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My point had less to do with the actors anyway. I just assume that they are ALL anti gun and on the biometric trigger bandwagon, and am pleasantly surprised whenever I find that one of them isn’t. I was commenting more on the intellectual disconnect between a biometric trigger being bad for the hero of their movie, but good for the rest of us peons. It’s also worth noting that the main character who was thwarted by the biometric trigger, had no training at all in firearms, and yet he was a “good guy with a gun” when the crunch came.

RoyGBiv wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 4:44 am

ScottDLS wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:15 pm Did you get the part where Pena can’t fire the biometric trigger because he’s a robot and the “aliens” are actually the humans forced off earth by the robots?

Seriously?

I had this on my watch list.

In the end, was it worth watching?

It was more or less worth it. I wouldn’t pay money to see it in a theater, but for a “made for TV” movie, it was OK.

ScottDLS wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:15 pm Did you get the part where Pena can’t fire the biometric trigger because he’s a robot and the “aliens” are actually the humans forced off earth by the robots?

Yeah, but I was trying not to give a spoiler alert.

So I’ve been watching a Netflix movie, “Extinction” this evening (https://www.netflix.com/title/80236421). The premise - at first glance .... there is a twist - is a space alien invasion of earth, with the object of exterminating mankind so that the aliens can take over the planet. The primary character is played by Michael Peña, an actor who has been in a number of other movies over the past 10 years or so. I can’t find the article where I recall reading a comment of his some time ago, about his thoughts on gun-control .... and while he wasn’t as rabid as some of his Hollywood contemporaries, he came off as no friend of the 2nd amendment. I’d provide the link if I could find it.

Anyway, Peña plays the part of an electrical engineer. About a third of the way into the movie, his character manages to give one of the aliens a beat down, and steal his assault ray gun. But, he can’t get it to work, because he discovers that it has a biometric trigger, and it can only be fired by the bug it was issued to. So he ends up having to use it as a club until he can figure out how to re-wire it to fire without the biometrics. He finally succeeds, and then he is able to actually use the weapon in self defense.

But I thought how ironic that Hollywood, which actively campaigns for this kind of technology to be forced on gun owners, owners who actually know and understand gun technology better than Hollywood does, has created a movie in which the very thing for which they advocate, nearly gets our hero killed.

In other words, they acknowledge through film that it is foolish to force someone who is trying to defend himself into the position of relying on biometric triggers, but in real life they push for the foolishness.

How creepy is Hollywood?