Movie Review Haiku: Harry Brown
Yobs out of control
England’s dumb gun control laws
Are kinda scoffed at
Also, it occurred to me that the fantasy vigilante movie theme always seems to occur in places where there’s a lot of gun laws. I mean, there’s never been a movie about the vigilante justice in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Then it occurred to me that there’s probably not been a movie set in Kennesaw, Georgia.
October 4th, 2010 at 10:56 am
I found it to be quite an amusing movie. A bunch off toe rags getting their just deserts…
October 4th, 2010 at 11:07 am
No, but there’s been about a billion movies set in New York City about a fricking pantywaist artist of some sort or other (graphic artist, writer, actor, musician, etc…). Our hero the pantywaist is inevitably using drugs, depressed, and consumed with lingering doubts about something lame…
Who the hell finds that kind of crap interesting any more? Oh right, the writers and artists and the rest of that bunch themselves. Blech.
October 4th, 2010 at 11:52 am
There are a few vigilante movies set in gun-friendly places. Walking tall comes to mind, as do Malone, Quigly down under, Death Hunt, and any 50 spaghetti westerns you can name.
October 4th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
I actually remember a made for tv movie from the mid 80’s that I thought was made about Kennesaw. I remember the start of it showing some punks casing a potential robbery site and noticing that all the employees were packing heat.
October 4th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
JMaverick…good point, but in all those movies you list the environment is generally one of Anarchy. So guns are “Legal” but so is everything else. So the hero is forced to be a vigilante, a bystander, or a victim.
But meanwhile most Vigilante movies that happen in gun unfriendly places, there are lots of laws and law enforcement….just the hero doesn’t agree with them, or their speed.
On another Note I think it was Tam that mentioned that any Slasher flic completely fails if somebody is carrying.
As do most martial art’s films. It would be nothing but scenes like the Swordsman in “Raiders of the Lost Arc”….or degenerate into a Lethal Weapon shootout if the other side decided that you shouldn’t bring a quarter-staff to a gun fight.
October 4th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
I live in Kennesaw. No movies shot here means the ordinance protects us from more than just armed criminals. Yet another reason to live here.
October 4th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Best line:
“You failed to maintain your weapon, Son.”
Better than any Schwarzenegger one-liner.
October 4th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
You’re not counting “Deliverance”?
Is that more of a documentary?
October 4th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
“I actually remember a made for tv movie from the mid 80’s that I thought was made about Kennesaw. I remember the start of it showing some punks casing a potential robbery site and noticing that all the employees were packing heat.”
“Proposition G”, it was a made-for-television hit piece, er, movie.
October 4th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
“No movies shot here means the ordinance protects us from more than just armed criminals.”
For once, a time when the threat of enforcement of an ordinance accomplishes more than the threat of enforcement by ordnance.
October 4th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Shootin’ Buddy,
The median household income for Lafayette, IN is $35,859. The median household income for Kennesaw, GA is $60,404.
Squeee like a pig, boy. :p
October 4th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Old guy who knows stuff
Has altercation with some yobs,
Violence follows.
October 4th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
“The median household income for Kennesaw, GA is $60,404. Squeee like a pig, boy. :p”
60K a year and not a dime spent on toothpaste, dental floss, soap, shoes or clean shirts?
Now 60K in Georgia comes from the lifetime income and it’s in the form of SSD checks and dirty pennies.
October 4th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Shootin’ Buddy, You are wrong about Kennesaw.
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Interesting thing about Kennesaw, the City Council is fairly anti-gun. They were one of the handful of cities that didn’t want to repeal their park gun ban, even under threat of a lawsuit from GeorgiaCarry.Org.
What the heck is a YOB?
October 4th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
A yob is a soccer hooligan in the off season.
October 4th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Hooligan’s have off seasons? Doesn’t anyone work at a craft anymore or is everyone going on vacation?
October 4th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Movies filmed in Kennesaw, Georgia, USA:
Six Pack (1982)
Crystal River (2008)
There Goes the Neighborhood (2009)
Going Pro (2008)
Strange Tales of Matrimony (2005)
October 5th, 2010 at 8:47 am
filmed in does not mean set in.
October 5th, 2010 at 9:44 am
I like the shows set in severely anti-gun places – New York, California, Hawaii where all the crooks have guns and the police treat it as a routine matter.
Are they saying that the gun laws are completely useless and unenforceable or are they just lying about the existence of their ineffective laws?