Whats Burts job?
Where does he get all the money to pay for his stuff? He reminds me of Dale Gribble from King of the Hill.
shareYeah except we know that Dale is an exterminator - and besides that Nancy's really the one who pays the bills in the Gribble household. As I recall all Dale pays for is the cable.
There's got to be a bunch of ways Burt can make money buying and selling arms. Especially if he has eBay, lol. ;) But yeah, I don't think we're supposed to pay attention to the fact that they don't say what Burt actually does for a living. I know you know that, I'm just saying it. ;)
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I was just curious how he paid for his 'toys'. They are expensive and it didnt make sense how he could afford them and I couldnt figure it out. In all the movies, he had brand new trucks. Movie 3 - two of them purchased quickly! But, after watching all the movies in the series, it does make sense. His ancestor owns a silver mine, and practically owns the town. This could be a reason for what help pay for his lifestyle in movie 1. As for the other movies, the government gave him his 'resources.' I wouldnt be surprised if he became assigned to protect the endangered white graboid in movie 3.
shareThe only problem with your explanation is that in the first film, Burt describes why they are trapped - cliffs to the north, mountains to the east and west (or something). Anyway, he said that he PICKED this area because it was "geographical isolation" and his wife seemed to agree, like she helped pick the location too.
Still, this is only a small plot hole... I still like the silver mine theory best.
Some people have more than one property they own. My great grandparents own a few hundred acres on an island, and I would love to live there if my parents allowed me. My parents have some property in the country. But I live in the suburbs. Id like to live in an area like Perfection.
shareHeather: Burt honey, where should we live?
Burt: Hmm, well we want geographic isolation... hey how about that place my great-grandparents lived in during the late 1800s? My parents told me about it - I think it's called Perfection.
Heather: That sounds great!
If anything, the Hiram Gummer connection might make it more likely Burt would settle somewhere the family has had a history with, as opposed to some other geographically isolated location.