Top 10 most Painfully Stupid Gun/Bomb/Etc Movie Scenes

[JColdIron]

the camera pulls back from the 3 left standing, to reveal that the club is actually the pinnacle ( seen from the vally side) of a Mayan or Inca pyramid.

I think that is Dusk till Dawn. Selma is the only redeeming thing in that flick

 

[Marion Cobretti]

the zombies in the Mexican desert that meet at the club 'b"o"o" bs' . TOTAL mayhem ensues all through the nite & in the morning the camera pulls back from the 3 left standing, to reveal that the club is actually the pinnacle ( seen from the vally side) of a Mayan or Inca pyramid. I'm actually pleased i cant remember the name of that movie.....its not good when your felling sick to have to watch &^%$ like that.

I think that atrocity was called "From Dusk til Dawn"

edit: beat me to it!

 

[worthirt_99]

Selma :drool:

 

[Slugless]

Anyone mention Starship Troopers? That movie made me lol - here they are, 100+ years into the future, and they seem to have forgotten the technology for nukes, napalm, and grenades. Oh, and flying too.

What really ticks me off is the lack of indirect fire in this movie and the Star Wars Clone movie. Come on guys, if you got masses of bugs in open, mortars and arty will make short work of them.

 

[GeezerwithGuns]

Elmer Fudd "cocks" his SxS shotgun with the fore stock..... Bugs jams his fingers in the barrels ......... Gun explodes in Elmer's face ......... Elmer now in blackface.

Funny, how close the "action / adventure" movie genre is to cartoons.

I can picture Bruce Willis doing the same thing in the next " Live Freely & Die Hardly."

 

[Claude Clay]

guy's, thanks very little for that name ( sic).....paaleaze dont tell me there is a part 2........

 

[Kimber1911_06238]

in the quick and the dead....when gene hackman is shot and he does a backflip. didn't know that pistols had that kind of power at long distances

 

[JamisJockey]

For me, its not the big stuff. Its the little stuff. Guns that never need reloading. Guys flying through walls when they're shot with shotguns. Guns firing from slidelock.
Movies are about escapisim. It doesn't have to be plausible to me to be decent, or even watchable. What it should have is decent attention to detail of the small stuff. I can watch the good guy kill all 10 badguys without a scratch, but to know he didn't reload his snubnosed revolver to do it...

 

[HOLYROLLER]

Any scene in which a car gets shot with 500 round and all the driver has to do is duck down to avoid getting shot. Apparently bullets cant pierce 20 guage steel.

 

[Foosinho]

The entire Shoot 'em Up. Then again, it's supposed to be a parody of the "shoot 'em up" genre. Of course, when Clive Owen is giving the baby the lesson on how to use a semi-auto handgun and says "this is your real safety" while wiggling the index finger on his off-hand... the index finger on his gun hand is firmly planted on the trigger.

Zardoz starts weird and just gets weirder.

That scene in The Transporter 2 is representative of just about every movie Jason Statham is in. Fun, but completely ridiculous. I'm guessing The Transporter 2 was the inspiration for the writers of Shoot 'em Up. The parody practically writes itself!

 

[akodo]

Don't watch a movie if you're going to pick it apart. "That wasn't realistic!" Movies aren't supposed to be realistic. They're supposed to be entertaining.

Look, some movies the 'facts' are so bad that it stops a movie from being entertaining.

A movie has got to be somewhat consistant. Okay, Bugs can plug elmer's gun with his finger, that is consistent with other stuff going on. Same with a truely over the top action flick like 'Smoken Aces', action equivalents of monty python or 'Another Scary Movie'

But when a movie that is trying to be otherwise relatively realistic, yes, it can be so bad that the movie stops being entertaining. For example, standard spy flick...its okay to never reload, be relatively unharmed by a grenade tossed close by, but to use a horse to chase down a motorcycle, unacceptable, to catch a bullet in your teeth and spit it back at the badguys, unacceptable.

Of course, there is a 3rd catagory of 'mistake' where real guns stand in for nonexistant ones. Take Die Hard, where bruce talks about the Glock 7, a ceramic gun that costs more than you make in a month and can get by airport metal detectors. Okay, there is no Glock 7. So it doesn't really matter that your Glock 19 is mostly plastic with a lot of metal. Okay, maybe the writer should have gone farther out on a limb with the name, like an "Elbonium 717 mark 2" but then you have the problem of gunners bitching 'hey that is obviously a glock!' Die Hard needed an 'undetectable gun' which is realistic enough, and needed to introduce it quicky. Another movie were Clint Eastwood is a Secret Service agent, they have the time to show the criminal make a resin gun, and then show the lethality of the gun, but that took like 10 minutes of movie time that could be spent on other things

 

[armoredman]

Die Hard 3, where the bad guy cannot hit Bruce with an M60, but Brucie Baby can shoot down a telephone line with a POS snub wheelgun and garbage ammo, from quite aways away, to knock down the helo the bad guy is shooting from.
Yes, DH4 was FULL of "YEAH RIGHT!!!" moments, ( edited, too many spoilers), but I enjoyed it as pure entertainment.

 

[hankdatank1362]

guy's, thanks very little for that name ( sic).....paaleaze dont tell me there is a part 2........

Ph, there were at least two or three "dusk till Dawn" sequels. One had Tiffini Amber Thiessen in it. ohhhh yeaaah.



I noticed on Under Siege Two - Dark Territory the other night that uber-tactical antiterrorism operator/ gourmet chef Steven Segal was instructing the young African American porter on the teain how to use a handgun.

Grip with both hands, take off the safety, point, pull trigger.

Great advice, except the GLOCK that the porter had does not feature a safety. (The porter then repeated this mantra to himself before engaging in a shootout with BGs.)







Also, I've mentioned this before, but for all you n00bs, please rent "Mean Guns" with Christopher Lambert.



Just rent it, don't buy it.

 

[esq_stu]

Waterworld - Dennis Hopper sitting on a bobbing jet-ski, on the water, with a handgun, shoots (at least he aims first) and severs one of the ropes holding the gondola of a balloon hundreds of feet in the air, spilling one of the occupants (the one he wanted, of course) into the water. It was on last night and came to mind when I read this thread.

 

[jlday70]

Well, if there isw anyone experienced in Bomb Disposal. Any Scene from Blown Away is pretty comical.

 

[silverlance]

For example, standard spy flick...its okay to never reload, be relatively unharmed by a grenade tossed close by, but to use a horse to chase down a motorcycle, unacceptable, to catch a bullet in your teeth and spit it back at the badguys, unacceptable.

exactly. this sort of thing ruins the movie's versimilitude. it's akin to finding out that the new James Bond 007 film that you've been watching for 20 minutes and paid $12.50 to see is actually a Tiny Toons adventure because not only can Bond stop shotguns from firing by sticking a finger in the barrel, he can also draw a black circle on a wall and climb through the "hole" if he gets cornered.

Here's another: From "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"
- this is one of the final shootout scenes between Brad and Angelina vs something like 500 bad guys. The two heroes are in the middle of their front lawn, totally surrounded. They cock their guns, and the lead starts flying - after a nice montage the camera pans up and out to show piles of dead bad guys, with our hero and heroine back to back, guns smoking. they do not have a single scratch on them. However, their body armor vests have impact craters everywhere - but only right up to the edge of the vest where bare skin begins! It must have been hard for all the bad guys to keep all their shots within the vests...

 

[rero360]

hey that just shows how well trained the BGs are in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, they kept all their shots COM.

 

[Bazooka Joe71]

I just wasted $20 and two hours of my life I will never get back, prompted this thread.

If you find out who you need to see to get those 2 hours back let me know, because I would also like to have mine back.

I lost interest from the begining when (that horrible actor that I don't know his name, so I'll call him goober) related listening to CCR with shoving a pine cone up his butt.



That was absolutely one of the worst movies I have seen in my life...It really just doesn't get much worse.

 

[Neo-Luddite]

Also, I've always suspected that the casual 'lobbing' of mortar rounds by hand at the end of Saving Private Ryan was fishy. Not having been a mortarman I've never been 100%, but that seemed out of place and a long shot at best--anyone know for sure either way?

Also in the same film, the sniper vs. sniper bullet-through-the-scope; but I'll give that one a pass. Great movie if you skip the middle 2/3rds and watch beginning and end.

 

[Avenger]

The one thing that has always bothered me is in the OLD Superman shorts. The bad guy whips out a snubbie Smith as Superman bursts through a wall, and fires six shots rapidly. Ole' Supes just sticks his chest out, the bullets shatter on his Kryptonian muscles, and he gives a little chuckle as he shakes his head at the bad guy. Mr. Stereotypical Bad Guy sees this little display of machismo, becomes enraged and frustrated, and proceeds to throw the pistol at Superman.....WHO FREAKING JUMPS OUT OF THE WAY.

This bugs me on two levels: Reality, and TV/Movie world.
The reality is that obviously having somebody hit in the chest with a thrown revolver is a good way to not get next week's episode done on time. But prop guns don't weigh much (yes, they were around then) and anyways, George Reeves actually had some muscle to his chest, unlike that new pansy.
The TV/Movie: HE'S SUPERMAN, he's been shot by a frackin BATTLESHIP at point-blank range, so he's afraid of a 4lb revolver chucked sidearm by somebody named MUGGSY? SHeech....

 

[Pigspitter]

I was watching "the plague" and the girl turns around after hearing a pump action shotgun rack only to be confronted by a single shot break-action shotgun.

 

[Nix]

my one and only pet peve... is the 300 rounds that come out of a 30 round clip or my favorite (the animal with rob schneider) the 20 round shotgun... but its in so many movies. or how a 9mm is now an instant kill in any movie, but a 45 to the good guys chest and its just a "flesh wound"

 

[novaDAK]

Don't watch a movie if you're going to pick it apart. "That wasn't realistic!" Movies aren't supposed to be realistic. They're supposed to be entertaining.

Movies are not educational films.

I agree with this 100%. Movies are not supposed to be realistic.

However, I don't like the fact that the general public assume it to be realistic, and therefor have their views of things (especially firearms) very skewed from what is actually reality.

 

[10s&Xs]

I can't remember which "Scary Movie" it was, but there was a scene that made me laugh out loud.

Character is holding a shovel and preparing to fight off aliens. Says "Let's go!" and "jacks" the shovel like he was holding a pump shotgun by the fore-end. Big ca-chank sound effect and a spent shell flies out of the shovel.

 

[Aguila Blanca]

I can stand the lack of realism in Bond movies. After all, he’s actually nothing more than a live cartoon character. They were supposed to be entertaining and I found them to be so.

I can't (stand them). Have you read the books? James Bond was not written as a "live cartoon character." He was written as a super-deadly secret agent. There is nothing cartoonish about the books. The first few Bond movies with Connery were somewhat true to the spirit of the books (if you discount Q's gadgetry), but the Bond character became less lethal and more cartoonish with each successive movie. The end was when they replaced Sean Connery with Roger Moore. Moore was a travesty in the Bond role. If there's one factor that made James Bond into a live cartoon, it's Roger Moore.