WORST firearm moment in a movie

[db_tanker]

Dunno bout the Duke,

But Clint Eastwood personally owns every weapon that he has used in every movie he made. This may be rumor, but it fits for someone like him.

Darrell

 

[Boats]

I hate to say it but my candidate is in Way of the Gun.

I absolutely hate two small details in that movie, because otherwise it was so competent. The scene where the pregnant gal fires a shotgun through a door at Parker & Longbaugh leaves Hollywood's 12 gauge hole the size of an omlette pan. In the climatic shootout, the shooter using the Galil pumps a magazine (or more) through the wall trying to hit someone on the other side, problem being the wall is stitched exactly like this . . . . . . . . . . . . due to precision placed special effects squibs.

Such errors just dispelled the other otherwise excellent gun handling in the movie. I guess I am just a harsher critic of those, who generally demonstrated that they knew what they were doing, who then go and make such basic mistakes than I am of clueless directors and such who couldn't ever get it right if they bothered.

BTW, The A-Team was played as camp. They never hit anyone because that is part of the joke.

 

[Ian]

The shotgun incident in WOTG isn't necessarily out of line. The shotgun used was a short-barrelled SxS, which may very well have been a hunting gun cut down and left with no choke at all. A shot from that at the distance could easily make a CD-sized hole (at least that's the size I remember it being).

The Galil bit is definitely a cringer, though.

 

[ghost457]

James Bond, any of them. a PPK with a 2 inch barrel taking out BG's left and right, (sarcasm) cuz that happens in real life (/sarcasm). and in Goldeneye when the mines explode not 10 feet from his partner, who somehow survives...... yet the entire building is blown up........

also, any Tomb Raider movies, how does she reload the way she does? the mags are strapped to her legs, yet she still manages to reload,

 

[Tom Servo]

Any movie or television show where the bad guy runs out of ammo, looks at the gun, then throws the gun at the protagonist.

Also, pretty much any episode of the Shield. As much as I like the show, they really need someone on site who knows firearms.

In the real world of course, there's the now imfamous, "I"m the only one in this room professional enough..."

 

[G36-UK]

also, any Tomb Raider movies, how does she reload the way she does? the mags are strapped to her legs, yet she still manages to reload,

Actually, in the first one (haven't seen the second), she had a bandolier tree that extended from her backpack. (from the tech manual, IIRC)

It came down, she slipped her hands back, moving the mags into the gun, then brings them forward while unlocking the slide. (Yes, I'm so sad I saw it multiple times. Not a bad concept really.)

 

[Rob1035]

I really liked Way of The Gun, inaccuracies not withstanding.

 

[JohnKSa]

I watched a movie about a girl who was afraid of some guy. She got this guru to help her learn self defense. Anyway, the climax at the end had her shooting the bad guy. There was one scene where she was shooting, and then it panned to the BG on the ground. When the scene changed back to a view of her pointing the gun at the now-expired/expiring BG, it's a different pistol entirely. Not just a little different, OBVIOUSLY different--a completely different brand. I can't remember the details, but it was the perfect final stupid touch on a movie that was already almost too stupid to watch in the first place.

 

[White Horseradish]

Ya know, the A-team not hitting anyone could actually be construed as great marksmanship. Just try shooting a bunch of moving targets and NOT hit them...

 

[Justin]

Anyone else here seen "The Killer," "Hard Boiled" or "A Better Tomorrow" - Hong Kong at its best. Of course, one of the bad guys is packing a TC Contender...

John Woo was a revolutionary director back in the days before he immigrated from Hong Kong. Say what you will about the realism, but his directorial style and sense of motion is beyond compare. The man single-handedly changed the action movie genre.

Since coming to Hollywood, though, his movies have become progressively worse.

 

[Cesiumsponge]

A lot of Hong Kong and Asian actors/directors seem to get worse when they're famous enough in the west to go to Hollywood.--personal opinion.

 

[50 Freak]

Oh, in "The Killer". Chow Yan Fat (the killer) takes out his mark at a something like 500 yards away using a Dragunov while standing in a small boat floating in the Hong Kong harbor.

As for the M-14 versus the M1A question. They are both the same rifle. Only difference is the M-14 is the military designation and the M1A is Springfield's designation for their rifles. Oh, and the M-14 is select fire and the M1A is semi only. No other difference.

 

[ckyllo]

superman tv show (IIRC it happened in a movie too )( waay loong tiime aggo ) bad guy shoots at superman, the bullets bounce off of him. when the gun is empty bad guy throws gun at superman and he ducks. so bullets bounce off and snub 38 can do some real damage.

 

[C-grunt]

True Lies
-love the movie-
In the bathroom shoot out in the mall the b/g shoots the stalla with his Ak and leaves about 50 holes and then Arnold jumps out and the b/g shoots about another 30 rounds at him. Same sceen, the b/g jumps through a window and shoots at Tom Arnold who hides behind a light pole that stops the rounds.

Fast and the Furious
MAC 10/11 blows up a car.

Predator
Arnolds M203 levels buildings.

 

[GunGoBoom]

As far as making me mad goes, the winner is the 'cop-killer' bullets (9mm?) in Lethal Weapon whichever, that are busting right through the bulldozer's steel scoop like a hot knife through butter.

As far as the "pul-eeeeze" factor goes, gotta be Rambo II when Stallone is mowing down the enemy in hoards, with his M60. He's gotta have 50 guys firing at him with AK47s but they all miss, despite the fact that he's standing still in the middle of a field. And his belt of ammo never runs out.

Ya know, the A-team not hitting anyone could actually be construed as great marksmanship. Just try shooting a bunch of moving targets and NOT hit them...

Actually, try hitting *anything* with a mini-14.

 

[Rob1035]

way old thread, but I just made the mistake of watching "XXX- State of the Union"

Highlights:
-Bolt action firing in semi automatic mode
-multiple shots coming from a sig pistol with finger nowhere near the trigger
-using a grenade pistol (m203 with a pistol grip?) for CQB

man, what a movie

 

[M.E.Eldridge]

Any of the scenes in Liftime movies were the protaganists draw their pistols and bring them down over their head with arms extended in order to get a bead on the antagonist, who is usually armed and already aiming at said protaganist .Of course the BG still gets shot first.

 

[TheArchDuke]

way old thread, but I just made the mistake of watching "XXX- State of the Union"

Highlights:
-Bolt action firing in semi automatic mode
-multiple shots coming from a sig pistol with finger nowhere near the trigger
-using a grenade pistol (m203 with a pistol grip?) for CQB

man, what a movie

I hate that movie.

 

[Turtle Club]

Phoneboth

In the movie "PHONEBOOTH" when the pimp aproaches Collin Farrel's character and the sniper shoots the pimp in the back with a rifle. Then while on the phone with Collin Farel the sniper tells him to reach on the top shelf of the booth thus Collin puts his finger prints on a handgun.

The pimp dies. The EMT rushes to the pimp and everyone blames Collin Farel's Character for shooting the pimp.

This is why I stoped watching the movie after this point.

• The pimp was facing Collin Farel when he was shot. No was Collin could have shot him.
• A quick examination on behalf of the EMT, would shot the entrance wound in the back.
• If the EMT told the cops that the pimp was shot in the back and witnesses say Farel did it. The fact that he was in the phone booth the whole time would prove he didnt shoot anyone.
• They would try to operate on the pimp to get the bullet out and notice it was not handgun calber.

This is either bad writting on behalf of the screenplay writter or just sheer stupidity on paying attention to detail.

 

[SemiAutoMan]

I forget which movie it was but I watched one with a guy shooting a double barrel break action shotgun 12 times without reloading kinda a lil silly but it is just the movies (I wish my guns would do that)

 

[KriegHund]

Alot of movies-

Villian shoots 300+ times w/o reloading at hero and misses.
Villian corners good guy.
Villian just now runs out of ammo.

Except that he was using a Star BM in 9mm.

need to remember that. Good thread.

In the game "Call of duty- Big red one) the mauser (not the scoped version) has the safety switch to the right- so the safety is on.

 

[Taurus 66]

How about all the old westerns, including Bonanza, spagetti westerns, with the stupid sound effects as a bullet deflects off a rock or a tree? I think there's like 3 different sounds total, and they change 'em up every shot. I'd write and complain to the movie directors, only that all of 'em are probably dead.

How about the classical silencer sound effect? How cheesy!

Walker Texas Ranger never gets a bullet hole in his truck body. Not even a dent! The bullets create a spark then bounce right off.

Oh yeah, one more thing about old westerns. Pay special attention to the large gun battles, like when two armies square off. With all the bullets flying around it's amazing how not one horse was hit.

 

[Tequila_Sauer]

Any Lethal Weapon after the first one could have moments on this list. Tons of gun no-nos.

 

[Inline_6]

Of course Hathcock didn't intentionally shoot the NVA sniper through the scope. He knew the enemy sniper was out there, and he saw a glint. He quickly shouldered his rifle and fired at the glint. When he got to where the sniper was he realized he'd dead centered the scope with the bullet entering the scope's objective lens, exiting the eye piece and entering the sniper's eye and exiting the back of his head. It was mere luck that he'd fired before the NVA sniper, and even greater luck to hit him like that since the only thing he saw was the scope glint.

Beat me to it - it was pure luck. Only thing is... IIRC Hathcock didn't go to where the sniper was and see it himself. He left the area and the Marine rifle platoon that came through the next day found the sniper with the bullet through the scope. Of course the importance isn't that Hathcock shot him through his scope... but that the enemy sniper was lined up perfectly to shoot Hathcock, but lost to a split second trigger pull.

As for worst movie things.. many have been mentioned so I'll add,

In Die Hard 2 (the DC airport) McCain (Bruce Willis) shoots a bunch of bad guys in the aiport annex, firing his gun probably 20 times... then pulls out the magazine and yep, there are a couple rounds left..

Oh, and any scene where one person shoots the gun from anothers hand... this has to stop. Jack Bauer even did it in 24 last night.

 

[spaceCADETzoom]

According to one of my books (correct me please), the M1 fired a .30 round.

When the NATO 7.62 round came into use, the M-1 was used as the basis for the new rifles. The final Trial rifle, the T-44, is what we know as the M-14.

The M-14 has a 20 round (detachable?) mag, as opposed to the M1A 15 round, or the M1 Garand's 8 round.

It also featured select-fire, which was dropped after there were a few problems.

There was also the M-14A1 which had a bipod, and pistol/fore grips.

When the M-16 came into service, a lot of M-14s were sold to the Isrealis until they got the Galil.

(Also according to this, the Mini-14 was meant to be a version by Ruger for 5.56.)

(could be wrong on a lot of this, check please.)

umm...Scotland huh?

Anyway, the m1a is SPringfield Armory's consumer brand name for thier semiauto m14s.

rereading my comment...man, i dont mean to sound like an ass. seriously. its cool that people out in the UK are interested, though.