Tommygunn
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They didn't have them set to full semi-automatic
They didn't have them set to full semi-automatic
This is so funny, since becoming a newbie shooter several years ago I can't help watching a gunfight in a movie any more without counting shots. Argh!!!!.I've also noticed those full auto rifles hold unlimited rounds. But then so do the good guys pistols.
It's Hollywood.
Hollywood is fake.
Get over it; the real concern should be over the inaccurate portrayals - and downright bald-faced LIES - in what passes for news today.
I'm not really worried bout what Hollywood does. I'm much more concerned when The ABC nightly news starts talking about "The Gunshow Loophole" that allows felons to "legally" buy guns or how 112% of Americans (who have no idea what current gun laws are) support stricter gun laws or conflating an AR15,with an ICBM
In TV shows or movies an actor grips a pistol so low you can see a finger's width under the backstrap. I don't know why but this just irritates me, the visual wrongness of it.
Dang switch stuck in semi-full-automatic, shudda got an AK-57 (10x better than a 47)!They didn't have them set to full semi-automatic
I remember that part but I just chalked it up to a lazy prop guy or bad editing.In "The Shooter", when the distressed damsel picked up what appeared to be a nickel plated Beretta that belonged to the senator from Montana and shot the wounded bad guy. 4 rounds IIRC, and it's empty. Who's carrying a double stack semi auto with 4 rounds?
I said this we did this EXACT SAME thread a week ago
But did no one in the old west know how to open an obviously double-hung window
and moreover, it's a movie. Generally, these things get made up and fudged to fit a story. The muzzle flash you see in movies and TV comes from blanks loaded with powder you'd never want to use in a real firearm propelling a real bullet. Blanks are generally loaded with extra powder so that it doesn't all burn up in the muzzle.You need that flash and bang and smoke.It's Hollywood.
Hollywood is fake.
Get over it; the real concern should be over the inaccurate portrayals - and downright bald-faced LIES - in what passes for news today.
Yep, my own dad taught me to always keep an empty chamber under the hammer of any revolver I was carrying. And the fact is, my wife and I gave Dad a Ruger Blackhawk 32H&R Magnum for Christmas in 1984 - 10 or 12 years after Ruger came up with their “transfer bar” system.I remember my father watching gunsmoke and cringing every time someone dropped a colt saa (or what version) on a hard floor.
I always thought if i lived in the old west i would be in the glass or saloon mirror business.
and moreover, it's a movie. Generally, these things get made up and fudged to fit a story. The muzzle flash you see in movies and TV comes from blanks loaded with powder you'd never want to use in a real firearm propelling a real bullet. Blanks are generally loaded with extra powder so that it doesn't all burn up in the muzzle.You need that flash and bang and smoke.
But if you ever get a chance to stand on a working set, you'll generally find a hired expert whose job it is to wrangle the guns, make sure they work, load them, unload them, secure them, etc. This person is usually a "gun guy" who understands their craft quite well. There is a good chance they're coming in with some professional firearms experience, many times as an armorer of some type.
Movies and TV shows don't really care about perfect realism. The gun is a prop just like a coffee cup, a cigar, a laptop, etc.
Slightly off-topic, if you're former military and were an armorer, you could actually have a lucrative career in Hollywood if you wanted to build a resume and sell yourself.
source: 20 years as a stagehand with a fair bit of live production experience.
I'll let a bit slide just for the sake of suspension of disbelief. Little prop things, like occasionally noticing a blank adapter welded into a barrel, or in Hot Fuzz when Nick Frost loads a shotgun with shells that already have a really good primer hit in them.
What's even worse than Hollywood is foreign movies, especially non-English and non-Asian ones; with high-budget productions, English-speaking directors usually have some competition from Hollywood so have a consultant, and Asian productions often do decent research. Wish I could recall the movie or even find the clip, but I do distinctly remember a friend sharing a scene from a Bollywood film in which the hero was firing his weapon, they slowed down for the Action Shot, and zoomed in on it ejecting... complete loaded cartridges. I'm not even entirely sure they were the correct ones.
I can accept that.In the Matrix Keanu Reeves is firing a Scorpion, and full sized rifle casings are falling to the floor
I think this Bollywood one was along the same lines. Firing an Uzi, but loaded 5.56 was flying out, or .38 or something else equally ridiculous.In the Matrix Keanu Reeves is firing a Scorpion, and full sized rifle casings are falling to the floor
In "The Shooter", when the distressed damsel picked up what appeared to be a nickel plated Beretta that belonged to the senator from Montana and shot the wounded bad guy. 4 rounds IIRC, and it's empty. Who's carrying a double stack semi auto with 4 rounds?
Yet they still have enough power to throw the person it hits off their feet and into a wall...I think the most blaring inaccuracy is they never seem to have any recoil.
I've mentioned before, there is actually a guide book provided to writers and producers on how to portray guns in movies, and it is totally filled with BS. I wish I had kept my copy.The sad part may be that screenwriters are supposed to "write what they know."
From this, we can all tell that, like Jon Snow, "they know nothing.".
Which is also why they are so bad at everything Military.