Movie Pet Peeves

[Sharps Shooter]

Phyphor - I actually saw a young punk at a gun show repeatedly "fliking" a brand new S&W snubby closed and the dealer didn't say a word to him. I suppose I should have said something, but didn't have the nerve. I just made a mental note to not purchase anything at that dealers booth.
Sorry - I guess that was kind of off-topic.

 

[Yardstick]

I've got one to add besides all the bottomless mags, poor/unsafe gun handling and bullets given that extra flick of the wrist in the old westerns.

Motorcycle engine noises and the sound of shifting gears. Terminator 2 is the goofiest example that I can think of off the top of my head -and happens to have both problems. The kid is riding a Honda XR200 or maybe 250, 4-stroke and the sound is clearly that of a 2-stroke. When the bad guy is chasing him with the semi the kid shifts that bike through about 20 gears!

 

[scout26]

My favorite is Carry Fisher's "adjustable rate of fire" M16 in the Blues Brothers. Seems the longer you mash the trigger the faster the rate of fire.

Bang

Bang

Bang

Bang
Bang
Bang
Bangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbangbang.

Still my all time favorite movie.



Plus the unlimited ammo supply that comes with all movie guns.

 

[ckyllo]

"In the old westerns I always got a kick out the way a guy would use the arm action of throwing a baseball when he fired the six shooter..maybe help that round get there faster! :O)"

at one time with the precussion cap revolvers it was common to point the gun up to cock it. sometimes the spent caps would fall off during cocking and could jam in action. by pointing the pistol up the loose cap would fall clear and keep the gun working. when the precussion cap era passed so did throwing a baseball to shoot era. I remember reading about a us marshall that was in a gun fight with a bad guy but got the bad guy because he knew when he was about to shoot from him pointing the gun up.

 

[Turtle Club]

I love that in the movie "Walking Tall" (the second on with "The Rock"). The scene where all the old Sheriff Depuities shoot up the Sheriff's Office. Their is a woman there at the time whom was fireing a gun. It looks like its a GLOCK. She fires it and empties the magazine.

1.)The slide does not stay back
2.)The trigger clicks

I dont know but my glock, you can only dry fire once then you can pull the trigger again because its locked back.

 

[CannonFodder]

I can't remember which show it was but I once saw a character put his thumb on the back of the slide ON A GLOCK and cock the hammer (you could hear the clicks).

For about 5 seasons of The X Files, that was Fox Mulder's patented "I am REALLY MAD at you and I'm trying to intimidate you" move.

 

[bigun15]

I'm going for the movie "Phone Booth". For those who didn't see it, a guy is stuck in a phone booth with a sniper watching him through the scope with a bolt action rifle. Every once ina while, he will open/close the bolt. This makes the "dramatic noise that everyone knows", but the problem is that he did it about five times. I said to the guys I was watching with,"He wasted half of the magazine just making noises."

 

[mustanger98]

Every once ina while, he will open/close the bolt. This makes the "dramatic noise that everyone knows", but the problem is that he did it about five times. I said to the guys I was watching with,"He wasted half of the magazine just making noises."

Sounds pretty dumb. Did they splice the same clip in over and over or was it different each time? Maybe he couldn't remember whether or not he'd loaded his rifle?

 

[Moparmike]

When the bad guy is chasing him with the semi the kid shifts that bike through about 20 gears!

That is the sound from the Kenworth that the T1000 is driving. Cab-overs are 2-strokes, dontchyaknow...



Well, all the good peeves are taken, but I love the scene in Hot Shots Part Deux where he is buried chest-deep in brass, and throws a handfull of it to kill some bad guys when that 10,000rd belt finally ends.

 

[afasano]

In the movie "The Big Red One" in the free the death camp scene a GI fires his M1 Garand into an oven 18 times before the clip ejects.

In "Phone Booth" do people in the big city answer a pay phone when they hear it ring? That must be for me.

 

[Luchtaine]

well its not really a peeve because it was pretty intentional least I think. But army of darkness where Ash is shooting the witch or watever toward the beggining and has his double barreled shot gun which he fires about 4 times with the slide racking noise.

I'm pretty sure its a joke on the endless magazines in movies.

 

[Turtle Club]

I'm going for the movie "Phone Booth". For those who didn't see it, a guy is stuck in a phone booth with a sniper watching him through the scope with a bolt action rifle. Every once ina while, he will open/close the bolt. This makes the "dramatic noise that everyone knows", but the problem is that he did it about five times. I said to the guys I was watching with,"He wasted half of the magazine just making noises."

How about when the Pimp gets shot. That is basicly why phone booth guy is stuck in the phone booth because the Police think he shot the Pimp, right? But as you should recall...the Pimp got shot in the back from the sniper guy in the building. Well when the Parametics take the Pimp away they could clearly see that the entrance wound was in his back, not his front. As logic would dictate that when the witnesses said they saw phone booth guy shoot the Pimp in the chest...well DUH! I refused to watch any further in that unaccurate movie.