Guns in the movies: you gotta be kidding.

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The Duke gets him this really short sawed off shotgun that has the recoil of a howitzer. I can't remember the name though.
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That would be El Dorado, starring John Wayne as Cole Thornton, James Caan as Mississippi (Alan Bedillion Trahearn) & Robert Mitchum as Sheriff J.P. Harrah

JP - How's your leg Cole?

CT - Ask the Doc.

Dr - Oh it's not too bad. You know these wounds were made by buckshot don't you?

CT - I thought they were.

Dr - Who was using a shotgun?

CT - There was a certain young man with a...

M - Um, I was using a shotgun Doc.

Dr - You? I thought you were on their side.

Bull - He was.

M - I told you I was no good with a gun.

Bull - The trouble is Doc, Cole was in fron of the gun. The safe place to be is behind Mississippi when he shoots that thing.


One of my all time favorite westerns.
 
What about Mr T. & company on the A-team, Ruger AC556's and all the ammo you can hose AROUND the badguys, OR, swing open the back door of the ominous black van and burn off a few hundo of 7.62 from the '60, shoot out the windows of the chase car and STILL not inflict soft tissue casualties!!:confused: :confused: :confused:
 
That would be El Dorado, starring John Wayne as Cole Thornton, James Caan as Mississippi (Alan Bedillion Trahearn) & Robert Mitchum as Sheriff J.P. Harrah

*SNIP*

One of my all time favorite westerns.
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Evidently, it was one of John Wayne's favorites as well, since he made that same movie three times. Rio Bravo, El Dorado and I can't think of the third title right now.

So, who was the better druken sherrif, Robert Mitchum or Dean Martin?
 
"Croissont...souffle....escargot...and....chocolat mousse......"

:D

Sarah Connor...looks like...Ted Nugent... :eek:
 
Just watched the movie "Joe Kid" starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duval. Robert DuVal was using a rifle set up for a left-handed shooter (cheek pad on right side of butt stock). Robert DuVal was holding the rifle with his finger on the trigger right-handed.
 
The Quick And The Dead - amusing movie but that bullet hole in Gene Hackman, oh man....

As to the shotgun that Linda hamilton is using in Terminator 2, is that realy a Remington 870. I have to wonder. I have shot a lot of 870s, some with extended mag tubes but, I have never seen one with a wide gap between the barrel and mag tube like in the gun she is holding in that pic. Here is another shot:

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The gap on my 870 is about 3/8 of an inch. The gap on the gun she is hoilding seems well over an inch but, maybe that is a trick of the lighting. Still it looks like a wide gap compared to an 870.
 
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Mr Woo...

Johny is FAMOUS for his gun battles. It is FANTASY man...FANTASY...ENTERTAINMENT. If ya cant see past the bottomless mags in a Woo movie, maybe ya should just hang out and wait for the rapper to come out with another frikin SWAT movie..... :rolleyes:
The WORST thing that all the movies do...even the "good ones" is the conversations folks have after a shootout indoors..... After 3 or 4 9mm or a few .45s indoors without H.P. I'm yellin to be heard.
 
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Johny is FAMOUS for his gun battles
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I don't recall which movie it was (I *think* it was Hard Boiled), but my personal favorite was Chow Yun Fat sliding down a rope, with no apparent rapelling rig, shooting 1100 rounds from an MP5, from the hip, and scoring no less than twelve hits with each bullet. I only remember two reloads. One was of his big honkin' revolver, and the other was one of the BGs reloading his Uzi after approximately 200 rounds. I don't recall the dialogue being very good, as the film was being translated on the fly by the Taiwanese girl I was dating at the time, but the action scenes were cool.
 
That is for sure a 870 that L. Hamilton is using.

Look at the extended magazine tube. That's the factory magazine tube, not the Choate mag. that someone else mentioned earlier. Furthermore, the magazine cap clearly shows its an 870.

The shell lifter in the previous picture, definitely an 870 characteristic. Then the wooden forearm looks like the police ribbed forearm.

That is without a doubt, no doubt, positively, absolutely, guaranteed, fo' sho, definitely an 870.
 
I've always been partial to Ash's 3-shot double barrel in Army of Darkness. He could always fire one shot to get attention, then have 2 left for blasting. ;)
 
I was watching Half Past Dead staring Steven Segal last night.

For those who haven't seen it, a team of bad guys attack Alcatraz, in an attempt to kidnap an about-to-be executed prisoner, who is the only man who knows where a multi-million dollar hoard of stolen gold is hidden. In the process, they take several hostages, one of whom is an important (Supreme Court?) judge. Fortunately, one of the "prisoners" (Segal) is actually an under-cover FBI agent. (Or perhaps it would be better to say "Fortunately, one of the 'prisoners' (actually an undercover FBI agent) is Steven Segal").

Anyway, at one point in the film, the BG's helicopter crashes into the roof of a cell block. Later, there is a big gun battle in that cell block, between Segal and his buddy and some "good" prisoners he has recruited and armed, and the bad guys. Segal and his buddy are up in the 'copter, using its gun against the BGs. (Well, his buddy is. Segal is leaning out the door, using two pistols with his arms crossed).

Then two BGs armed with RPGs rush in, and start setting them up to take out the helicopter. Rather than just shooting the BGs, Segal's buddy "locks on" the machinegun (it has a high-tech HUD targeting system that speaks "Target Locked On"), waits until the BGs fire their RPGs, and then shoots them down in mid flight. (There must have been 20 yards, thirty max, between the BGs and the copter).

Of course, I'd also like to know how a glass roof was able to support the weight of the helicopter...


(The film also features plenty of two-pistol diving-through-the-air shootouts, two-pistol crossed-arm shooting, and 1000-round magzine MP5s, but next to the helicopter scene, they seemed pretty reasonable).
 
Back to the Aliens 10 mm "caseless", go to the retreat through the ductwork sence, and very cearly Vasquez' weapon is spitting brass....
She had the classy weapon...a 1911.....Lt Gorman had a Grock, I believe.
 
What you all are failing to appreciate is the real reason people go flying backwards when shot- it's an old stuntman trick.

See, blanks cost more than real ammo often (sad but true- 9mm blanks for semi-autos runabout fifty cents each), so on many productions they'll just strap a level III vest on the stuntman and have the highly trained actors shoot them in the trauma plate.

Flying backwards at the exact moment of impact is like rolling with the punch- it lessens the impact force so you don't have as big a bruise in the morning. This is especially important if they need to do multiple takes of a scene, which they inevitably do.



(...and in case you haven't figured it out yet, everything there is a steaming pile of BS except for the cost of blanks.)
 
Vasquez didn't have a 1911. She had a S&W autoloader. And the 10mm caseless was the assault rifle ammo, not the pistol ammo, so her pistol throwing brass isn't a goof at all.
 
Ditto for the A-team.
- Gunman standing on roof shooting at you.
- Throw grenade at him.
- Grenade explodes behind him.
- Explosion hurls him off the roof.
- Gunman gets up and runs away.

And wherever you are, there's always an arc-welder and enough scrap metal to build a fully-functioning armoured car
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But the A-Team was adult fantasy. It was one of my favorite television shows of all time. Nobody EVER got killed on screen ... that was part of the schtick. It nothing more than pure, unadulterated fantasy/comedy, and when viewed in that context it was enormously amusing and entertaining.
 
Just out of curiousity, I was always wondering, what weapon does scwhart-however you spell it use in T2? He gets it off of the bike in the beginning. I thought it was just a lever-action rifle, but then again, I never have seen a sawed off version of one....


Oh yeah, and to keep with the topic, 3000 miles to graceland, in the end, one of Costners goons runs around blasting away with a TMP for at least 5 minutes straight, and that one decked out in tac gear guy who hooks himself up to a cable attached to the ceiling. Seeing him swinging across a room, upside down shooting in opposite directions with 2 guns simultaniously is pretty crazy as well.
 
According to the T2 Ultimate Edition Disc 2 Supplement, Sarah's shotgun is a Remington A70 police model shotgun, customised by Stenbridge Gun Rentals.

Arnie's shotgun is a cut-down Winchester 1887 lever-action shotgun, I think it was the 10-gauge model. Interestingly enough, Stenbridge made a custom pistol for the Terminator (nicked from the biker, IIRC) which is a Colt Government Model frame, with a Detonic Score Master top, nicknamed the Coltonic.
 
Notch, you stated my biggest movie gripe...

After firing shotguns, subguns, battle rifles and the like all indoors, not one person yell HUUUH as they are being spoken to :cuss: !!

Swat gets my vote also...In some places there are full auto sound effects over a guy simply pretending the gun is recoiling,as the bolt carrier's handle is clearly not moving(the opening bank scene):rolleyes:! Must have been over budget with all those squibs and helos ;) .
 
Dey Dun Good

Has anyone seen Tears Of The Sun? It's been a while, but IIRC, that one had some pretty realistic weapon sequences. Correct me if I'm wrong....
 
Surely some of you remember Invasion USA with Chuck Norris. I think that was the worst gun movie I have ever seen.
 
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