Funny Movie Gaffes - BP usage is the last, best

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Last night, after replacing our Blu-Ray/DVD player; my wife, my son and I sat down and watched "Last Stand"; a really bad Schwarzenegger movie; that my son picked out.
(Hey, my son is 17 and male, so Schwarzenegger movies still appeal)

Anyway, "Ahh-nold's" character is is former LAPD officer who wanted "a more relaxed life" and moved to SW Arizona and became the Sheriff of "Sommerton County", with the County Seat being "Sommerton Crossing".

All kinds of 'liberty' is taken in that last sentence.... There's only one 'm' in Somerton (which really exists), the "town scenes" looked NOTHING like Somerton, there's another town between Somerton and the Border (San Luis, Arizona), the area is actually YUMA County (Yuma get's mentioned about twice in the whole movie), and I have to say there was exactly ONE (1) cute female deputy in "Sommerton Crossing" and Yuma County SO has several more than that!
And part of the storyline includes FBI agents looking at a "satellite view" of a temporary bridge built across a canyon that purportedly is the border between Sommerton County and Mexico. Laughed my a** off at this... The satellite picture looked suspiciously like the TEXAS/Mexico borderline; and there is nothing even remotely looking like a "deep, narrow canyon" within maybe 75-100 miles east or west. Oh, yeah: Yuma Valley farmers would be AMAZED at how much CORN is grown down there (at least in this alternate reality)! NOT!

But here's the part that got me; and it's COMPLETELY changing my mind about the 'superiority' of the Remington NMA over Col. Colt's open-top revolvers. One of the "baddies" was carrying a Walker (the only BP firearm in the movie); and that sucker was GREAT! Mr Bad Guy fired that Walker 17 times (I counted) between reloads in one fight scene! And forget about "the best size caps"; the Walker DIDN'T NEED ANY AT ALL on its nipples, EVER!!! :eek:

Gotta love Hollywood... it's SO informative! :D
 
You think they could train an actor to just simulate reloading a black powder firearm. All the actor has to do is pull the ramrod back up the barrel or work the reloading lever on a revolver would be better than they have, but you don't even get that. You can't even get them to half cock the hammer and open the loading gate on a Colt peacemaker.

I've done given up. :cuss:
 
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The premise behind the movie was good - anybody living on our Southern border (like I have for now 52 years) knows that the "#1 bad guy" (ostensibly the youngest Mexican drug capo) could sneak back across the border, either San Luis or Algodones B.C., if he was very lucky in not coming across a roving CBP crew.

But everything else made it into a farce for anybody who has lived here long enough and is even marginally aware of the concept of "situational awareness". Made for a "high-drama comedy".
 
It was a stupid movie. Just big, stupid fun. Johnny Knoxville was funny and stupid.
At least, they gave the old lady that Uberti 1873 Cattleman Carbine.

Yeah, it was a pretty stupid movie. I viewed it as a comedy and as such, it was better than
many. Arnold's movies have always been stupid. Just like Stallone's. Well, except for Rocky and the last Rambo.
 
Jaymo said:
It was a stupid movie. Just big, stupid fun. Johnny Knoxville was funny and stupid.
At least, they gave the old lady that Uberti 1873 Cattleman Carbine.

Yeah, it was a pretty stupid movie. I viewed it as a comedy and as such, it was better than
many. Arnold's movies have always been stupid. Just like Stallone's. Well, except for Rocky and the last Rambo.
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The last Rambo?
 
I've got to remind myself that movies are bankrolled and produced on our eastern and western coasts by very liberal thinking people that have little interest in accuracy.
It doesn't bother them in the least that there is a large group of people between the coasts that have some knowledge of history and firearms.
To sight an example:
My wife and I took a year off in 1976/1977 to tour the U.S. and spent a lot of time in San Antonio I of course spent a week studying the battle of the Alamo. Not that long afterward I re-watched the movie "The Alamo" with John Wayne and could not finish it due to the long list of B.S.
 
Pancho said:
I've got to remind myself that movies are bankrolled and produced on our eastern and western coasts by very liberal thinking people that have little interest in accuracy.
It doesn't bother them in the least that there is a large group of people between the coasts that have some knowledge of history and firearms.
To sight an example:
My wife and I took a year off in 1976/1977 to tour the U.S. and spent a lot of time in San Antonio I of course spent a week studying the battle of the Alamo. Not that long afterward I re-watched the movie "The Alamo" with John Wayne and could not finish it due to the long list of B.S.
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while i understand where your coming from, personally i have to accept certain problems with some of my fav shows or else i wouldnt be able to enjoy them… like the outlaw josie wales, hell on wheels etc. some do a better job than others, but unless its completely ridiculous to me i'll let it slide ;-)
Gene
 
It came out 2009, IIRC. It's set in Myanmar.
I really liked it. It was much grittier than the previous ones.
I've watched First Blood too many times to cound.
Brian Dennehy was very good at playing someone you hate.
David Caruso sure was young in that one.

I enjoyed The Expendables and The Expendables 2.
Big, stupid fun.
And, they had a Rokon in the second one.
Too bad they destroyed it.
 
I belong to a little group of retirees who take in a matinee every Monday, so we saw "The Stand" in the theater. It was only $5 and we all thought it mildly entertaining.

This was Arnold first leading role since leaving the Governator's office and I don't think it did very well at the box office. It wasn't any worse than some of his other movies back in the day, it's just that he's not a top name action star any more.

Let's face it, one doesn't expect to see a docudrama or Lawrence of Arabia when they go to an "Ahnold" movie. They go for car chases, over the top gun play, and lots of crap blowing up. The movie adequately delivered most of that--not to mention the use of a Thompson M1921AC, a .308 Vickers machine gun, and a Colt 1st model Dragoon. (not a Walker since it had a latched loading lever and the wedge was on the left side although it could have been a Whitneyville-Hartford Dragoon)

Cheers
 
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For what it is worth, I have two family members who are US Army Special Forces members (Green Berets) and neither of them are thrilled at either Sylvester Stallone's or John Wayne's Hollywood versions of what they do for a living. Neither are accurate in the tempermant nor skills involved in being a special person. They both speak very good English as well as a couple other languages too.
 
why would anyone watch a movie with anti 2a actors? why would you put more money in their pockets, so can give it to anti gun politicians. stallone -anti gun jim carrey etc
 
When I see movies with names like Arnold, Sylvester, Bruce and the likes of them, the last thing I expect to see is anything real. I turn off my brain and just enjoy the splosions and one-liners. Did you guys see the scene in RED where Helen Mirren tied off the trigger on that M2 sitting on a 5 foot tripod and just walked away from it to rock and roll the day away? That tripod was for a camera or something yet it could hold a 140 lbs .50 caliber machinegun under full recoil. That makes me laugh everytime I think about it.
 
Oddly enough the most realistic and honest firearm work I've seen come out has been in the ARCHER cartoon series.
 
I've watched a few zombie movies recently and its a real shame that in the zombie movies they do more reloading, conserve ammunition and keep track of their rounds better then most of the western movies.

And for any nonbelievers that think that zombies do not exist, just walk into any business or government office at 5 PM, you'll see first hand the dead waking up. ;)
 
I tried watching it on NetFlix - made it up to where Ahnold demanded to know, "You got a permit for that cannon?' to a guy OPEN CARRYING a Smith X frame revolver. I will note they DID show a realistic AZ CCW permit...but there is none needed to open OR conceal carry in this state...I'm glad I didn't watch the rest of it, if it was that badly done - my state gets enough insults as it is.
 
Yup, the CCW card was very authentic-looking; and made my poor old original issue look like it's 150 years old. As for the rest of it; comical. Even more so for me as it purportedly took place 17-1/2 miles from my living room.

Actually, in their most recent movies, all three of the "action characters" (Ah-nold, Stallone and Willis) have been working with scripts that had them making fun of themselves and their characters. Gotta love watching these guys when they're doing that; rather than being "serious heroes" that are supposed to be invincible.
(And Malchovic is still my favorite actor in Red/Red2
 
Malkovich was damned funny in Red/Red2.

I liked First Blood and the last Rambo.
I never saw Rambo 3.
Rambo 2 was bad enough. "Ahm comin ta get you."

What I liked was Joe Mantenga outing so many of the closet gun owners in Hollyweird.
 
Watched a TV movie where the bad guy murdered the local landowner with a Flintlock shotgun that didn't have a Flint in the jaws.The gun report was like that of 38 nitro.When I scoffed at the poor direction, her indoors said it did,nt matter since normal people know nothing about Guns.The inference "normal people" did,nt go unnoticed.
 
Crawdad1 said:
I've watched a few zombie movies recently and its a real shame that in the zombie movies they do more reloading, conserve ammunition and keep track of their rounds better then most of the western movies.
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Zombie movies often have a sub theme of scarcity. I've you made a big deal out of finding a box of 9mm you cannot blow through 100 rounds in the next scene.
 
One thing that I did see in a movie that impressed me was the scene in Glory where Matthew Broderick's character blew the sand out of the cylinder of his Colt before continuing. That was a touch of realism.
 
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