TylerDurden
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Interesting....
He/I was not as injured as much is one one think after unloading that round.
Gun Related STUPID Movie Mistakes
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He/I was not as injured as much is one one think after unloading that round.
Really Stupid!!!
If someone else has posted this then I apologize. I haven't had time to read all the posts here...I need to mow the yard before it rains
I don't remember the name of the movie but it starred Cissy Spacek and took place during WWII. She was an entertainer in a USO show that got caught behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge. At one point her and some other characters are outside discussing what to do. In the back ground was a long line of extras dressed out just like WWII GIs going someplace.
They were all carrying AR-15/M-16 type rifles!!!
Stupid Stupid Stupid
If someone else has posted this then I apologize. I haven't had time to read all the posts here...I need to mow the yard before it rains
I don't remember the name of the movie but it starred Cissy Spacek and took place during WWII. She was an entertainer in a USO show that got caught behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge. At one point her and some other characters are outside discussing what to do. In the back ground was a long line of extras dressed out just like WWII GIs going someplace.
They were all carrying AR-15/M-16 type rifles!!!
Stupid Stupid Stupid
Erik M
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I was just watching 'a few good men' and noticed Cruise stated that the Lt. Colonel committed suicide by shooting himself by putting a .45 slug through the roof of his mouth when in fact the movie clearly shows him killing himself by placing a nickel Beretta 92 9mm to his temple.
I recently watched a film called The International, starring Clive Owen. There is a prolonged shootout scene that takes place in the Guggenheim museum in New York. At the start of the shootout, a New York detective is shot, and Mr. Owen, who is unarmed at the beginning of the fight, recovers his gun, a .357 K frame snub. He then proceeds to fire five rounds at one bad guy, retreats behind concealment, and fires seven rounds in a continuous string at another bad guy. He then picks up a Steyr submachinegun and fires infinity rounds, reloads once, and fires another infinity rounds. He is accompanied by another bad guy, now an ally, who fires infinity rounds from a Glock. All the really bad guys have more of those Steyr subguns with their infinity magazines. At least they shoot the hell out of the Guggenheim, which deserves it.
Tim the student
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I can't think of any specific examples, but I always like it when someone can fire an RPG or an AT-4 from inside a small room, or inside a car with someone behind them with no ill effects to anyone (other than the guy they were shooting at, who got blown 20 feet into the air).
I can't believe how fast this thread took off!
I can't believe how fast this thread took off!
tex929rr
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Here are two:
1. Good guy creeping aound in a building. A shot or two is fired, then listens carefully. As if he or she could hear anything for a few minutes.
2. The movie Blue Steel. The bad guy is hiding, I think in Jamie Lee Curtis's apartment. He swings the cylinder of a Model 29 out to check his loads. All 6 primers are dented - obviously he's out. But the ominous music continues until I realize you are supposed to think it means he has a full load in the revolver.
1. Good guy creeping aound in a building. A shot or two is fired, then listens carefully. As if he or she could hear anything for a few minutes.
2. The movie Blue Steel. The bad guy is hiding, I think in Jamie Lee Curtis's apartment. He swings the cylinder of a Model 29 out to check his loads. All 6 primers are dented - obviously he's out. But the ominous music continues until I realize you are supposed to think it means he has a full load in the revolver.
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Near the beginning of "The Wild Bunch" the Mexican member of the gang draws down on a companion who's insulted him. He fans the hammer back with his left hand while bringing the gun to bear on his opponent, as he might have done with a single action revolver. Lightning quick. The movie is set in the very early twentieth century, not long after the army adopted the 1911, so I think it's plausible that SA revolver instincts would have died slowly. I've heard it said that Mr. Browning's original design had no hammer spur whatsoever, but the army requested one, along with a curved backstrap.
mesinge2
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Lethal Weapon, I saw it last night.
2 problems
1st Problem
Riggs puts a fresh mag in his Beretta 92 and racks the slide to load a round.
One problem, it locks open and he has to thumb the slide release down to allow the slide to move foward. it happens quick and someone unfamiliar with guns might think that is how they work.
2nd Problem
When he is contemplating suicide in his trailer he locks the slide open places a round in the chamber and releases the slide. When he turns the gun to his head the hammer is down and the saftey it on.
The hammer should have been cocked and the saftey off.
2 problems
1st Problem
Riggs puts a fresh mag in his Beretta 92 and racks the slide to load a round.
One problem, it locks open and he has to thumb the slide release down to allow the slide to move foward. it happens quick and someone unfamiliar with guns might think that is how they work.
2nd Problem
When he is contemplating suicide in his trailer he locks the slide open places a round in the chamber and releases the slide. When he turns the gun to his head the hammer is down and the saftey it on.
The hammer should have been cocked and the saftey off.
mesinge2
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I the hammer was cocked before he rotated the gun.
And after turning the gun around the saftey was on without him ever thumbing it on.
And after turning the gun around the saftey was on without him ever thumbing it on.
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Some instructors advise the best way to reload a gun like the Beretta 92 is to put the safety in the decock position before racking/dropping the slide.
The resultant condition is hammer down, safety on.
As for the movie, the safety/decocker IS ambidextrous......maybe he activated it on the side away from the camera.
All that said, I'm sure it as a goof that wasn't caught.
The resultant condition is hammer down, safety on.
As for the movie, the safety/decocker IS ambidextrous......maybe he activated it on the side away from the camera.
All that said, I'm sure it as a goof that wasn't caught.
mesinge2
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Yea, if could have been engaged in the right side, I didn't think of that.
But why engage the safety only to commit suicide?
That reminds me of using an alcohol swab on the injection site of a man getting a lethal injection.
But why engage the safety only to commit suicide?
That reminds me of using an alcohol swab on the injection site of a man getting a lethal injection.
Erik M
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I would have brought something like this up but I had no idea anyone on THR apprecerated anime like Ghost in the Shell. I would love to have a high quality fobus-style holdster for my .40 similar to the one the Major wears at the small of her back.
mesinge2
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Physics has no place it that movie. I absolutely refused to watch any more after the first time they curved a bullet's trajectory by swinging the gun.
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Wanted
LOL...........Yea it was a dissapointing movie,but when i ssen the curving bullet scene i thoughts where "ok,that ticks me off ,i am amazed that we are supposed to think that she could,or that any one could do that because i couldnt even get a bomerang to to come back to me,let alone a bullet"
best movie she has done was mr. & mrs. Smith
LOL...........Yea it was a dissapointing movie,but when i ssen the curving bullet scene i thoughts where "ok,that ticks me off ,i am amazed that we are supposed to think that she could,or that any one could do that because i couldnt even get a bomerang to to come back to me,let alone a bullet"
best movie she has done was mr. & mrs. Smith
Erik M
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makes me wonder how many young kids tried that with their airsoft guns.
I was very dissapointed with that movie myself. It was more unrealistic than the matrix, if there is such a thing.
Just watched a movie today "High Plains Invaders" on SYFY. Giant Alien Bugs attack an Old west circa 1890 town.
The townsfolk are using Smith and Wesson K Frames and Colt Police Positives. And to top it off One Guy has a bright stainless Python. I think I may have sighted a Taurus Tracker complete with Rubber Grips.
It was great.
The townsfolk are using Smith and Wesson K Frames and Colt Police Positives. And to top it off One Guy has a bright stainless Python. I think I may have sighted a Taurus Tracker complete with Rubber Grips.
It was great.
DougDubya
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In the movie's defense, they are supposed to be superhuman creatures - in the comic, they were specifically costumed supervillains.
Bruno2
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I see a lot of vietnam movies where the prop department just rounds up every AR they can get their hands on . You will see troops carrying around guns that have forward assists on them and brass deflectors . If any of you guys are very AR savvy start paying attention to the guns that are being carried most of them werent even made for another 25yrs after Nam was over .
I also love the throwing technique of shooting single action revolvers in the old western movies . Do you guys think that slinging technique adds a few feet per second to the bullets velocity ?
I also love the throwing technique of shooting single action revolvers in the old western movies . Do you guys think that slinging technique adds a few feet per second to the bullets velocity ?
mustang_steve
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Wanted is another "transporter" type movie, where the action is completely ignorant of physics. I don't mind some suspense of disbelief, but come on, the idea of circle-shots is nuts....and this is coming from someone that can get a boomerang to return.
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