Guns in Hollywood and cheesiness

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Let's post any bogus gun appearances or usages in movies.

I saw 007 The World Is Not Enough just recently. Bond enters a sub late in the movie and points a 1911 at a crew member. The hammer is decocked. I wonder how he was going to shoot him had he needed to when the gun is not cocked??? :rolleyes:
 
Okay, how about in Die Hard III when Bruce Willis takes out the chopper at the end, not by shooting the pilot, or the engine, or the fuel tank, but the anchor point of a cable that is over the helicopter as it hovers.

He's done the math, and knows with confidence that the one shot he has time to take will cause the cable to wrap up in the helo's rotor and crash it. :rolleyes:

Oh, I think he does it with a .38 snubbie, if I recall correctly.
Asinine.


-Jeffrey
 
Anybody ever watch Barnaby Jones? It was about a 100 year old detective and his assistants.

'Ol Barnaby could hip shoot a .38 snubbie at a BG in the woods, at a different angle and just wing the guy enough to make him drop his gun.

Amazing.


Unless of course Barnaby meant to DT his COM but: A) missed and B) was too senile to remember to shoot again.
 
Hey, if you're griping about 007 The World is Not Enough, you should be griping about the 'gun cleaning' scene.

What was he doing, brushing its teeth??? :rolleyes:

pax
 
The uncocked but still fires 1911 is as common as the semiauto that
continues to fire altho the slide is clearly locked back.
My all-time 3 favs in no particular order:
'Have Gun Will Travel'-Paladin's "custom" .45SAA's trigger "starts to break @ one (1) oz".Not even my youngest bought THAT one.
Wyatt Earp (Hugh O'Brian)'s Buntline that fired +/- 50 rnds without reloading.
Now THAT'S Hi-cap!
Stacy Ketch(sp?)'s shot in 'Caribe':+/- 100 yards from pitching boat deck to pitching boat deck with a .38 snub.1 shot 1 kill.
 
Not a movie, but I still remember the A-Team TV show, where the guys (and MISTER T, pity tha fool!) had Mini-14s with ENDLESS magazines. They'd just fire those things on full-auto continuously without reloading... they'd have had to be belt-fed.
 
Let's not forget that no one EVER died or was even seriously injured in that show.

The gunshots always grounded-out in the dirt at the bad guys' feet.

Vehicles would always leap into the air, do a half barrel-roll, land on the roof, then jacknife back up again. Bad guys would come out staggering, dazed, looking like, "Ugh, what happened?!" :rolleyes:


In one episode, they worked feverishly in a barn to construct a big CABBAGE-shooting gun, with which to take on the bad guys.

The cabbages probably didn't stink half as bad as that lame-ass show did. :barf: :neener:

-Jeffrey
 
I like Death Wish 3. The part where an aging Charles Bronson is filmed running around the ghetto mowing down punks with a 1919 Browning machine gun is a classic in my book
 
Machine Pistol and Revolver w/silencer that became AK-47's. (S.W.A.T. 2003) or in the same movie, T.J Mcabe while firing his 45ACP on the range and gun continues to fire with Slide locked back.
 
I seem to remember in a Matt Helm movie, that Dean Martin (?) had a gun that would fire normally if you pushed the trigger forwarrd, but would fire backwards if you pulled the trigger normally. His lady friend went to shoot herself once and shot the guy who was taking her prisoner. Now THAT would be a handy feature, but I'll bet it would take some SERIOUS training.
(I don't even want to think about the mechanics of making it work.)
 
CajunBass,

No doubt the Matt Helm movies (starring Dean Martin) were hilarious; they were intended to spoof the James Bond genre. I always try to let you younger folks know, though, that the Matt Helm series of books (written by Donald Hamilton) was NOTHING like those movies. That series was as grityy and hardcore as any I've ever read. The paperbacks can sometimes still be found at second-hand bookstores (I actually accumulated the entire series!), and are well worth a read.

Hamilton was an avid outdoorsman and shooter; his character (Helm) was a "counterassassination" agent. His agency insisted on issuing ,38 snubbies, but he derided the choice as OK for defensive use, but for his purposes he lamented the loss of his old Colt Woodsman .22 ("quiet & accurate") that he used behind German lines in WWII.

Frankly, I can't recall any firearm-related goofs in that entire series (it's been awhile, though; need to re-read 'em).

Like I said, a great read!
 
Not enough room to list them all here; my favorite is semi-autos that keep clicking as the trigger is pulled, (yes, I know some DAO's will do this, but Glocks do it a lot in the movies... :rolleyes: )
 
I just like to watch all the scenes, where there is a firefight and everyone is shooting fully auto - thousands of rounds flying - and NOONE is hit! Like in Commando. Swarzenegger has a whole army shooting at him, and noone can hit him...
 
As far as the cheesiest goes, I would have to second peacefulljeffrey's mention of Die Hard 3 (or whatever it was called.) Making a shot from about 30 yards on a power cable in the dark with a snub-nosed .38 while a helicopter hovered right over his head, struck me as the absolute stupidest firearm related thing I've seen in a movie.

Rick
 
Just watched lethal weapon 4 again. At one point Gibson notes he has two shots left. Then fires 4 times. :scrutiny:

Also noticed an anti NRA poster in the police station that I hadn't noticed before. Something along the lines of a certain number of babies being killed each year with the red crossed circle over NRA.
 
Tony, I never watched that piece of crap, but I did read about the anti-NRA poster that appeared in it, on a knife-related forum.

Nothing appears in a Hollyweird movie that is not intended to appear. So it's undeniable that someone involved in the movie's production wanted to plant anti-NRA sentiment among the audience. The question is, who? Producer? Director? Studio? The stars of the film?

-Jeffrey
 
Okay, nobody mentioned it so I will. In the movie SWAT, during their shooting match between whoever Colin Farrells character is and that other white guy. I didn't notice this until the second time through the movie. The "other white guy" toward the end of the competition is firing with his slide back, at least 3 rounds if I can remember correctly.


I will give them props for the keeping their finger off the trigger until ready to fire. They were pretty good with that.

Also the bridge scene where they're all firing back and forth at each other. How come none of the bullets penetrated the skin of the airplane? :scrutiny:
 
It was definitely meant to be there

Remember his statement on the flamethower guy being the NRA SPOKESMAN?
I think there was a definite slant in those movies. and in the movie my favorite part was the reflection of the laser off of a dull barrel then off of a painted surface onto the bad guy's butt which should have been obscured by cover, but he aims the laser this way and gets the bullet ricochet to follow the same path. SO MUCH BS IN THAT ONE SCENE ALONE.
Or how about the scene that made my skin crawl!! "How about some laser eye surgery"? he points the freaking laser in Leo Getz's face basically giving him the muzzle of a loaded gun! and these guys are against the NRA!!! Sheesh. NRA probably wouldn't have such unsafe idiots.... that's why they are mad, the NRA shunned such idiots. :cuss:
 
Hey, man, if you liked to point a pistol in people's faces (a habit of his character that went back to the first Lethal Weapon movie) for the hell of it, you wouldn't like the NRA, either. They're always on about "be safe this" and "don't point your gun at that guy" and "dear God, I think you've killed them." Safety nazis.
 
Let's not forget that no one EVER died or was even seriously injured in that show.

The gunshots always grounded-out in the dirt at the bad guys' feet.

Vehicles would always leap into the air, do a half barrel-roll, land on the roof, then jacknife back up again. Bad guys would come out staggering, dazed, looking like, "Ugh, what happened?!"


In one episode, they worked feverishly in a barn to construct a big CABBAGE-shooting gun, with which to take on the bad guys.

The cabbages probably didn't stink half as bad as that lame-ass show did.

-Jeffrey
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LOL! Now it's all coming back... classic tv at its worst!
 
Nothing appears in a Hollyweird movie that is not intended to appear. So it's undeniable that someone involved in the movie's production wanted to plant anti-NRA sentiment among the audience. The question is, who? Producer? Director? Studio? The stars of the film?
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In Lethal Weapon 4 it's undeniably the director, Richard Donner. On the commentary track of the DVD, he proudly admits that he's anti-NRA. He even shot the scenes with the posters so they couldn't be edited out.
 
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