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Lisa threatening that boy's folks with a gun


OK, as much as I like this movie, I have to be honest here, the part were Lisa threatens the parents of one character into letting him come out by pointing a gun straight at them does kind of unsettle me a little. It kind of makes me wonder just what the film's makers are advocating here.

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Oh dear God, lighten up.

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Hot chicks with firearms are so sexy!




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How about if some strange woman threatened your parents with a gun? Would you find it amusing then?

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If it was in a fictional movie, then yes I would. I would also find the scene of Anthony Hall mimicking a bluesman to be quite entertaining.

"Lighten up, Francis"




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You do realize that this is a movie. Right? More specifically, it is a fictional movie. As in: Not real. Made up. The product of someone's imagination.

In other words: Lighten up, develop a sense of humor, and stop taking every little thing so dang seriously!

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You do realize that this is a movie. Right? More specifically, it is a fictional movie. As in: Not real. Made up. The product of someone's imagination.

In other words: Lighten up, develop a sense of humor, and stop taking every little thing so dang seriously!


New rule: People who respond this way in a movie discussion, no matter the genre, should be disemboweled with fish hooks.

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Mighty big words for someone who hides behind the safety of a computer.

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I'm sure many words seem big to you, friend.

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Great addition to the discussion.

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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE...

ITS A FREAKING MOVIE, LIGHTEN UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

DW All Day

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Plus those were the 80s, political correctness was nothing.

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How about if some strange woman threatened your parents with a gun?


More than likely she'd be looking at the business end of my own gun.

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"Ain't nothin finer than a naked woman holdin a gun" ---The Whole Nine Yards

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You did realise you where watching a comedy right?

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Plus, it wasn't even a real gun -- it was a SQUIRT gun!

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It kind of makes me wonder just what the film's makers are advocating here.


Not every scene in every movie is advocating something. Does John Carpenter advocate knifing babysitters, or George Romero advocate eating brains? It's just a movie.

"See you guys at the 10 year prison reunion" - Ben Richards

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I miss the 80's so much, it had movies like this, and lacked people like the OP.

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Nah, the 80s had these idiots too.
Just look at the witch trials about rock bands killing our kids.
They just didn't have the internet to broadcast it to everyone yet.

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True story. How did we ever survive these "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!" people

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I don't think they were advocating anything. I would agree with you about it being unsettling, except that the entire movie is a farce. It's kind of hard to take any part of it seriously when you have someone turned into a nasty monster and the grandparents get frozen. Also, Attis point in the movie, wasn't the pistol actually a squirt gun? It only becomes a real pistol in a later scene. For all those reasons, I don't think it's unsettling.

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I'm just expressing my opinion.

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It's the 80's. You got away with stuff like that. Just look at 16 candles. Every time the Asian exchange student was in a scene you got a loud gong noise in the background.

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I know that was so cool. Film making before the PC brigade began to do their dirty work.

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Another great movie moment lost on yet another of the current generation of teenage PC dullards. You guys have lost the ability to think for yourselves. You should be ashamed to even be alive. Thank *beep* I grew up in the 80's.

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Haha and so true!

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Yes, and because Bill Paxton's character was turned into a pile of feces. The filmmakers have a scatological fetish. Chill out, your reading into this film too close than it should be

I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy.

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Political Correctness stifles debate..

What is is it there for?

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