An NRA wet dream movie moment
Jack: Matthew, do you have a gun?
No, nods Matthew to the great disappointment of his desperate guests.
Thought the same thing!
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What the hell does the NRA have to do with anything?
shareI was thinking last night how there isn't a single gun ( from what I saw ) in the whole film. Something great and even more creepy about an alien invasion movie that doesn't feature a single firearm.
shareI was thinking last night how there isn't a single gun ( from what I saw ) in the whole film. Something great and even more creepy about an alien invasion movie that doesn't feature a single firearm.
It's a good thing (from the alien POV) that the pods picked liberal San Francisco to stage their invasion. They would have had a harder time pulling it off in Oklahoma City or Fort Worth TX for this very reason. share
Even people with guns have to sleep lol. And I'm pretty sure San Francisco has police departments. You know police officers have guns, right? lol.
shareEven people with guns have to sleep lol. And I'm pretty sure San Francisco has police departments. You know police officers have guns, right? lol.
I guess you have reading comprehension issues. The point is that none of the protagonists in this story were armed and able to defend themselves from mobs of aliens once the police were co-opted. Should I spell that out to you more clearly and simply, or do you now understand the concept? share
And you seem to have reading comprehension issues of your own. If police officers could be taken over so easily in the city what makes you think a bunch of yahoos with their precious guns in Fort Worth or Oklahoma City wouldn't fall to the same fate? Unless they go around shooting their neighbors because they're suddenly acting different lol. Who's to say they would be intelligent enough to catch on to what was going on in the first place? Hell, the Body Snatchers remake in 1994 had them taking over a freakin military base. Plenty of guns there Einstein. What did it stop in the end?
shareWell put, fella. The alien invasion is so insidious and creepy in the film it renders guns- and the naivety that they can defend all our freedoms- obsolete, regardless of locale.
We don't have the power to resist something that's already taken over everyone else and become the norm. Folks always argue that they need guns to defend their freedoms- but their freedoms get chipped away bit by bit on a daily basis anyway, with nothing to shoot back at, even if they wanted to.
I've never met a problem I couldn't shoot dead with a gun. Or at least that's how some people seem to think.
It's funny how the dialogue about Matthew not having a gun felt instantly political. I spent a minute or two trying to decipher it.