Black Majik said:
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