Movies Where Guns Weren't Used Effectively

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I love when the high cap semi is empty the BG/GG pulls the trigger and you hear "click,click,click" and as far as the slasher movies,if I found a body looking like it went thru a meat grinder the LAST thing on my mind is to go looking for the guy who did it and getting the hell out of Dodge.
 
If anybody here wants to view a truely horrible movie in the same vein as The Strangers, go rent the French movie "Them". Killers are unarmed, killers turn out to be children, and the movie is in French. Makes The Strangers look like riveting cimema.
 
Starship Troopers
When 4 or 5 people have to empty the mag into one enemy to kill it you need bigger guns.
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thats a training issue. If you remember the scene where Doogie Howser SS conducts the "combat effective test" he blows off a leg and says "its still 80% combat effective"... then he describes proper shot placement on the bugs and drops the critter with a single round.
 
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How many times do you, a 150 pound plus human, step on a particularly disturbing and frightening insect? I know I've given some creepy bugs four or five kicks despite squishing it on the first stomp.

It's human nature to get a little overboard when killing creepy, yucky crawly things.
 
"I think Cloverfield has to pretty much top it all."

Plenty of Air to Surface Missiles smacked Clover pretty darn hard, and he kept walking.

Or are you talking about the dog-sized whale lice running through the subways? Not that any New Yorkers would have had the guns to drive them off...
 
I like the idea of the Parody training films. I could see multiple scenerios in such vain as:

1. How to Properly shoot a Zombie. Used in both walking upright and crawling after half the torso was removed traumatically.

2. Effectve shot placemnt for the following Evil Beings:
a. Jason
b. Freddy
c. Micheal
d. Add your other favorite immortal creature here.

3. What else can others come up with?
 
speaking of parody videos, the guys from Shaun of the Dead did a series called 10,000 volts (IIRC) that was pretty funny about how to kill zombies
 
How about the ending of damn near every 80’s action movie where the good guy has the bad guy in his sights after the bad guy has just shot a dozen people. And the good guy DOES NOT TAKE THE SHOT instead he comes out from behind cover, lowers his gun and is only saved when his girlfriend shoots the bad guy in the back once the bad guy pulls out another gun. It makes me sick!! Just once I want to see the bad guy shoot the good guy and get away, or the good guy just shoot him. C’mon by this point I’ve seen this ending, its not dramatic anymore, show me something new.
 
Ok many of you guys are saying you would like to see just once the gun used effectively...Army of Darkness (thank you Sam Rami) when you have Good Ash and Bad Ash. Bad ash is taunting the good one and punching him in the face. Then you see Bad Ash with the barrel of a shotgun smooshed into his nose <BANG> THEN Good Ash states "Good, bad...I'm the guy with the gun". No matter how many times I see that I always give a little cheer. No speeches that allow the bad guy to get away or anything just <BANG>. Well the Bad Ash is some sort of undead creature and does come back later but still a good scene.


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Pretty much 99% movie from the 80s starring Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Norris and so on would classify under this heading.
 
Jason and Michel have been shot,stabed,and set on fire.They are to evil to killed by normal wepons.
 
Speaking of Jason, wouldn't the obvious way to kill him be to totally destroy his body such as with a vat of molten metal?
 
Pretty much 99% movie from the 80s starring Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Norris and so on would classify under this heading.

+1, see "Cobra" as an example. One of the few movies I've actually seen a Jatimatic in, and it had to be "Cobra."

This isn't a movie, but I would also include the G.I. Joe cartoons that used to air on television.

jm
 
'Plenty of Air to Surface Missiles smacked Clover pretty darn hard, and he kept walking.

Or are you talking about the dog-sized whale lice running through the subways? Not that any New Yorkers would have had the guns to drive them off...'


Still walking after air to surface missiles... I'd say that counts as 'not used effectively'. :D
 
'Plenty of Air to Surface Missiles smacked Clover pretty darn hard, and he kept walking.

Or are you talking about the dog-sized whale lice running through the subways? Not that any New Yorkers would have had the guns to drive them off...'


Still walking after air to surface missiles... I'd say that counts as 'not used effectively'.
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That's not really an issue with the training or those using the guns/missiles or the effectiveness of those guns/missiles against targets they were designed for. The fault in Cloverfield lies with the .gov not designing and deploying weapons capable of dealing with alien threats decades after finding out the existence of aliens in the 50s.
 
Here's an excellent commercial clip of how long most movies would last if they had effective gun use:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJnwEO4rBw

Hehe, I heard some funny dialog in some movie (can't remember the name). One character killed the other's family years ago, and tried to kill him too by a 9mm to the brain. Well, long story short, the guy still lived but his family was dead. The victim, years later, subdued the bad guy and was telling him "If you had shot me in the head with a 45, maybe I'd be dead but noooooooo, you had to use a puny 9mm so now I have to deal with these damn headaches." lol ;) Even the movies can't escape that argument. lol
 
I just saw You Don't Mess with the Zohan tonight. Adam Sandler plays a Mosad operative who dreams of being a hair stylist. But there is some decent gun-play in the beginning, and I have to credit the producers for using real Israeli guns (Uzi, Desert Eagle, etc). Sure they had a bunch of .223 rds sitting next to the guns, but at least the guns were right.
 
The treatment of firearms in Jurassic Park was downright absurd. And they had very few of them considering the dangerous animals around. It's even worse in the sequels, where the writers and directors go to outrageous lengths to render any firearm impotent. Up to and including having an Earth First type pull the bullets from the cartridges of a large doublegun.
 
I just wanted a scene in Jurassic Park where some fool opens up with the Spas-12 on the T-Rex.

T-Rex wrinkles his nose in annoyance at the buckshot that is irritating his skin, then chomps on fool.

Should have had more raptors. One gets shot, the other dozen rush in and shred.
 
shot can you name ONE where they are used properly??? ive seen maybe one or two come CLOSE..

99.99999% of them are the same thing a revolver with 15 shots or the best ones are the double barrels that only need reloaded after every 6 shots! now where can i get one of those!
 
because of Sam Elliot's fumbling of the shotgun in the computor room
I think you mean Sam Neil. Sam Elliot wouldn't be caught dead with an empty gun in his hand.
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LOL, I'll be darned if that's not EXACTLY what I was going to say!:)
 
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