Gun Movie screw ups....

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Guns and movies. or rather Movies with devices portrayed to launch projectiles. How many times have you watched a movie with CG and the entire cartridge be shot not just the bullet? Not that common anymore but some of the cheaper movies will slip up on this.

The other is the amazing 100 yards shot with a small frame handgun that blows the BG's head off.
 
In the Terminator (the first one), cyborg number 2 fires his phased plasma rifle 16 times when any idiot knows, you need to recharge your plasma pack with a swift rotation of the thorax after 15 shots.

They are movies people! If gunnies called the shots movies would take 5 years to come out and would probably make less money for being less "COOOOOL MAN!" if heroes had to reload at regular intervals or were forbidden from manually cocking their glocks.

On the other hand...it is kinda fun to pick them apart :) One suprising movie is Evil Dead and Army of Darkness. Bruce Campbell was an extremely fast side by side reloader with his shotgun (but if you listen, he DID reload!)
 
I watched The Dark Knight yesterday (excellent movie, BTW!) and where (possible spoiler alert) Harvey Dent is with that family he cocks his revolver, then cocks it again a few seconds later.

I think there were a few other cases of repeated slide racking. Regardless, there was such a variety of firearms, all auto of course - including auto Glocks.
 
speaking of bad aircraft movies, "Firebirds" has to be the worst. Nothing is right in that movie, Nothing is even close. Basicly it sucked.
 
I watched "Monster" tonight - about the female serial killer in FL in the 80s. Great movie.

I was annoyed to see her using a post-2000 S&W 357 (it clearly had the IL). I looked it up and actually she used a crappy High-Standard .22!

Guess it wasn't mean enough looking for the producers/director!

Don't get me started about the crap in Law & Order!
 
All Glocks, even those used by mega-tactical badasses, have factory sights on them. Yuck! :D
 
James Bond = Dr No

Prior to Professor Dent’s assassination in Dr No, Bond tells him ‘That’s a Smith & Wesson. Professor, and you’ve had your six’ (shots). However, in the scene the gun Dent is holding is a Colt .45 Auto.

Also Bond is given a Walther PPK at the start of the film but uses a Browning 1910 .32 to kill Dent. This may have been used as it allows for easy connection to a silencer.
 
Also, in the strangers. When the protagonist gets the shotgun down, it starts out as a double barrel then somehow morphs into a pump gun. Wish I had a gun that could do that!
 
In an episode of family guy peter is out in the backyard shooting cd's like clays. you clearly see him break the shotgun open and insert 1 shell. He then fires it and proceeds to pump the gun once and fires it several more times without pumping or breaking it open to reload.
 
In an episode of family guy peter is out in the backyard shooting cd's like clays. you clearly see him break the shotgun open and insert 1 shell. He then fires it and proceeds to pump the gun once and fires it several more times without pumping or breaking it open to reload
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He must have been using Elmer Fudd's double barrel semiautomatic pump action shotgun from when he was hunting wabbit.
 
6. calleigh has a 6000 dollar tikit1911
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what is a tikit1911? I googled tikit and 1911 but didn't get anything.

As far as movies being entertaining so we should forgive firearms mistakes...

Yes, it is fine to let slide little thing like a shot count (maybe you are being shown the same shot from two angles, or maybe the guy reloads off-screen)

However, there are some mistakes that are so bad they take you out of the film and ruin the enjoyment.

For example: During a holdup scene at a gas station, the casheir hands the badguy a wad of bright orange monopoly $100s you are going to go '***?' and wonder 'am I supposed to think that is real money, or is the movie director trying to show the cashier is fooling the robber'

I do recall seeing a movie where a guy in tactical black/cat burglar outfit is running around all stealthy, and he is obviously carrying a paintball pistol at the ready. Cop confronts him and shoots. So, is this going to be a 'mistake' shoot where a kid playing games is killed and the cop goes before the review board, looses his job, takes up drinking yadda yadda, or is this 'one bad a$$ M.F. who shoots first and asks questions later, see how quick and easily he takes out that evil assasin?"
 
Dark Tower

I don't think that SK ever tells us directly that Roland's revolvers are SAA. It is revealed in Drawing of the Three that they are chambered for .45 Long Colt. We know later in the series that Roland's guns were forged from the remains of Arthur's Sword. That is why they are the key to Tower.

In terms of why the ammo was damaged when it got wet. At the start of the series Roland did not have manufactured ammo. Remember Roland came from a world that had "moved on" in "Wizards and Glass" it seems that technology is very much a lost art. It is unlikely that the ammunition Roland was carrying was manufactured to the standards that we have today.
 
I don't know why, but this just infuriates me.

In I am Legend, Will Smith is this super smart Doctor/Colonel and has the forethought to be super prepared. I mean, this guy has thought of EVERYTHING. Generators, super-duper sliding armored windows, food supplies (even for the dog), a complete laboratory in the basement, etc.

During one sequence that the baddies are breaking into his "super-duper" fortified house, he is running through the house firing his M4 at the baddies when "clink....clink....clink...clink....clink....." he runs out of ammo.

"clink...clink....clink....clink....clink.."?

I didn't know M4's had some kind of self powered firing pin that would automatically recock itself internally and strike numerous times. I always thought the slide locked back when empty.

The part that REALLY gets my goat is......

Does this "super-prepared", super smart, military veteran RELOAD? Does he even perform a function check?

NO! HE THROWS THE GUN AWAY in search of something else!

If you were carrying an M4, and you knew there were baddies coming after you, wouldn't it make sense to carry AT LEAST 1 MORE MAGAZINE?

Come on! IF he's so "super prepared" enough to have a complete laboratory in his basement, and remote control blast doors over the windows, you would think he'd have more than 30 rounds of ammo in the entire house! Even if he was stupid in just this ONE thing, wouldn't you think an empty rifle would be better than BARE FISTS?

Why did he toss the gun?

Even though "The Family" in The Omega Man is corny, I'm still going to stand by the Charlton Heston version of this movie.
 
I'm not sure the World Wide Web is large enough to list all the screw ups in the movies.
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Be a shorter list to just give the ones that get it right.

what is a tikit1911? I googled tikit and 1911 but didn't get anything.
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Poster is spelling challenged. The Tiki is a 1911 mutant from SVI with the wierdest idea for sights that has ever been foisted on the buying public. The titanium model is $6000, stainless only about $4000.
http://www.sviguns.com/tiki_pr.html
 
Superlite,

Not to mention he is stranded on Manhattan

And he has a full auto M4....?
Where did he find that?! or was the super smart doctor a felon too...?
 
And he has a full auto M4....?
Where did he find that?! or was the super smart doctor a felon too...?
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AHHHHH! It just hit me! The gun he got off of the black market......


.....but ammo must have had laser etched serial numbers! The tax was so high it must have cost about $5000 per bullet.

No wonder he had so little!
 
There's a Lone Ranger episode with John Hart in which a cavalryman who is in cahoots with a corrupt Indian agent ambushes the son of an Apache chief using a Krag Jorgensen. Not only does the anachronism stand out, but there is another obvious error: he uses an infantry rifle rather than a carbine.

That's not all. The soldier plans to shoot the Lone Ranger with a live cartridge in a staged firing squad execution which blanks are to be used. The plot is discovered and when the loaded Krag is opened, the live round has a spitzer bullet.
 
Another one from Saving Private Ryan.....
At the end, when the German soldier was upstairs in the house killing Mellish, Upham was coming up the stairs with his Garand. He moved his thumb like he was clicking off a tang safety and you heard an audible click. Last I checked, Garands never had a tang safety.
 
I like Tears of the Sun where Bruce Willis has his Sure Fire pointed into his scope for most of the movie. How did he see out of that thing? He had to have looked through itduring some scenes and noticed he could not see right????
 
If its Hollywood or TV gun mistakes are going to be rife Worse, though, is so many folks' only knowledge of firearms comes from them......

J.M. Browning designed the 1911 to be carried in condition one. Not to say that the military doesn't have its share of REMF "experts" thinking they know better......Perhaps one reason why so many WW2 ETO troops sought P-38s and Lugers. The "experts" didn't know how they worked and ammo was readily available.

Tivia note: John Wayne's favorite revolver, appearing in numerous westerns, was a .44-40 but his belt loops held .45's.....

Carry on...... >MW
 
In The Cell, Stephen King has his characters find a 45 colt handgun and an ak-47. I believe there may have been some 45 hollowpoints, as well. Spoiler: At the climax the heros must blow up a fuel tank. They choose the 45 colt with hollowpoints, because everybody knows those are EXTRA DEADLY.
 
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