In a scene after Arnold suffered a crucifixion, when he finally returns to his place of work after apparently not having shown up for a long time, why does his boss allow him to take so much weaponry, shotguns, grenade launcher, etc etc without even batting an eye?
shareI didn't get that it was his boss. I thought it was just his coworker.
shareEven so, he doesn't bat an eyelid at all and just lets him walk without reporting him or being suspicious?
shareYou made me LOL a bit with the phrase "after Arnold suffered a crucifixion." Maybe that's why. If you suffer a crucifixion it's entirely reasonable that you'll show up one day and have need of a shitload of weaponry.
shareYes but the question is why does the "organization" that he works just allows it like that?
shareI admit it's bad writing. But you sort of get used to that as a fan of Arnold. Like in the movie Commando where he breaks into a store and they have a secret room where they sell Machine guns, grenades, and Rocket launchers.
shareBut at least in "Commando" where he breaks into that store with weapons in it, he briefly gets intervened by and captured by police and put into the back of the van, so they DON'T allow him to do it just like that, even if Rae Dawn Chong's character later saves him by firing a grenade launcher into that police van like that.
shareI know. I was just thinking of another instance of bad writing in an Arnold film. But yeah. There isn't much excuse for that.
Then again there is the equally ridiculous scene where an old man is crucified to a ceiling. Then the cop there insists he did it himself and everyone in authority agrees with him.
Was that REALLY an example of "bad writing" in "Commando" though, especially since the cops DON'T allow him to take all that weaponry etc unlike here in End of Days?
shareI was more talking about the convenience that that store had machine guns, grenades, and rocket launchers. You have to imagine the cops charged the owner of the store with illegally selling military weapons.
shareBut don't they have stores that openly sell guns or at least did in America? Remember how in the original "Terminator" movie Arnie's character also located a gun store in a somewhat accessible area?
shareYeah. They sell hand guns, rifles, and shotguns legally in America. But not stuff like machine guns, grenades, and rocket launchers. And yeah, at the time of Terminator 1 they sold Uzis but not long after that film they were banned. So yeah, aside from the Uzi, you couldn't legally buy a machine gun in the U.S. I know cause I have lived in the U.S all my life.
shareWell they walked him out of the store with no handcuffs on. That was pretty bad writing.
shareWhy would they have grenade launchers? I'm sure if there was an organization like that there would be tons of paperwork and red tape to go through just to get a taser. It's a film about the antichrist taking over.
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