Gun Movie screw ups....

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Let's go right back to Saving Private Ryan.

The same Sniper says "Two clicks left" and then turns the objective lens instead of the crosshairs turret.
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I was under the impression that he says, "about two hundred yard to that tower.." let me check on that though.


pfft, never mind. oh well, I thought it was cool that he was a leftie.
 
shame on Arnold

I'll bet this isn't the first for him but in the Dirty Harry Special Edition 2-Disc an interview with Arnold has him talking about Harry's ".357 magnum".
Come'on Arnold, surely you watched it before the interview.:mad:

More proof Arnold doesn't know what he's talking about is that he thinks Harry was eating a hambuger, wrong, it was a hotdog.
 
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How about ammo mistakes? Like when every round that his a car, wall, pavement, whatever, throws off a shower of sparks. Just looks so dumb, to me.

Bullet proof sofas are another one.

Everything is different in Hollywood!
 
A pet peeve for me is cocking for emphasis or punctuation, often including continuity error such as the 1911 that has just been fired but now magically is hammer down so it may be cocked for drama's sake. Way too common for citations.
 
How about in the first Matrix in the lobby shoot out Neo has two scorpion pistols (.32) then the camera pans to the ground to show the shells as they hit the floor and they are rifle casings. Possibly .223 or larger!:rolleyes:
 
I just watched Mission Impossible III.

A few I noticed:

Tom Cruise is asked how many rounds he has, he drops the mag, looks and says "enough". He fires once from an HK sub-machine gun and the bad guy is catapulted back through a window. Apparently when he looked at his mag, it was empty, and he assumed his chamber was not.

He also blew up a helicopter with a burst from a short-barelled HK G36.

Good shootin' Tex! :D
 
How about the obscene ammo capacities in Equilibrium? And the semi and fully automatic pistols with no muzzle climb? Good movie, had some valid concepts that can be translated to reality, but reloading in that movie was just done for emphasis.

Not to get off topic, but if you picked apart the plots of some firearms-related movies, you'd also see lunacy in how characters react to situations. For example, in The Matrix, people taking their good sweet time to answer the phone and get to safety, or ignoring the bum in the subway station despite knowing full well he's the ONE opportunity for an agent to get the drop on them.

On the original poster's comment about left-handed sharpshooters, being left-handed does not convey any real disadvantage when firing an unadapted gun, except for those with highly unusual cartridge ejectors or those with offset scopes. Even offset scopes are not a big deal in most cases.
 
I like to sit back and enjoy the entertainment. Its the movies guys. I even saw the leading actor get shot in 2 movies in 1 evening and in the 2nd movie he was all healed.
 
In one scene from Die Hard 2, Bruce Willis makes several blunders:

1- It is a Glock 7.
2- It is made of porcelin.
3- It costs more than you make in a month.

I sure would not want a porcelin Glock 7, but if I did, hopefully it would not cost a couple thousand dollars!
 
The next screw up was in 3:10 to Yuma....the crippled cowpoke with the old springfield trapdoor during the whole movie keeps shucking the lever like its a henry rifle...it's a single shot gun...no tube magazine here bud....just pull the hammer back and shoot the darn thing....its not a lever gun....

Actually it's a Spencer repeating rifle, has a 7 shot magazine in the butt stock. Also used by Morgan Freeman in "Unforgiven".
 
I like it when Glocks "click". There are some sound editing mistakes that sounds like pulling the "hammer" back, or when the mag is empty, they just keep pulling th trigger and hearing clicks like you would on a DA wheelgun. Its to the point where my wife will beat me to it, lean over and say "i know,I know, it doesn't really do that".
 
In one scene from Die Hard 2, Bruce Willis makes several blunders:

1- It is a Glock 7.
2- It is made of porcelin.
3- It costs more than you make in a month.

I sure would not want a porcelin Glock 7, but if I did, hopefully it would not cost a couple thousand dollars!
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1: according to glock, the glock 7 doesnt exist. they have specifically stated that they have never made a metal-less glock.
2: porcelain is chemically the same thing as ceramic. it would not be optimal, but if you want it to beat a metal detector, it would do.
3: it would probably actually cost more than that. ceramics with that kind of strength would probably be complicated to manufacture. not to mention the springs.

finally, those would be writing blunders, not bruce's.
 
i don't have any movie examples. but I remember a stephen king novel. It was one in the "dark tower" series. A character named "roland" is a gunslinger, like in the wild west. ie he carries two SAA revolvers(sixguns). In one scene, he falls asleep on a beach and when he wakes up, the waves are on him and all his ammo is ruined because it got wet. LOL

So he unloads the wet cartridges by "swinging out the cylinder" and dumping out the wet cartridges.
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Some of the ammo got wet, not all of it. I don't remember it ever being declared Roland used gate-loading revolvers, they're always just called revolvers. In The Drawing of the Three he goes into a gun shop in NYC, looks in a Shooter's Bible and IIRC he picks out .44 Magnum cartridges or something.

The first was in Saving Private Ryan and there are really two screw ups here...the first thing I noticed was that the slackjawed sniper (who I loved by the way) was left handed shooting a right handed rifle...Now I'm not saying there were no left handed shooters, maybe there were a bunch, but it seemed to me that lefty sharp shooters wouldn't be the norm...
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No, the screw up is that in the final battle, when he has the windowsill right there to rest the rifle on, he still reaches all the way around the gun and cycles the bolt with his left hand instead of with his right, which would be much faster.
 
I think westerns are full of shooting inaccuracies. But that Rifleman sure could shoot from the hip.
 
Actually, Roland picked out .45 Colt ammo out of the Shooter's Bible while he was controling the crazy man who pushed Odetta Holmes into the way of the subway train.

And yes, King was sure that Roland used SAA revolvers, but there are a few times where King messes up and uses non SAA terms.

Don't get me started on the "Ruger .44 Magnum Auto" that Jake used....

Stephen King was a great author while he was abusing substances. Once he got clean, his writing went down hill. I don't like him as a person, but his old writing is pretty good. And The Dark Tower is a great series.
 
No, the screw up is that in the final battle, when he has the windowsill right there to rest the rifle on, he still reaches all the way around the gun and cycles the bolt with his left hand instead of with his right, which would be much faster.
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Nah, it's not a screwup. Maybe not the most efficient motion, but not a screwup. People tend to do what they're used to, particularly in crunch situations. Consistency is also important to being able to do something without thinking. And it also has to do with the angle of the pull. I'm left-handed. Even supported I won't normally use my right hand for the pull because the left arm, being the outside arm, can pull it closer to straight back than the right arm, which is completely angle-locked by the body.
 
Not a "screw-up," per se, but still...

The recent movie "Wanted"


My wife had to practically restrain me physically every time they "curved" the bullet.


-- John
 
the crippled cowpoke with the old springfield trapdoor during the whole movie keeps shucking the lever like its a henry rifle
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actually your wrong, im pretty sure its supposed to be a spencer. tube was in the but.

what about in robocop? theres a part where he uses the mocked up barret to destroy the bad robot cop. the blank jammed the gun.
 
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.
 
well because in hollywood sofas and kitchen tables are bulletproof.

no specific movie comes to mind at the moment but i have pissed off several folks in the theaters as i always count to see how many shots are fired before theres a reload... 9 times out of 10 u dont see the reload at all
 
I think it is easy to pick on the mistakes, but it is amazing that a lot of them get it right a lot of the times.
 
going back to Saving Private Ryan, How about when the sniper takes off the smaller scope and fits on the huge Unertl scope and makes the 400yd or w/e shot and manages to hit the other sniper in the eye without zero-ing in the scope first.
 
You guys are right...it was a Spencer....Man I thought that was a Trapdoor....sorry...
 
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