Gun Related STUPID Movie Mistakes

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My wife gets upset with me when I point out all the stuff. Bad Boys 2 wasn't *to* bad for gun play. My pet peeve is in the T.V. show LOST. They rack the slide on everything way to much!
 
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I have thoroughly enjoyed this thread because I get some ideas for movies to cover. I will have to go back through these posts and write down the good ones.

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i hate it when they rack the slide and nothing ever comes out.

as was mentioned it happens in lost a lot.

the final scene of saving private ryan mentioned. you can totally tell they cut and replaced the exploding or about to be exploded bodies with dummies.

actually notice a lot of cg scenes wehre glass is broken and the then moments later the glass is gone. or when things are taken in different angles over several takes and the actors are totally facing the wrong way or holding something in a different position.

i hate how in the first bourne movie when clive owen assasinates the target... the target has already walked past the window but then it cuts to him being right by the window in the stairs... just bad execution of the first scene on the actors part.

I've found that the gun handling in anime films I've seen is pretty impressive. Its actually kind of agrevating to watch Ghost in the Shell because its a toon drawn in a country where you cant have guns yet the characters have much better gun handling than hollywood.
airsoft...

Gosh, its Hollywood, not the history channel, you all probably think everything on the internet is real too.
ha, Entertainment, thats the key word, you want real, make one and market it, see how much money it brings in, only gun folks enjoy the real visual aspects, Hollywood figured that out years ago, surprised many of you haven't figured out real don't sell,
Much like the news these days, whats real and what ain't
that's the thing... most movies should only be about 10 minutes long. that is until the main character realizes they don't have the right tool the right knowledge or the right means to do what the plot requires of them.
 
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Predator: Jesse and or Arnold shoot the "handheld" GE mini-gun for 20-30 sec with about 5 feet of belt. Don't mini guns need a couple of car batteries to power them?

Gun recoil - if the projectile from a large caliber firearm knocks the BG back 10 feet, wouldn't the recoil knock the shooter back also? Newton's third law of motion

Autoloader cases making pinging sound as they eject and land on the grass or sand

Bullet ricochet on every other round in westerns when there isn't a rock around for miles

Not gun related: I saw a B movie a few weeks ago and a guy took off from an airport in IIRC, a 707. When they showed it mid flight it was a 747, when it touched down, it was a DC-10. Classic stuff.
 
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We must remember that a lot of people including folks in law enforcement use "pistol", "revolver" and "handgun" interchangeably, and call any modern-looking handgun a "Glock" especially if it has a polymer frame. Movie people are people too and are not as expert.
 
My nephew is a Hollywood editor. When I pointed out to him that most of the pistols and all of the revolvers seen in movies and on TV these days don't have safetys that make a "chunk-chunk" sound, he was surprised. And he didn't really care.
The sound is added for dramatic effect, not realism.

Maybe, as Heller takes effect and more people get into the shooting sports (buy stock in gun companies NOW!!), some of these stupid mistakes will dissapear.
Don't count on it.
 
I was watching Brendan Fraser's 1999 version of "The Mummy" yesterday. He is poking a .45 Colt auto in the neck of the guide character, who is terrified and capitulates to Fraser's demands. However, the hammer is down and Fraser's thumb is nowhere near the spur. "Talk, or I'll pull the trigger and nothing will happen!"
 
"Die Hard 2 and the Glock 7 porcelain handgun that costs more than the police chief's salary and is invisible to x-rays."

not x-rays but metal detectors i watched the movie yesterday
 
"The Untouchables" - Kevin Costner calmly thumbs the hammer down on his 1911 to condition 2 and replaces it in his shoulder holster.

Was this research on someone's part? Did they really carry condition 2 pre-Cooper, et al?

I know the military preferred Condition 3, unless in combat, but I thought everyone else knew the safety was the fastest thing to flick off.

Edit: I see in other posts that Condition 1 really is a modern concept. Older holsters rarely had a provision for it. If they had a strap, it usually went over the grip safety. So, this probably isn't a mistake.

However, In "U571", Matthew McConaughey does a nice two handed 1911 SWAT-type entry procedure on the enemy sub that I'm pretty sure hadn't been developed until some time after the 1940's...
 
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I'm suprised no one mentioned this one: In "Lord of War" when Nicholas Cage walks into a restaruant before a mob hit and the guys open fire with AKs, the guy flips the table on its side and the rounds don't penetrate. Naturally, the hitman didn't bring any spare mags, so the turn to run, only to be shot in the back with a 1911.
 
I saw something the other day. Made such an impression that I can't remember what it was. The only thing i DO remember was that one guy said something about the other guys "revolver" and when the other guy showed his gun it was a semi-auto.

I'm not real gun savvy but even *I* picked up on that gaff.
 
I think safety has taken hold somewhat. Instead of having real guns firing blanks and risking someone accidentally shooting someone, they use phony guns that shoot sparks etc. However, the slide does not go back and no casings are ejected. Fools the fools but not anyone who has ever fired a gun.
 
I always think of The Comancheros with Duke Wayne. It takes place when Texas was a Republic (1836-1845) but Duke still has his SAA and Winchester 92. I like too how they go through the desert and buttes and things between Galveston and Austin! Silly stuff but I'd still watch it over most everything else on TV.
 
In the lobby shootout of The Matrix, Neo is firing a submachine gun. They cut to slow-motion shots of brass hitting the ground. The brass is clearly rifle ammo. It's the only time I can remember where the brass coming out of the gun doesn't match the type of weapon.
To be fair, that just might actually make sense within the context of that particular movie. If you can alter the parameters of the simulation you're running around in to give yourself a fifty-foot vertical leap and the ability to dodge bullets, why not move a few more ones and zeros around and make your little .32 machine pistols fire .223 instead?
 
In the lobby shootout of The Matrix, Neo is firing a submachine gun. They cut to slow-motion shots of brass hitting the ground. The brass is clearly rifle ammo. It's the only time I can remember where the brass coming out of the gun doesn't match the type of weapon.

Also remember in the 80's it was quite popular to get a FA H&K 91 or 93s and cut them down to sub-gun size. They had the size and feel of the MP5 without the cartridge limitations of the 9mm.

Here is one is 5.56 and one in 7.62. Check the magazine size to tell them apart from each other, and the 9mm.

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Full Metal Jacket: Pvt. Pyle's Suicide scene with M-14, there's no bullet hole or broken wall tiles. And naturally, the typical empty click on Joker's M-16. Hell it was so loud it even startled the sniper.

My best +1 is for Saving Private Ryan, in the taking of the radar station. The hot MG had vapors rising from it and was making clicking sounds as the metal cooled and contracted.
 
In the movie SWAT, the bad guys pose as police officers and attempt break their leader out of jail while he is being moved on a Sheriff transport bus. A gun battle erupts between the fake cops and the SWAT guys. One bad guy briefly fires a sub-gun that I couldn't recognize, and the other(s) had only pistols.

In the very next scene the police captain is telling the media that the suspects were "armed with AK-47's". While I couldn't identify every weapon in that scene, it was very clear that there were no AK's featured.
 
That seems pretty realistic, actually. Most police spokespersons and tv reporters think that anything even vaguely gun-shaped is an AK-47.

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