"Kingdom" Movie Gun Blooper [Pic]

Oh, c'mon, now! If you have a perfect, rock solid cheek weld every time, as all movie soldiers and cops do, you should be able to consistently hit any target out to 300 yds with only a rear sight. Heck, they do it with pistols all the time.

Perhaps this is the next step down in building the basic rifleman.

If we have the philosophy that shock and awe wins the war and that marksmanship is no longer necessary, why waste money on rifle sights? So, the mistake is that he has a front sight, not that he's missing the rear sight.

Actually, I think it just came back from being Duracoated.

(I win, thread's over.)

I noticed the lack of sight fairly quickly...would have seen it quicker, but I decided to study Jennifer Garner and her sexy MP5K-PDW first...for any mistakes there.

The lack of a rear sight and/or optic is integral to this scene. In the preceeding scene, his Eotech and rear BUIS were ripped off by a hostile. In the next scene, he ends up shooting his buddy due to inability to aim. Hilarity insues.



OK, well... it could have happened that way.

The lack of a rear sight and/or optic is integral to this scene. In the preceeding scene, his Eotech and rear BUIS were ripped off by a hostile. In the next scene, he ends up shooting his buddy due to inability to aim. Hilarity insues.

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Not true, but maybe you should suggest that to Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker for their next "everything that was popular last year" parody movie.

Not quiet a blooper, but certain a peice of gunplay in cinema I'll never see repeated...

Kopps is a 2003 Swedish film directed by Josef Fares... I've never seen it, but it is apparently a comedy about cops in Sweden. Anyhow, on another message board I frequent, one of the posters has the animated gif below in his sig... All I can do is watch in amazement.

Thain - That's hilarious.

Anyways, Hollywood always give guns a bad rep.

Okay, Kopps is now on my short list of movies to watch. Even if it's not in English. Or subtitled. Just for that scene.

Haven't you guys ever shot your AR shotgun style? I mean come on, training for the "what if" when your sight alls off in the middle of a Hop and Pop, you gotta just use the front sight anyway.

I thought the rear sights were just hold overs from the old days of deadly assualt rifles. OR!!! Maybe they were removed so as not to carry as many of the deadly assualt weapon characteristics so they could keep the bayonet lug.

Speaking of funny gun bloopers, I always enjoy the "sight on backwards" one.

Swingset, that's not a blooper that is a vital peice of character development. You see, the director is telling us in that scene that Mrs. Smith is such a good assassain and sniper that she needs to challenge herself by making the target appear further away. Like a kid looking through a telescope backwards... Or something.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt playign with guns. I expected to see a lot of bad, bad, bad firearms lore in that movie. I was pleasantly suprised that the bullets came out the right end of the guns.

Not quiet a blooper, but certain a peice of gunplay in cinema I'll never see repeated...

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They teach that move in basic training.

Here are some other moves I learned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVSOMAraWx0&mode=related&search=

If anyone might know where I can procure a copy of Kopps for under $25, I'd be much obliged.

If I'm shooting a CQB style stage with an iron sighted gun, I find it actually a whole lot faster to flip my rear sight down, and just run the front sight. Out to 20 meters shooting at normal size targets, I'm a whole lot faster that way. I set my FAL up with L1a1 sights for exactly that reason, and my AR has ARMs 40L rear sights.

Marine Blooper!

Hey, MASTEROFMALICE, an "Army cover"?

In the Army, we called it a "hat".

I'll get a screenshot of it later, but in the Bourne Identity, during the scene where the soldiers and guards are chasing Jason Borne through the embassy, the lead guard is holding a short barrel flat top AR with no front or rear sight. I thought that was funny.

Clusive said:

I'll get a screenshot of it later, but in the Bourne Identity, during the scene where the soldiers and guards are chasing Jason Borne through the embassy, the lead guard is holding a short barrel flat top AR with no front or rear sight. I thought that was funny.

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I finally got the screenshots up:

And here is a shot of Agent Smith's Desert Eagle from The Matrix, showing the blank rounds they were using:

ROFL lots of funnies in this thread. I have to buy Kopps.
That unsighted rifle is hilarious. I guess you just spray 30 rounds in the general direction and hope a lot.

At the ranges with the ar with no sites would it really matter or not? could you not just relly on yourself hitting your targets at 10 meters due to mussle mermory? also how can you tell that the scope on jolies m4 is back wards? is it because thelittle red clip is at the front instead of the back it just doesnt look like a traditional scope im used to seeing which has a big bit then a small bit. Irwin
p.s. Why does one of the marines have an ak style rifle??

I suspect they didn't want the big blob of a reddot on top of the rail because it got in the way of someone's face, or even worse reflected lights back at the camera.

You have to look at it from the camera's POV. The director hates rifles in general, because they block the face. Anything that obscures or blocks the face of your actors, esp. the leads, is a no-no these days. This is one of the main reasons they love handguns, and why they love handguns pointed sideways even more. A head-on shot of an actor with a handgun pointed sideways allows both the handgun and the actor's full face to be shown. It has nothing to do with tactics and everything to do with film making.

So is this movie worth seeing?

And, is all the action in the last 30 mins?

So is this movie worth seeing?

And, is all the action in the last 30 mins?

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In my opinion, yes. There is action right at the beginning, but it is the terrorists doing their job and finally meeting some late resistance by the Saudi cop pictured in the first picture. Then it is very slow and methodical, CSI style, for over an hour. Then the fun begins and goes for about 30 minutes. Then a little wrap up, moralizing, and credits.

410 Ar

410 AR. I want one. Flattop with a red dot would be a hoot for squirrels.