What are the most ANTI-gun movies?

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I'll have to give one to the Brits. In the recent BBC production, "Life on Mars", a sensitive, thoroughly-modern cop goes back in time to the wild and wooly seventies. He's a stranger in a strange land; the police force is a haven for sexist, chain-smoking, ultra-violent neanderthals. Guns abound (considering this is Britain), and our man is the only PC creature in the universe. Yet, he manages to respect this upside-down world.

I won't give away the ending, but let's just say it's eye opening. The show is slated to be redone in America, and it will be interesting to see how we manage to suck it up.
 
One of the best football movies ever -- "Remember the Titans". Denzel Washington doesn't ever shoot it, but the scene where he grabs the shotgun after a brick goes through his window is EXACTLY what we need more of in Hollywood.

No big deal was made of it, it was just a tool. He didn't shoot off his foot or blast his little girl, he didn't blast away randomly down the street. Not even a mention of it in the film. Just a quick access shotgun to protect his family.
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Absolutely! But you won't get that in a film about guns.
 
i think "shoot 'em up" was just one big anti propoganda film. "bowling for columbine" is another. and although it's not a movie, "law & order" is pretty anti themed, as well.
 
I'll have to give one to the Brits. In the recent BBC production, "Life on Mars", a sensitive, thoroughly-modern cop goes back in time to the wild and wooly seventies. He's a stranger in a strange land; the police force is a haven for sexist, chain-smoking, ultra-violent neanderthals. Guns abound (considering this is Britain), and our man is the only PC creature in the universe. Yet, he manages to respect this upside-down world.

I won't give away the ending, but let's just say it's eye opening. The show is slated to be redone in America, and it will be interesting to see how we manage to suck it up.
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Life on Mars was brilliant. Shame it didn't run that long. Agree with you about the ending.

Did you see the spin-off, Ashes to Ashes? Not as good, IMHO, but I did like Keeley Hawes in it.
 
dude, I loved MacGyver when I was a kid !!!
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Amen to that.

Shoot 'em Up actually made me mad. If it weren't for the fact that it was completely absurd from just about any angle, I might have written someone about it.
 
There was a Columbine-based movie named "Elephant," I believe. It never saw widespread release, but it was very anti-gun, and quite ignorant of the laws. In it, the two shooters buy their guns over the internet, receiving a complete AR15 style rifle, and they test fire it in the garage against a measly pile of wood. So many inaccuracies...
I would have stopped watching, but other than the anti-gun message it was very well written and put together.
 
Did you see the spin-off, Ashes to Ashes?
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No, we did not. We only get to see what BBC America deigns fit for our market, usually a year or two out of date. My wife and I are avid fans, and will look for this show.

At least we have the New World Beeb as a conduit for British entertainment, and without the forced TV tax (we have cable for that).

Otherwise, we would only have the n+infinity showing of "Are You Being Served" on the local PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). PBS is the Weird Uncle Harold of television stations, and thinks that anything British smacks of high art. Apparently Benny Hill was the cultural lynchpin of your sceptred isle.
 
Stallone is pro gun for himself. Big time hypocrat. The guy has a ccw applied for it in los angeles. renewed already once. and supports the brady organization
 
The Fastest Gun Alive - starring Glenn Ford is one.

There was another one, I just can't find anything on it and can't remember the name. It specifically asked the question about whether a gun could be a bad gun. The story was about a guy that finds a dead or dying guy in the Nevada desert. He keeps the dead guy's fancy shootin' iron and comes in to town only to find himself the target of several bad guys.
 
Stallone is pro gun for himself. Big time hypocrat. The guy has a ccw applied for it in los angeles. renewed already once. and supports the brady organization
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Where's the hypocrisy in that?

He's a Hollywood star and he's much more important than you and I are. And all those muscles don't mean he can defend himself even as well as our grandmother could. And it should be obvious that his IQ is higher than yours and mine combined. He is entitled to a gun to defend himself. Thus his CCW license.

Now, you, me, and the rest of America are not stars, not strong enough to handle a gun, not important enough to defend in the first place, and not smart enough to turn off the television set. Thus his support of the Bradys.

What's so unclear about that? :D
 
Otherwise, we would only have the n+infinity showing of "Are You Being Served" on the local PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). PBS is the Weird Uncle Harold of television stations, and thinks that anything British smacks of high art. Apparently Benny Hill was the cultural lynchpin of your sceptred isle.
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Ah come on now, AYBS is a great show. Besides, 1974 vintage Miss Brahms is eminently watchable.

One show I really miss is The League of Gentlemen.
 
American Beauty.
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I don't understand how this was anti gun. Just because someone kills another with a gun doesn't mean its anti-gun. If you remember correctly the wife carries and states that she, "refuses to be a victim."
 
Shooter
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Shooter, not Shoot 'em up? I never found any anti-gunness in that one. I guess they might have been showing off the fearsomeness of a .50BMG sniper rifle so as to help us want to ban them.
 
I don't understand how this was anti gun. Just because someone kills another with a gun doesn't mean its anti-gun. If you remember correctly the wife carries and states that she, "refuses to be a victim."
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While I enjoyed American Beauty, I think the overall message was anti-gun.

The "real estate King" character made the statement that "nothing makes you feel more powerful than firing a gun". This to me portrayed him as a pretty misguided person and on some level suggested that people own guns to "feel powerful".

And, her statement "I refuse to be a victim" was referring to what she felt she was powerless over the circumstances in her life, not that she needed to physically defend herself. This is another gun power trip reference. As if the gun was going to give her control over the people and circumstances in her life.

And finally, in the end, a gun is used by someone in an emotionally unstable state of mind to kill the main character over a misunderstanding. I suspect that the writer was saying this type of result is inevitable when a gun is present.

So, I think there is definitely anti-gun sentiment stitched into American Beauty.
 
Just a thought... most movies would be over pretty fast, if every one had a gun. "hey look, this guy is trying to kill me" BANG! "ok now what do we do for the next hour and 29 mins?"
 
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You mean the new Batman where he complains to Alfred that men with guns were out fighting crime?
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He was addressing his frustration with the new vigilantes. Then Alfred pointed out the hypocrisy of a vigilante bashing vigilantism. I don't see it as a commentary on gun control.
 
Well look.

As much as I loathe agreeing with TAB ;) it is true that regular people, armed and prepared for circumstances, capable of defending themselves and acting out their normal lives, is very boring to watch on a movie.

I'm a major bigtime movie buff. I have seen thousands of movies and watch several each week. I think it's fair to be critical of those which make an overt anti-gun message, but for most of them described on this forum as anti-gun, it's just because they reflect society's normal attitude about guns and not anything specific about the movie that is truly anti-gun.

American Beauty was a great movie. It was a brilliant piece of film making art: Extremely well written, beautifully photographed, brilliantly directed, and it included a meaningful plot with engaging characters performed by some of the best actors in the business. I don't see how it was anti-gun. I guess we can't have movies with flawed people making mistakes involving guns without them being anti-gun?

I kind of think some of you just don't like movies :)
 
As much as I love the show, Family guy pisses me off sometimes... Ton of liberal crap and anti gun messages here and there.
Same with American Dad, I loved the show at first, then they started laying it on thick, I can't even stand to watch the show now.

Bambi, the classic.. my wife and I tried to watch that show, it was so "cute" it made us sick and we had to turn it off, we got a whole 20min into it.
I remember lethal weapon with the magic armor piercing rounds, that would let a pistol shoot through a bulldozer's blade. :rolleyes:
 
Chuck Spears said:
me said:
You mean the new Batman where he complains to Alfred that men with guns were out fighting crime?
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He was addressing his frustration with the new vigilantes. Then Alfred pointed out the hypocrisy of a vigilante bashing vigilantism. I don't see it as a commentary on gun control.
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Maybe you're right. I find myself over-aware of anti-gunness in films, and it's been a while since i saw the movie.
 
Insofar as anti-gun is concerned, there's the usual lineup, but one thing to possibly pay more attention to are the more crypto-anti gun movies. A perfect example IMO is SWAT.

SWAT, in addition to it just being an awful movie, it suggested that all that would be needed to spark a huge riot is a criminal saying that he'd pay $25 million for someone to bust him out. It seemed the entire demographic of people of lower economic status came out of the woodwork with all kinds of fantastic ordnance. RPG-7s, suppressed Barrett M107's, SMGs, assault rifles, explosives, and so on. I wish this type of firepower was this accessible, especially to people of lower economic status. It would be moar affordable for me. :cool:
 
If you thought any of the Lethal Weapon series were bad, you should try the Director's Cut of the first one in the series. It was given to me as a gift a few years back. A few scenes added back in that were deleted from the theatrical releaase - one in particular shows Mel Gibson's character arriving at the scene of a sniper who, from a second story window, is shooting up a school yard full of kids. The scene portrays the shooter as your "average" Joe-Redneck - - plaid shirt, CAT cap, spewing profanities and laying it out with a full-auto AR. Our hero, of course, becomes angry at the scene and walks out in front of him and lays him out with a quick-draw, dead-on shot right between the eyes while the rest of the cops cower in fear. :barf::barf::barf: Absolutely horrid.
 
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