Here's a thing I've been noticing about a lot of film and television gunfire scenes lately. No recoil.
I was watching a terrible SciFi channel zombie series the other day and there was a scene where the female protagonist was shooting zombies with a .357 mag revolver (scoring perfect headshots while running at top speed, of course) and the gun was staying perfectly level.
I'm wondering if a lot of productions are now using CGI to fill in muzzle flash and report rather than blanks which should generate at least some recoil.
And how soldiers armed with flat-top M-4s with NO SIGHTS can hit precisely where the muzzle is ... "aimed."Probably so. That might help explain how so many semi automatic handguns fail to have the slide so much as budge during "firing".
I liked The Purge it's playing on cinemax.
I've only seen the movie, never read the books, but I think it's only fair to point out that in the movie he is a former MP. He is a private citizen, not even a cop, and the plot does not involve the military in any way. I liked that movie because it has nothing in it that violates the laws of physics. Unlikely, yes. Even a bit over the top. But not physically impossible. (Unlike, say, the G.I. Joe or Mission: Impossible movies.)I'm not a big fan of Jack Reacher. As a US Army MP(lower enlisted) veteran I can tell you both the feature film & the novel series(by Lee Child) are full of $&@% moments & completely in-accurate points. Both with weapons and US military/law enforcement protocols.
A real "Reacher" wouldn't be a commissioned officer & more than likely, he'd be in Fort Leavenworth KS displinary barracks.
If you're gonna mention an Arnold movie, why not mention the first Terminator movie? It's the first move I remember seeing a big 1911 with a laser on it, and it must of had an extended barrel too. That was a sweet pistol. Then there's the scene where the terminator is at the gun store. Very unrealistic as you can't by an automatic Uzi, but the fact that the terminator specifically asks for the "Uzi 9mm" is pretty cool. I also wonder about the shotgun the terminator used in that seen, the one where the sales guy says "you can go pump or auto" with it.Way of the Gun: this movie surprised me and is probably my favorite "gun" movie.
Commando: I was a big Arnold fan in the 80's. I still have dreams about stocking up in the secret room of the surplus store. I always pick up the good stuff that Arnold overlooked (revolvers and shotguns...geez!).
Heat: I liked that the gun fights used real gun sounds. Pacino's FAL was pretty sweet, too.
The Professional: IIRC there were some pretty exotic weapons displayed.
Tremors: My dream rec room. "Ammo capacity or penetration?"
Ronin
Enemy at the Gates
Band of Brothers
Collateral
Lone Survivor
Fury
That's all I got right now.
If you're gonna mention an Arnold movie, why not mention the first Terminator movie? It's the first move I remember seeing a big 1911 with a laser on it, and it must of had an extended barrel too. That was a sweet pistol.
I haven't seen it yet, but I've read a lot of + buzz/good reviews(gun-tactics) of the crime thriller: John Wick.
I also wonder about the shotgun the terminator used in that seen, the one where the sales guy says "you can go pump or auto" with it.
"Killing Them Softly" has a few good scenes.
I thought he used a Desert Eagle in that movie?He uses the same piece in Last Action Hero. It is a AMT Hardballer long slide with a muzzle break.
Loved Terminator. Lots of awesome and realistic gunplay. Shooting, reloading, running...If you're gonna mention an Arnold movie, why not mention the first Terminator movie? It's the first move I remember seeing a big 1911 with a laser on it, and it must of had an extended barrel too. That was a sweet pistol. Then there's the scene where the terminator is at the gun store. Very unrealistic as you can't by an automatic Uzi, but the fact that the terminator specifically asks for the "Uzi 9mm" is pretty cool. I also wonder about the shotgun the terminator used in that seen, the one where the sales guy says "you can go pump or auto" with it.
It's a common error that AS totes a big 1911a1 .45acp in the nightclub scene of Terminator(1984) but in fact, he's using a Detonics .451 Scoremaster. As a teen I recall a few gun magazines & movie mags saying that point.
For many years, I too thought Chuck Norris used a 30/06 rifle in LoneWolf McQuade but in fact in was a 7.62mm SSR sniper rifle.
Id add that in a brief scene, McQuade's Texas Ranger character moves a OD box or canister marked; 30/06 armor piercing .
Don Johnson's cop series Nash Bridges had a 1911a1 sidearm too but that was in .38Super. Many fans & "gun experts" said Bridges used a .45acp or .40S&W.
A character once asks Nash what type of pistol he uses & he replies: "A .38 Colt".
Loved Terminator