Firearms from the movie Watchmen (Warning, this movie NOT for kids)

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Quick Warning. Please don't take kids (meaning under 14 or so) to this movie since it's a very hard R rating for violence, gore, and dark content but nothing gratuitous. Kind of like Apocalypse Now. Good movie I highly recommend you see too. Long but good. :)

Many interesting firearms seen in this movie. Comedian has a 1911 of course and a single shot grenade launcher like in Apocalypse Now. Not sure what rifle that was in the top of his secret closet with the shells in a holder on the butt of the wooden stock though. What were the words in a circle around the smiley face on the smiley face grips of his 1911? I know the SWAT team had M-16's when the arrest Rorschach.

Interesting vision of the lovely heroine Silhouette on a alternate take of the famous V-J day picture in Times Square too. :D Not that there's anything wrong with that. Very sad for her later though.
 
Other notable firearms:

S&W Model 10: The Gang member, The Child Murderer, the prison guard, and Silk Spectre II who uses it at the end of the movie.

AK Underfolders: Used in Vietnam

The assassin had some kid of .357. I almost want to say it was a Dan Wesson.

The Comedian was using an Ithaca 37 (or a similar looking bottom ejecting shotgun) during the riot.

It looked like one of the cops in the swat team had a FAL.

Comedian used an M79 during the riot to shoot a guy with a tear gas round.

That rifle in the closet? I swear it looked like Vera from Firefly.

I was wrong on a bunch of them. Those people on IMFDB work quickly!
 
The underfolding AKs the Vietnamese were using were Yugos, too. You could see the grenade launcher sight on the gas block.
 
Very good movie. I liked the changed post WW2. The Bob Dylan song went very well. My favorite history change was when it showed the protesters put the flowers in the muzzles (M1 or M14 rifles) of the National Guardmen but that time they all fired.
 
imfdb says the assassin had a 686, but I don't know if that's correct. I personally thought it might have been a GP100, but i couldn't get a good look at it. Nice to see some revolver porn though in an otherwise disappointing movie.
 
The graphic novel was written by Alan Moore. He's definitely considered a genius and the movie barely scraped the content of what the story is really about. If they had to put in all the backstory (and the ending of the graphic novel) and the meaning for everything and the symblolism of everything then the movie would be over 6 hours long and would confuse everyone at first unless you've read the novel a bunch of times. It's a true piece of work but no movie under 6 hours long could have it fully be justified.
 
Holy cow that imfdb.org really is fast!

The collectors edition DVD for this movie is going to be longer than Lord of the Rings. Can't wait!

The whole hippie putting a flower in the rifle that shoots them was pretty creepy. Thank God for deep throat, Woodward, and Bernstein. Notice during the riot Comedian says, "I haven't had this much fun since Woodward and Bernstein!" meaning Nixon had Comedian assassinate them and probably Deep Throat too.
 
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Notice during the riot Comedian says, "I haven't had this much fun since Woodward and Bernstein!" meaning Nixon had Comedian assassinate them and probably Deep Throat too.
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In the comic Nixon makes a reference to "those two reporters from the post" or something like that.
 
It was supposed to take place in 1985, any errors with guns that might have been used that didn't exist in that time?
 
This may be memory failure on my part, but The Comedian's compensated 1911's don't ring true. IIRC, long slides and such still ruled the roost in 1985. Of course, Watchmen is very definitely set in a world that is not our own.
 
According to imfdb they're longslides, not comped. When I first saw them in the movie I thought they were long slides to, but of course I could be wrong. As to the OP's question about what it says on the grips, they say Nixon 1970.
 
Look at the photo of the 2 1911's in the glass case with the dogtags and blue velvet lining. Appears to be 2 lines of text, one above and one below the smiley face. One line might be Nixon 1970 or that might be engraved on the slide. Anyone got better photo's?

Oh this picture is from imfdb.org link given above. Huge website.

Comedian1911s.jpg
 
I think it says "To Edward Blake" above the smiley face. Though Nixon 1970 doesnt seem to fit below the smiley face.

Prop Rorschach gun does look pretty cool, but not worth $295 or so unless it really works. :)
I still like Deckard's gun from Blade Runner the most.

If only Smith and Wesson or Ruger would make a Deckards gun where the cylinder is in 357 or 38 with the bolt action part in .22. That's reasonable right?
Or just make the bolt action part decorative.
Looking at this photo from the internet of the original prop gun I guess a few changes would be needed to make it practical though. Very easy to have a built in laser sight though. Definitely for home defense though, concealed carrying this would be tricky.
 

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"To Edward Blake. With Gratitude"
"Richard Nixon. 1970"
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