Originally posted by Rich46yo
Hollywood is full of them. A bigger nest of money-grubbing, hypocritical h'oes you will never find. And they never meant that gun control should be applied to "them". They only want it applied to the unwashed masses out there.
One of the worst Movies of all time was last year's movie "Shoot 'em Up", starting Clilve Owen, Paul Giamatti, and Monica Bellucci.
It had the most stupid and obscene plot and action that I have ever seen. The movie starts out with hitmen brutally gunning down pregnant women who are almost full term. Paul Giamatti plays the monstrous leader of the assassins, and Clive Owen tries to save one of the women. Although she escapes and manages to give birth, she ends up being killed too. But Owen then manages to rescue her baby.
Clive Owen plays a vegetarian ex-special operations man, and is a master at shooting handguns. He and his father operated a gun store when he was younger, until one day he sold a gun to a man who then later that week murdered his wife and daughter. This caused Owen's character a lot of pain, and he joined the military to try to forget his loss, and thus became a highly trained killer. Owen has a fondness for eating carrots in the movie, and actually uses carrots to kill a couple of bad guys during the course of the film in some rather bloody and ridiculous ways.
Later in the movie you find out that the babies are all clones made from a powerful politician, who is dying from a terminal illness. The plan is to use the harvested bodies of the baby clones to cure the politician's illness. I forget all of the stupid stuff that was said, as it was so ridiculous.
Well, it then turns out that this politician is a leader in the Gun Control movement in Congress. So the owner of a leading gun manufacturing company in the United States hires the assassins to then kill all of these mothers before their clone babies can be born and harvested, so that the politician will then die from his illness, and not outlaw guns in America.
The most senseless and stupid movie ever made. It made virtually every movie reviewer's 10 worst list for 2007.
The movie does have a "happy" ending, though, as guns do end up being outlawed in the USA. Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, and the rescued baby are the only characters still left alive at the end of the movie. Everybody else dies from gun violence.
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