Chow Yun Fat, where are you?

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Karanas

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WARNING: This is just the harmless raving of a frustrated and tired individual. This is NOT to be construed as an effort to encourage anyone to perform violence or any other illegal act.

Did you ever see that T-shirt that says:

The only reason some people are alive
is because it's illegal to kill them!

Well, I don't know about you, but all the recent hare-brained shenanigans of some of our elected officials and media puppets are starting to get to me. This latest affront to my sensibilities, the anti-trust investigation concerning the S&W deal is just the icing on the cake.

Do you remember the opening scene in the movie, The Replacement Killers?
Chow Yun Fat calmly crosses the dance floor and stops in front of a table where a bunch of low-lifes are partying. He leans over and firmly places a 9mm cartridge in front the head dirt-bag, interrupting his coke snort. He steps back and waits for them to make their move...
We don't know what they did, but there's never any question that they had it coming.
Not unlike some of the participants in our present real life drama. Instead of Madonna's ex boyfriend getting capped with a snoot full of blow, couldn't you see some other arrogant SOB getting his ticket punched? Wouldn't the look in his eyes, as he realizes he finally went one step too far, and was now about to pay for it, be ... delicious?

Just Kidding!!
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(note smilie, intended to convey non-serious nature of this message)

Well kids, that's all for now. I just can't wait to see what tomorrow will bring!
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P.S. Thanks for the indulgence.





[This message has been edited by Karanas (edited March 31, 2000).]
 
Do you remember Dolph's opening prayer monologue on The Punisher? Not a great movie, but I love intoning...

Maybe that is why I am here... Almost as good as his infamous line from Johnny Mnemonic.
 
In going with the tone of the post, I was thinking "Bring me the head of the Mnemonic courier".

Re: Replacement Killers, I loved Mira Sorvino in that movie. When those guys come into her shop to wack Chow Yun, and her and Chow Yun each have a pistol and they are shooting in one direction, and then they both turn to cover each other. Man, I'd check her 6 any day.

Okay, tangent. Sorry.
 
How about the Roddy Piper movie "They Live"
(One of those late night weekend ones..)
He walks into a bank after realizing that he can see all of the 'non humans' and announces:
"I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum...
and I'm all out of bubble gum."
of course, after that it was pretty lame.
 
Sounds like you need to rent some Charles Bronson movies. Yes, I am old, but he could sure deal out some street justice back in the day...
 
One of my favorite Bronson flicks was Death Hunt (with the always welcome leathery skinned Lee Marvin as a hardboiled Mountie), VERY loosely based on a real life pre-WW II fugitive search in the Yukon. Read a book that dramatized the actual incident, though I am having trouble locating it to reference the title and author.

In any case, the Bronson flick is more fun. The toughguy star (and fellow Pennsylvanian, I believe) is a WW I veteran with heavy combat experience who secluded hisself in the wilderness and runs afoul of the local dog abusing a$$holes. The heavies surround Charlie's cabin and one lout crashes through the front door. Oops! The Bronse has dug himself a firing pit in the cabin's dirt floor. He is laying down there, a pump shotgun leveled on the suprised home invader. Bronson greets the guy with something wise like "hello" or "welcome" and blows the guy back out the doorway. He then starts picking off the other thugs with the arsenal of rifles and shotguns in the cabin, discharging them from murder holes carved into the log walls.

Good ole Charlie. Death Hunt director Peter Hunt worked on the James Bond movies over the decades but this Mountie movie was considerably more violent.
Jeff

[This message has been edited by Jffal (edited April 09, 2000).]
 
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