Good gun handling skills of movie stars.

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the collateral clip is sped up. watch a clip of the scene on youtube and if you still think it isn't you need to get your eyes checked and re-evaluate your ability to make cognitive decisions, or become an NFL ref.
 
"Way of the Gun" has some great gun handling. Lots of good tactical movement, reloads, both with pistols and rifles.
 
I think they put a lot of effort into the scenes of "The Kingdom". After getting an unexpected unprotected earful from a .50, I kinda understand the females issue with the noise.
 
Thell Reed was the Armorer for "TOMBSTONE". His expertise in handling a sixgun helped many of the actors including Val Kilmer's Doc Holiday.
Being used to standard firearms safety rules it felt odd to watch actors practicing twirling, drawing, and dry firing alot. But they got used to handling their guns like it was second nature real fast. Nothing else to do for hours sometimes.
 
then your computer is slow, buddy because i just cued up the scene on my dvd player and compared. the tell tale parts are the initial misdirection of BG #1's gun hand and his reholstering at the end. i don't want to derail this thread so ....

i think the gun handling in the professional was pretty nice.
 
Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 repeatedly cocking the pump action shotgun with one hand was almost as good as the legendary John Wayne and his Winchester at the end of True Grit – well almost.
 
Blood Diamond

Leo DiCaprio shows some great gun handling at the end of Blood Diamond with some controled semi-auto pairs using an AK47.

Someone already mentioned Street Kings, but what impressed me in that movie were the magazine changes from Keanu Reeves.
 
Someone already mentioned Street Kings, but what impressed me in that movie were the magazine changes from Keanu Reeves.
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I mentioned it in post #2. I don't get the opening scene with Reeves waking up. Why would he insert a mag into his 1911, then check the chamber to see the loaded round without racking the slide? Why keep one in the chamber and remove the magazine before going to sleep?
 
Lil miss Angelina Jolie, sure has developed her shooting skills from tomb raider to the point she could curve the bullet in wanted...... gun handling and actual shooting are really different.
 
the collateral clip is sped up. watch a clip of the scene on youtube and if you still think it isn't you need to get your eyes checked and re-evaluate your ability to make cognitive decisions, or become an NFL ref.
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Different browser engines will render the gif's speed differently. Internet Explorer will render the gif at a slower pace than Mozilla Firefox. This is most likely what is causing the discrepency you folks are seeing. Nobody's crazy.
 
I've always thought that the gun handling on NCIS was pretty good. In a few episodes they do have finger on trigger and others they show Gibbs saying screw 3 shots assess i'm shooting till hes down.
 
In this week's episode of Sighting In with Shooting USA, they had Taran Butler, who trains actors on realistic firearms skills. He said he got mentored by Nick Gould who worked on Collateral.

They showed Tom Cruise practicing that shooting from retention move from post #14 at an outdoor range at full-speed with live ammo on paper up close. Then they showed him doing it again at full-speed, but in costume and in front of a gray curtain. Not sure what is up with that - maybe it was a practice run before the real thing. In any case, Tom Cruise got some major training, practiced a lot and that was full-speed in Collateral.

The episode link is here, but it doesn't go into much depth - http://www.shootingusa.com/SIGHTING_IN_SHOWS/28-05_TARAN/28-05_taran.html

Oh yea, he said that they worked on Miami Vice and the Kingdom. The Kingdom was decent - have to go watch Miami Vice now. :)
 
I have Miami Vice on DVD, I just skip to the big gunfight at the end now.

When I'm in an airport, bored, and don't feel like getting into a whole movie, I just put in DVD after DVD, watch the good scenes, and move on, like the mass-spread of the Rage virus scene from "28 Weeks Later", with the rooftop snipers and their M14s.
 
Not really handling, but I just watched "Heroes" and it bugs me that everyone in the show carries an IPSC 2011. I have to post it here because when I told my gf, she looked at me with that "shut up dork" look.
 
The two greatest cowboy gunslingers were Alan Ladd and Audie Murphy. They were both good and very fast with real guns, and everyone in Hollywood at the time wondered who would win if they were in an actual gunfight with each other.
 
"Way of the Gun" is a good one, one of the better ones.
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It took three pages for it to be mentioned? Personally, I think the movie sucks. I just watch the gunplay. Well worth the $5 I paid for it.

As far as finger discipline and reloads, I've always been more impressed with anime. I cant watch Ghost in the Shell without fussing about a cartoon having better gun handling than hollywood.
 
John Wayne on horseback in True Grit with a lever action Winchester in one hand and a Colt in the other right after he tells the bad guys, "fill your hands you Sons of Bitches". And Val Kilmer in Tombstone in his duel with Johnny Ringo and the insuing headshot.
 
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