Am I The Only One Who Notices Things Like This?

[TarDevil]

In some movies you can clearly hear by the sound of the racking of a weapon that nothing was chambered.

Bourne Ultimatum, one of the worse about this. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. weapons were presented with the sound of slides racking.
Literally became hard to enjoy an otherwise good flick.

 

[TRX]

On the other hand, every now and then Hollywood somehow gets things right...

Back when Halley's Comet was in the news, Hollywood coughed up a 1984 B-movie called "Night of the Comet". The comet turned most people into shambling zombies, and two teenage girls were trying to make it out to town to someplace safer.

On the way, they broke into a gun store and took a couple of MAC-10s and filled their purses with magazines. Whoever directed the shooting scenes almost certainly had some trigger time with a MAC. BRRRRRUPPP! [gun swings up and to the side from recoil] [mag change] BRRRRRUPPP! [gun swings up and to the side from recoil] [mag change]

A MAC is a two or three burst SMG until you learn to tickle the trigger, and the heavy bolt makes it dance in your hand like a rabid weasel. I'm a big guy with a lot of MAC trigger time, and it's still more or less a "spray and pray weapon" without a foregrip and the stock extended. I've let other people shoot mine, and the girls were behaving exactly like every newbie does in the beginning. *Excellent* choreography there.


from various movie quotes pages:

Regina: "Come on, Hector. The MAC-10 submachine gun was practically designed for housewives."

[after her MAC-10 jams during target practice]
"See, this is the problem with these things. Daddy would have gotten us Uzis."

[criticizing another teen's choice of firepower]
"Top break .32? Where did you get this, a dime store?" ... "Well, it might be all right for date night in the barrio, but if we run into any more of those guys outside we're gonna need a little more stopping power."


It's not "Quigley Down Under", but it's worth snagging a copy, kicking back with a bowl of popcorn and a beverage, and enjoying some Elvira-grade B-movie fun. And since it was made for TV in 1984, it's not full of profanity and gross-out violence like so much of the newer stuff.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

^^^^
But, can I get it with a side order of Elvira...?

 

[FlSwampRat]

No, you are not the only one that notices these things. You're just one of the few that let it bother them.
It's just a movie.

I gotta have realism in movies. Did you see how many arrows Legolas would shoot more than were in his quiver? What, elves have ever-full quivers? Not in real life they don't!

Part of the fun in movies is watching for mistakes, and inaccuracies.

Yep!

I think it annoys my wife when I point them out. Maybe thats why I like doing it.

YEP!

 

[Old Dog]

I gotta have realism in movies. Did you see how many arrows Legolas would shoot more than were in his quiver? What, elves have ever-full quivers? Not in real life they don't!

Ah, don't think anyone goes to a movies featuring elves, wizards and hobbits expecting more realism ...

 

[jmohme]

I gotta have realism in movies. Did you see how many arrows Legolas would shoot more than were in his quiver? What, elves have ever-full quivers? Not in real life they don't!

If they did, politicians would propose legislation on assault bow controls.

 

[Captcurt]

Bourne Ultimatum, one of the worse about this. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. weapons were presented with the sound of slides racking.
Literally became hard to enjoy an otherwise good flick.

Or you here a pump gun racked and the actor is holding a side by side. Burns me up.

 

[I6turbo]

Complete lack of respect for gun safety rules is not necessarily unrealistic for movies showing anything earlier than the last 30 years. Photos of WWII combat units posing away from combat routinely show fingers on triggers, for instance. The "4 Rules" are not some ancient thing... they're actually relatively recent in their expression and widespread adoption. They're good rules, and we know today that we should follow them. But a character in the 1880's would never have heard them.

Agree! And you don't have to go back to the 1880s. When I was a kid gun safety wasn't anything close to as prominent a thing as it is now. Not even close.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Ah, don't think anyone goes to a movies featuring elves, wizards and hobbits expecting more realism ...

No, but if your wife is a long time serious Tolkien reader you will hear about any inaccuracies,omissions and unnecessary additions in the movies.
And don't get me started on the creaking bow sound effect... (It's the pump shotgun/double barrel effect for archers.)

 

[Trunk Monkey]

No, but if your wife is a long time serious Tolkien reader you will hear about any inaccuracies,omissions and unnecessary additions in the movies.

I'm a serious Tolkien reader. I collect copies of the Lord of the Rings like some of you collect guns. I watched 15 minutes of The Hobbit and threw the DVD in the trash

 

[Jim Watson]

In my youth, there were several versions of The Ten Commandments of Gun Safety.
How can four be enough?

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I'm a serious Tolkien reader. I collect copies of the Lord of the Rings like some of you collect guns. I watched 15 minutes of The Hobbit and threw the DVD in the trash

You and my wife would have a lot to discuss...

 

[Old Dog]

Okay, guys - serious admission here: I've been re-reading Tolkien since the early '70s … Don't judge me.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

Okay, guys - serious admission here: I've been re-reading Tolkien since the early '70s … Don't judge me.

When I was in the Ninth grade (1981) I had to read The Hobbit. I didn't think I was going to be interested but I couldn't put it down. I've read The Hobbit/ Lord of the Rings MULTIPLE times since

 

[Trunk Monkey]

In my youth, there were several versions of The Ten Commandments of Gun Safety. How can four be enough?

That particular topic has been done to death. Search is your friend

 

[Jim Watson]

Rhetorical question. I wasn't really asking.

 

[Ignition Override]

Trunk Monkey:

In the days when that movie was produced, it might not have mattered.
Real people (non-actors) probably had the common sense to Never use a muzzle as one's own index finger.

Maybe I'm totally mistaken about that, but on a different note, let's keep in mind that the vast majority, if not all, public school systems (except in Russia...) want No children to have any training for safe gun handling or avoidance, or other common sense about them.

 

[obiwan1]

I agree with the Naval History thing. It drives me nuts to see the attack on Pear Harbor shown with USN SBD dive bombers starting their dive.

 

[Dudedog]

But, can I get it with a side order of Elvira...?

I was always waiting for the tape to fail.....
Never did, guess they made better tape back then

 

[WVGunman]

Or in Under Seige 2, Steven Seagal character applies "external safety" on a Glock that doesn't have any.

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen a character draw a Glock, and then we hear the sound of a hammer cocking. It is now my #1 egregious movie mistake.

Complete lack of respect for gun safety rules is not necessarily unrealistic for movies showing anything earlier than the last 30 years. Photos of WWII combat units posing away from combat routinely show fingers on triggers, for instance. The "4 Rules" are not some ancient thing... they're actually relatively recent in their expression and widespread adoption. They're good rules, and we know today that we should follow them. But a character in the 1880's would never have heard them.

I've heard this also, I think on a Forgotten Weapns Q &A episode. It's kind of scary to contemplate. Why didn't peole care more about the accidental shootings that must have been pretty common[lace? I wonder if, like drunk driving used to be, they were taken for granted as just "the way things are"?