What are the dumbest gun handling skills you've seen in hollywood movies?

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A few of you mentioned shooting from the hip, Quick and the Dead etc....

It was proven to me today that you can shoot a weapon without sighting it directly and make accurate shots. :eek: to some extent I did it myself with minimal training. :) Can't wait to practice more tomorrow. Now with intense training and lots of repitition I firmly believe you can shoot from the hip and shoot the hat off your friend. After what I learned today the Quick and the Dead becomes believable.

I never understood where the character in a movie is undergunned, somehow disables a better armed enemy and then fails to grab that weapon. that and in some movies actors shoot six guns ten or more times with no reloading. you would think they would care about believability(sp):neener:

Special thanks to someone who does not need to be named in this response. You made my day!!!
 
When they flick the cylinder closed w/ a revolver..makes me shudder..
When they drop a gun on the ground
When the good guy's been chasing the BG around and catches up to him and THEN chambers a round.
Not taking the gun of a dead BG
Also it seems that BG's get taken out w/ 1 shot,GG's can have body full of lead and still crack a witty joke.
 
In one 50s-vintage movie a detective used the muzzle of his revolver to scratch his head. :eek:

I think it may have been in "Plan 9 From Outer Space," which of course has a sucktastic quality all its own. :D
 
Oh man , Plan 9 , gotta love how horrible it is . Had to buy the dvd just to amuse myself when bored .:rolleyes:
 
Leaping through the air while firing a a semi-auto in each hand AND nailing the bad guys. Umm. Yeah.

Also, the A-Team. Special Forces guys who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn? Wait, weren't those Mini-14s? :neener:
 
Aaaaagh!

Saw this thread a couple of days ago, but didn't have anything to contribute.

Until last night, when our local PBS station showed an old Sherlock Holmes movie with Basil Rathbone. It was the one where Sherlock rescues the Bomb Sight Designer from the Nazis.

It was a real "AAAGH!" experience, because Sherlock, in disguise, bring the Bomb Sight Designer back to 22 1/2 Baker Street, and Watson, not knowing who they are, discovers them in the house.

Watson holds a small cocked revolver (type unknown) with his finger on the trigger on them and when he discovers it is Sherlock, continues waving the cocked gun back and forth between the scientist (AAAGH!) and Holmes (AAAAGH!) as the conversation goes on for at least a minute, until Sherlock says, "You can put that away, now, Watson."

The bumbling Watson says "Oh. Um. Of course," and uncocks the revolver and puts it in his pocket.

AAAGH!
 
Watson holds a small cocked revolver (type unknown) with his finger on the trigger on them and when he discovers it is Sherlock, continues waving the cocked gun back and forth between the scientist (AAAGH!) and Holmes (AAAAGH!) as the conversation goes on for at least a minute, until Sherlock says, "You can put that away, now, Watson."
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Sherlock was probably unnaturally calm because of the heroin he always shot up.

(yes, I know that's not true.)

My pet peeve is when single-action revo Heroes (or baddies) constantly cock their piece, then uncock it, then the next second, cock it again, on and on. Then they fire off a round or two, then continue the thumb-and-hammer-shuffle. Irritating.
 
I thought Holmes was a cocaine man.
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Ah, toivo, you're right. Mea culpa. Here's what I found after a quickie Google (a quoogle?)

Holmes is known to be moody and antisocial, cloistering himself in his rooms for weeks on end, brooding and indulging in his infamous drug habit. He started using morphine and cocaine as a student and became dependent upon his “seven-percent solution” of cocaine, mainlining it three times a day at the start of The Sign of Four. Watson admonishes him for his drug use, and in the later stories Holmes apparently has kicked his habit. It should be pointed out, however, that Holmes’s drug use was not illegal and would not be until the Dangerous Drug Acts of 1965 and 1967.
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I may have just had vague recollections of the morphine and translated that to heroin...
 
Scene in True Lies, the woman (jamie lee curtis?) drops an Ingrams or Uzi style SMG, it fires as it hits the floor (I cringed) the bullets miraculously find their way to a badguy (I cringe again), gun bounces onto stairway firing again(cringe with fear and forboding) and continues to bounce down the rest of the stairs, firing every bounce, killing badguys with every fire.....


what also gets me is when a badguy has a gun out, holding people hostage or whatever, and he uses it like he is holding a pen, like he has forgotten it is a weapon. Uses it to gensure and point, uses it to scratch his head, uses it to dial a phone, etc. Just silly.
 
Scene in True Lies, the woman (jamie lee curtis?) drops an Ingrams or Uzi style SMG, it fires as it hits the floor (I cringed) the bullets miraculously find their way to a badguy (I cringe again), gun bounces onto stairway firing again(cringe with fear and forboding) and continues to bounce down the rest of the stairs, firing every bounce, killing badguys with every fire.....
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Yeah, but that moving was supposed to be silly and over-the-top. It's not the kind of movie where I bother nitpicking gun handling.
 
To be fair to True Lies, that scene was supposed to be improbable and funny, but I would guess that a MAC, with bolt to the rear and safety off, is probably among the less "drop-safe" guns around.

Speaking of which - Blofeld drops a double-action revolver in You Only Live Twice and it discharges. I don't believe it was even cocked, as he had just fired a shot to kill one of his incompetent associates.

How about good gunhandling that's historically inaccurate? I submit the modern grips and stances on display coupled with Blackwater-style room-clearing tactics in U-571, a movie set in 1942. Of course, that's not the only historical inaccuracy in that movie. :rolleyes:
 
Just recently watched an episode of Lost and saw a character cock "the hammer" of A GLOCK....... TWICE in the same heated conversation. When he didn't get the answer he wanted he cocked it again. Nice!
 
Sage of Seattle (post #34):

Here's what I found after a quickie Google (a quoogle?)
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Dunno why, but that neologism tickled the heck out of me.

Been giggling for ten minutes.

Thanks! :)
 
I always liked the Monk episode where the cops are trying to see if a monkey can pull the trigger of a Beretta 92. Anyway, the joke it the cop is trying to get the monkey to shoot the gun at him thinking it is unloaded. He gives the (loaded) gun to the monked without even checking if it is loaded.
 
Every movie where SWAT/LEO or some type of entry team, is just about to enter a dangerous situation, and that is when they all start pulling the slide or charging handles, back on their weapons to load a round into the chamber. What are police in Hollywood not allowed to have a round in the chamber??

Or when the good guy/bad guy fires a couple of rounds, still has a loaded magazine, stops for some other plot line in the movie, and then chambers a round again. First why waste a bullet, and second where did the cartridge go that should have gone flying out of the chamber.
 
Bourne Identity, near the end in the stairwell when he fires two pistols, one right side up the other upside down using his pinky to pull the trigger...yeah right. And then moments later that feat is eclipsed by his headshot of another BG while falling 4 stories and landing on top of a dead BG, and somehow all he gets out of that with nothing but a slight limp :rolleyes:

Also, any of the innumerable TV shows and movies where one character asks another if they know how to use a gun, and that character proceeds to rack the slide and/or remove the mag to see if it is loaded...as if that's all that they need to know :banghead:
 
Mac, I enjoyed The Bourne Identity (still have to watch the sequal, though...) a lot. That is, except for that last scene. I could buy into the .22 being shot upside down, but the 4 story fall/headshot? What was he thinking?

"I could easily rush the stairs and take the hairy, slightly pudgy gunman by surprise, or I could use this dead man as a sky-board...."

Racking the slide for emphasis gets on my nerves.

Keeping your pistol, even though there are AK-47s laying strewn about always annoyed me as well.
 
Cable tv had dancing with wolves on yesterday. my son was laughing during one scene where they were shooting lever action rifles without using the lever. they just kept shooting.
 
"The Big House." An episode of Andy Griffith. Gomer's been deputized. He's standing there chewing on the muzzle of a double barrel shotgun.

Andy says, "And get that gun out of your mouth!"
 
Keeping your pistol, even though there are AK-47s laying strewn about always annoyed me as well.
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Even when they do pick up a weapon from a dead bad guy, they never search the body for extra mags. I've only seen one movie where they did, I believe it was "Terminator 2".

What bothers me the most is pistols that continue to fire with the slide locked back.
 
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