Most ridiculous movie firearms scenes

Pretty much ANY movie scene fits the title, especially anything of the action hero genre

I love scenes where every body shooting must already be deaf. None ever affected by the noise.

Uhhh...yeah. Guys shooting in concrete parking garages, or particularly in a concrete stairway in a high rise.

I can’t imagine the decibel level.

Any of the John Wick movies. Non stop killing. Guy can’t miss and can’t seem to get hit.

Two of my favorite gun scenes though are the one with Charles Bronson in “Once Upon a Time in the West”. Guy says. Didn’t bring enough horses, Charles Bronson’s character says “ No, you brought 2 to many”

The other is the ending shootout in “Open Range”

OK, not a movie but an episode of Monk has the murderer steady his rifle's aim by supporting the barrel with a cord on the window blind. Strikes me that that sort of thing messes up your aim..?

Maybe not the "most" ridiculous, but certainly one of the best known, and still ridiculous was the famous scene in the original Dirty Harry movie. You know - the first scene where Harry asks the bad guy; "Do you feel lucky?"
Harry pulls the hammer back, cocking his Model 29, but if you watch closely you can clearly see the cylinder rotate as Harry pulls the trigger.
Another similar goof-up was in "Stand By Me." Near the end of the movie after the kids had found the body, the juvenile delinquent gang was going to take the body from the younger kids. The main character (played by Wil Wheaton) fires a warning shot in the air with a 1911. Yet immediately following the warning shot, he points that 1911 at the leader of the juvenile delinquent gang, and cocks the hammer back again. Every 1911 I've ever had re-cocked itself after it went off.

Undoubtedly the scene in True Lies where the Uzi or MAC10 or whatever falls down the stairs and kills all the bad guys.


Talk about drop safe...

I was just watching "Hollywood Weapons" on Netflix last night... apparently the whole show is devoted to proving/disproving the weapon scenes in Hollywood movies / TV shows.

They were investigating one scene from some movie where the bad guy drove off the road into a lake while choking the fair maiden trying to kill her. The good guy dives in and double taps (2 shots) the windshield then puts a 9mm through the bad guys brain from his Glock.

It was kind of shocking to see the Glock actually cycling under water for 3 shots. The 9mm bullets had so little energy by the time they hit the windshield they just bounce off the windshield. So they upped the gun to a 357 that wouldn't fire due to light hammer strikes. Then they upped it to a .454 Casull (Ruger Alaskan). The first shot from the 454 penetrated the windshield with authority. The shock from the muzzle blast underwater in an enclosed tank made the shows host (who was the shooter in a wet suit) NOT want to take a second shot.

It was pretty interesting! https://www.netflix.com/title/81002244

Ridiculous or unrealistic firearms scenes? Too many to count and I don't really let them bother me at all. I just see them as part of watching a movie or tv show and try to concentrate on where the story is going whatever the bumps in the road it takes. I do have a grandson that I agitate when we watch a show together by pointing out the things I see wrong with it. He'll say, "Grandpa, it's a movie" . Then I'll wait and mention something else and so on we go until the movie is finished.
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My personal favorite is in an old show from the Mannix series. A fellow with a scoped 2" S&W shoots someone about a mile away. Well, he did rest it on the roof of his car.

The movie "Shoot 'Em Up" has a really long ridiculous gun-scene. It starts during the opening sequence and runs up until, oh, about the fade-to-credits at the end.

Too many to count. But one that always stuck with me is Hard Target (classic JCVD) where every bullet makes fireworks when it hits anything, including dirt.

MedWheeler said:

The movie "Shoot 'Em Up" has a really long ridiculous gun-scene. It starts during the opening sequence and runs up until, oh, about the fade-to-credits at the end.

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The truly abysmal "Wanted" was even worse.

I think it's the Boondock Saints sequel that has a guy thumb cock a Beretta 92, and he says "Yeah, I don't actually have to do that, I just like the sound it makes."

Best movie gun scene.

JR24 said:

Too many to count. But one that always stuck with me is Hard Target (classic JCVD) where every bullet makes fireworks when it hits anything, including dirt.

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During the 1980s a lot of tv series featuring gun dramas seemed to employ the ploy of setting fireworks off to signify bullet strikes, on cement walls, steel poles and car bodies. It got ridiculous and annoying.

The matrix. Just terrible on accuracy, but a good watch.

Just too many. Never ending magazines. Pump action shotgun gets pumped for dramatic effect several times. Bad guys can't hit good guys. Shotguns have a infinite range and when they hit, you fly 10ft back.

Even on fairly accurate movies with guns, "gun people" always noticed small things that most wouldn't think twice about. 1911's and the like never seem to have their hammer cocked back. Westerns have the guy with a BP revolver and a belt with .45's for some reason.

If I sat here and ran enough movies through my head, even good movies, I could go on. And on. And on.

Oh and Liam Neeson and Keanu Reeves can't miss.

Open Range: Kevin Costner has a "more than" six-shooter and a shotgun that flings guys 20 feet backwards.

JONWILL said:

Any of the John Wick movies. Non stop killing. Guy can’t miss and can’t seem to get hit.

Two of my favorite gun scenes though are the one with Charles Bronson in “Once Upon a Time in the West”. Guy says. Didn’t bring enough horses, Charles Bronson’s character says “ No, you brought 2 to many”

The other is the ending shootout in “Open Range”

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“Once Upon a Time in the West” and "Open Range" are INMHO two of the best westerns ever made with “Once Upon a Time in the West” #1 because of the music and intrigue. "Open Range" is #2 and the romantic dialogue between Kevin Costner and Annette Benning is about the best you'll ever hear in a movie.

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Open Range: Kevin Costner has a "more than" six-shooter and a shotgun that flings guys 20 feet backwards.

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Costner reportedly addressed that first point himself. There was a reload sequence filmed for the scene to which you're referring, but it ended up being cut. But he does seem to have a lot of rounds in that Winchester he opens up with afterwards (I didn't count them.)

It was Duvall's character's shotgun that threw a guy backwards like you mentioned, and when fired through a wooden wall to boot. It was an odd fall, anyway; the guy's feet and legs go back first, making him momentarily aloft while facing down, a position in which he lands. I guess if you fire both barrels at once, it does that.

Every 80s Chuck Norris movie.

Hip firing full auto, killing everyone.

Or maybe that’s actually how Delta did it back in the day...

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Open Range" is #2 and the romantic dialogue between Kevin Costner and Annette Benning is about the best you'll ever hear in a movie.

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Ms. Bening is very well-casted in that role. I love her character. Strong and independent, but still classy and as elegant as the environment around her can allow, "a real lady", as Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall) describes her.

I cant tell you off the top of my head which movies have this but the double action revolver clicking while the cylinder is open and being spun is always a favorite of mine.

.308 Norma said:

Maybe not the "most" ridiculous, but certainly one of the best known, and still ridiculous was the famous scene in the original Dirty Harry movie. You know - the first scene where Harry asks the bad guy; "Do you feel lucky?"
Harry pulls the hammer back, cocking his Model 29, but if you watch closely you can clearly see the cylinder rotate as Harry pulls the trigger.
Another similar goof-up was in "Stand By Me." Near the end of the movie after the kids had found the body, the juvenile delinquent gang was going to take the body from the younger kids. The main character (played by Wil Wheaton) fires a warning shot in the air with a 1911. Yet immediately following the warning shot, he points that 1911 at the leader of the juvenile delinquent gang, and cocks the hammer back again. Every 1911 I've ever had re-cocked itself after it went off.

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