Doomsday movies...?

[Hooked on Fenix]

Forgot to add that the law abiding citizens won't be able to get ammo without being treated like a criminal, if at all. Look up AB 962 (De Leon). It's a bill that may pass and will outlaw all internet and mail orders of ammunition in California. It requires all ammo purchases to be made face to face. It requires a fingerprint and to show your driver's liscense to buy bullets. It requires a liscense for handgun ammunition vendors. It requires the vendor to keep a record of how many bullets you purchased. It requires a background check be done on any employee who handles/sells the ammunition during any time in their employment, and they have to pass it to handle ammo. It states that after July 1, 2010, no person can sell or transfer more than 50 rounds of ammo a month unless they are registered as a handgun ammunition vendor. Violating any of these rules is a misdemeanor.

Okay, so the state of California wants to require all companies selling ammunition to purchase a new liscense while they are struggling during a reccesion. For all we know, the cost may be enough to keep them from staying in that business. On top of that, all of their employees will have to pass a background check at the owner's expense. The owner selling ammo will have to keep a record of your personal information from your driver's liscense, a fingerprint, and what type of ammo you purchased, as well as how many bullets you purchased. If I go to a shooting range with a friend and use more than 50 of his rounds, I'm guilty of a misdemeanor and probably won't be allowed to purchase the ammo in the future. The bill effectively outlaws buying rounds from out of state by mail or internet order. What about the store owner? Wouldn't that restrict them from restocking their supply of ammo to sell if they purchase it from a supplier out of state? California has a ban on lead ammo, so currently some stores get it to sell from out of state. If they can't get it, older weapons that only have lead shells made for them will no longer be able to be reloaded. This is a bad bill and is unconstitutional, violating the Commerce Clause. Only the federal government has the power to regulate interstate commerce, not the state.

Our state is cutting off our water supply, killing our food crops (they need water), is letting criminals go free, and now wants to disarm the law abiding citizens. Does anyone else see a massacre coming to California next year or is it just me?

Assembly Bill 962 has now been signed into law.

 

[M@elstrom]

I could watch and enjoy parts of The Day After Tomorrow," and yet the horrible Godzilla movies are 'Oscar Winners' next to Battlefield Earth, starring John Revolting.

Yeah... very B grade I thought, but the one thing that stood out most (no offense to UK manufacturing knowhow) was the Harrier's after what 200 years or so? where still fully functioning and the jet fuel still had sufficient octane to fire the beasties up (not to mention the degree of difficulty involved with flying VTOL aircraft) :D

BTW that squirrel pic is a real gem, he must be a descendant of this Medieval squirrel knight (below) :crackup:

The part I couldn't get by is the liberal slant Hollywood has to inject into movies these days, i.e. the groveling to the 3rd world countries at the end of this, and the same BS in the movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
Oh please Mr. Alien, doesn't destroy earth we'll be good little girls and boys from now on with our environment.
Now "Earthquake" was a disaster movie!

I don't find the shift in political/economic power completely unbelievable in disaster movies, what is it Realtors say? location, location! :thumbsup:

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

BTW that squirrel pic is a real gem, he must be a descendant of this Medieval squirrel knight (below) :crackup:

Can I borrow him? I want him to star in a movie, "King Alvin and the Nuts of the Round Table".:D

 

[Patriot]

2012 update.

I keep seeing new trailers for this movie and the action scenes just keep growing more obnoxiously ridiculous! :crazy: Last night I saw one that through me into a laughing fit that took a good two minutes to pass. Among other things the twin engine aircraft was flying a nearly head level over a collapsing downtown traffic scene as with debris crashing all around.

I guess a large percentage of the world who eats this stuff up but I have trouble believing any of them are more than 15 years in age. I can't fathom being entertained by this as even the exasperated laughing wouldn't last long for me sitting in a theater. :rolleyes:

 

[Burgess]

Just saw that same commercial tonight, during the World Series.


:)
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[bhds]

Yeah, me too. Every new clip gets worse and worse. Frack. :scowl:
It sure would be nice if someone could do an end of the world/doomsday movie right.

 

[LuxLuthor]

Yeah, me too. Every new clip gets worse and worse. Frack. :scowl:
It sure would be nice if someone could do an end of the world/doomsday movie right.

I won't be satisfied unless it is a real doomsday--with at least 5 minutes notice so you can sit on your porch and enjoy the last moments. Any movie about it is just too pretentious.

 

[bhds]

I won't be satisfied unless it is a real doomsday--with at least 5 minutes notice so you can sit on your porch and enjoy the last moments. Any movie about it is just too pretentious.

Ummm. Okay.:whistle:



And also.... :eeksign:

 

[Illum]

modern day movies share one common denominator: too much computer animation, too little solid content.

more than once have I left the theater puzzled and confused because there's so much open loops and not so well made conclusion to tie up all those loops.

I don't like this world anyway, let it end abruptly, why dramatize the inevitable? :shrug:

 

[NA8]

I'm thinking the ultimate doomsday movie might be The Making of the President, 2012.

The United States presidential election of 2012 is the next United States presidential election, to be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

They say: Timing is everything.