Most ridiculous movie firearms scenes

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I did notice the bullets must have been tumbling on that scene in SWAT to tear those holes in the targets. That's actually in the same scene I was referring to. I was just surprised that there was any recoil at all and not CGI muzzle flash. One of the few times I've even seen recoil in a movie and it was exaggerated. (And from a former SEAL, then SWAT officer no less.... in the movie)
In hollywood weapons Terry does one episode on Rambo. He fires the machine gun one handed at some targets with some success. He also tests the bow going through the guy and nailing him to a tree, as well as using the gun powder for a fuse and muzzle flash for the ignition to blow up the store.
 
I was watching Hawaii 5-0 with my two sons a couple of nights ago. The 4 LEO's were in a gun battle with a whole bunch of bad guys, all of who had fully automatic rifles. Bullets were flying everywhere. My 11 year old asked why no good guys are ever hit but the bad guys are all put down with a single shot. Hollywood's not even fooling kids with these scripts.
 
TomJ said:
I was watching Hawaii 5-0 with my two sons a couple of nights ago. The 4 LEO's were in a gun battle with a whole bunch of bad guys, all of who had fully automatic rifles. Bullets were flying everywhere. My 11 year old asked why no good guys are ever hit but the bad guys are all put down with a single shot. Hollywood's not even fooling kids with these scripts.
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My wife and I watched that show (the new one) until the episode about the dude who got so mad about a mass shooting that he became a mass shooter or somesuch.

There was so much wrong (and anti gun) with that episode, especially with Hawaiis gun laws, that we just quit watching.

It was moderately entertaining before that
 
JR24 said:
My wife and I watched that show (the new one) until the episode about the dude who got so mad about a mass shooting that he became a mass shooter or somesuch.

There was so much wrong (and anti gun) with that episode, especially with Hawaiis gun laws, that we just quit watching.

It was moderately entertaining before that
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I remember that episode. I turned it off about halfway through.
 
I hate to rag on "Firefly" because it was one of the greatest shows of all time, but there was an episode wherein they had to wrap a rifle in a pressurised spacesuit to get it to shoot it in a vacuum because "it has to breath air to work," or some such, which of course is nonsense- a firearm will function perfectly in the vacuum of space.
Made me scratch my head......

I was in a really bad place when that show came out on DVD and I binge watched it over the course of a few days. I know it sounds goofy, but I really think the Lord wanted me to see it because it was just what I needed. I laughed, I cried- it helped me get through.
If you've never seen it, please do. It's a sort of space Western, I suppose, and it has something for everybody. Good stuff.:)
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
I hate to rag on "Firefly" because it was one of the greatest shows of all time, but there was an episode wherein they had to wrap a rifle in a pressurised spacesuit to get it to shoot it in a vacuum because "it has to breath air to work," or some such, which of course is nonsense- a firearm will function perfectly in the vacuum of space.
Made me scratch my head......

I was in a really bad place when that show came out on DVD and I binge watched it over the course of a few days. I know it sounds goofy, but I really think the Lord wanted me to see it because it was just what I needed. I laughed, I cried- it helped me get through.
If you've never seen it, please do. It's a sort of space Western, I suppose, and it has something for everybody. Good stuff.:)
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Well we dont really know what a Callahan Full Bore Auto-Lock (AKA Vera) actually uses for ammo, so maybe possible?

Plus all the guns in Firefly unnecessarily make pew pew sounds, so who knows what they use for ammo.

Great show, a tragedy it was cancelled. Baffling too.
 
JR24 said:
Well we dont really know what a Callahan Full Bore Auto-Lock (AKA Vera) actually uses for ammo, so maybe possible?

Plus all the guns in Firefly unnecessarily make pew pew sounds, so who knows what they use for ammo.

Great show, a tragedy it was cancelled. Baffling too.
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If you watch carefully, you can see Jane loading Vera's magazine at one point with what appear to be standard ammunition similar to a .308 case. The spacesuit was a silly plot device, but doesn't take away from the overall goodness of that episode or the show. Christina Hendricks was scary good as Mal's "wife," lol!
 
Don't bad mouth Vera!

Maybe Jane (the man they call Jane) made that up to prevent exposing her to the vacuum of space and risking out gassing of various parts, I mean she's got a name and is a lady.

She just needed some protection like Janes head when he wears his Mom's gift hat.

Nope never watched the series... and if you believe that then no power in the 'verse can stop us.

-kBob
 
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I also noticed that in "Oblivion" Cruise left-shoulders his rifles, but holds his pistols in his right hand.....
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I do the opposite. Learned rifles first, despite being left-handed. To me, rifles just "belonged" on the right. Besides, empty .22 brass would find its way into my shirt when left-side fired.

Handguns found their way to my dominant hand.

However, this led to me being a cross-dominant shooter when it comes to eye use (I'm trying to cure that by learning open-eyes shooting.)
 
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Don't bad mouth Vera!

Maybe Jane (the man they call Jane) made that up to prevent exposing her to the vacuum of space and risking out gassing of various parts, I mean she's got a name and is a lady.

She just needed some protection like Janes head when he wears his Mom's gift hat.

Nope never watched the series... and if you believe that then no power in the 'verse can stop us.

-kBob
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Funny, I first heard about Firefly on this Forum. Been a Browncoat ever since.
Oh, and it's spelled Jayne. Jane" is a girls name... ;)
 
Previous posters mentioned the Hawaii 5-0 remake series ... as much as Hawaii has horrible firearms laws (I know, I lived there), and as anti-gun as the CBS screen-writers are (no doubt young liberal millennials who graduated from USC film school, Northwestern or NYU) ... the show itself seems to have some folks involved in the production who take great pains to accurately depict the weapons, accessories, and equipment; indeed, I've been fairly impressed with how up-to-date it's been.
 
Old Dog said:
Previous posters mentioned the Hawaii 5-0 remake series ... as much as Hawaii has horrible firearms laws (I know, I lived there), and as anti-gun as the CBS screen-writers are (no doubt young liberal millennials who graduated from USC film school, Northwestern or NYU) ... the show itself seems to have some folks involved in the production who take great pains to accurately depict the weapons, accessories, and equipment; indeed, I've been fairly impressed with how up-to-date it's been.
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They also make an effort to portray veterans In a positive light. They dropped the ball with the episode we mentioned before and sometimes the scripts seem to be targeting high school/ college students, but I appreciate their positive portrayal of our veterans.
 
As for the vampire vs. werewolf, from what I remember from Stoker's dracula, it was wood stake through the heart, and sunlight. Werewolves were killed by a silver bullet that had been blessed. Silvertips are not real silver. I have no idea where silver for vampires came from. Blade?
 
Don't recall the title but I think the protagonist was Wesley Snipes. Maybe not him but someone equally popular. Every time he drew a gun (probably stuck in his waistband, and appeared with disturbing regularity for no good reason) there was an audible "whoosh". It was not intended to be humorous.

The movie was forgettable. I may have walked out.

Guns seem to make a lot of noise in movies... and I don't mean when they're fired... which never seems to deafen anyone, and carry on a casual dialog. Guns are always clicking, clunking, racking, clacking... except of course when they're suppressed in which case they make about as much noise as opening a bag of chips.

Movies are an illusion comprised of flickering lights and sound. To me, sound provides an element of realism essential to a movie's believability. If it's accomplished well, a good movie can be an immersive sensory experience that makes you forget about the fact you're really doing nothing at all but sitting motionless, mesmerized by the illusion. If it's accomplished poorly, you realize you're wasting your time doing nothing but sitting motionless, and walk out.

What surprises me is how easily an otherwise good movie that must have cost millions to produced can be absolutely ruined by poor sound.
 
mcmurry said:
I have no idea where silver for vampires came from. Blade?
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Depends upon which canon you (or screenwriter) follow.
True Blood vamps are burned by silver.
Nosfartu wasn't (if memory serves)
Have no idea about the Twilight vamps (just never got into a series where 115 y/o wants to pick up 16 y/o hs girls)
Never got more than 5 minutes into the Underworld series, so, not a clue.
In the cult classic Lifeforce, the vamps are from space and the only thing that kills them is "leaded iron" whatever that is.
(I may have seen too many movies)

Typically, if silver has an effect, garlic does not. And vice versa. Unless the screenwriter need something else.
 
I cannot think of a really serious movie screw up right now that isn't covered.

My biggest firearm gripe is the hero fails to connect a double bladed axe with a redwood tree in the first fifteen minutes of a film or tv show and then in the last three minutes makes a 'circus-shot' bullseye on a villain six hundred yards down range with a two-inch revolver. Or such.

Of course, if the hits happened in the first little bit, the movie would be much shorter.
 
I just watched an old episode of Rookie Blue in which McNally gets shot with a .380. The bullet picked her up off the ground and threw her about 10 feet (or 3 meters since it was Canada) then slammed her into the ground.

A .380
 
Trunk Monkey said:
I just watched an old episode of Rookie Blue in which McNally gets shot with a .380. The bullet picked her up off the ground and threw her about 10 feet (or 3 meters since it was Canada) then slammed her into the ground.

A .380
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Amen. Basic physics: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." In layman's terms, a gun that can launch a projectile with enough force to knock someone off their feet will knock you on your ass when you fire it. And it ain't a .380 ...
 
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