Movie: Shooter

[martinc64]

Why oh why won't you guys ever accept the fact that no movie should be expected to be factual in regards to things of this nature?

It's a movie. You watch it for it's entertainment value, not it's factual representation.

That makes no sense.

I understand allowing a little bit of leeway but if a movie shows a horse outrunning an f16 it looks stupid. Everything does not have to be perfectly factual but some errors just smack you in the face like a big wet turd.

Being smacked in the face by a big wet turd is not entertaining.

Some things are just over-the-top unrealistic and it ruins the movie.

For what its worth I went to sniper school in the army (about 20 years ago) and still enjoyed most of the movie. The shot at the cardinal wasn't the only stinker but what the hell.

 

[silverlance]

i spent two weeks in boonie alaska two summers ago. there, i met several inuit women selling furs. being a THRer, I asked what caliber had been used for the various animals. the woman looked at me, nodded politely, and said quietly, "it was a twenty-two."

I said in consternation, "But this seal must weigh at least a hundred pounds!"

She looked at me and said with the patience of one well used to tourists, "Well, they were shot in the head."

 

[bogie]

A .22 will do fine for putting down large animals if you pay attention to what you're doing.

I'm also sorta wondering if JR got any props for the helicopter scene...

 

[absolut_beethoven]

Of course you're correct, but you're thinking too hard - it's only a movie for entertainment purposes.

 

[Sharps-shooter]

I just saw this movie last night. I liked it okay. Some of the things you guys saw, I didn't have any problems with-- as far as I know, it's possible to have a beretta or most other pistols with only four bullets in the mag. The thing about not reloading the shotgun, well, she's not a trained shotgun warrior or anything, she probably reckoned it had done what she needed it to do.

Making those shots with a 22 at 400 yards, and making them count, is not so believeable given that the front sight was obscured by a soda bottle suppressor. but hey, it's a movie.

I thought the headshot on the cardinal was not remotely enough carnage to imply that a .50 BMG was used.

That was actually specifically addressed by the millitary consultant they used on the film, in the special features on the dvd. He said it would peel you apart, and that there would be limbs lying here and there. But that they didn't do it that way because it would be too gross.

what I didn't understand was why the policeman got attacked by his own dog.

 

[Cesiumsponge]

There was no implication of what caliber was used. The movie read like a Cheytac advertisement because that's the rifle they settled on, the Cheytac M-200.

It's been mentioned a few times already in prior posts. The ads for the ballistics calculator Cheytac sells specifically mentions things like taking the Coriolis effect into account for 2500 yard shooting, which is mentioned in the movie. The .408 caliber bullet is also made on CNC turning centers out of solid copper alloy and with a low ballistic coefficient, which was mentioned in the movie.


As for the statements about "50BMG peeling a man apart", I think that type of statement goes next to a the ones about a 45ACP knocking a man back 6 feet through the air or katanas cutting machine gun barrels in half.

 

[dodge]

What bothered me the most was that the movie didn't even start in the right war. Donny the spotter wasn't killed by a gunship but by another sniper for the NVA. Donny's wife lived in Arizonia not Kentucky.

 

[dodge]

What bothered me the most was that they couldn't even start it in the correct war and Donny the spotter wasn't killed by a gunship but by another sniper that was a Russian working for the NVA.

 

[milo z]

Well, no, they couldn't start it in Vietnam and have the events shown take place in 2007. Bob Lee taking his arthritis pills wouldn't have been quite as exciting.

 

[scout26]

Everything does not have to be perfectly factual but some errors just smack you in the face like a big wet turd.

Being smacked in the face by a big wet turd is not entertaining.

One more reason why I don't give Hollyweird my hard earned $$$$'s

 

[mod700]

have any of yall watched the Shooter special features on the dvd? the guy on there said that when the cardinal was shot, in actuallity the bullet would have to be fired so much above the target that by the time it hit the cardinal, it would be going almost straight down. in real life it would have split him in half!

 

[evan price]

Ya know, If I was a fugitive and needed quick transportation, I would SURELY take that old beat-up truck parked down by the docks for so long it was covered over with a tarp, and figure THAT one not only has a charged-up battery, it also has a fresh full tank of clean gas. Yup, that would be the ONE vehicle that would start right up and drive across country. Fer sure...

 

[rkh]

I didn't like how he thought nothing of plinking away with his Cheytac having his dog seated three feet from the muzzle.

I would never do that to my animals.