First off, no dogs were murdered this time around.  And while various Russian goons get killed in the opening bit (where John goes to get his car back) the vast majority of dead goons this time around are Camorra.  Who are part of some kind of High Table of Crime I guess?  Anyway John wants to re-retire after the first movies blood letting (after ( Read more... )

Shooting at NAU. This one definitely hits closer to home as I went to NAU and I've got a niece in her freshmen year there. She's fine, was in her dorm when it happened. But just damn...

John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a retired action bad-ass.  Like Liam Neeson plays in 90% of his current movies.  But this retired action bad-ass used to work for the Russian mob.  But he got out because of Love.  Love for his wife, the attorney daughter from Blue Bloods who just died of the movie cancers.  But before that she sent her retired action ( Read more... )

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So Ice-T gets together a whole mess of killers and crooks and tosses them into an unused prison, promises 10 million to the last 3 standing and then drops a bunch of weapons on them. There is some kind of plot involving a crime syndicate and a couple of the ostensible lead characters have some kind of vague back-story. But it isn't really ( Read more... )

So you've got Wo, who is the exiled guy I guess. Two gangsters, who were friends of his, show up at his new home to kill him. But then two OTHER of their old friends (who are also gangsters) show up to protect Wo. Then there is the movies first gunfight. After which all four help Wo finish moving in and then sit down to dinner with him and his ( Read more... )

So flipping through todays USA Today that the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear an appeal dealing with gun control on 3/18.  Which has to be of interest to the various gun-toting Lib. types on my friends list...

Most relevant bits of info seem to be:
2001 - AG Ashcroft declares the 2nd Amendment protects individual's right to bear arms.

2007 - ( Read more... )

Yoinked from frustratedpilot

Navy Demonstrates World's Most Powerful EMRG at 10 Megajoules ( Read more... )

Crazy madcap violence. Everything that is both awesome and stupid packed into a movie less than an hour and a half long. Plus a few original concepts. Death by carrot? Coitus Interuptus gun battle? Both new ones. I mean gun fight during baby delivery. Yep. Seen that. Gun fight while falling from plane. Yes. Continuing to have sex while ( Read more... )

Mostly put up for all my Lib. gun nut friends to yoink...