WORST firearm moment in a movie

[DirksterG30]

The one that comes to mind is in the movie I Robot with Will Smith.
He wakes up from a bad dream, grabs his handgun from his bed and points the gun at his head, as if to say 'wake up; it was a bad dream.'

 

[Manedwolf]

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

I thought Jules' gun in Pulp Fiction was a chromed Star B, not BM?

 

[Manedwolf]

There is a night scene in 'The Patriot', with Mel Gibson, where he rears up while riding a horse and shoots into the air with a single-shot blackpowder pistol. The problem is that just a second later, he shoots yet again with the same pistol! That must be the quickest BP reload in history, and one handed too.

Michael

If you want to go back in history that far, Pirates of the Carribean, even though it was supposed to be silly...that "one shot" pistol that Depp's character has, he's carrying it while walking underwater, getting wet many times, etc... wouldn't that powder have been fouled many times over by the end of the movie?

 

[Manedwolf]

I know it's far from being the worst fiream moment, but having the Teflon-coated Bullet canard repeated in Ronin annoyed me all the more because much of the the gun action in that movie was less than outrageous.

I believe it was one of the "lethal weapon" movies, also, where someone tosses what looks like a .38 to someone, saying "here, cop-killers!"...and that character proceeds to shoot through the steel pan of an oncoming bulldozer (!) to kill its driver?

 

[SteelEye]

Transporter 2 -- SPOILER, sort of...

Not to give away too much, the chick shooting 2 Glock 18s??? with extended mags, never runs out. Out on the street, 2 cop cars drive up to her with the usual, "Freeze, drop the gun, blah, blah, blah..."

Chick is on the phone, says "...Plan B...," dumps both mags from the guns, turns and fires, full auto at the cops. Unbelievable!

If you watch this movie as science fiction/fantasy, you will enjoy it.

 

[wolf_from_wv]

Also in The Matrix, Neo unloads two Berretas at an Agent, who dodges the bullets. The Agent draws his weapon and returns fire. Neo drops his Berretas and proceeds to do the bullet dodging thing. As the camera enters bullet time, it pans 360 degrees around Neo, and the Berretas dropped seconds before are nowhere to be seen. Cloaked assault pistol, anyone?

Fun trivia- In The Matrix, the Agent's Desert Eagles have the standard black oxide finish. In The Matrix Reloaded, the "upgraded" agents have blued Desert Eagles

Wasn't there a building behind the agent? A building full of glass windows?

I guess a helicopter crashing into a building only affects that building... Nothing will make it across the street... Not even the heat of the explosion...

 

[daiadvisor]

Black Hawk Down. Even though I love that movies, there is a part where two guys are left behind with SAWs after the convoy leaves. Close-up of the weapon reveals belt-fed crimped blanks that are quite obvious. Many other parts where blanks are also clearly in the shot.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Assault on Precinct 13 (70's version): Black convict suddenly "realizes" that his "suppressed" revolver is empty...he couldn't hear the report and didn't know he was firing an empty gun.

 

[TheArchDuke]

Chick is on the phone, says "...Plan B...," dumps both mags from the guns, turns and fires, full auto at the cops. Unbelievable!

.....with no ammo?!

 

[Mainsail]

Drop everything...

...and go rent Top Secret starring Val Kilmer. The gun handling in that movie was very interesting. But then, I think they meant it to be.

 

[cmidkiff]

My personal favorite is in 007's 'Man with the Golden Gun'

Q is inspecting the golden bullet recovered by Bond, slug is mushroomed to about 1" diameter. He weighs it at '180 grains', and then deduces that it comes from a 4.7mm gun.

Of course, he then goes on to deduce exactly who made the bullet...

There's countless examples of dozens of shots being fired from a revolver without reloading, and hundreds from a simi-auto, and thousands from a Glock18

 

[V4Vendetta]

"Open Range". I love the movie but at the gunfight Costner fires close to 14 shots from his revolver. COME ON!!!


"The Sting". They have all these revolvers with silencers. In reality, they just wouldn't work.

"Where Eagles Dare". How many of us have ever fired 2 fully automatic STG-44's at the same time like Eastwood did? Not me. That's gotta have enough recoil to blow him back into a wall.:banghead:

 

[Tequila_Sauer]

Love the movie, but Grosse Point Blank has its share of bad gun moments. There are a lot of shots where you can see the actor pulling the trigger and the slide isn't moving and John Cusack has this weird way of firing where he jerks each gun forward as he's firing, it's hard to explain, but if you remember the movie, you'll know what I'm talking about.

The gun moments I hate the most are the accidental discharges. Dropped guns, guns hitting something, etc. Someone drops a gun on the ground and it goes off. One of the few TV shows or movies I've ever seen mention this fallacy was, surprisingly enough, Desperate Housewives. The show actually has some positive gun messages in it. At one point, someone is being questioned and blames a person getting shot on a gun that was dropped on the floor. The detective questioning her says "I've been in Law Enforcement for 25 years and I've never once seen a firearm discharge from being dropped on the floor." I thought that was cool.


I should also add that I HATE really fake gunfire sounds. I seem to distinctly remember Mel Gibson's Beretta in Lethal Weapon having this really bassy BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM! sound when he fired it. It wasn't a sharp crack, but it sounded almost like a giant bass drum and the length of the noise was long as well.

 

[VirgilCaine]

My personal favorite is in 007's 'Man with the Golden Gun'

Q is inspecting the golden bullet recovered by Bond, slug is mushroomed to about 1" diameter. He weighs it at '180 grains', and then deduces that it comes from a 4.7mm gun.

Of course, he then goes on to deduce exactly who made the bullet...

There's countless examples of dozens of shots being fired from a revolver without reloading, and hundreds from a simi-auto, and thousands from a Glock18

Not many people make custom, gold bullets in custom calibers...illegally. There are only so many people who take odd jobs (like the three-finger rifle) for "private citizens".

"Where Eagles Dare". How many of us have ever fired 2 fully automatic STG-44's at the same time like Eastwood did? Not me. That's gotta have enough recoil to blow him back into a wall.

Don't be silly, it wouldn't do that. And I though those were MPs, not STGs?

Grosse Pointe Blank seemed okay on the guns, except for the magazine capacities..

 

[Working Man]

I believe it was one of the "lethal weapon" movies, also, where someone tosses what looks like a .38 to someone, saying "here, cop-killers!"...and that character proceeds to shoot through the steel pan of an oncoming bulldozer (!) to kill its driver?

IIRC, Danny Glover to Mel Gibson.... it's a mack 10 I think.

 

[GhostRider66]

Desperado....limo attempted-assasination scene: two more shots fired after slide is very obviously locked back on a Desert Eagle. Other very bad ones in that movie but still fun to watch.

 

[Thain]

Okay, never once watched the show, but while chanel surfing last night I catch a horrib little "Me Too!" cop drama called NCIS. I wtahced it for exactly one scene:

Hot Chick Agent and Young Hip Male Agent (she in a Prada pant-suit he in Ohio State t-shirt and jacket) have broken into a house, warrantless, and triggered the alarm... and are calmly "hacking" into the suspects computer.

Barney Fife rural cop enters, levels his revolver at them and demands they produce ID. They say they're Feds, he doesn't by it. He makes them cuff themselves. Stepping closer once they've cuffed themselves, Hot Chick Agent (who picked her handcuffs in 2.5 seconds) judo flips Barney to the ground, disarms him, and presses her gun into his chest!

Her finger on the trigger!

I popped in my borrowed Thundercats DVD then and there. At least Lion-O shows proper safety discipline with his sword.

 

[Carl]

I can think of noticing so many movies/TV shows that involve a gun scene where they have their finger wrapped tightly around the trigger.

I forget which movie, but there was a guy with a pump shotgun, and they were looking through some kind of warehouse or something, and I remember hearing the "tchk tchk" noise about five times through the scene. No shots fired, I guess they just like the noise.

 

[Igloodude]

Cmon stop trashing the hollywood firearms academy. I don't want them showing the criminal element about cover and concealment about reloading about not shooting a pistol sideways. If someone breaks into my house I want them to hold the gun sideways and take cover behind an interior wall or a couch. Or better yet come around a corner with a pistol pointing straight up into the air.

I'd always assumed that showing our rap-star wannabes holding the pistol sideways was realistic. To their credit (and this is a nickel's worth of credit against a c-note worth of debt) they never show police or military doing that, that I've seen.

 

[Thain]

Someone has probablly mention this but in the final 'battle' of Lethal Weapon 4, Murtaugh states he has only four bullets left yet he fires five more.

And these were the movies that got everyon in America to buy a Beretta?

 

[Tequila_Sauer]

Mel Gibson isn't the only reason people bought that gun. The 92FS is as solid a firearm as it gets.

I do wonder if any people that bought one because of Lethal Weapon were shocked when it made a sharp POP! instead of a BOOOM! at the gun range.

 

[G36-UK]

There's a TV show over here called "The Bill", that's about the police (naturally). Lately, there's been a lot of guns used by both the SO19/Armed Response and the criminals.

The previews for the show at the end of tonight's episode, has this fixed, but the pics of the end had one of the ARU off-duty, being threatened by a hooded thug with a Glock of some sort.

The Glock had it's slide locked back, and the guy still looked ready to pi*h his trousers (Note: This show isn't really representative of cops or the ARU).

 

[iapetus]

How can we forget Matrix, when Neo enters into the building, the SWAT team comes to the lobby and you hear "ch ch ch ch ch ch ch" as everyone points their rifles at Neo and Trinity. Classic hollywood.

That seems to be a pretty standard rule in all movies/TV shows.

I remember watching an episode of Spooks (UK drama about MI5 agents), where a SWAT/SF team stormed a building, abseiling down from the roof and bursting through the windows, charged into the room, leveled their MP5s at the BG, and went Clk Clk Clnk Chnk Clk.

(On the same subject, isnt' it funny how someone can instantly summon a SF team just by yelling "Go! Go! Go!" into his hidden microphone, and they always appear instantly and sighlently, even when delivered by helicopter).



I was watching a Steven Segal movie the other day. One character (an assassin) sneaks into another guy's hotel room. The assassin (armed with a pistol), comes face to face with his "victim", who is armed with a pump-action shotgun.

Despite the fact that the assassin has his pistol drawn and pointed directly at his mark, and the other guy is holding his shotgun pointing either straight up in the air or straight down (I can't remember which), the "victim" still manages to shoot the assassin without the assassin getting off a single shot.

(Needless to say, the would-be assassin is blasted back about 10 feet and straight out the window. However, it later transpires he was wearing a bullet-proof vest, so despite the 3-story fall, he turns up again almost completely unharmed).



If you want to go with period movie firearm gaffs, how about Last of the Moheccans, where one character rushes into a fight wielding a musket in each hand

 

[JesseJames]

It was one of Burt Reynolds old movies, I think "Sharkeys Machine" where the albino hitman shoots a guy with a revolver - maybe .357? - and the guy goes flying like 20 feet backwards.

Those obligatory sniper shots in movies are so typically Hollywood it's nauseating. I had to roll my eyes when I saw that scene in "Saving Private Ryan".

I'd say the coolest impossible shot in a movie was in "Last of the Mohicans" where Hawkeye played by Daniel Day Lewis covers the escape of a courier through enemy infested woods in the dark of night. I'm like, well, maybe but unlikely - dude. I'd say Michael Mann is one of the better Directors out there when it comes to portraying firearms.
He did a good job in "Collateral". Tom Cruise actually looked competent as a man who made his living as a heartless hitman.

The most hilarious gun-handling in a movie that made no bones about how ridiculous it was is the movie "Army of Darkness".
Ash and his mighty boomstick. Complete ridiculousness but total fun.


The most jaw-dropping scene of gun-handling in a Western undoubtedly is in the movie "The Outlaw Josey Wales".
Two reprobates get the drop on Josey in a general store and tells him to hand over his pistols - butt end first. Josey complies, and then flips them over and blows them away.
I must have rewinded and played that scene in slow motion two dozen times to see if it was for real. To this day I wonder who was the person that did that trick for the camera. It was LIGHTNING fast.

The most howling I ever heard in a movie theater was when I was in the Army and in a military movie theater with other fellow soldiers who were out of uniform and relaxing to a flick. The movie was "Hard Target" with the ever wooden Jean Claude Van Damme.
Someone pops the spoon off a frag grenade and drops it into another guys pants. Yikes. Then the guy starts rooting through his pants and then to the astonishment of all of us, pulls the grenade from his pants and starts to UNSCREW the fuse! Wow! That was one long timer on that fuse.

 

[flyingstag]

WTB / WTT 12 shot .45 cal revolver

Im still looking for a 12 shot .45 cal revolver.

I know its out there, Ive seen e'm use it.

Stag