Gun Movie screw ups....

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Boondock Saints II...

Where do I even start?


If only the army knew that one guy with two horribly balanced long-slide pistols can outshoot 5 guys with SMGs- and have unlimited ammo! You don't even have to aim when you're badass enough

 

[7.62 Nato]

Just about every action movie has things blowing up or sparks flying anywhere bullets hit. How about the guys that take cover behind the turned over dinning room table and never get hit.

Not like when Charles Bronson in "Death Wish" shoots the guy in the park through the boombox.

 

[Prion]

Shooter, been awhile but I think I remember correctly. Swagger is running during his siege of the bad guys compound with an M4. He is running and shooting when he drops a mag, slams home a fresh one, pulls the charging handle, a round is ejected, and he hits the bolt relase. If anyone owns it they could double check it for me. I'm no expert, tactical reload or Hollywood fail?

 

[Zip7]

One of the worst screw ups is when that guy Ramon tells Clint Eastwood that a man with a rifle will always kill the man with a pistol in a fight.. because you just know Clint is going to make him eat them words!

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

Smith in I am Legend is a military colonel, hence why he has M4s, an M249 and a MK 23.

 

[conhntr]

i hate the holly wood clutch shots. ballad of ricky bobby or any of the fast and furious movies.
half the shifts dont make any sense.

 

[Jubjub]

3:10 to Yuma was particularly pathetic. It supposedly took place a few years after the Civil War, but Crowe's gun was an 1873 Peacemaker, one of many shown. Also shown were an 1882 Spencer pump shotgun and a Colt 1878 double shotgun. Dynamite is also featured, though it was not in use in the United States at the time.

 

[carbuncle]

I just finished rereading "'salem's Lot" by Stephen King, it holds up but I got pulled out of the narrative when Ben Mears finds a .38 police revolver on the ground and makes sure the safety is on before he puts it in his pocket...SK just isn't a gun guy...

 

[Full Metal Jacket]

revolvers that click when the cylinder is open and spun.

glocks that make a hammer cocking noise....



val kilmer as doc holiday in Tombstone fires like 25 rounds out of his pair of six shooters at the OK Corral...

 

[navyretired 1]

James Bond blows a helocopter out of the sky with an Armalite AR-7 22 LR. But Q did say it was a 22 hornet with explosive ammo?

 

[FenderTK421]

Tom Berenger in Sniper 2 or 3 extols the virtues of the Mauser 98'. While listing said wonderful history and characteristics he is actually showing the audience a Mosin Nagant...

 

[Equestrian]

how about in transporter 3 when statham dodges dozens of rounds by hiding behind a train bench seat got to get some of that Hollywood bullet proof foam

 

[skidooman]

No Country For Old Men, silenced Shotgun...

 

[rha600]

I like how someone will have a gun pointed at "the bad guy" for like 10 minutes and then to impress upon him just serious they are, they rack the slide.

ummm, so for the last 10 minutes you've had that gun pointed at the gun with no round in the chamber? haha.


also, I posted this in another thread, butif anyone has read the Bourne series books, Jason Bourne is constantly shooting a suppressed revolver.

 

[Ronsch]

Not so much movies, but...

The History Channel had a special about Bonnie and Clyde. They had some good weapons firing (the B.A.R and Thompson) but in one scene showing the actor portraying Clyde was firing a Beretta 92/M9 9mm. I am pretty sure that particular firearm was not carried by Clyde...nor yet invented. It was definitely not a 1934 Beretta either, as Clyde would have been dead before it was released to the general public.

 

[Tommygunn]

They had some good weapons firing (the B.A.R and Thompson)

It seems to be necessary under some obscure Hollyweird edict to portray Bonnie & Clyde with Thompsons. Yes the notorious Tommy gun was around, but Bonnie and Clyde did not use them. They did use the BAR as they stole them from a National Guard armory and shortened the stock, and Clyde refered to them as "Whippit" guns.
But, no Thompsons.

 

[Mr.Davis]

The Book of Eli -

Eli's HK45 fires about 30 shots without a reload during the street shootout scene. He also manages to shoot people at 100 yards or better with one-shot headshot kills using "point shooting" techniques and only one hand on the gun.

He also shucks the action on his sawed-off shotgun about a million times before actually taking a shot. Of course, the previously chambered round magically disappears instead of popping out.

There were more gun errors in that movie, but I gave them leeway since there such a nice variety of weapons was featured, including M4/M16s, Beretta 92FS, Browning Hi-Power, AKs, a Winchester Trench Gun. FALs, MP5s, MP7, and other more exotic rifles, including and an 1800s era Gatling Gun.

 

[ol' scratch]

In Road to Perdition, Tom Hanks walks into the bathroom to kill the piece of crap who killed his family. He walks into the bathroom, aims his 1911 and shoots the guy in the bathtub. The slide doesn't cycle. Also, in Saving Private Ryan, the Garands don't have lock bar sights.

 

[Jonah71]

Even as a little kid I knew that in the Rat Patrol (not a movie of course) you were not going to fire hundreds of rounds from a 50 cal machine gun and then reach up....grab the barrel to help aim it.