Things I Think I Think…..

• Unless you were somehow REALLY lucky to live under a rock, OR experienced the original Star Wars trilogy as it was originally released… Chances are the biggest Star Wars secret was spoiled for you well before you ever actually saw “The Empire Strikes Back”.

• What if I told you that it’s not only possible, but EXTREMELY EASY to own guns AND still be supportive of reasonable regulations that can help save lives by making it more difficult for bad people to get guns?

• I support the public education system and intentions. I still believe that both a hard look at the status quo and potentially ground-breaking changes may need to occur to fix the issues that exist in that system.

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Things in movies that don’t make sense to me…..

Note: This is not an all-inclusive exhaustive list… just the stuff on the top of my head.

Movie: Terminator Salvation
Skynet captures Kyle Reese to lure John Connor to them and end the resistance through his death.
QUESTION: Why not just kill Kyle Reese at that point and thus prevent John from being born?

Movie: Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
Galaxy far, far away, hundreds of planets, hundreds of species, etc etc etc etc….
QUESTION: Why do two relatively primitive species, Jawas and Ewoks, both speak the same language, AND C-3P0 needs to “learn” Ewok on the fly, but understands Jawa fluently?

Movie: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Lex uses Superman’s DNA from a strand of hair in the “Superman Museum” to create “Nucular Man” or whatever he’s called.
QUESTION: How did Lex cut Kal-El’s hair off the massive wrecking ball it was holding up with a simple pair of bolt-cutters??? Also, why did they make such a crappy Superman movie?

Movie: Ghost Rider
Nick Cage is rescued by the devil or whatever to be a “Ghost Rider” and exact vengeance on those that have wronged him.
QUESTION: Can I have those hours of my life back? Talk about ruining a comic book….

Movie: Signs
Mel Gibson is a priest who lost his faith trying to protect his family from an alien invasion.
QUESTION: Why does a race of inter-stellar being who are fatally wounded by WATER (like the Wicked Witch of the West) choose to invade a planet PRIMARILY covered in water inhabited by life forms that are PRIMARILY composed of water?

Movie: Iron Eagle
High school kid hijacks jet fighters, takes on a whole hostile middle eastern country, kicks their ass, saves his dad, and is let into the air force academy because of it
QUESTION: HUH????

Movie: Jaws the Revenge (Jaws 4)
Great white shark, rare in the New England coast, follows remaining Brody family to the Bahamas, where great whites are non-existent to go on a vendetta to eliminate the remaining Brodys.
QUESTION: Great white shark, rare in the New England coast, follows remaining Brody family to the Bahamas, where great whites are non-existent to go on a vendetta to eliminate the remaining Brodys?

Movie: Over the Top
Sylvester Stallone arm wrestles for custody of his kid.
QUESTION: Where do I begin?

Movie: Back to the Future Part II
Marty goes forward 30 years, then back to 1985, then back to 1955 to fix the mess the writers put him in.
QUESTION: How many different narcotics were the writers on when they added the part about the Cubs winning the World Series in 2015? Even I couldn’t hold the suspension of disbelief.