Watch that scene carefully, but focus on the second bad guy. He has to intentionally bobble his draw to give Vincent enough time to make the scene work. He walks up to Vincent with his hand already on his gun. Instead of drawing it when the action starts, he does some weird movement with his shoulder and moves his weak hand around, but never gets his gun out until he's already been shot and is falling down.
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Appendix carry before it was all the rage.
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Sub one second Appendix draw from surrender with a Mozambique (Michael Mann’s favorite) before it was cool in Miami Vice, he even scans to top it off. The “A...
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I have seen a lot of weird things in the shows & movies involving guns. Like a sniper shooting with the scope caps on or guns that never run out of ammo. But the strangest thing I can remember is a scene in MASH where the north Koreans come running up to a jeep with no mags in their AKs. Why would N Korean solders be on patrol without mags?? I guess it was in California & no one was allowed to have a high capacity mags even in the movies. LOL
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I just ignore most of it but I have to say watching sparks fly for something that is shot, plastic, wood, glass, aluminum, whatever brings a smile to my face. Another is anytime a lever action rifle is used, no matter how many shots have been fired from it, when it gets down to the nitty gritty and the good guy has the drop on the bad one they always cycle the lever. To top it off no empty case ejects. I saw a recent western where the gal with the rifle caught the baddy and actually just cocked the hammer which surprised me. However if my life were in danger and I was sneaking up on the villian the rifle would be cocked and ready to go. Another is holding a hammer fired semi-auto on someone and when they don't answer your question the gun holder cocks the hammer. I suppose that is supposed to indicate that they are serious. Another in westerns is being chased to a spot where you abandon your horse, leave your rifle in it's scabbard, and duel it out with a sixgun at extended ranges.
I just watch mostly for the story line and let the silly things go except when I am watching with my oldest grandson and I point them out just to get a rise out of him. His reply has become, "It's a movie, granpa".
When it comes to news most reporters, print or TV, know about as much about guns as my last weenie dog did.
I just watch mostly for the story line and let the silly things go except when I am watching with my oldest grandson and I point them out just to get a rise out of him. His reply has become, "It's a movie, granpa".
When it comes to news most reporters, print or TV, know about as much about guns as my last weenie dog did.
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Real world, M. Ayoob once reported that LA took the SA out of the last generation of revolvers because cops were getting in the habit of drawing their gun to show they were serious and then cocking it to show they were REALLY serious.
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Possibly they wanted the profile to look more like an SKS. Although PRNK did not get SKS until around 1956, and no AKs until about 1960
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Continuity was not a big deal to the producers of MASH.
I think I've only ever seen one person wearing a unit patch in the entire 11 seasons.
Sun Tek Oh has played three or four different Chinese people.
3 Rosies
2 Donald Penobscots (One of them was the same guy that played the bad sheriff in Rio Lobo).
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This is what gets us in trouble with the gun grabbers as well. The scary thing; they get the gun stuff wrong. What else are they wrong about that we don't know?
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My thought.
Even in entertainment, my current thriller has errors in MY line of work.
Even in entertainment, my current thriller has errors in MY line of work.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure the 15 foot Possessed RoboSamurai didn't have 30mm rotary cannons or rocket launchers. It just wouldn't be very Bushido of them, especially against a 5'4" 100 lb blonde girl in high heels and a mini skirt. Not very Bushido at all!
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Most everything IMO. Local news is a little more honest I believe.
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I thought Paul Kersey had been gifted a .32-20 revolver. Whole nother level of film awesome..... Every 38 snub can do that
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Movies are full of impossible stunts. Try jumping a bus across collapsed gap in a bridge as in SPEED or jump a car over a concrete side rail as in RACE WITH THE DEVIL.
It's gotten worse with CGI.
Movie guns are not an exception.
But unrealistic stunts make the "willing suspension of disbelief" very hard to maintain.
It's gotten worse with CGI.
Movie guns are not an exception.
But unrealistic stunts make the "willing suspension of disbelief" very hard to maintain.
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I did see Tom Selleck, as Jesse Stone, blow back a perp with 4 slugs from an 870...that might be a little bit believable. It was satisfying; that guy "needed killing".And we can't leave out the movies with massive Stoppin' Powah!
Need to rewatch that Bronson flick; he's a local boy, from a hardscrabble mine patch.
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All of it.
In all the years of my life, I've yet to see an architect (or architectural practice) depicted correctly--and Paul Kersey is no exception.
Naval officers fare no better in films, other than the rare, half-right, gems like In Harm's Way.
That latter winds up like those rare films that try to get "gun stuff" right. Like Last Man Standing, the 1996 remake of Yojimbo with Bruce Willis as the gunsel working over two feuding gangs by playing both sides. It's "good" just not quite right.
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How about when someone racks a pump shotgun multiple times when holding a bad guy at gunpoint? If nothing comes out when he racks it the second time, then that tube was empty. If I'm the bad guy, that's when I'm taking off.
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You can tell when an effort is being made, and sometimes they get it pretty much right. Selleck, in Jesse Stone, and Blue Bloods, has some gun stuff that reflects prior knowledge. He carries a Fitz Special in Blue Bloods.
Ice T is reputedly a gunny, and his carry guns in Law and Order seem to reflect that. Some of the cops in Chicago PD seem gun savvy; not everyone has a Glock.
OTOH, Chicago Fire had a firefighter seriously wounded by stored ammunition; that's the kind of crap that does us no good.
If I'm not slipping in my own poo at that point, yeah, get running!
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Paul Kersey was gifted a 32-20 WCF Colt Police Positive revolver in the original Death Wish then switches to a Beretta 84 .380 ACP in Death Wish 2. At least he actually goes after the badguys responsible this time.
By Death Wish 3, he's pretty much a cold steely eyed killer but still following a moral code of his own. The Gif above with the Colt Cobra 38 Special is from Death Wish 3 but the real star of that movie is Kersey's .475 Wildey Magnum.
"... real stopping power." -- Paul Kersey
Badguys being blow back everywhere!
Fortunately, all the badguys use facepaint making target identification much more simpler.
Memorable movie line:
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown spelled the death of the franchise. But it was an entertaining run though.
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What weapons?I'm no expert on World War I but these girls don't seem to using the right weapons for the period and the uniforms seem slight off for trench warfare.
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"Sons of Katie Elder". A John Wayne movie in which one of the Sons is leaping across a ditch and get's hit with a rifle round that not inly stops him in mid air but blows him backwards.
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Probably at the top of my Weird-Stuf O'meter is Cherry Darling fighting the undead after loosing her leg and then using an M16/203 'Pegleg' to fight back.
Unrealistic? Yes. Entertaining? Oh yeah!
(Rose McGowan as Cherry Darling in Planet Terror)
Break out the popcorn and pork rinds, it's time to get ridiculous
Hollywood Weirdness achieved.
Unrealistic? Yes. Entertaining? Oh yeah!
(Rose McGowan as Cherry Darling in Planet Terror)
Break out the popcorn and pork rinds, it's time to get ridiculous
Hollywood Weirdness achieved.
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Reportedly, many of the guns Tom used on-set throughout his career come from his own personal collection. He is partial to 1911s.
The 1911 he carried in Magum PI was actually a 9mm (even though it is mentioned on screen as a .45) since the props department found 9mm blanks to be cheaper and more reliable.
One interesting zinger is the Beretta 92 used by Bruce Willis in Die Hard 1 is the very same prop gun used by Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon 1.
"Sgt. York" is full of eye-candy for M1903 Springfield fans, even if much of the movie is pure Hollywood dross.
"1917" is one of the best war movies of the modern era (IMO), wherein we actually see the two protagonists load their SMLEs several times from stripper clips- though only one at a time! An Enfield magazine, of course, hold 10 rounds.....
I'll give them a partial pass as one could argue they were just "topping off " lol.
Don't even get me started on that vile "Dunkirk" from a few years ago. The majority of the Enfields in it were rubber and you can actually see then flex and bend as the troops are marching....
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