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<Morbo>Pistols do not work that way!</Morbo>

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HippieMagic said:
In Skinwalkers none of the guns had any form of recoil. Granted they were supposed to be werewolves they DEs and S&W .500 had no recoil. I believe the old lady had a S&W .500 anyway... Anyone remember this?
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Same movie,same scene, someone is shooting an M1A at someone using a US mailbox for cover and the bullets are ricocheting off, go figure, an armored mailbox.

I was watching Criminal Minds and one of the agents was being forced into a building by a BG with a shotgun, the agent hesitated, not wanting to go through the door, so the BG racks the slide chambering a round to show he's serious.:confused:
 
I forget what movie it was but they made a comment in it "Why did you get a glock? Everyone knows a glock is complete garbage and jams all the time!" Then later in the movie the guy fires the gun twice and it jams. That was just ignorant. My glock seems to fire more than 2 rounds just fine without jamming... maybe I got one of those elusive reliable ones.
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Your Glock is defective. :)
 
For the ones who don't know who Morbo is...

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Futurama character... if you don't know what futurama is you are missing one of the best cartoons of all time. Bender is the greatest character of any cartoon ever...
 
Not gun related but applies to the morons running sound effects for movies, I love it when a car on a dirt road squalls its tires like a pissed off baby.
 
1) People who having just fired their 1911, pause at a doorway and rack the slide to prove how ready they are for the coming action. --And no catridge is ejected.

2) People who hold others at gun point using a 1911 with the hammer down.
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My pet peeves since I was 12 years old...

Yes, gun sound effects usually suck bad. Michael Mann usually does a good job, though.

One thing I've recently noticed is that people in movies are blazing away with 9mms and .357s and .223s and such, in enclosed spaces, without ear protection... and none of them are ever like "WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU! MY EARS ARE RINGING!" Except for that one guy in Blackhawk Down...
 
Not exactly a mistake, but if anyone ever watched "French Connection II," the final scene kinda bothered me. That just seemed like an absurdly difficult shot to make, with a snubby, at a moving target, after running through half of Marsaille.
 
I do love how one can arm a pump action shotgun when they pick it up, as soon as they hear a noise, they pump it again, and right before they fire they pump it a third time, all without a single shell ejecting.
 
Well, this is a rifle one, but very annoying. The Postman, that Kevin Costner epic, has a scene with the female lead getting her hands on a short barreled AR. She then proceeds to fire an entire magazine at the bad guy, at moderate range, while using decent form and clearly using the sights. He survives uninjured, because he is sheltered behind a couple of empty 55 gallon drums. Apparently 5.56mm bullets are defeated by thin sheet metal.
 
I don't even consider the old west movies to be legit bad gun films. I see so many mistakes in those films. I agree with the ears ringing bit... I don't care a 9mm is LOUD. It may not be as loud as the others but without ear protection that is insanely loud. With ear protection it is nothing at all but when you get it in an insanely enclosed space you wouldn't hear anything at all.

My friend learned his lesson when I was at an outdoor range with him. He was shooting his Sigma for the first time and I was at the line. He fired his last round beside of me and backed up and was talking to the guy behind me. I assumed he was smart enough to leave his hearing protection on so I fired off the last few rounds I had. This genius decided that it was a wise choice to remove his hearing protection while standing behind the guy on the firing line... needless to say he learned that 9mms were loud that day.
 
can't remember how many times i've heard the clicking noise of a glock trigger being pulled repeatedly while empty lmao

and it seems as though bruce willis' 1911's have unlimited ammo capacity in last man standing (still like the movie though lol)
 
There was a spoof video that was goin around the web that was 3 minutes of a dramatic stand off where both guys kept cocking the same gun. My google-fu is bad I tried to find it again and no such luck. Used it as an example of poor quality of movies.
 
How about the inevitable scene where the Good Guys are trying to catch a bad guy- who manages to get into a car- and the good guy goes running after the car, points his gun at the car...camera cuts to a view of the car speeding off, then making a turn...cuts back to good guy, who hasn't fired a shot, then lowers his gun in disgust.
Umm, he's getting away- the good guy can shoot the wings off a fly at 50 feet with a snubnose revolver- but he can't hit a car driving away in a straight line?

Or that rather tired plot device- a good example is the original Die Hard- where someone is given a gun which is secretly unloaded. What the heck kind of shooter are you that you can't tell a gun is empty by the weight?

One of my pet peeves is when the main character has (usually temporarily) incapacitated a bad guy with a gun, they leave the gun lying on the floor and run away to find an escape route- usually weeping and sobbing from the stress that they've caused harm to another human being or something...despite the fact that the bad guy intended to kill them. This is usually in those chick flick type movies you see on Lifetime I've noticed. Oh yeah, and usually the exit is blocked somehow...and that's when the bad guy gets up and picks up his gun and the main character is right back in the bad stuff.

My wife was watching a soap opera (Guiding Light) and there was a scene in which a badguy was standing at a car door and one good guy was hiding behind a stone wall while another good guy came out the back doors of a van. They had the bad guy in a crossfire. All three proceeded to shoot about 52,000 rounds of ammo at each other (from about 20 away) and nothing hit anyone, not even the cars!
 
Or that rather tired plot device- a good example is the original Die Hard- where someone is given a gun which is secretly unloaded. What the heck kind of shooter are you that you can't tell a gun is empty by the weight?
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In Hans Gruber's defense, he probably didn't know the weight of the Beretta 92 because he's only ever held HKs! :)
 
Not gun related but applies to the morons running sound effects for movies, I love it when a car on a dirt road squalls its tires like a pissed off baby.
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I've always loved the Bond flicks, but they did this in 7-8 of the movies....

They also show many other "impossible" gun feats, too many to mention..

Like a .32 shot from the hip killing the BG without a sweat :D
 
Rambo DID reload in that scene in the picture. And it took quite a long time, because he was being shot at. And he took a bullet while doing so. (We'll have no way of knowing, however, if he cauterized the bullet wound later on by breaking apart some bullets, sprinkling the powder over the wound, igniting the powder, and sending a jet of flame through the wound like he did in Rambo 3.)
 
Why would anyone expect realism in the movies about anything? It's entertainment, folks, not history or fact, both of which are unknown to the semi-literates who make movies today.

Jim
 
Jim Keenan said:
Why would anyone expect realism in the movies about anything? It's entertainment, folks, not history or fact, both of which are unknown to the semi-literates who make movies today.

Jim
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I agree to an extent and will certainly suspend disbelief for a while for the sake of enjoyment...

... but any film that uses firearms was made with a firearms rental company and a firearms consultant, at minimum. They had experts on the payroll already. To "keep it real" all that had to do was ask, and it's very clear that in many cases they just didn't bother. :(
 
Rambo 4

Back to Rambo 4. The mercenary 'sniper' is carrying a Barrett .50. He takes out a couple of guards with headshots that fling them across the road, vaporizing their craniums in the process. Then, later, he takes a shot that perforates two BGs and leaves only a grapefruit-sized hole through each of their chests, and they drop on the spot - no flying back 50 yards.

Wouldn't that .50 turn 'em inside out? In the extras, the firearms consultant said they wanted to show the "awesome power" of tte .50 BMG, but I wasn't impressed. I expect more blood-n-guts from a Rambo film!
 
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