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Was with extended family over the weekend... it was great except for when my aunt brought in a bunch of crappy movies, and everyone settled for watching what may have been the crappiest, "The Brave One" (2007).
The dialog was painful to endure, and the plot was indistinguishable from the NRA/Gun manufacturers' PR Handbook:
Jodie Foster plays an NPR-clone talk radio host living in NYC with her doctor fiancee. They go out to Central Park to walk the dog at night, and are attacked by three whiskey-drinking, cellphone-camera-wielding thugs (no joke... one of the guys is taking long pulls off a bottle of JD in between making threatening comments, and another guy films the violence with his iphone cam). They put Jodie Foster in a coma and beat her fiancee to death.
Hey, these things happen ALL THE TIME, right? And it's not even news at the time*, and the police barely even investigate.
So therefore Jodie Foster needs to buy a gun to protect herself, only the STUPID LIBERALS have a waiting period to buy them (... "30 days? I'm not going to live that long.") so instead she has to buy it from a guy in an alley for $1000, who conveniently walks up to her after she leaves the gun shop.
once she gets the gun, she goes all vigilante through a bunch of absurd scenes that were written by someone who never apparently set foot in a big city, and views them only through TV crime news. Then she learns of a really bad guy from a cop she interviews: a millionaire, drug-dealer, human trafficker who killed his ex-wife because she knew too much, and has gotten custody of his daughter-in-law... but only to kill her because she also knows too much. and the cop knows this but can't stop him because he has the lawyers, and those stupid liberals with their laws (I guess that would be the U.S. Constitution in this case?) means he can't just go and execute random citizens, even though that's clearly the right thing to do.
You can pretty much guess where the movie goes from here. At this point I stopped watching and went to bed. My aunt yelled "Oh great, now who is going to make smart ass comments for us???" as I walked up the stairs.
*In other parts of the movie the media swarm over crime scenes with cameras flashing mere seconds after the police show up, but some crime scenes - even ones in public with multiple deaths - they don't. No one else seemed to mind or even notice the inconsistency, but I guess I'm weird like that.
The dialog was painful to endure, and the plot was indistinguishable from the NRA/Gun manufacturers' PR Handbook:
Jodie Foster plays an NPR-clone talk radio host living in NYC with her doctor fiancee. They go out to Central Park to walk the dog at night, and are attacked by three whiskey-drinking, cellphone-camera-wielding thugs (no joke... one of the guys is taking long pulls off a bottle of JD in between making threatening comments, and another guy films the violence with his iphone cam). They put Jodie Foster in a coma and beat her fiancee to death.
Hey, these things happen ALL THE TIME, right? And it's not even news at the time*, and the police barely even investigate.
So therefore Jodie Foster needs to buy a gun to protect herself, only the STUPID LIBERALS have a waiting period to buy them (... "30 days? I'm not going to live that long.") so instead she has to buy it from a guy in an alley for $1000, who conveniently walks up to her after she leaves the gun shop.
once she gets the gun, she goes all vigilante through a bunch of absurd scenes that were written by someone who never apparently set foot in a big city, and views them only through TV crime news. Then she learns of a really bad guy from a cop she interviews: a millionaire, drug-dealer, human trafficker who killed his ex-wife because she knew too much, and has gotten custody of his daughter-in-law... but only to kill her because she also knows too much. and the cop knows this but can't stop him because he has the lawyers, and those stupid liberals with their laws (I guess that would be the U.S. Constitution in this case?) means he can't just go and execute random citizens, even though that's clearly the right thing to do.
You can pretty much guess where the movie goes from here. At this point I stopped watching and went to bed. My aunt yelled "Oh great, now who is going to make smart ass comments for us???" as I walked up the stairs.
*In other parts of the movie the media swarm over crime scenes with cameras flashing mere seconds after the police show up, but some crime scenes - even ones in public with multiple deaths - they don't. No one else seemed to mind or even notice the inconsistency, but I guess I'm weird like that.
