I watched what must have been an older movie called an "Eye for an Eye" with Sally Field last night on Netflix. She was learning to shoot a .38 Spl. revolver to get even with the creep. The first clips showing the revolver clearly showed the cylinder chambers looking to be .38 but the barrel was .22. I may not be the sharpest spoon in the drawer but I don't think this will work very well.
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Many times the older prop guns had a bore re-stricter to prevent a loaded round from coming down the pipe if inadvertently loaded that way yet still allowed a bit of muzzle flash when fired.
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Heard that "click" from a SIG in the new movie "Girl with Dragon Tatoo" as she snicks off the safety (by shaking the gun?) towards the end. Very similar to all those Glocks in other movies going "click-click" just before they are shot. In all fairness, the movie shows her doing a press check to see if a round is in the chamber. That was the most interesting/tactically accurate gun handling scene I've seen in a movie lately.
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If you pay attention, just about every show that has a gun has something wrong.
I was watching an episode of Burn Notice the other day and when a couple of bad guys emptied their full-auto guns they put in a "clickclickclickclick", like holding the trigger down meant the mechanism still worked without ammo.
I was watching an episode of Burn Notice the other day and when a couple of bad guys emptied their full-auto guns they put in a "clickclickclickclick", like holding the trigger down meant the mechanism still worked without ammo.
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I must be getting old...
For a really long time now, I have just watched movies and not nit-picked them about "this" , "that" or the "other".
Granted some of this new fangled stuff I have no idea what it is, what caliber, make, model or anything else.
I have no idea whom some of these good looking young sweet thangs are, still I am paying attention to them, only to find out later they had gun(s) in the movie.
But I know Humphrey Bogart carried a Colt 1903 in 32 ACP in Casablanca, instead of the Gov't Model of 1911 the movie poster shows.
Also:
Steve McQueen carried a Colt Diamondback in Bullitt, his two detective buddies Detective Specials. The hit man uses a take down Winchester 1897...
And the girl was Jacqueline Bisset...
Still the first thing that "caught" my eye was not a gun, nor the girl, but a car. Oh the Charger was neat, but it was Frank Bullitt's car, a
1968 Ford Mustang 390 GT 2+2 Fastback, that I really really like!
*age has its perks*
For a really long time now, I have just watched movies and not nit-picked them about "this" , "that" or the "other".
Granted some of this new fangled stuff I have no idea what it is, what caliber, make, model or anything else.
I have no idea whom some of these good looking young sweet thangs are, still I am paying attention to them, only to find out later they had gun(s) in the movie.
But I know Humphrey Bogart carried a Colt 1903 in 32 ACP in Casablanca, instead of the Gov't Model of 1911 the movie poster shows.
Also:
Steve McQueen carried a Colt Diamondback in Bullitt, his two detective buddies Detective Specials. The hit man uses a take down Winchester 1897...
And the girl was Jacqueline Bisset...
Still the first thing that "caught" my eye was not a gun, nor the girl, but a car. Oh the Charger was neat, but it was Frank Bullitt's car, a
1968 Ford Mustang 390 GT 2+2 Fastback, that I really really like!
*age has its perks*
rcmodel
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I saw The Closer the other night and they had a murder victim in the back seat of a car.
Dead guy has three holes in his chest.
Bloody back seat with three bullet holes going into the trunk.
So, the ME at the morgue says "No problem ID'ing the gun, the bullets were still in the body."
????????
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Dead guy has three holes in his chest.
Bloody back seat with three bullet holes going into the trunk.
So, the ME at the morgue says "No problem ID'ing the gun, the bullets were still in the body."
????????
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rcmodel
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Except everyone knows Dirty Harry was really using a .41 Mag!
Nooooooooooo!!
Not that BS again!!! :banghead:
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Nooooooooooo!!
Not that BS again!!! :banghead:
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Ragnar Danneskjold
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Most of those gun sounds are just stock sound samples added in during post-production. The sound guys don't know anything about guns or even care. They're just told to add a "gun sound" to the audio track when a gun is present on the screen to make the presentation of the gun more than just visual. The more senses of the audience you can impact with a scene, the better the scene, or so the wisdom goes. Hearing and sight is better than just sight, even if it doesn't make sense.
rcmodel
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Some of the best gun handling and vintage guns I have seen lately was on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.
They must have raided a museum to get some of that stuff.
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They must have raided a museum to get some of that stuff.
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royal barnes
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The Open Range 12 shot revolver has a pretty good explanation. The switch between the two revolvers Costner was carrying got cut from the final film. Costner did not realize it until it was too late. He fired 6 from the 7 1/2" revolver, holstered it, then drew the 5 1/2" for the fanning sequence. Costner said he was livid when he realized what had happened but the cost to fix the problem was prohibitive.
Fat Boy
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So when Costner's partner (Robert Duvall?) breaks up the bad guys rifles in Open Range, did anyone else cringe? I mean, why not keep those rifles?
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Right. In fact, a tremendous number of sounds are added in post production. I always laugh at the sound of screechng tires on dirt or gravel roads. For the life of me, I don't exactly what sound it is that nearly every gun seems to make when it is drawn in the movies during highly tense moments, but it sounds a lot like a single action revolver being cocked with a couple extra clicks. Drawn guns do not make this sound when the person drawing is being stealthy or when the situation isn't highly critical. I always wonder how the gun knows to make the sound versus knowing when to not make the sound.
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Open Range......Kevin "Mr. Gun Control himself" Costner and his six shooter that seems to shoot forever without being reloaded.
That guy is a joke and poor actor.
That guy is a joke and poor actor.
Same episode of "The Closer" mentioned above:
Bad guy takes the star's Glock (either 26 or 27) and, while issuing his threats, you hear the unmistakable sound of a hammer being cocked.
Oh, really?
But my favorite movie gun bloop is still from one of the "Bourne Ultimatum". Matt Damon is keeping Albert Finney in his gunsights for a fairly long scene. In some close-ups, it's a Glock. In some close-ups, it's a SIG.
Bad guy takes the star's Glock (either 26 or 27) and, while issuing his threats, you hear the unmistakable sound of a hammer being cocked.
Oh, really?
But my favorite movie gun bloop is still from one of the "Bourne Ultimatum". Matt Damon is keeping Albert Finney in his gunsights for a fairly long scene. In some close-ups, it's a Glock. In some close-ups, it's a SIG.
RUT
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>>Bad guy takes the star's Glock (either 26 or 27) and, while issuing his threats, you hear the unmistakable sound of a hammer being cocked.<<
Yeah, I caught that too!
Yeah, I caught that too!
The Lone Haranguer
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I try not to overly dwell on minor technical issues, unless a major plot point turns on them. Nevertheless, some things do get on my nerve (note the singular), e.g., the cylinder of a double-action revolver clicking when the cylinder is swung out of the frame and rotated by hand.
Sometimes they do get it right, however. A scene in the film The River Wild shows someone's hands (ostensibly those of Meryl Streep, but only the hands are in the shot) properly indexing the partially emptied cylinder of a revolver so a live cartridge would come up under the hammer, to be fired at the next trigger pull.
Sometimes they do get it right, however. A scene in the film The River Wild shows someone's hands (ostensibly those of Meryl Streep, but only the hands are in the shot) properly indexing the partially emptied cylinder of a revolver so a live cartridge would come up under the hammer, to be fired at the next trigger pull.
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In the movie "Fallen", Denzel Washington's character is firing at the baddie. He fires once then the scene cuts to the baddie, then back to Denzel as he contiues to fire. Unfortunately, after the first round is fired, you catch glimpse of the hadgun in slide lock. A second later, he continues firing. I doubth he's that fast at reloading.
I just had to verify the Glock/SIG discrepancy in the Bourne Ultimatum. It's true! Dang it!
I just had to verify the Glock/SIG discrepancy in the Bourne Ultimatum. It's true! Dang it!
Fotno
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I'd never thought of it till now, but your post set me to thinking.
Now I'm basing this on pure intuition, because the film makes no note of it. I reckon that a man like Boss Spearman would have considered taking those guns stealing; but he couldn't rightly leave working firearms with men who intended to do them harm, so breaking them up was the best alternative.
Not really a blooper but it shows that they're contagious. I was watching an episode of Gangland & during one of their clips of gang members showing off their guns there was a guy pumping a shotgun over & over and shells were actually ejecting all over the place! Was that supposed to be menacing when he rapidly unloaded his gun?
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I can't count on all my fingers and toes the number of times I've seen actors rack a pump shotgun, never actually fire it, and later rack it again. Often ejecting unfired shells as they do it. It's almost as if they think they have to keep it primed like a pitcher pump.
Years ago there was a scene in a Roy Rogers film where he wedged his single action revolver into a space by a rock, tied a string to the trigger, then stepped away and fired four shots in quick succession by only pulling the string -- without cocking the single action. When he came back to the revolver, it was then a Smith and Wesson .38 double action. When he reholstered the gun, it had changed back to his pearl handled single action. Ah, the magic of movies....
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