Hollywood - Knives worse enemy?

DocJD said:
If you happen to be downrange , you will never know the difference .
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You can tell the difference if your familiar with firearms. The first time I watched the video from the Las Vegas shooting I knew he was using a slide fire stock. The rate of fire changed to much in each string of shots to be a real full auto. God be with the families of the victims.
 
What fairly recent movie featured the hero throwing a combat knife into the back of the villain ? Pretty rare on all counts !
 
No clue. Probably one of the Expendable movies. I liked Mel Gibson in Patriot, with his tomahawk...

Edited to add: Personally, I'd never throw a knife in a dangerous encounter, unless it was to distract the BG long enough for me to draw my .45.....
 
justjed said:
No clue. Probably one of the Expendable movies. I liked Mel Gibson in Patriot, with his tomahawk...
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Much more mainstream . Hint : hero has a license !

Yes , the Patriot . Great movie . Hero uses tomahawk with extreme prejudice . Brutal but still a sympathetic scene for the audience .
 
Bladed weapons ARE brutal, but they require one to be much closer to the enemy than a gun. That is exactly why the military uses guns instead of knives and swords. If the
liberals were to get their wish, and all privately owned firearms were to up and vanish into thin air(or be confiscated), then they would have to deal with the fact that knives create MUCH more devastating wounds than any handgun(and most long guns), and it wouldn't be long before they outlawed anything with an edge outside of your house.
 
justjed said:
Bladed weapons ARE brutal, but they require one to be much closer to the enemy than a gun. That is exactly why the military uses guns instead of knives and swords. If the
liberals were to get their wish, and all privately owned firearms were to up and vanish into thin air(or be confiscated), then they would have to deal with the fact that knives create MUCH more devastating wounds than any handgun(and most long guns), and it wouldn't be long before they outlawed anything with an edge outside of your house.
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Desmond Morris , sociobiologist author of "The Naked Ape" thought that the danger of total unrestricted warfare was much increased , the farther it was removed from the horror of personal face-to-face combat . The biological cues to stop the fight are removed . War should be repulsive so we know when to stop !
 
I do feel that Hollywood was mainly responsible for the outlawing of autos/switchblades in the '50s and balisongs/butterfly knives in the '80s. In fact, I KNOW that Hollywood was responsible for the latter. Lawmakers felt that those 'scary-looking', 'exotic' knives being flipped around by movie thugs were the next big threat to public safety. Meanwhile, cars kill more people every year than all the switchblades and balisongs in the world. They're even being used purposely as weapons, but nobody is clamoring to outlaw automobiles.

In decades past, many street people and thugs used ordinary, non-locking pocketknives like Barlows, Texas toothpicks, stockmen, as weapons in fights. Because that was what they had, and at the time, locking folders were prized but not common. Also, some of them also thought that cheap switchblades were a joke carried by wannabes. I'm not saying that traditional non-locking pocketknives are ideal as weapons, only that there were people who used them as such. People will find a way to weaponize literally anything if they feel the need to.

OTOH, there are some Hollywood portrayals of knives that have been positive, such as SAKs in McGuyver. Even though their functions are often highly exaggerated.

Jim
 
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From the earliest of times, Homo sapiens had discovered
The great advantage of wielding sticks and stones in disputes.
It must have been a no brainer to turn to edge type hunting tools
into seriously deadly force multipliers.
It's no wonder that after countless generations
Of Exposure to violent behaviour in human societies
We have been ingrained with a genetic memory
Of calling upon man's oldest tool
For the sake of self preservation
And the undeniable furtherment of self interest
In disputes or agendas.
Hollywood is just playing up on our instincts
By heighten the fears of being attacked.
The more Vicious and savage the assault
The more physiologically engaged the viewer
Becomes in feeding off the tension that is
Being portrayed.
Knives are especially devastating because
In movies things must be larger than life,
So when it comes to executing in film
The portrayal of Up close blood splattering wounds,
The Fear factor of being defenceless and weak becomes two
Very good reasons why anyone would then develop a fascination
Towards tools which may boost his or her chances
In facing the dangers of predation in this bad old world,
.... Imaginary or not.
Bad a$$ looking knives are always going to be
an enticing proposition because we want to believe
That it's like some magical protector that "looks
The part" most capable to ward off the nasty evil doers.
The portrayal of knives on silver screen is a two edge sword.
It makes knives both highly desirable and fearful as well.
But no matter which side one stands,
We should be grateful to the movies
For letting us remember why we have such
An incredibly deep love hate relationship with our oldest tool.
End of rant.
 
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James Y said:
I do feel that Hollywood was mainly responsible for the outlawing of autos/switchblades in the '50s and balisongs/butterfly knives in the '80s. In fact, I KNOW that Hollywood was responsible for the latter. Lawmakers felt that those 'scary-looking', 'exotic' knives being flipped around by movie thugs were the next big threat to public safety. Meanwhile, cars kill more people every year than all the switchblades and balisongs in the world. They're even being used purposely as weapons, but nobody is clamoring to outlaw automobiles.

In decades past, many street people and thugs used ordinary, non-locking pocketknives like Barlows, Texas toothpicks, stockmen, as weapons in fights. Because that was what they had, and at the time, locking folders were prized but not common. Also, some of them also thought that cheap switchblades were a joke carried by wannabes. I'm not saying that traditional non-locking pocketknives are ideal as weapons, only that there were people who used them as such. People will find a way to weaponize literally anything if they feel the need to.

OTOH, there are some Hollywood portrayals of knives that have been positive, such as SAKs in McGuyver. Even though their functions are often highly exaggerated.

Jim
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In South Africa the Baddies still use non-locking pocket knives on a daily basis to maim and kill , anything from a SAK to an Okapi , or whatever else is available.

Yes I agree that Hollywood is clueless.

Just saying what happens elsewhere in the world.

Cheers.
 
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