I'm in the same boat with car and gun stuff. Twelve upshifts and cocking Glocks both make me grind my teeth. Eventually I have to say something. "The guy just said the car has dual quads AND fuel injection! And THAT guy is waving a pistol around that is OBVIOUSLY out of battery! Come on!!!" Can't help myself.
Is your action/war film enjoyment reduced?
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I don't let most of if bother me. There are some shows and movies with good gun handling. I do remember a movie that was absolutely stupid. The male and female good guys (one was a DEA agent and the other was FBI or something like that) got in an argument and they were shooting one another in their vest. Totally moronic.
The Lone Haranguer
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Come on, who didn't enjoy Clint Eastwood "dual-wielding" MP40s in Where Eagles Dare?
Red Wind
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Loved it! My favorite action war film. (1968) I think Clint set a record for most Germans killed in this flick. 
And the twist ending was very cool.
Mary Ure and Richard Burton were both on their game. All in all, one to watch over and over again.
And the twist ending was very cool. Mary Ure and Richard Burton were both on their game. All in all, one to watch over and over again.
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There's a 1970 movie, You Can't Win 'Em All, starring Charles Bronson and Tony Curtis that's been on TV lately. It's a "buddy" movie about a couple of mercenaries fighting in Turkey in the 1920's. They both carried Thompson submachine guns with drum magazines. However, they both also wore leather bandoliers filled with some kind of pointed, spitzer cartridges. I don't know what they were loading those spitzers into, but it wasn't their tommy guns!
Another thing that always bugged me is how horses never seem to get shot in these massed cavalry/Indian/Civil War/Light Brigade battles. In TV and movie battles, sometimes both the horse and rider tumble to the ground following a gunshot or explosion. Then, the horse scrambles to its feet and runs away, while the rider remains dead. Who was shot, the rider or the mount? If you ever see these old historical post-battle photos where horses, whether draft or cavalry, were present, there are always a lot of dead horses littering the battleground.
Though not a gun-related example, I gotta include this: If I see one more slim, beautiful girl beat up and knock out a healthy young male thug/soldier/terrorist, I'm gonna scream and throw something at the TV!
Another thing that always bugged me is how horses never seem to get shot in these massed cavalry/Indian/Civil War/Light Brigade battles. In TV and movie battles, sometimes both the horse and rider tumble to the ground following a gunshot or explosion. Then, the horse scrambles to its feet and runs away, while the rider remains dead. Who was shot, the rider or the mount? If you ever see these old historical post-battle photos where horses, whether draft or cavalry, were present, there are always a lot of dead horses littering the battleground.
Though not a gun-related example, I gotta include this: If I see one more slim, beautiful girl beat up and knock out a healthy young male thug/soldier/terrorist, I'm gonna scream and throw something at the TV!
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Honestly I enjoy the shows and movies more. It's exciting when they get things right! When they are wrong, meh, that's Hollywood. I still get a kick out of the FX show Archer, strangely accurate as to firearm use. Especially the last effect on hearing.
"Where Eagles Dare" was loosely based upon actual events that occurred on the Austrian/Italian border in 1943. An Italian Countess living in a huge mansion sheltered the Brit and OSS operatives in the rear of her house. In the front of the house, she had the Gestapo headquartered. Truth is better than fiction. There is a plaque there on the mansion commemorating those events.
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I found myself completely unable to enjoy Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels due to the completely retarded attitude towards firearms by the disarmed British characters & writers. That movie just irked me since the whole plot revolves around a pathetically disarmed people stealing what few guns remain so they can operate them ignorantly in order to steal money for mobsters, before ultimately destroying them.
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I am always amused at how many times in movies and shows, people rush into a dangerous or tactical situation and then finally cock their firearm.
I am far more likely to be bothered by incorrect helicopter or motorcycle sounds. You had the helicopter right there, flying! Why not just record the thing and use the sound?!
I am far more likely to be bothered by incorrect helicopter or motorcycle sounds. You had the helicopter right there, flying! Why not just record the thing and use the sound?!
I don't watch very much television, at all. Not many movies either.
But when I do, I appreciate the ones who do it well that much more.
Most of the crap on regular television is just that...crap...and I watch virtually nothing anyway so I don't have to worry about the firearms crap.
I watch the hell out of Archer on Netflix.
But they have their fingers on the triggers literally 100% of the time they are holding a firearm, and hand loaded firearms to other people with safeties off. And literally 100% of the time, fingers on triggers.
Other than that it's great.
fallout mike
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On Z Nation either last week or week before, one of them was firing a AR variant of some sort. The gun was a flat top without front or rear sights. The view goes to the guy he shot then back to him. During that 3 seconds his gun grew a carry handle.
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Funny thing about that show is that they have 27 murders in just the first season in one county which is 2-3 times the average annual murder rate for the entire state of Wyoming
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YES !.
I expect that anyone spending the millions and millions to make a movie AND hire experts to tell them what to do [ and what to not do ] could listen to those that know,so they don't look like idiots.
YES !.
I expect that anyone spending the millions and millions to make a movie AND hire experts to tell them what to do [ and what to not do ] could listen to those that know,so they don't look like idiots.
hemiram
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It doesn't really bother me, any more than some really ridiculous radio goofs in movies like "Die Hard" bother me. I just laugh at that stuff.
fiddleharp
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My favorite movie technical goof was in a terrific Kirk Douglas flick I first saw at the drive-in when I was a kid in the 1960's. Douglas' character was talking to a woman in the front yard of an isolated ranch house with a VW Beetle parked nearby. They were supposed to be alone, but my quick young eyes caught a glimpse of a reflection of a man's face in the window of the car. I said to my mom, "Did you see that?" She didn't.
Years later, when VCR's came along, I procured a copy of "Lonely Are The Brave" and paused the tape at the right moment, and there was the man, right where I knew he'd be!
It was a young fellow with a crew-cut and sunglasses, holding what appeared to be a boom mic. He was reflected in the glass for at least ten seconds.
How such an obvious blunder got by the editors is beyond me!
Years later, when VCR's came along, I procured a copy of "Lonely Are The Brave" and paused the tape at the right moment, and there was the man, right where I knew he'd be!
It was a young fellow with a crew-cut and sunglasses, holding what appeared to be a boom mic. He was reflected in the glass for at least ten seconds.
How such an obvious blunder got by the editors is beyond me!
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I agree with post # 18,the perfectly steady laser dot, that one makes me laugh ! anyone that has ever played with one knows how steady they arent
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My favorite movie technical goof was in a terrific Kirk Douglas flick I first saw at the drive-in when I was a kid in the 1960's. Douglas' character was talking to a woman in the front yard of an isolated ranch house with a VW Beetle parked nearby. They were supposed to be alone, but my quick young eyes caught a glimpse of a reflection of a man's face in the window of the car. I said to my mom, "Did you see that?" She didn't.
Years later, when VCR's came along, I procured a copy of "Lonely Are The Brave" and paused the tape at the right moment, and there was the man, right where I knew he'd be!
It was a young fellow with a crew-cut and sunglasses, holding what appeared to be a boom mic. He was reflected in the glass for at least ten seconds.
How such an obvious blunder got by the editors is beyond me!
A reflection in a glass is pretty easy to miss, really. I have seen many shots in TV shows with cars driving by that I've paused (with the advent of modern DVD, finding these are easy) and , sure enough, either visible in a window or as a reflcetion on the nice shiny black car, a image of the director, reflectors, camera, sound equipment, etc.
There is some famous viking film where on viking goes past the camera wearing a wrist watch .... don't remember it.
It is absolutely done on purpose. Many people, including gun owners, fully believe guns are registered.
This is of course an intentional and malicious action done in an attempt to make actual registration easier to accomplish.
el indio
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My thing is, like on "Fear the walking dead" Trivia beat the hall out if Adams and left his pistol laying on the ground. I didn't know that they had enough firepower with them that they didn't need more. PICK UP THE PISTOL!!!
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The only thing that continually bothers me is the number of cars with tires screeching on dirt roads or mud. I even saw a jeep screech to a stop on ice. I can stand the gun stuff, except when I remind myself that these are the same people making public service announcements in favor of ending the second amendment. I can stil remember "An American President" where Micheal Douglas (I think) was going to go "door to door" to "get the guns".
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