Fun Gun Bit In "The Lost Room"

[geekWithA.45]

The premise of the show is that in 1961, Room #10 of the Sunshine Motel is ripped out of reality, for reasons unknown. All of the objects in the room become imbued with various magical powers. Some are useful, some aren't. Various groups of people vie for these objects, for their own various reasons.

The protagonist of the story is a detective, whose motive is to find the Objects he needs to retrieve his little girl, who disappeared into the room, which is accessible with The Key, which he has. Throughought the entire show, you can hear people capitalizing the Objects: The Key. The Scissors. The Nail File, and so on.

So, at one point, the detective bursts in upon a confrontation of the various object seeking groups, who are all facing off against each other with various things like The Pen, The Deck of Cards, The Left Sock, and so on.

Upon arrival, they all look at him quizzically, and assume that the gun in his hand is an Object. Someone asks, "What does The Gun do?"

His reply?

"It shoots bullets, really fast."

I assume this is a hollywood corruption of our classic phrase, "guns don't kill people. They make bullets go really, really fast."

 

[jason10mm]

That was a funny scene. Almost makes up for all the racket his Glock makes whenever he waves it around.

-Mild Spoilers-

I was VERY impressed that he racked the slide when intimidating the guy who killed his partner. Of course, that means he was threating a murderer with an unloaded gun, but at least they didn't add in some sort of "slide off/hammer cocking" sound to a Glock.

I was disappointed that he left his pistol with the comb guy rather than use it to take out his attackers outside the trailer. Gun beats log every day! I doubt that a shovel could deflect a rifle round like that either.

Still, it is a good show so far (haven't seen the finale) with decent gun handling.

"Day Break" is another good gun show. Fairly solid handling and not too many ridiculous moments (aside from his idiot partner getting plugged because she shouted a warning instead of just terminating the threat).

 

[geekWithA.45]

I was actually a little perturbed, in that the script writers had him point guns at people on a few occassions when it wasn't necessary to do so, and on one occassion, pointlessly gratuitous.


It's interesting, in that H'wood writers seem to feel that guns are primarily plot devices to have one character compell another to take (or not take) a certain action.


Be on the lookout for the amazing "click click click click" glock in the finale!

 

[VirgilCaine]

"It shoots bullets really really fast"--that's hilarious. I'll have to watch that and see what the Left Sock does.