Movie blooper

[f4t9r]

remember the TV show Cannon where he would pull out his snub nose 38 and shoot the sniper off the top of a building. LOL !!

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

^^^Fat guys have to shoot well, because they don't run so well....................

 

[Bovice]

Just about every movie has some kind of "error" in it from a gun owner's perspective. But Michael Mann does a pretty good job. Miami Vice (TV series and movie), Collateral, Heat, and Public Enemies are the only ones I know of. There's an obvious attempt made at realism.

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

Bovice, Mann also produced The Kingdom. That has some pretty awesome firearms scenes. If you watch the special addition, they have the entire building clearing sequence filmed from each person's perspective. Even though only about a quarter of the footage was used in the film, cut from each character's POV, they actually filmed the whole 10 minute sequence differently for each person. Even for the guy who's outside pulling security. In the film, they only show a few quick establishment scenes of him. But in the special edition, you can watch one long shot of him returning fire, using cover, reloading, etc. It's not even part of the move. It's like it was filmed just because it was cool.

 

[CmpsdNoMore]

The kingdom is one of my favorite firearm movies.

Only one thing wrong in it that I can think of off hand. There's part in it (in that same scene ragnar mentioned) where a guy has an M16 type rifle without any sights.

 

[flatlander937]

What about when somebody has a 1911, or most other semi-auto guns for that matter, pressed up against someone's head in a very forcible manner... in real life it would push the slide out of battery and not fire. I can't recall any particular movies off hand.. but I know I've never seen the slide get pushed backwards when this is done like it should.



Maybe they have some 50lb recoil springs?

 

[RedAlert]

I also love seeing in movies the old single action pistols being fired six times as soon as they are pulled from the holster. Funny thing is the practice in those days was to leave the hammer down on an empty cylinder when holstered as there wasn't a safety.

 

[hAkron]

In the opening scene in Pulp Fiction when Jules and Vincent shoot up the apartment of Brad and his cohorts they both shoot their guns empty, we know this because the slide on both guns locks back. When the guy hiding in the bathroom comes out, they both magically have bullets in their guns again.

 

[Jim K]

In most recent movies, the guns are never actually fired at all, and most are pure dummies that can't be fired. Not only does that solve the problem of guns in favorite movie locations with stiff gun laws, like Canada or NYC, but it also eliminates the possibility of accidents. After several fatal gun accidents on movie sets, the insurance companies pretty much put an end to the use of real guns by raising the premiums to exorbitant rates if real guns or cartridges (even blanks) are allowed on the set. The result is that the "gun" is held out and the actor jerks his/her hand to simulate recoil. The flash and sound will be added to the digital master by the back room boys. That is why you so often see someone "sweep" a room with a machinegun but the muzzle flashes don't track the muzzle.

Jim

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

The reason you see the slides lock back all the time is that the prop guns are only loaded with enough rounds for the scene, for safety, and thus they always shoot dry (and lock open). They could avoid the slide lock, but it aids in the safety of the scene. The guns are then reloaded for other scenes, or set of for that scene, and the continuity is not always first rate, depending on the director, gun handlers, etc. It is annoying, though. The slide lock/empty gun bugs me.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

The worst I have seen was a guy with a pistol and when he racked it the sound over was from a pump shotgun.

Wendy Saxon, in American Society of Trial Consultants, Sept 2009 issue:
"that "racking" of a pumpgun is the non-verbal equivalent of saying, "you have been warned"."

Every defensive gun should make that sound effect "GunRacking.mp3". If it works as advertised.

 

[RUT]

>>remember the TV show Cannon where he would pull out his snub nose 38 and shoot the sniper off the top of a building. LOL <<

I think Cannon must hold the world record for one shot kills with a .38 snubby!!

 

[tactidrool]

"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.

That's interesting. I hadn't seen the movie yet, but in the book she flicks the safety off of a GLOCK. I'm curious that they changed it to a SIG for the movie but still made the same mistake.

 

[JohnKSa]

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.

I agree. It's the one I always think of--I can't imagine how the continuity guy let something like that happen. It not only changes, it changes back and forth. Very sloppy.

 

[vvanders]

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.

Haha, I was going to post the exact same thing. Watched the movie a while back and noticed the same thing.

 

[toivo]

It ain't just firearms. If you're old enough to remember the TV show "Then Came Bronson," you'll probably also recall how his Sportster turned into a Sprint 350 whenever its tires touched dirt.

 

[MedWheeler]

After several fatal gun accidents on movie sets, the insurance companies pretty much put an end to the use of real guns by raising the premiums to exorbitant rates if real guns or cartridges (even blanks) are allowed on the set.

Actor Jon-Erik Hexum was killed with just such a gun on a set back in 1984. During a break on set, he engaged in a game of Russian Roulette, put a gun to the side of his head, and pulled the trigger. Though there was no bullet, the blast and the cartridge's wad dislodged a fragment of his skull and drove it into his brain.

 

[ultradoc]

And let's not forget the sound the 'silencer' makes.

 

[PRM]

Lonesome Dove/Young Guns

Robert Duvall carries his icon Colt Walker through out the movie "Lonesome Dove." However, in the night shootout on the river when he rescues Laurie, he's got a Colt 1860 Army.

The Colt New Service was a double-action revolver made by Colt from 1898 until c.1946.

In another scene from "Lonesome Dove", one of Blue Ducks boys shoots a Colt New Service. It was common in the movies to provide double action revolvers to actors, especially if they had problems with the single action mechanics.

During the opening credits of "Young Guns," one of the regulators is shooting a Colt New Service.

 

[Fleet]

The very best "big gunfight" movie blooper I ever saw was in either Open Range or Silverado, don't remember which.
Around one of the corral scenes, there's a shot of a gelding with his schlong nearly dragging the ground taking a leak. I was amazed it got past the editors.

 

[BHP FAN]

Dances with wolves, it's the scene where he empties his revolver in the river fight, and throws it away... I wanted to know where that river was and where I could borrow a metal detector!

 

[micromontenegro]

Last night there was this flick in the TV... didn't catch the name, as I just watched about 10 minutes before I slipped into slumber... but the good guy did a whole lotta shooting out of an uncocked 1911.

 

[JFrame]

remember the TV show Cannon where he would pull out his snub nose 38 and shoot the sniper off the top of a building. LOL !!

Heck -- I saw Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) drop two gang-bangers off of roof-tops with his snubbie while he was leaning out of the driver's side window of his car, simultaneously spinning doughnuts in an alleyway to present a moving target! I can't even do that on my BEST days...

However, I do have to give Tony props for being the first TV cop hero (to my best recollection) to carry a BUG -- a second snubbie in his cowboy boot.


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[robhof]

Long shots with snubbies, though extremely tough, are possible as demonstrated by Bob Mondon on one of those perfect shot shows. He used a 44mag with a 2" barrel and popped a baloon at 500yds. They left out how many rounds that it to do it however.

 

[CollinLeon]

Last night there was this flick in the TV... didn't catch the name, as I just watched about 10 minutes before I slipped into slumber... but the good guy did a whole lotta shooting out of an uncocked 1911.

I always got a kick when I saw a scene where someone was threatening to shoot someone and they had an uncocked M1911...