Action movies just aren't as much fun anymore...

One film with pretty good (I thought) gun handling was "Tears of the Sun". Of course "The Outlaw Josie Wales" is classic.

All weapons must make a noise, even knives.

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Yup, like when the killer raises his knife and it goes *SHWING* for no reason.

I may have to install a speaker on my knife for that reason.

I'd also have a button for lightsaber noises, if I'm going that route.

I watched an early Columbo episode last night. A retired general is suspected of murder. The General shows Columbo his prized .22 competition target pistol. Never checked the chamber, and after sweeping Columbo a few times and doing some practice aiming in the middle of his living room - finger on the trigger at all times, of course - he hands the gun to Columbo. To check to see if it's been recently fired, Columbo points the gun at his own nose and sniffs the end of the barrel.

:::sigh:::

I was channel surfing one night and caught the beginning of Escape from New York. The guards escorting Snake down the halls were carrying AR15s without hand guards or gas tubes.

(They looked really slick, though.)

RDCL wrote 3-2-2009:

One of my pet peeves about movie gun-play is that when someone shoots through a DOOR.....the wood splinters & has chunks ripped out where the bullets ENTER. As you guys have.....I've fired zillions of rounds of just about every caliber there is into pieces of wood through out the years and bullets will ALWAYS make neat round little holes on entry.....

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That's what happens when I shoot bullets fired from a gun through wood too, but what the movies do is they drill a hole in the wood, insert a squib charge (small explosive) with hidden wires and shoot with a camera as someone off screen fires the squib with a battery. Same with movie bullet wounds, they put a little bag of "blood" over the squib on the actor so you see an exit wound effect as the bullet blows out gouts of blood and big holes in the shirts on entry. Real-life entry wounds can be mistaken for icepick stabs: the skin stretches around the bullet nose and snaps back.

At least they don't put little bags of "blood" over the squibs in the doors.

Collateral with Tom Cruise....the behind the scene extras shows him training with an ex-SAS guy who showed him some shooting styles...Cruise taking out those two rugrats in the alley and also firing into the blonde Korean guy at the club were pretty good.

The "click" of a hammer cocking drives me crazy...especially when they're using a Glock or an already cocked pistol/revolver!

I was looking at DVDs earlier today. Saw the DVD for Wanted - that movie with Angelina Jolie where they curve the bullet path by whipping the pistol around. The DVD case looked like a window with a bullet hole in it. In the bullet hole was a fired casing. Up until then I was unaware that the whole cartridge came flying out of the barrel. I'll have to watch for that next time i'm shooting.

One of my favorite things is when some guy gets shot with a 9mm and flies backward 10 feet like he got blasted with a recoilless rifle or something.

You mean your 9mm doesn't strike targets with the force of a howitzer? Clearly, you're using the wrong loads.

To dispell your disappointment in action movies and to see lots of action watch the current shoot-um-up "TAKEN". I saw it this past weekend and it was great!

Car chases, gun fights, knife fights and hand to hand. A lot of everything.....including explosions and heavy machinery and electricity killing people.

but if you watch he reloads at a deliberate speed between each cylinder. Watch closely. I have the DVD and have quite a few times. One of the beauties of this movie is it exactly conformed to the way gunfights went according to winners like, oh, that guy in Dodge City, what's his name - Tombstone, too, oh, oh, yeah - Wyatt Earp. As he always insisted - "slow and deliberate" wins. And I've made the pilgrimage to Tombstone to check his work. I'm kind of a thorough guy like that.

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I was referring to the very end when the bad guy is pinned down in the building and Costner fires off an endless stream of bullets at him without reloading. That and the shotgun blast that knocks the guy 10 feet are the most unrealistic parts of the gunfight. That said, I love that scene! :-D



Anyone else get a kick out of the gunfight in American Gangster? I particularly like the guy who tries to fire birdshot through the door and it ends up ricocheting into his face. Haha

To dispell your disappointment in action movies and to see lots of action watch the current shoot-um-up "TAKEN". I saw it this past weekend and it was great!

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Taken was the best action movie I've seen in a long long time. A lot of it was fairly far-fetched, but the pace was so relentless that you didn't really notice. Talk about a human pit-bull!

Even the most realistic movies have mistakes

It's painfully obvious when you go frame by frame - http://fateoflegions.blogspot.com/search/label/Movie Guns

At this point, all those mistakes are my bread and butter. Now I firmly believe that they give a film personality, despite it being so dagone annoying.

My wife usually doesn't say a word when we watch a movie and I point out the mistakes, except when some dude pumps a shotgut six times to emphasize his point. My wife knows how to work a pump shotgun, and rolls her eyes in anticipation because she knows I'm going to point it out. That has to suck.

Road to Perdition. Okay gun handling, except for the pointless uncocking of the 1911's. I did like how Jude law's weapon of choice was a .32.

Then again, Tom hanks mows down five guys from 100+ feet away with a Tommy gun. Possible?

Another of my pet peeves (and yes, it's not guns) is movies of a period setting that use vehicles which are obviously not of that era, but painted or "aged" to look like they were. Like for example an early 70's themed movie that uses a Brinks armored car with an obvious late-80's Ford F700 fiberglass nose with rectangular sealed beam headlamps.

Or the one with the Boilerplate inside of the blanket over the chest. Man that's gotta hurt.

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I think it was a Clint Eastwood movie. What annoys me most is when people think that the entire round (not just the lead) is shot out of the gun like it is a rocket propelling itself or something.