firing a S&W Model 19 then you can hit the bad guy between the eyes no matter what the situation is.
 
I'm going to have to vote for Lethal Weapon 3. When a parent comes up to Danny Glover and says, "You need to find the man who put a gun in my boy's hand,"
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Absolutely- I remember watching this years ago, and thinking "ok, so now its hands across America for this low-life thug who shot at a cop....?" everyone is crying at the funeral, forgeting that he blazed away with a MAC-10 at Danny Glover. But its not his fault, its the person who sold him the gun.


* I think "Boogie Nights" had a subtle anti-gun scene at the end. A heavy guy is sitting in the donut shop reading a "Guns and Ammo" magazine. There is a hold up, and he quietly pulls out a concealed .44 magunm. Oh course "Buck" pleads with him not to do it- just cooperate! :eek: The pro-2nd amendment patron fires, hits the perp, who somehow spins and fires back after being shot in the chest. The bullet hits the sitting patron, he fires a second time in his death squeeze- killing the poor donut shop employee. Buck, covered in brains and blood, decides to then steal the register money to start up his speaker store.


But on a side note, the earlier drug house scene shows how a shotgun is king for home defense! :evil:
 
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Bowling for Columbine
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I don't know how Moore got the awards he won for this movie. It starts off strong on the anti-gun message and somewhere in the middle completely loses sight of a thesis, direction, cohesion . . .

His other movies wander off base too -- And so why is he credited with being some sort of "spokesperson" ??? He's little more than a predictably reactionary, hackneyed, not very clever, court jester.
 
The American President, Bowling for Columbine Elephant, and Runaway Jury are four that really come to mind, and three out of four of those I was forced to watch in school.
 
What about Crash? The store owner, who gets a gun through a straw purcase from his daughter(also the city's coroner) tries to kill another man over a misunderstanding. It was as if having a gun limited his choices to shooting someone.
 
One word MacGyver not a movie but he could make anything from anything except a gun
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not true:
-in one episode he removed the cylinder from a bad guy's revolver and used the frame as a wrench, saving the day.
-in another, he had amesia and didn't remember he hated guns... until he had a chance to shoot his arch enemy Murdock (who shot McGuyver's jeep with an RPG, giving our hero the amesia). Thankfully he remembered guns were evil so he simply used the powder from the shells to melt the lead shot and then, using the lead as solder, soldered shotgun to a tripwire web so he could cut a hole in it and crawl through. Saved the day again, but Murdock got away.
 
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