Not the holiday. The movie.

I’m late to the party: the movie “Halloween” was released weeks ago, an update of the original from 1978, featuring a silent, hard-to-kill mass murderer. It was one of the flicks that established the so-called “slasher” genre of suspense thrillers.  I’d heard that at least one critic panned it as a wet dream for us Second Amendment types because it ended with strong, armed women prevailing against the murderer.  The Evil Princess and I recently caught it in a theater.

Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role as the psycho killer’s favorite victim some 40 years after the first movie, was outed for using guns in the new movie when she herself has been a vigorous proponent of “gun control” and banning semiautomatic rifles…you know, AR15s like any sane person being stalked by a human monster would want; AR15s like the cops would bring when you called 911while under attack by such a monster. Fox News calls her out here.  

Ms. Curtis responded to Fox here, in a rather self-contradictory fashion. 

O…M…G.

Ms. Curtisapparently made a point of using old school guns so she wouldn’t have to soil her hands with an evil “assault weapon.” She wields at various times an 1873 Winchester lever action, or clone thereof; a bolt action hunting rifle; a pump shotgun (looked like a Mossberg 500); and a double action Smith & Wesson six-shooter.

The shotgun has an extended magazine and pistol grip only in lieu of conventional stock. clone thereof if she realizes that both are listed as evil “assault weapon features” in many of the gun ban schemes she outspokenly supports. 

She’s also in favor of mandatory training for gun ownership.  Wonder how much of that she has herself.  Her handling of the revolver was OK, and she competently kept the Winchester at her shoulder when she worked the lever, but in one brief scene she holds the rear end of that shotgun barely in front of her face. If she fired it that way with a real 12-gauge round in the chamber, she’d be picking her teeth off the ground. When she searches for the killer she always has her gun extended out infront of her as she turns corners into unknown spaces, which in real life is aplea for your antagonist to disarm you.

The story line is that she has spent 40 years preparing to face and kill serial murderer Michael Myers, and turned herself into a paranoid nutcase while doing so.  Yet the denouement goes down at her remote home, where she doesn’t activate her security devices when he catches her inside, and doesn’t have a motion detector to trigger the gigantic security lights on her roof.  Speaking of security, she also has glass in her door panels.  At the end, after she and her daughter and granddaughter have dropped the bad guy, Jamie Lee incinerates him by intentionally blowing up her own home in a giant fireball. Perhaps that’s her idea of the “common sense” she wants to be applied to us real world gun owners.

Sorry, Ms.Curtis.  Your movie ended with a meaningful message: strong women using weapons to defeat a seemingly undefeatable violent criminal.  You yourself acted out the reality, and yet you still propound laws which, bydefinition, only the harmless law-abiding citizens will obey.

14 COMMENTS

  1. C’mon Mass, jamie is an actress. A breed known for hypocrisy and shallow thinking. People who get paid big bucks to play make-believe and receive adoration for supporting “trending” advocacies.
    Her link to rational thought and viable ideas is largely non-existent. She does as she is told by her director and writers and her “real life” is a fantasy with a lot of material possessions.
    She used “old school guns” that work in exactly the same way as the “new” ones do, to the same effect.

  2. Sounds like some fun entertainment.. but be careful you don’t gag on the phoniness of the fantasy story line and/or the do as I say not as I do HollyWierd farce in the protagonist role.
    One more reason why I rarely spend the bux to see the Hollywood produced flicks.

  3. Very disappointed in her. The movie was okay but nothing like the original or some of the sequels. Who else remembers the stainless S&W snubbie she kept fully loaded and concealed under the pillow of her bed in her on school grounds residence in H20? Violation of the GFSZA?

  4. How about banning the big chef’s knife that Michael Myers (not the guy who played AUSTIN POWERS in the movies) used in HALLOWEEN? This killer would not exist in England where carrying large knives are prohibited.

    Maybe Jaime Lee Curtis should move there to get away from her nemesis, the evil racist Donald J. Trump? Hasn’t half of Follywood already relocated themselves to Canada and France after the 2016 election? What are they waiting for, a socialist revolution like the one in 1918 Russia?

  5. Oh Well, guess the Aging Star, long past the Hollywood age to be Offered Real Staring Roles, has gotten to the point where “She’ll do Anything to Make a Buck”!!

    Paul

  7. I’ll give half-credit. Actors get paid to act. Unless someone comes out and states that they’re only going to take roles that reflect their beliefs, I’ll pass on the calls of “hypocrite” for the role alone.

    I’ll even give a pass that you can be for “gun control” without necessarily being “anti-gun” – even if the two do seem to run in parallel during most discussions.

    On the other hand, if you’re going to be an advocate for a cause, it would really be more meaningful if it was clear to the other side that you’ve done your research.

    For example: Using useless terms like “assault weapon” is unhelpful.

    For example: Speaking in terms of “military use” vs “personal safety” – the 1911 was the Army’s sidearm of choice for a very long time, and is a fairly consistent recommended sidearm for personal safety. Which would she classify it as? And why? Or the simple pump-action shotgun – used by soldiers, police, and others that would fall outside of her “personal safety” … and also one of the highly recommended firearms for home safety. Which is it? Why?

    And as Mas already pointed out, several features in the “carefully selected” arsenal also fall under the “assault weapon” definitions that lawmakers like to bandy about.

    (Small aside, when I was at Wal-mart grabbing a soft case for my new 12-gauge the checkout clerk asked me what season it was. I replied “home intruder”. The guy behind me busts out laughing, and after a minute’s consideration the clerk joins in. 🙂

    There’s other bits that could be called out, but they’ve already been run to death – unheard by the opposition, and so internalized as to be obvious to us.

  8. I’ve heard that in the sequel, Jamie’s family (who thought her mentally unstable in this movie) has her guns seized by the sheriff under the state’s new red flag law. In the chilling climax, Michael Myers approaches her house, but her murder is averted by his turning away when he sees the no-knife/machete/hammer/rope/garage-door sign she posted.

  9. The senseless violence endlessly glorified in Hollywood movies like Halloween, which film(s) I admit I have never cared to view, plays a much larger role in promoting real-life homicide by the impressionable deranged, than does ownership of state-of-the-art weapons by responsible citizens for the purpose of deterring violence.
    Jamie Lee would have done better to make a film that promotes earlier and more effective mental health care for the many who need it, but don’t get it.

  10. I think she’s come up with a very viable self-defense option here: no need to keep those dangerous guns around! All you need to do is wire your house to explode, allow the perp to get in, then blow him to smithereens when he does!

    I can’t see any flaw in that logic…

    Seriously though: it’s too bad she squandered the opportunity to demonstrate some real self-defense and security techniques, which would benefit the public to see. But then, I guess there would have been no movie….

  11. One author said this was the first movie attack done right. The good gal takes out the bad guy as she waits for the police.

  12. The fact is, fantasy is better than reality. In most movies, the good guys win, and the bad guys lose, but it is often the opposite in real life. This happens to be true for actors as well. We like them better when they are acting, not when they are being themselves.

    Remember how many of us thought Arnold Schwarzenegger would make a good governor? Instead, he governed like his European background, he couldn’t make the necessary tough decisions.

    Thankfully, there are exceptions to every rule.

  13. I did wonder if this was going to be about a kid who regularly denounces Halloween as pagan/Satanic/evil, but is always first in line for the free candy.

    Hmmm . . . Hollywood actress talks twaddle? Not really a surprise is it? And she has said she fully supports the Second Amendment, which is a surprise, even if she does support a ban on mean, scary looking guns.

    Hmmm . . . about AR-15s I’m wondering if the fact that some people want to see them banned . . .

    And, yes, a ban on AR-15s would be a ban on all and any semi-auto, centre-fire rifle with a detachable magazine.

    . . . has lead some other people to consider the AR-15 to be the most perfect choice for all your home and self-defence needs. And is it?

    Okay, armchair gunslinger sounding off, but in an urban or sub-urban environment, is a rifle intended to shoot through both sides of a steel helmet at 400 yards really the best choice, when the threat is a nut-job breaking in at 3am?

    And as Mas points out, when the cops show up, they would be carrying AR-15 style rifles – in the remake – back in 1978 they would have most likely been toting pump-action shotguns and have had a six-shooter on their hip. And, IMHO, even in this day-and-age, it’s not a bad choice for psycho stopping.

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