Chris Pratt Calls Out Fireworks Filmers And The Internet Has Thoughts

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Pratt just dropped some Fourth of July wisdom, and now everybody is talking about it! In a video released just ahead of Independence Day, the actor joked that anyone thinking of filming fireworks with their phones would be chastised. “You’ll never watch that video,” he said. “That video is never going to fully capture the moment.” “Linking the screen to the act of ruining the moment,” he concluded. “Who said that?” the Guardians of the Galaxy star asked, making a dramatic exit deviously leaving the audience laughed and split on the issue.

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The comment section soon became flooded with arguments. Many agreed wholeheartedly with Pratt, one of them commenting, “Good advice. Enjoy the moment.” “You are 100% right and it’s a true testament to how addicted to the screen people have become,” said another commenter. But then some disagreed. One of the critics blasted back, “Oh you are actually chronically online,” which sparked a brief discussion: whether Pratt was joking about phone usage on social media or was seriously condemning it.

Then the parents took it personally. “I take a few clips of my kids watching/reacting to them though,” she stated defensively. “They’re still very little, my youngest is only 1 yr old.” Other commenters assured her that filming kids’ reactions to whatever is going on is a whole different thing from obsessively recording oneself with the fireworks.

So the internet got distracted by the turn of events. For some weird reason, users began focusing on his interior, with many demanding where he picked the cabinet up from. (“Side note, where’s your cabinet from?” one demanded.) They mistook the background sounds for something else, which started the hilarious chaos: “Me thinking you were lecturing dogs in the background at first,” one confessed, and another added, “I thought there were chickens in the cabinet.”

The comment section then went political, with one user stating that “nothing to celebrate this 4th of July,” which opened the floodgates to a barrage of replies ranging from patriotic protests to heated arguments about current affairs with animal lovers using that opportunity to go off about how fireworks traumatize pets and wildlife. “I bloody hate fireworks and so do veterans, wildlife, and pets,” the comment read, but it was met with mixed reactions; some agreed while others responded with a spirited “USA!”.

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The video clearly struck a nerve, which just further proves that even an offhand comment about holiday behavior can turn into full-scale chaos on the Internet. From the live-in-the-moment camp to let-me-film-my-kids reactions, this Fourth of July is really going to be the moment someone gets roasted harder than the barbecue. And it will likely be that very person holding up their phone in the open for anyone and everyone to witness. Taylor Kitsch and other actors could surely relate to this chaotic but humorous turn of events.