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In the movie We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson I noticed in one scene that was he scavenging ammo. He took a magazine and quickly slammed it into the M16 and it looked to me lie he hit the forward assist...but he hit the left side of the gun. After inserting the mag he whopped the crap out of where I assume the forward assist would be if it were on the left side, which gave a nice clack. I don't know much about this stuff, but I'm fairly certain the Army didn't issue left-handed M16s. Or maybe it's a secret way to load a rifle idk...
 
Hitting the left side is where the bolt release is, not the bolt assist. I think that would have been a proper move/action, if the bolt were locked back, ready to charge from a new magazine.
 
Maybe not strictly a "gun" blooper. The remake of 3:10 to Yuma. Russell Crowe's gang of baddies show up in town, milling outside the hotel. Everyone except the hero and his kid pee themselves and split. JUST SHOOT THEM RIGHT OUT OF THEIR SADDLES!
 
Not a gun blooper, but a willing suspension of disbelief seen in most cop/gun TV shows - the 110 pound super model female detective who spent 5 hours putting on her makeup that morning routinely beats up 275 pound street thugs or mafia underworld guys. Or kills 5 of them in a gunfight from 50 yards away. The funny thing is the script THEN adds blue language or conversation or subject matter to give these shows an air of grittiness or "reality." Yeah right.

My suggestion: the next time we get in war, forget about the Marines. SEND IN THE SUPERMODELS!!

Now my non-sarcastic suggestion: Bring back Dragnet.
 
B33fC8k said:
I think it was The Mechanic with Jason Statham that had a slo-mo close-up of somebody shooting a big 'ol rifle (probably BMG) and the spent catridges were crimped at the end like blanks.
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At the beginning of SWAT, you can see one of the officer's pistols stovepipe on a crimped blank cartridge when they're on the firing range.

In the opening credits to the remake of The Getaway, there's a close-up of a gun firing in slow motion in the opening credits. It stovepipes on a crimped blank cartridge.

There's a machinegunner in Saving Private Ryan who's firing a linked belt of crimped blanks.

That's just off the top of my head. I've seen it often enough that whenever there's view of a cartridge, I'm reflexively checking to see if it's a blank.
 
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.
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Great movie but a whole lot wrong esp. since I am posting about 5km from where the real bombing happened.
 
OK, how many times in Westerns have you seen big horseback gunfights where NO Horses were shot, just the riders???
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Used to see horses go down a lot. Big chase scene: Indians or robbers chasing the stage, BANG, horse goes down, rider falls off, horse gets up and trots away. BG stays on the ground. It was safer to fall off a horse that way, but even as a kid it looked hokey to me.
 
Yeah, shoot the rider and the horse goes down... Makes a lot of sense... My experience is that if the rider gets knocked off (by a limb), the horse just keeps going... Damn crazy-ass horse...
 
I love the "Law and Order" episode where the ME talks about still being able to smell the cordite at the crime scene.

I saw the movie "Unstoppable" and couldn't stop laughing at all of the BS. I'm a railroad engineer and that movie was so full of it that my wife got mad at me and asked me to "just shut up and watch the movie".

Hollywood take "artistic license" with everything. We notice it when it involves something we happen to know about. They live in a make believe world but want to be seriously listened to on everything political.
 
In young guns, when the Pinkertons set up a trap at a bank holding 100K or something like that. All the Pinkertons unload like 20 rounds each. The kid manages to save 2 guys and foy into the tellers booth or office. not to mention missing close up with a shot gun in that movie lol.

there are tuns of continuity errors in movies.

Didnt the first Die Hard have mp4s or 3s or 5s or whatever with clips to small for even a .22lr round? or is that just me....?

and i cant remember the movie but it was a western, with Clint Eastwood as actor/director. He played this Josey fellow (i think) ridding for the south. the scene where he goes to hand his 2 SAA revolvers to two dandy looking fur traders in a **** hole...than from some scene from tv magic he twirls them and flips them so they are right side up pointing at the perps and shoots them.

and for some unknown reason...no one ever squeezes the trigger in shock when they are shot. If they do..its in some dandy looking fake death manover....
 
Not a Blooper, more a question.

Just watched "Rio Bravo" one of the classic John Wayne movies. John carries his his large loop Carbine. I assume a .44-40????
On John's gun belt, I see many .45 LC cartridges in the loops along the back, EXCEPT for 2-3 stray LONG cartridges stuck in the belt. They look WAY longer than a .44-40.. and if your PRIMARY weapon is the carbine, wouldn't you want at least half the shells in the belt loop to be the carbine cartridge.
What are those stray cartridges?
 
Cluster Bomb:
There is a way to actually perform the twirl you described from "The Outlaw Josey Wales," and according to legend, a young John Wesley Hardin once got the drop on Wild Bill Hicock using that move.

Sig: (re Unstoppable) "LET'S USE HAND SIGNALS AND RADIO!" :rolleyes:
 
Greg528iT said:
Not a Blooper, more a question.

Just watched "Rio Bravo" one of the classic John Wayne movies. John carries his his large loop Carbine. I assume a .44-40????
On John's gun belt, I see many .45 LC cartridges in the loops along the back, EXCEPT for 2-3 stray LONG cartridges stuck in the belt. They look WAY longer than a .44-40.. and if your PRIMARY weapon is the carbine, wouldn't you want at least half the shells in the belt loop to be the carbine cartridge.
What are those stray cartridges?
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I can't speak to that particular issue in "Rio Bravo"...But I recall reading that Steve McQueen's Mare's Laig lever gun in "Wanted Dead or Alive" was chambered in .44-40 -- but all the ammo in his belt loops were .45-70's...The prop people simply decided they looked more impressive. :)


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He carried a 45-70 in middle of belt so he could tell where the middle was.
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Why did he need to know? I figured out pretty early on that the middle in the back was usually pretty much even with the buckle in the front.:scrutiny:
 
I was reading this thread for a little while but fell behind so I'm not sure if this has been mentioned... but my #1 most HATED (and I rarely use that word) movie blunder is when the character runs out of ammo (usually in a survival situation too!) and tosses the gun like they'll never ever possibly find more ammo for it (also as if their enemy isn't ever going to find it and use it against 'em!). ...and because it's fiction of course this doesn't come back to bite 'em in the beehind. I would never toss an empty gun, unless I make it to my guns or found a better gun with ammo.... gets me every time I see it in a flick, fills me with ARRRRRRRRG!



Edit: Ok i had to read through the thread couldn't resist, it has been mentioned, but it's still my hardest to stomach movie mistake!
 
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He carried a 45-70 in middle of belt so he could tell where the middle was.

Why did he need to know?
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From what I remember of an interview, JW had spoken with some oldtimers early in his career and they told him a single odd length shell (45-70 among the 45 long Colts or 44-40s) was used so they could tell when they were running low on ammo.

His first revolver was a 5 1/2" 38 WCF and used the 5 in 1 blanks common to Hollywood. Later he carried a 4 3/4 45 long Colt.
 
Cluster Bomb said:

and i cant remember the movie but it was a western, with Clint Eastwood as actor/director. He played this Josey fellow (i think) ridding for the south. the scene where he goes to hand his 2 SAA revolvers to two dandy looking fur traders in a **** hole...than from some scene from tv magic he twirls them and flips them so they are right side up pointing at the perps and shoots them.
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I think you're describing a scene in "The Outlaw Josey Wales". That was an authentic Old West gunfighter move, often called the Curly Bill Spin, Road Agent's Spin, or Border Roll. Variations start with the pistol upside down or right side up. They sped it up a bit for the movie, of course.
 
Anyone remember the movie "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka."

"You've got a revolver and must have fired at least a dozen times. How is that possible?"
"Because I'm the good guy."
 
Strawhat said: a single odd length shell (45-70 among the 45 long Colts or 44-40s) was used so they could tell when they were running low on ammo.
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Thanks, that makes more sense than knowing where the middle of the belt is.
 
Flipping the guns around from a surrender position also is shown in Wyatt Earp.

The first gun battle in Last Man Standing also must consume about 50 shots from two 1911s, w/o reloading.

One thing I did like in We Were Soldiers, in the final battle when the gunships arrive, they actually had the empty cases spewing out of the miniguns as they fired. I watched Memphis Belle again recently and liked the realism of the floor of the B-17 covered with empty cases as they waist gunners fired at the fighters.

I thought Heat handled the guns pretty well. I liked seeing Al Pacino do a press check on his 1911 (Commander?) before going into action.

By the way, what rifle was Pacino using in the big bank robbery shoot-out in Heat? Just can't recognize it.
 
Just saw the latest Sherlock Holmes movie. time peroid was 1891 and the bad guys had cases and cases of full auto Broom Handle Mausers. One guy made a 600 yd shot with a Martini Henry rifle. Watson used a machine gun that looked like a prop. I'm not real up on machine guns but they used a Maxim in the movie as well but I'm not sure it was period correct. Oh the best part for me at least as Holmes was operating a Mauser bolt action the case comes flying out in slo mo and you can read the words "winchester" on the bottom of the case.
 
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In Raiders, Indy carried 2 different revolvers, dependant upon whether it was to be fired in the scene or not. The semi that he used in the bar scene, (and later on the ship) was actually a BHP. In the beginning of the fight, he empties his revolver, then drops back to cover in the doorway. At this point he fumbles near his belt. I assumed this was re-holstering the revolver. The following firefight he shoots some, reloads, and if I remember correctly, though it has been a while, he actually shoots 13 times before slide lock. I was intending to watch this scene again, and have not had the chance. The big question is how did he end up with a gun that was just introduced into European production one year previous to the events that took place in the film.
 
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