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Who else would have just kicked the fire extinguisher? *spoilers*


I'm mad after just having an argument with someone, I'm in a rush to get home/get to dinner, its raining...and I pick up the fire extinguisher with BOTH hands and place it carefully out of the way? Nah, more like I kick that sucker and drive away. I can't be the only one who would have done that?!!

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If she kicked the fire extinguisher (in only possible way - rolling), it would be a serious obstacle to her car later. She did the only logical thing there is.

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Why would it be a serious obstacle to her car later?

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Actually you don't really know what the OP meant by kicking the fire extinguisher.
It's pure conjecture on your part. Be that as it may, I'm pretty sure I'd have picked it up and moved it to a place where it couldn't roll again.
I find that easier to do with my hands than with my feet. I suppose Christy Brown would have used his foot. Are you him?

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I probably would've picked it up and kept it. It looked like a perfectly good fire extinguisher. I'd have tossed it in my car, and driven away.

Actually, I probably would've looked around first, to see where it came from, from the wall or somewhere - so I'd probably have seen the body too. Oh, well - it's a movie.

(you mustn't get out much - actually is a perfectly fine way to start a sentence. And I'm no snob)

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I bet more people start sentences with 'actually" then people who use parentheses when it's not part of a larger sentence/paragraph?

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Actually, this is not true.

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I would have grabbed it by the handle and moved it to the back over the car park, by the wall. Only a selfish moron would have kicked it out of their way to make it a problem for somebody else. That said I wouldn't have used both hands to hold the barrel, but then I am a man and lifting it by the handle would be no big deal - I can totally see a woman using both hands to handle the red part.

I have had it with these mother-fncking snakes on this mother-fncking plane

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I would have used the fire extinguisher to smash the windshield of the adjacent car before turning the valve and filling the car up with foam.
(ACTUALLY, I'd probably just pick it up and move it out of the way. Hey- that's exactly what she did! All right!)

artspear.com - just throwing it out there

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I agree with this. Only an *beep* would do as to kick the object away and someone might get hurt.

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Forget that extinguisher, I would have collared that junkie hoe for bumping into me and looked at all the blood over her hands. But ofcourse, Lara aint 6'4 220lbs male. Most women are like that in carefully handling things.

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Actually (can we make a runnung gag out of this?), I would kick any hard, heavy metal object out of the way. Especially if I am a woman wearing expensive shoes. And breaking one's toes is fun, actually!

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Are people forgetting the part where the character was supposed to be steaming angry? It made zero sense to me that if I've just had an argument with someone I'm all of a sudden super zen and like gingerly moving this thing. I also stated that by 'kick' I meant roll it out of the way with my foot, thus not braking any toes. also, who is thinking clearly when they are angry?

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Are people forgetting the part where the character was supposed to be steaming angry? It made zero sense to me that if I've just had an argument with someone I'm all of a sudden super zen and like gingerly moving this thing. I also stated that by 'kick' I meant roll it out of the way with my foot, thus not braking any toes. also, who is thinking clearly when they are angry?

Large extinguishers are designed to be sturdy and durable, not roll on pavement with the ease of a baseball. It's quicker to pick it up than to balance on one foot and use the other to scoot the extinguisher.

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The only thing necessary for fire extinguishers to be left in the way is for good men to do nothing, but kick it.

You sound like the type to throw your garbage out your car window because it's too much trouble to put it in a garbage container.

If you'd just kicked it, it might have rolled under my vehicles tire, and I go to back up and damage my vehicle. Thanks loser!

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Kick it, no - I'd be afraid it would explode. But often after a hard day's work all I want to do is crawl into bed. I wouldn't give a monkeys about bending down to pick up a fire extinguisher & place it out of anyone else's way. I'd just use my foot to move it to one side then drive the hell out of there to get home to my bed.

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Kicking it would make a ton of noise, you don't want that. I'd probably grab it with one hand and put it on the curb.

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I would definitely have carefully moved it out of the way and set it upright against the wall.

Your kicking it out of YOUR way likely leaves it in the way of someone else.

Some of us actually are considerate of others, and not just of ourselves.

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