Most ridiculous gun moment in a movie or TV show.

[bthest86]

Collateral with Tom Cruise has some great gunplay.

Anyway, I liked how in Saving Pvt Ryan, the soldiers behind the concrete wall on Omaha unload their Garands in 3 seconds with no recoil whatsoever.

The universal gun mistake in movies seems to be that 1911s and single-actions are never cocked. Even after racking the slide.

Anyway my vote goes to "Once Upon a time in Mexico" where a guy is sent 15 feet in the air by a shotgun blast.

 

[Diomed]

wheelgunslinger - Hey, it's the Twilight Zone! It's not supposed to make sense.

Was it the original or one of the revivals? I don't remember one like that in the originals...

 

[EmGeeGeorge]

tommy gunning in Miller's Crossing...

 

[1911JMB]

I just remembered a scene I stumbled onto on one of the star trek shows. Don't ask me which one, I don't know or care. They were supposed to be in the 30's, and they had 1911's and Thompson's. Somehow, the 1911's were not cocked, and the Thompson's bolts were blatently closed and not moving. No empties were coming out of anything, and they had an infinite supply of ammuntion.

 

[AJ Dual]

It was Maxwell Smart, I can't remember if it was a TV episode, or from the "Nude Bomb" movie, but Maxwell is hiding from the bad-guys with Agent 66 in a computer or office room that was brightly lit.

So Maxwell proceeds to shoot out all the lights with his silenced automatic, but runs out of ammo with one light left. Agent 66 says, "Oh, here's the light switch…" she reaches up, and turns out the last light.

Now the bad guys are coming, and they're out of ammo…

That was classic.

 

[wheelgunslinger]

Diomed: It was the later color series without Rod Serling.

 

[Black Majik]

Got another one.

Lethal Weapon, Mel Gibson and Danny Glover at the shooting range.

You can hear brass falling on the ground from Mel Gibson's Beretta but no slide movement or brass ejecting from the gun. Oh and the cheesy computer generated flash

 

[Black Majik]

Oh yeah, can't forget Jet Li taking off the slide of the 92FS.

 

[ruckus3008]

warrior...
the movei was die hard 2.
now where's my prize?

 

[sterling180]

In Mad Max:The road Warrior:When Max is driving the Mack truck,back towards the beseiged communities settlement,he drives through the Humongouses camp,where the Humungous becomes so angry that he gets his S&W M29,loads it up and fires a shot at the trucks radiator-to try and halt it.Max tries to fire his shotgun,through the broken windsheild,but it misfires,-because of the severe corrosion of the shotgun cartridge.

This in real life would of meant that the shotgun could have exploded,in max's hand and could have killed him.

In Harry Potter and the Sourcerer's Stone,Harry Potters uncle Vernon angrily confronts Hagrid,with his double-barrelled side-by-side shotgun-after Hagrid breaks down the lighthouse door,to give Harry his acceptance letter from Hogwarts School.Vernon asked Hagrid to leave at once,by threatening to shoot him.

Hagrid ignores Vernon and proceeds towards him and bends Vernon's shotgun upwards causing Vernon to shoot the ceiling-with two live cartridges loaded inside.

Inspector Lewis.(The pilot episode,for the proposed tv series,that proceeded Inspector Morse.)

When Lewis and his Sergeant investigated the death of a girl who was shot at point-blank range,by a .38 pistol,they later found a Smith and Wesson .38 revolver- hidden inside of a shoe box-in the room of a maths student-at Oxford university.

A Smith and Wesson revolver and any other kind of standard-length revolver/auto-pistol,is banned under the Firearms Ammendment Act 1997 in the UK and Lewis could have arrested this kid for possession of a Section 5 weapon and the kid could have got five years in the slammer-along with unlicensed ammunition and firing a gun in a public place,other than a gunclub..

 

[MS .45]

How about all the times a person is threatening someone wiht a gun that is not ready to be fired(ie. slide locked back, hammer down on a 1911). The slide lock thing happened on '24' this season. One of the best is toward the end of "Face Off" in the church when Nicolas Cage does some sort of flip before firing at Travolta(who was unarmed at the time). Makes me laugh every time.

 

[Stauble]

2 here
one is the hole scene in mr and mrs smith when they are in the store and blasting away at the other people who are for some reason missing them.

2nd was in True Lies (i love that movie though) when Arnold's wife drops the Uzi down the stairs and every time it hits a stair, the gun fires, and kills some of the bad guys.

 

[Dan M.]

Tango & Cash, where in the opening moments, Sylvester Stallone is speeding down the road in his car after an 18 wheeler tank truck, zooms ahead of the tanker, skids to a stop blocking the road, climbs nonchalantly out of his car and draws a snubbie, stops the truck with one shot that causes a spectacular crash/explosion.

 

[Low-Sci]

Wolf Creek, hands down...

For a number of reasons.

First, the serial killer fires a shot from a long distance at a car. You hear the shot long before you hear it hit his target, which happens to be a metal thermos of water. Hydrostatic shock does not exist for the purpose of that shot, because the thermos doesn't move, but water starts leaking out of the entry and exit holes.

Second, because when one friend is trying to rescue the other, she shoots the killer in the ear with his own rifle, then fails to figure out how the bolt-action mechanism works, and proceeds to swing the rifle by the barrel down on the serial killer's back twice. There's ammunition on the table behind her. If she had collected herself and just killed him, the rest of the agonizingly bad movie wouldn't have had to happen.

And let's not forget the serial killer's standing shot on a moving vehicle's back tire. He's supporting the rifle on the top of his car, he lines up the crosshairs perfectly on a vehicle's tire that's moving at 60 mph diagonally away from him, doesn't lead the shot, and scores a perfect hit.

 

[Zen21Tao]

I also like how good guys shoot a wall and ricochet the bullet around a room to eventually knock something (like a chandelier) down on the bad guys head. Just think A-Team where (if I recall correctly) only 2 people, one of which was Murdock and entire episode centered on this, were ever shot over the entire span of the series.

 

[P-35/53]

In the original Rambo movie- Stallone breaks thru a State Police roadblock and the troopers armed with M-16's race to fire on him . Half are firng in to the backs of there fellow Troopers. And any film product where someone points a Glock and the you hear the sound of a gun being thumb cocked.

 

[Still 2 Many Choices!?]

It's the little things that bug me...

S.W.A.T., opening scene. Bad guy with AK is shaking the gun back and forth to simulate firing. No bolt movement, no smoke, no nothing:banghead: . I guess they had spent their ,"blank budget", on the squibs and bad actors ...

 

[Lebben-B]

I just remembered a scene I stumbled onto on one of the star trek shows. Don't ask me which one, I don't know or care. They were supposed to be in the 30's, and they had 1911's and Thompson's.

"A Piece of the Action"

All time worst offender: "Commando."

Ahh-nold as an M-60E3 with a belt that never gets any shorter. (Among many other flaws.)

Runner Up: "Missing in Action"

Saint Chuck comes up out of the water with an M60. You can see the red wax of the blank rounds hanging off the gun. (I can hear a roundhouse kick coming. One does not criticize Saint Chuck on an open forum.)

Honorable mention: "Equilibrium"

The Gun Kata? Gimme a break! The movie does redeem itself somewhat with the coolest beheading ever committed to film.

Mike

 

[Thefabulousfink]

Remembered another one.

In The Mummy with Brenden Fraiser he threatens the little weasel character with a 1911. As he points the gun at weasel's head you hear the sound of the hammer cocking, but you can clearly see that the hammer is down. I allways thought that this was more the fault of the sound people then the director or Fraiser b/c the threat is done in jest and he had no intention of killing weasel.


*weasel is the character w/ the fez whose name I can't remember.

 

[Zundfolge]

Ooh ... just thought of another one.

In Derailed, the police detective investigating the shooting of his nephew was able to tell not only that the murder weapon was a 9mm, but that it was shot from a Smith & Wesson 5906 and kept looking for this specific model throughout the movie.

 

[Backfired]

Everytime John Wayne shot a revolver he used a punching motion rather than simply lining up the sights and squeezing the trigger. I guess that extra bit of forward progress gave the bullet a bit more velocity.

 

[CNYCacher]

Zorro

The Zorro movie with Antonia Banderas, there is the evil military guy that we all are supposed to hate. The old man from the beginning of the movie rides a mine cart down a steep hill like a roller coaster, and jumps out as it reaches the end of the tracks, catapulting him through the air at the evil bad guy. As the old man is flying through the air at him with a war cry and a shovel over his head, the evil guy raises a pistol and shoots the old man, who promptly stops IMMEDIATELY in mid air and falls straight to the ground with a back-flip and dies.

Best/most realistic gun scene in a movie is in "Lightning Jack" (I think) where Paul Hogan is showing Cuba Gooding Jr the difference between the shotgun that cuba has and Jack's pistol. They each shoot at a barrel or something really close up, Jacks pistol makes a hole in it, then Cuba shoots with the shottie and obliterates the barrel. He is very impressed. Then they each shoot at the broadside of a barn about 30 yards away, Cuba's birdshot scatters off the barn with an appropriate sound, but no real effect on the barn. Jack shoots and his pistol knocks a board out of the wall. It was basically an accurate representation of the difference between the two weapons, and probably educational to someone who knows little about guns watching the movie.

 

[dev_null]

Let's not forget the classic Sergio Leone flicks where every shot causes a ricochet.

 

[htcw454]

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The guns of Will Sonnet when they speed up the action to make their draws look faster, "No brag just fact" and I think it was an episode of the twilight zone where the bad guy gets shot by 5 or 6 people multiple times in one room where they all ambush him and he gets hit and killed by 1 bullet.

 

[gamachinist]

Thefabulousfink,
The little guy in the fez was named Benny iirc.

I remember the Uzi down the stairs scene from True Lies also and laugh about it.

One of my favorites was the tv series a couple of years ago with the bad guys turned good that had all the classic 60's and 70's cars in it.
I want one of those bullet and dent proof cars,since every round fired at them only made a spark as it bounced off.
I've noticed this a lot lately in most all movies and pictures.It's really hard to make those holes appear with blanks,haha.

Things like this are why my friends won't watch movies with me at home any more,since I can't just ignore the stupid errors and the editing errors also.

The laast "Marriachi" movie that Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek (the best thing about the whole movie, imo) is unreal with the scenes with the other two "players" and the instument cases with the rocket launcher etc.
The full auto in the case is halfway believeable,except for the problems you would have with keeping it pointed straight with only one hand.