Guns in the Movies: Derailed

[Ruger451]

Did anyone else think that it was ridiculous that in this movie, Xhibit (or however you spell it) is using a huge Desert Eagle as his carry gun for a hotel security job? I couldn't get over this watching it last night. I also cracked up at his bad acting, but that's another matter.

 

[Smith357]

More often than not, the uber liberals in hollyweird get firearms portrayal all wrong. This is to be expected since most who fear and loath the freedom of firearms ownership know nothing about what they fear or why.

I have seen so many hollyweird screwups when it comes to firearms in movies I could not even begin to list them. Lets just say it all started with John Wayne's 38 shot Colt SAA.

 

[ABTOMAT]

The Desert Eagle is the new Beretta 92FS, which was the new S&W 29, which was the new 1911, which was the new Colt SAA. All these guns were at one point the "cool" gun to have in Hollywood movies. Give it another few years and every man and his dog will be carrying S&W .500's.

 

[lyricsdad]

cedric the entertainer carrys either a 500 or the 460 (is it) in the movie be cool.

Yeah I just seen that move derailed also, I also thought to myself about the desert eagle. (i thought, geez wouldnt the police wonder why was hotel security carrying this in the first place??) What blew my mind well made the thing *** were you thinking, was when the guy was carrying what looked to be a sig p229 empty.

 

[StrikeEagle]

That Dirty Harry movie where Harry carries a .458 Win Mag always drove me nuts. Actually, the movie portrayed it about right... heavy heavy recoil, slow followup shots and so on.

The error was Harry's rather than the production folks, I guess.

But I kept thinking how much more effective he'd have been in that scene with... well, with anything at all. M1 Carbine, Nylon-66, Winchester 94...

And the dialog in the movie is to the effect that this elephant rifle is giving Harry 'an edge'...

StrikeEagle

 

[MCgunner]

Harry shoulda had Rambo's M60.

 

[ABTOMAT]

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I thought the rifle scene in Dirty Harry was great. It showed how his need to use maximum force would sometimes get in the way of good police work. Blasting away in the dark with a .458 Win Mag over iron sights wasn't too practical. Given the time period I think an M-14 would have been a much more suitable choice.