What are the dumbest gun handling skills you've seen in hollywood movies?

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I believe John Wu made a movie where both the good guy and the bad guy have the slides locked back pointed at each other out of ammo. They are in a room, littered with guns other people discarded when they ran out of ammo. Both characters spend the next few minutes running around trying the different guns on the floor looking for one with ammo.

Either "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" or "Desperado." Funny scene. Although all gun handling in that entire movie was totally ridiculous.
 
Sorry if its been said already, but I haven't had a chance to read through all of these yet, but one of my all time favorite, dumbest-gun-handling things I've ever seen was in Die Hard 2

Jon McClaine, a well respected police officer, who should also know his way around a gun if poking his nose around the janitors quarters in the airport. The janitor sneeks up behind him and Jon slams the janitor up against the wall, draws his gun and points it at his forehead...Once he realizes the janitor is a good guy, he proceeds to decock the gun WHILE STILL JAMMED INTO THE JANITORS FOREHEAD

LOL, I love the Die Hard's and LMFAO every time I see that part.


Oh, and in Bad Boys Two, when Martin Lawrences daughter goes on a date with a young man, and Will Smith, holding a boddle of Booze, faking being drunk walks up to him to scare him, and points the gun at him with finger-on-trigger...Like all good cops do.

Actually, I'll go ahead and say "anything related to BB2) or BB1 for that matter.
 
First...let me say I REALLLY REALLLY like "JERICHO".

Now, having said that...I am annoyed by the fact that Jake, Hawkins, and Johnston, wehile escaping from New Bern...didn't take ANY of the weapons or ammo they could have taken!

Ammo and guns are in short supply.

Come on fellers...raid the basta'ds!

Another of my favorite irritants is watching the gun wielder constantly shuffle his gun from one hand to the other while clearing a building.

The original TV version of "SWAT" and "STARSKY AND HUTCH" pretty much blew goats. The SWATTIES were constantly firing their M-16's from the hip, and Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky) did the ridiculous "hands over his head in a steeple" move before he fired his Model 59.

"The A-Team"....oh god, don't even get me started.

Tom Selleck is a rare example of an actor who can handle a weapon. So, I take this opportunity to give him kudos. The guys on "THE UNIT" and "NCIS" do a pretty good job.
 
way too many

but I like guns with infinite ammo, just spraying an uzi for 15-20 seconds.
and than starts shooting again without a reload.
yeah Untochables was pretty fake, and displayed little or no safety or skill.
it also sported some of the worst gun sounds.
"Costner's .45 after after her reloads it is silent"
must have been subsonic rounds?
 
did the ridiculous "hands over his head in a steeple" move
Can anybody enlighten us to the purpose of that move? It seems to be a staple of 70's cop shows.
I think it started with Charlie's Angels. The purpose was to show off the shooter's... um... form. Why they started having guys do it, I don't know.
 
If segal is so real then, when he decocked a 1911 in a few of his movies by pressing back on the barrel and pulling the trigger is real ? I guess I am dumb couldnt figure out how the heck with one finger he could press the slide back. and the hammer certainly wont fall if the slide isn't in full battery.

He was decocking it? I always thought he was just doing a press check (with one finger no less, since he's so strong! :p ). I'll have to pay attention to that next time I see one of his movies.

One of the most glaring and hard to overlook errors I've seen was in the movie Maximum Overdrive (based on a Stephen King novel, starring Emilio Estevez). The proprietor of the truck stop had a nice basement full of NFA toys, but his favorite was the LAWS...that he reloaded and shot again probably 20 times in that movie :eek: Aren't those a one shot "fire and throw it away" item?
ETA: Almost forgot, they always shoot it from the hip. No aiming needed!
 
The movie Hot Fuzz covers a lot of these. There is a scene in the parking lot of a grocery store where after every new camera shot or angle the shotgun is racked. At first I thought it was bad editing but it kept happening and it was obviously intentional.
 
The movie Hot Fuzz covers a lot of these. There is a scene in the parking lot of a grocery store where after every new camera shot or angle the shotgun is racked. At first I thought it was bad editing but it kept happening and it was obviously intentional.

i love those types of scenes, when theres lik 3 people with guns, but you hear like 100 guns being cocked, the star always looks behind him at his gun toating chronies confused.

another good tounge in cheek scene is from Scary Movie 3 when they are getting ready to fight the aliens, and i think its charlie sheen whos holding a shovel. says something like "lets get them" and then cocks the shovel, and a shell pops out!
 
The movie Hot Fuzz covers a lot of these. There is a scene in the parking lot of a grocery store where after every new camera shot or angle the shotgun is racked. At first I thought it was bad editing but it kept happening and it was obviously intentional.

It may have been done as a joke, but I still had to hold my tongue every time I saw a character holding their gun with the finger on the trigger while not pointing at a target. Especially Simon Pegg's character who theoretically should have known better.
 
Worst, IMHO, is the one carried as a sidearm by the black woman fighter in the "Firefly/Serenity" series -- it's a chopped-down lever rifle. Can't cycle it with one hand, big and clumsy to hold and aim, and the shortened mag tube probably can only hold about four rounds, if that. Oh, it looks really mean, though!

Serenity takes place 500 years in the future. Obviously the firearm only cosmetically resembles a chopped-down lever rifle, but the technology of the future that went into the firearm makes it quite formiddable and serviceable.


Also, am I the only one who notices that Hollywood guns almost never recoil (except for Dirty Harry's)?

Wait, you mean those weren't supposed to be Airsoft guns in the 2004 Dawn of the Dead?


Does anyone watch Heroes? I've seen two characters who were clearly shown holding handguns with their fingers on the slide, rather than the trigger.
 
In the Clint Eastwood movie Absolute Power Dennis Haysbert (The Allstate guy with the deep voice) plays one of the President's men. He is practicing with his "sniper rifle". It looks like some non descript scoped bolt action 308 or similar. He practices off-hand and puts the scope's ocular bell right against his eyebrow. I wonder what would happen if he tried this in real life?
 
Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns

In many of these movies you see Clint Eastwood pointing his pistol up in the air whenever he cocks the hammer back on the pistol. As ridiculous as this looks, there really is a reason for this. In most of the "Man with no name" movies he uses an 1836 Navy Colt blackpowder revolver. This revolver requires you to individually load black powder and lead balls in the cylinder and insert percussion caps behind the cylinder. A common problem with these revolvers was the cylinder would jam up when residue from the percussion caps got behind the cylinder. The best way to avoid these malfunctions was to have the pistol pointing straight up the air as you cocked the hammer. By doing this it would allow the residue from the percussion cap to fall harmlessly on the ground instead of behind the cylinder. Theres absolutely no reason to do this with todays modern guns and ammunition.
 
Kid Shelleen in Cat Ballou did some weird stuff..

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wow, way to many to list. This could go on and on and on.

all the never realoding stuff{and god help them if they do, its because they ran out of rounds and the weapon is going "click-click-click, not because of any tactical fore though or the like} people blasting away full auto with a SMG and the 30 round mag' lasting a min and a half.

How about a recent one. I couldnt even watch the movie 16 Blocks with Bruce Willis and Mos Def because of the part with BW's GLOCK having a FTE{IIRC it "stove piped", then it pans around Bruce and the weapon is good to go.:banghead:

Now this means that during the filming of that scene someone noticed the FTE and cleared it. HOW AND THE HELL did the tech advisor not mention that to the director and the director to the editing crew??!!!!

I could think of sooooo many more but have to go with my biggest pet peeves of rounds being chambered every fricking time a weapon is drawn from a holster or is pointed at someone or comes into play/view in anyway.


Yeah, im sure that some on duty LEO is running around with out one in the pipe.

How about the thumbing back the hammer{aka nefarious clicking noises} sound on hammerless weapons IE GLOCK's in more than a few examples already given.

People cocking back hammers on revovlers and aiming them at someones face to make a point with there fingers on the trigger. Hostage or the like or not that crap aint flying with me. Point it else wheres or shoot me .....period.

Uhhh how about the good guy in any given movie or tv show chases the bad guy or current protaganist down a blind alley, through a darkhallway with lots of rooms and doors ect ect and then being suprised when his/her carelessness gets him 'bushed.

How about the show CSI in generall. THEY ARE FRICKIN TECHIES AND EVIDENCE PROCESSERS!!! They aint running around in peoples back yards weapons drawn lookin all ninja and stuff kicking in doors.

as has been said before people never picking up weapons ammo ect ect from the bad guys. OK OK I get it that stainless steel Desert Eagle you have been lugging around for half the show/movie is all you need.

How about on the offset that someone picks up a weapon from a dead BG or comrade they NEVER grab any spare ammo and NEVER check the status of the weapon.
 
Well, the A-Team episodes are full of awful gun handling and unrealistic shooting.

One in particular that comes to mind is an episode called "The White Ballot" where Hannibal shots of one of the BG's hats off... with an AK-47 (if I remember correctly) from the hip firing 3 shots in full auto from about 15y range. Yeah.
 
This thread has covered many, many, many of the ones I have noticed.

I really hate it when the slide gets cycled, shotgun gets racked or revolver/pistol gets cocked, REPEATEDLY.

I really hate it that almost EVERY firearm that gets dropped goes off.

The worst is the one handed decock of a 1911 :fire:
 
Jeremiah Johnson went up into the mountains
And scratched the side of his head with his pistol sight


Right after he finds the guy buried in the sand
 
Artic Assault... Well its Chuk Norris....

He could point a finger and drop people dead... :neener:

Also if he racked air... a shotgun shell would be ejected...
 
Lately, my wife has been beating me to the punch, (which shows just how much couples rub off on one another as the years go by...) with remarks like, "What the heck was that, a BB gun?" when Ali Larters character on "Heroes" test fired her new scoped rifle with no noticeable recoil. Or a couple of days ago when on some guy on some movie, (I was only watching in spurts, due to online gaming) began clearing a house with a hammer down colt-lookalike and she said, "At some point that guy had better cock that 1911.."

I love her......
 
Lately, my wife has been beating me to the punch, (which shows just how much couples rub off on one another as the years go by...) with remarks like, "What the heck was that, a BB gun?" when Ali Larters character on "Heroes" test fired her new scoped rifle with no noticeable recoil. Or a couple of days ago when on some guy on some movie, (I was only watching in spurts, due to online gaming) began clearing a house with a hammer down colt-lookalike and she said, "At some point that guy had better cock that 1911.."

I love her......

Yeah they used a BB Gun in Super Troopers. What a joke.
 
Not Hollywood... but oh my goodness.

Every show/original movie on SCI-FI. Let me first start off in saying I absolutely hate that channel, but the other day I flipped by the channel just as a giant lizard was eating some guy (haha)... One of the heroes busts out a 1911 and starts shooting at it...

pow-pow-pow-pow-pow-pow......etc, I counted a total of 42 shots, the slide never moved, neither did the gun or the guys arm... just a CGI flash and some lame sound effects. It was horrible, I haven't laughed that hard at TV in a while. I don't think they even try to make those movies good, I'm pretty sure they are aimed at 4-6 year olds.
 
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