Most ridiculous gun moment in a movie or TV show.

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Tonight the old John Candy and Dan Aykroyd movie The Great Outdoors was on. There was a scene where a bear was attacking everyone in the cabin. A neighbor came to the rescue with a SxS double barrel shotgun he had been using as a light stand (complete with a light bulb and lamp shade). To prepare to shoot the bear he plugged the shotgun into the wall and then John Candy shot the bear in the rear end blowing all the fur off the bears behind.

This funny ridiculous moment got me wondering what everyone’s favorite off the wall gun moment in a movie is.
 
Mine is the cop in "Silence of the Lambs" that points an uncocked 1911 toward the elevator access hatch when they thought Lecter was up there.

-Jeff
 
In the Matrix, during the lobby scene: Neo is running amok with twin VZ-61's (from the looks of it) that drop buckets of .223 brass. :scrutiny:
 
Pretty much any episode of "Hawaii Five-O" where anti-gunner Jack Lord shoots [from the hip] at the tire of an automobile going 60mph, at a 90deg. angle to him, at 250 yards, HITS it, and blows the tire off the rim... using 158gr. LRN ammo.
 
I remember years ago, Phil Donohue was interviewing a female gang member about the type of gun she used to shoot her rivals. He asked her what type of gun she used and she said "a 380", he then replied with a stupid and shocked expression on his face "Wow, a 380 Magnum"!?

Now I know most liberal media types are clueless when it comes to guns, but come on.
 
Movie "Rambo", near the end, as he is shooting up the commo center, and they do a close up of the M60 spitting out the painfully obvious BLANK brass! Dunderheads.
 
My pick is The Good The Bad and The Ugly when they have obviously unloaded revolvers. My favorite funny gun scene is when Dammon Waynes shoots up a clothset in Major Payne yelling "Die you clothset monster."

The lethal weapon series also deserves mention, because those are probably the worst movies gun wise that are called action movies. The amount of stupidity and ignorance in those films is just amazing.
 
The one that bothered me the most was the climax scene from "Stand by me" where our hero kid fired one shot from a 1911 into the air, and then had to cock his piece to threaten the town bully.

I guess it was because I LIKED that movie so much that
this one GLARING nonsensical thing was so offensive.

Fud
 
In the old spoof movie Fatal Instinct there's a scene where a woman steps up to a guy on a train, and shoots him about 200 times with a revolver without reloading. That always cracked me up, that the makers of the movie were meta-aware of the typical movie gaffe of guns never running out of ammo.
 
Too many to count - but I still go back to the Last Dragon (I've mentioned this before on another thread) in which Leroy (the hero) is shot in the head with what I remember to be a 1911 .45 & he cathes the bullet with his teeth & its a 9mm still in the casing...ah I always get a nice little chuckle when I think of it.

Also I watched a movie on HBO the other day with Bridget Fonda & she has this big huge handgun & everytime she fires it, instead of of her arms blowing back they magically go forward.
 
Any movie where the cops....

are storming somewhere or another and after they are in the place, have to rack their shotgun............movie actors that squint their eyes shut when shooting whatever gun they have..........All of the old timey cowboy movies where they are racing along on a horse and "throwing lead".........but, we were kids then and it was cool.......chris3
 
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. The extremely skinny Demi Moore accuratly fires gold plated Desert Eagles, one in each hand, and they kick no more than .380s

Johnny Dangerously.
It's an 88 magnum, it shoots through schools.
Click to expand...
:D
 
I can't remember what movie it was (quite a few years ago) but there was a shootout and one guy emptied his mag, dropped the mag, racked the slide and then slid a new mag in and started firing.
 
Armed and Dangerous with John Candy and his '50 caliber revolver' thats only legal in two states and that wasn't one of them
 
Saw a bad made-for-TV movie a few years ago that was supposed to take place in Viet Nam during the war (with US soldiers)... the main character was packing a Beretta M9 and their unit's "sniper" had a MecTech CCU on a 1911 frame with a cheap BSA Red Dot sight.

Also, in some bad action movie one of the bad guy's lackeys is chasing our hero around a car while packing a 12 ga ... he pumps the thing 2 or 3 times before he finally shoots it.
 
One of the James Bond movies, forget which one, where 007 was in a training sim. He's cleaning his P99, by just sort of poking at the locked open action with a bore brush. He's like "doink, doink, doink, oh, there's a bad guy!", loads up and starts blasting away.
 
Every episode of 24

I love this series, but they are so stupid when it comes to guns. In every episode, when a gun is raised, there is a click. What the heck is the click? Is the shooter cocking the hammer? They do that one handed, that fast, without us seeing it? Especially on a large semi auto?

But, the best is where Jack Bauer, gun man and super federal agent that he is, has just shot his pistol at someone to scare them. Then, in the next frame, he points it at their head to let them know he means business. THEN, he COCKS it to let them know he REALLY means business. What, did he decock it before? And if so, I guess he didn't really mean business before when he was pointing an uncocked gun? ANd THEN, TO TOP IT ALL OFF, when they finally tell him what he wants to know, he drops the hammer WHILE STILL POINTING THE GUN AT THEM.

I hate Hollywood.
 
Gun used correctly ? Two movies come to mind, Heat and Ronan... Heat has the best shootout I've ever seen in a movie oh and The Wild Bunch... great movie....
 
In the movie Crimson Tide, every time anyone moves, shotgun slides are racked (for thrilling effect.) This happens so often, I'm surprised the submariners aren't tripping over all the shells that must be rolling around the deck. :rolleyes:
 
An episode of the twilight zone.
A robber is in the house, hiding in the shadows. The lady of the house drops her stainless revolver and as it falls down the stairs, it discharges. 5 times. And hits the robber with every shot.
ridiculous.
 
Open Range.

Great movie, but there are two parts that come to mind.

1) Costner's revolver that doesn't need to be reloaded

2) Duvall shooting the guy thru the shack with his SxS shotgun and having the guy fly back 50 ft. Great scene though! :D
 
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