Gun Movie screw ups....

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I like Law & Order a lot, but the other night, watched an episode where a man shoots a teenage kid in the neck with a little .25 ACP gun. Problem is, the bullet supposedly went through both sides of the kid's neck and then killed a little girl like 50 feet behind him. If it was Steven Seagal doing wonders in Under Siege 3, I wouldn't even think about it...but I'm afraid people might believe it from L&O.
 
in csi miami
1. "murder weapon is kimber revolver"
2. "ah its a ruger, should be easy to find rugers are rare"-gp100 hahaha
3. ".223 caliber" picture shows 10/22
4. a sniper wearing full ghillie suit uses ".223 caliber rifle with saboted ammo so theres no markings on bullet" to make 800 yard headshots from atop a building. what do you sabot in a .223, 17hmr?
5. horatio is in constant giunbattles and doesnt wear a bulletproof vest
6. calleigh has a 6000 dollar tikit1911.]
 
in csi miami
1. "murder weapon is kimber revolver"
2. "ah its a ruger, should be easy to find rugers are rare"-gp100 hahaha
3. ".223 caliber" picture shows 10/22
4. a sniper wearing full ghillie suit uses ".223 caliber rifle with saboted ammo so theres no markings on bullet" to make 800 yard headshots from atop a building. what do you sabot in a .223, 17hmr?
5. horatio is in constant giunbattles and doesnt wear a bulletproof vest
6. calleigh has a 6000 dollar tikit1911.]

i never watched csi miami and i dont plan to start now but thanks for giving me another reason not to
 
sparks

Either Chuck Norris drives a truck with Ablative armor
or it is solid steel and the baddies are using steel ammo.
or everyone's rounds have flint in them
Every time they shoot that truck of his ANYWHERE I see sparks fly. even the plastic parts! :evil:
Did I just out myself that I have watched a Walker Texas Ranger or two?
Or my personal favorite holstering your weapon to MIX IT UP with the baddie. Good call! I'm not going to just arrest you 12, I am going to kung fu you profusely while you each loiter menacingly close but wait your turn for the trouncing. LMAO:cool:
 
In the recent movie "The Happening" there is a scene where a woman shoots herself with a dropped handgun. You never see anything but her feet and the gun as she lifts it. Just before the sound of the gunshot you can hear the gun being cocked...kinda nifty for the striker-fired weapon they showed! (Ok,so I'm nit-picky)
 
Re the alledged Glock 7....

Great! a ceramic gun to beat metal detectors!

er, what are the bullets & cases made from? jello?
 
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

Out loud? I am a gun guy who counts shots... But if you are watching a movie in a theatre you need to keep quiet. That would be exceedingly rude.
 
Let's see: In The Matrix as mentioned, Neo is shooting a pair of Skorpions, but the .223 brass is from the M16A2s the security guards are shooting. There's so much brass flying you have to go in slo-mo and watch what goes where. The Skorp brass wouldn't be falling at his feet anyway!

Furthermore, the scene where Agent Smith puts the .50 Deagle to Neo's chest and touches off a shot- in slo-mo from an overhead view- you can clearly see the next round being fed into the chamber is a crimped blank.

Now, to Matrix Reloaded, the scene where Neo, MOrpheus & Trinity are at The Merovingian's castle rescuing the Keymaker and The Merovingian and his henchmen discover them. All the henchmen open up on Neo with a wide variety of fully automatic weapons ranging from pistol caliber subguns to full rifles, and Neo freezes the bullets in midair, and then causes them to drop to the floor.
All the bullets are the same regardless of actual caliber or type of gun that was shooting, and all are fresh, shiny, and bear no rifling marks or any indication they were ever fired.

Hellboy's Samaritan revolver, which has the relief cuts in the cylinder over the CARTRIDGES, so we the audience can see the pretty shells, but which would explode if ever actually fired due to no case support.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day where John Conner and the Terminator are arguing behind the gas station about wether or not going to rescue Sarah is a good plan, the mullet-head guy comes over to "save" Conner and Terminator nearly punches his ticket- Terminator and Conner argue about killing- in the switching of shots, the hammer on the 1911 is up-down-up-down...
 
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.

Yea, JWarren.. I thought the effect fun to watch if you can suspend a little reality to enjoy an Angelina movie.. but my first worry was the less than educated in the field of physics who might try this 'shot' with their cousin... J
 
I'm willing to ignore everything Stephen King 'took liberties with' in the Dark Tower series. Afterall, all the guns are aqquired in parallel universes. Couldn't a .44 Ruger or a SAA with a swing-out cylinder exist somewhere?

As for hellboys gun, couldn't it use the cartridges themselves as pressure chambers, similar to the 40mm HV grenades in a MK19?
 
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Eh, I guess you're right. Slip Parallel Universes into the mix and arguing about gun inaccuracies seems superflorous.
 
Not exactly gun related but I thought the heat seeking missile in XXX with Vin Diesel was incredibly stupid. You can show wanton sex, gratuitous violence but you absolutely must make sure that the man smoking the cigarette is targeted with an anti-tank missile. :scrutiny:

Yup, no bias there. :barf:
 
Aside from the ludicrous liberties they take with gun use in the movies, the item that drives me the most crazy is the repeated hammer cocking, and slide racking that takes place.

In Heroes last week, HRG (Bennett) is hot on the trail of 2 people, he is ACTIVELY pursuing them, but only when he spots some blood on a fence, does he then proceed to rack the slide and chamber a round.

Also it happens in every movie and tv show, when the good guys think the bad guy is around the corner, then, and only then will they cock the hammer and ready to fire.

STUPID.

But then it helps that most of the viewers probably don't know much about using guns. :rolleyes:
 
I've seen so many gun mistakes in movies in my life, but I will just mention the most recent. I caught the end of "What About Bob" on TV yesterday. Richard Dryfus holds Bill Murray at gun point with what is clearly a 12 guage over-under shotgun. Bill Murray asks, "Where did you get a rifle?"...
 
saw a heat seeking 40mm grenade launcher in The Punisher last night.
I saw a Beretta (looked like a chrome or stainless 92) blow someone's head "clean off" in the same movie. Used to be Dirty Harry bragged his S&W 29 could do that, but he never managed to pull it off. Stevenson handled an M4 pretty well, and reloaded often with it and his pistols. I actually appreciated that part - he never seemed to shoot any gun (and he had many) any more than a normal mag would hold before reloading, and his reloading skills were pretty good, IMO.
 
I don't recall which show it was, as I watch a lot of crime/detective shows. But there was one, where the detective drew his semi-auto pistol, pulls the slide back, fires one shot at bad guy, runs around the corner, PULLS THE SLIDE BACK, fires another shot at bad guy.

DOH! :banghead:

No wonder, these Hollywierd liberals are against guns, they don't know the first thing about them!
 
The one that haunts me, Tombstone, Doc firing 3 shots from a double barrel at the OK coral, one up to scare the horse, then shot twice more. Proceeded to use his two pistols like machine guns. Not cool...
 
I don't know what movie it might have been, but I remember a guy firing a full auto rifle dry. When he got past the last round, the hammer continued to 'click' in full auto rhythm. Click, click, click, click... several per second for several seconds until he decided to let off the trigger.
 
Couldn't a .44 Ruger or a SAA with a swing-out cylinder exist somewhere?

Surprised it hasn't been done already. There's loads of "updated" Western style revolvers in other modern calibers.
 
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