Gun Movie screw ups....

[Tyrannosaurus]

CoRoMo,

Could that be Predator? In that case, it was a minigun (made by General Electric), that would have behaved that way, if it were a real minigun.

http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Firearms/Machine-Guns/GE_XM214_Minigun.htm

Deer Hunter, that link was hilarious!

 

[deaconkharma]

thanks Deer hunter!

That was pretty funny
had to forward that one to some of my other buddies

 

[Claude Clay]

Deer Hunter

thank you for that which i had [thankfully] forgotten.
Mad TV with guns

 

[oklahoma caveman]

It's still make believe. We all like movies with firearms, but reality is not their agenda.
What I hate are the stars who are against our gun ownership, but will make a movie AND money off of movies where guns play a major role.

exactly! thats why i refuse to pay a dime to watch a kevin costner movie. robert redford as about as bad. the list goes on an on

 

[ZRX61]

If you think the gun screw ups are bad they've nothing compared to aircraft/historical screw ups.
I work on WWII aircraft & that comedy called Pearl Harbor with that halfwit Affleck is just one big eff up from beginning to end.

 

[Archie]

Usually not so bad, but...

CSI: NYC had an episode wherein one plot device utilized was the 'murder bullets' (from a .38 Special revolver) were found to be magnetized. Not only the bullets were magnetic, but the casings were magnetic as well. In fact, the whole dadburn revolver had been magnetized by being in close proximity to an MRI device in the doctor's office!

Just for the tally books, neither lead nor gilding metal (bullet jackets) nor cartridge brass can be magnetized. Nor am I aware of any current manufacturers of .38 Special ammunition who use steel casings. I suppose that's possible, but very unlikely.

Not to mention there are very few MRI devices in doctor's offices.

 

[MedWheeler]

Jeez.. I can't count the number of revolvers with silencers on them I've seen, particularly during daytime soaps (my ex used to be hooked on 'em.)
Also, someone mentioned aircraft. I loved "Behind Enemy Lines", but one scene always bugs me: While on a recon photo flight, Burnett (the RSO) tells his pilot Stackhouse that the "scope shows activity in that wooded area to our left." The scene switches to their purported view out the canopy glass, with the forest moving from the left of the screen to the right. This means they are clearly looking out the right side of the F-18 Super Hornet..

 

[rockhound758]

Yeah, too many of these "scenes" to count, and while they ARE entertainment, I think we're just saying "how about being accurate while you're at it?".

My pet peeve is when there's no recoil...seems like it happens a lot with handguns but also assault rifles...nothing but flashes.

That said, there ARE some scenes where they got it right. Seems to me that the final scene in Saving Private Ryan (where Hanks is shooting at the Panzer (?) with his 1911) depicted the recoil pretty accurately. Up and kind of torquey...

So on that note...here's a question...what are some notable examples of gun movie ACCURATE DEPICTIONS? There have to be some...

 

[withdrawn34]

Poor weapons handling and the constant slide racking... just rewatched Air Force One the other day

 

[johncantiusgarand]

I do have to say that "The Way of the Gun" was refreshing. The story itself left little to admire, but the gun-handling was the most realistic I've ever seen out of Hollywood.

 

[Tommygunn]

CSI Miami from Monday, Dec 8,'08 had a thrown double action revolver that had just been fired (empty chamber under hammer) land and discharge upon impact.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[HogManMagnum]

I do have to say that "The Way of the Gun" was refreshing. The story itself left little to admire, but the gun-handling was the most realistic I've ever seen out of Hollywood.

yup. one of the reasons i liked that movie so much. how they used the car doors... and how james caan won the gunfight with a 2" revolver and a coat pocket full of bullets

"One is backfire, three is gunplay"

 

[ZombieHunter]

lol i know it's off topic but in the monk xmas special there's a huge continuity issue when the girl is asking monk about his cardboard tree. from the front her arms are down...from the back they're crossed...

you'd think a show about an OCD detective would have caught that >.>

 

[jlh26oo]

I just saw the ultimate bourne this morning, and I.D.K. if this counts but at the end while he was holding the doctor at GLOCK-point, they faded to a flashback. When they returned from his memory, he is now holding the doctor at Sig-point. It was funny, we were even looking from bourne's perspective so you could see it change from ball-in-bucket to dot-the-i type sights.

 

[sixboysdad]

Gun Mistakes in Movies

Movies are entertainment

First off, this is debatable, depending on the movie.

Second, entertainment qualities (or the lack thereof) aside, movies are surely not meant to portray reality. If I want that, I will just go outside my little sheltered hole and experience it for myself.

And third, I dont' remember the name of the movie, it was that bad. I literally want that two hours back. But it was free, and I was deployed to the middle east when I saw it, so...

Anyway, the scene is this: Post-apocalyptic action movie. Good guy is running from the bad guys. He picks up a revolver (he has no gun or ammo of his own) which has been dropped by a baddie, and may or may not have been shot at least one time, I don't remember. He takes a bullet to the shoulder, and makes his woman keep running while he makes a stand so she can escape. He turns and fires (I counted, then went back and counted again) 16 shots without reloading. Good times, good times.
Seriously, this movie was so bad, every time the hero whipped his head around, there was a whooshing sound, and his knuckles cracked every time he made a fist. He was a karate guy as well as a gun guy, in this movie.

 

[Aaron12]

was watching mr and ms smith, they had pistols and they were using them as fully auto machine guns....

 

[Davek1977]

was watching mr and ms smith, they had pistols and they were using them as fully auto machine guns....

You mean, just like the Glock 18, which is fully capable of being shot full-auto while looking like a "normal" glock?

 

[qajaq59]

I'm not sure the World Wide Web is large enough to list all the screw ups in the movies.

 

[theken206]

"I do have to say that "The Way of the Gun" was refreshing. The story itself left little to admire, but the gun-handling was the most realistic I've ever seen out of Hollywood."

the directors bro was a SEAL and choreographed the shoot outs and taught handling and the like.

 

[8830]

I like the ending of Bad Boys 2 when Martin Lawrence starts to roll with a Sig P226 in his hand and when he pops up he shoots the guy in the head with a Glock 17.

 

[Mt Shooter]

Back to Private Ryan, no one as noticed this? When the Germans are coming and the princess is to hand out the ammo. You see him with belted rounds around his neck.....there are no primers in the bullets empty pockets.

 

[essayons21]

Blackhawk Down. Closeups of Nelson and Twomley's SAW and M60 show crimped case dummy rounds. Otherwise a fairly accurate movie.

I'm suprised nobody has mentioned the Rambo movies... 500 rd magazine for his M16A1, 2 feet of linked 7.62 lasts forever in his 60, not to mention it also blows up everything he shoots. I think the most recent rambo movie is first where he actually reloads (.50cal at the end), but he does it wrong, only charges it once.

 

[Tommygunn]

I can be forgiving of crimped blank rounds.
I spotted a number of these watching DVDs of the '60s series COMBAT! usually on German machine guns.
It's hollywood. They use blanks. You didn't really think they actually shot actors and had them available -- all healed up -- for next week's episode, did you??

 

[66912]

Ok, so I know that the majority of us probably love Clint's movie "The Gauntlet". I watched it again last night for the first time in about 10 years. Knowing what I know now, hear is what I saw......

After the house falls down (Yeah, I know) The cop next to the other cop with the bull horn says " I guess they should have given up" is holding is Browning hi-power in the ready position with a two handed grip with the slide locked back. Maybe he didn't notice.

During the last scene with the bus, (This is Hollywood, I know.) But if by some chance a situation like this did occur, How many friendly fire casualties would have resulted in that fiasco.

Same scene, You will see a cop aiming & firing what appears to be a model 70 with a very large scope at the bus while it is driving by......at less than 10 feet away! I am sure his sight picture may have been a little blurry. Just a side note, he had a heck of a time working his bolt as well.

I still love this classic, but hey, it's the little things that stand out.

 

[Claymore1500]

How about the movie "Underworld" (the vampire versus warewolf movie) the vampires are examining an irradiated round (they call it an ultra violet bullet) looks like a 9MM round with blue liquid in the bullet, and has little windows cut in the sides of the case to allow the audience a good look at the pretty blue bullet.