SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen Winchester, a 2018 Hollywood hit piece on guns, and don’t want to know what happens, stop reading now.
I had a chance to watch it last night. I’d been curious to see it since it came out but not enough to pay money for.
It’s based on the real-life crazy heiress to the gun company whose story has been twisted to paint her as compelled to build and tear down senseless additions to her mansion because she was haunted by the spirits of those killed “by” Winchester firearms.
How fitting that such a character was portrayed by crazy anti-gun “movie star” Helen Mirren, firing off military weapons for action picture fame and fortune while simultaneously promoting global citizen disarmament right down to demanding “a total ban of replica guns.”
Naturally, the writers and everyone involved had no problem with the malevolent spirits blaming guns for all the killings, which is actually a pretty good analogy for their malevolent real-life counterparts. I also found it ironic (because the filmmakers didn’t) to see the protagonist, a drug-addicted gunquack, save the day by killing the head ghost with a magic bullet fired from a Winchester rifle.
The stuff that delusions are made of…
So it’s about a nut case that inherited a company that she has no clue about. And you think I should watch it? Mirren accepted a title of nobility from a government that has a history of killing people who simply disagreed and were shot down with a British ‘Brown Bess’ rifle. But that is insignificant in Mirren’s book. We may have to ‘smite’ them a third time.
Where did I say I think you should watch it?
You watched it, giving it credibility….
Do you argue just to argue?
No. You don’t get it. You gave “air time” to a propaganda piece….You even included a link!
So?