Which movies made you want to get a gun?

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dhoomonyou,

You just got in ahead of me.

Movie scared the crud out of me. Jamie Lee help me through it.
 
"Beaches".....especially when Bette Midler starts singing.
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I love it. :evil:

"48 Hours" actually started my interest in 1911s. It's the gun Nick Nolte gets (from his boss?) when the bad guy takes his .44. My buddies and I talked about how fast you could reload with magazines vs. speed loaders. I was on the 1911 side. A magazine and the thin profile made more sense to me. And also .45 is a bigger number than .44:rolleyes:, so it seemed cooler to me as a punk teenager.

Actually I didn't know it was a '1911' until I bought one years later. I just thought a "Colt .45" left over from WW2 was about the coolest gun ever. I wish I had bought a few back then.
 
Didn't every show start off with Mrs. Peel (Diana Rigg) posing with a revolver? Definately an inducement to me.
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Mrs. Peel and Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) regularly carried, usually snubs. John Steed never carried a gun, and only rarely used one. When he did, it was Goodnight Irene.

Almost forgot: yes, the first season with Diana Rigg (b&w) used a pose of her with a S&W snub quite prominently in the opening "chess board" sequence. In the next season (color), she tended to use a Walther.

Tara King (Linda Thorson) used handguns much more often than her predecessors. She used a pretty impressive array of makes, models, and finishes.

MacNee didn't want Steed to use a gun for two reasons: 1) Steed should never need one; and 2) He was a disabled WWII veteran, and he was literally sick of them.


Good God, I'm old...
 
funny the direction this thread took is quite different than I expected.
 
Red Dawn

Stayed and watched it twice.
It's campy now (at best) but I was a product of that time; I bluster about the G-d Damn Communists all the time--especially when shopping.

My cold war has not ended--and I am passing it to my children (for better or worse). We have no commerce with G-d Damn M----- F------ Commies and their ilk whenever we can avoid it.
 
"Beaches".....especially when Bette Midler starts singing.
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Holy crap - now THAT's funny! :D :eek: :D

Wow, it'd be a long list....
-Quigley Down Under - Sharps of course
-Dirty Harry movies - .44 mag revolver
-Multiple movies - Desert Eagle (most recently making an appearance in the hands of The Rock in "Get Smart").
-Enemy at the Gates - scoped Mosin
-First Blood - M60 (& a big knife)
-Rambo & Chuck Norris Movies - AK47
-Predator - GE Mini-gun 5.56
-We Were Soldiers - GE Mini-gun 7.62
-Multiple gangster movies set in the 30s - Thompson
-Terminator - Lever action shotgun
-FaceOff - matching 1911s and a single holster for both
-Saving Private Ryan - 1903 Springfield
-Multiple movies - Garand
-Eraser - rail gun
-Shooter - CheyTac 200 Intervention rifle
-Miami Vice - Bren Ten (OK, not a movie until the 2000s, but hey)
-Full Metal Jacket - M14
-Multiple movies - A sniper rifle that takes down into pieces and fits into a briefcase.
-The Jackal - remote-control 20mm cannon (actually I believe it was a 14.5mm cannon, but in my fantasy we'll go ahead and make it 20mm)
-Many old Westerns - Gatling Gun, 1861 revolver, Peacemaker, 1873 levergun, 1892 levergun, on and on.
-No Country for Old Men - suppressed 12 gauge.


No I've still not gotten most of them...
 
Pretty much any movie that I've ever seen where I thought, "you know, if *insert main character's name here* just had a gun, this movie would be over pretty quick...":rolleyes: All of those made me want to get a gun... ANY gun...

Not a movie, but the first couple of seasons of 24 made me want a Sig. And I got one. Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers made me want a M1. Don't have one yet unfortunately. Red Dawn made me want an AK. Don't have one of those either yet. Too many movies to name made me want to get an AR-15. Got 2 of those now.

That's about all I can think of right now.
 
The first 3 of Leathal Weapon

My first Six gun was cuz of Tombstone and old western with Clint Eastwood "For a few dollars more, Good Bad and the Ugly.
 
Pretty much any movie that I've ever seen where I thought, "you know, if *insert main character's name here* just had a gun, this movie would be over pretty quick..." All of those made me want to get a gun... ANY gun...
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+1 there.

The latest one that confirmed this opinion was "Shattered". Movie would have been over in like 5 minutes. But then later on you were just thinking "if the main character had a brain, a spine...".

For me it was a series of movies like this that presented realistic or reasonably expected normal scenarios that were turned into disasters because the characters were unarmed.
 
No one movie or show in particular. I grew up watching westerns and war movies of the 50's/60's.
But the first episode of the 1978 TV mini-series "Centennial" got me to go out and purchase my first (of many to follow) muzzle loader. Pasquinel lured me to black powder.
Jack
 
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Cause I never liked digging, and I didn't want to be one of those kind of people
 
Movies doubtless played a role in me wanting to own guns, but so did my own nature. My parents let me have BB guns, but refused to allow any real guns in the house. One of the first things I did when I moved out was to buy a gun.

I don't generally run out and buy guns that I see in movies, although I do try to find out which guns are used, and learn whatever I can about them.

And for that, I have to say +1 to Way of the Gun. Awesome movie. Every time I watch it, I start thinking about buying a 1911. However, that movie did impress on me the utility of a pump shotgun, although I didn't buy the same brand used in the movie. In the final fight scene, they were using a Remington 870, and while I still want one of those, I ended up buying a Winchester 1300 Defender.

I probably get as many gun ideas from books as from movies. Tom Clancy, especially, made we want a bunch of guns.

The Jack Ryan character is always talking about his Browning Hi-Power.

In Without Remorse (which I believe they are trying to make into a movie), John Kelly uses a 1911 (often with a .22 conversion kit) to slaughter a bunch of drug dealers. One of my favorite books.

Also, when his books deal with Secret Service characters, Clancy always mentions the Sig Sauers they carry. It's not the reason I bought a Sig, but it did add a new dimension to my enthusiasm for it.
 
Predator 2
The Desert Eagle Danny Glover used made me wander into a gun store and look for one. The guy behind the counter talked me out of buying it...

"Why do you want one of those?"
"I saw it in a movie."
"oh..."
 
Dirty Harry
was the movie that made me fall in love with s&w n frame magnums..
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Yeah, me too. Saw the movie in the theaters and tried to buy a Smith. But everyone else had the same idea. I settled for a Ruger SBH. But got a M29 later and recently a .460Mag.

Other than that, movies don't really influence me too much. Except I do like the ideas of Bowling for Columbine and Bambi. Makes me want to buy guns.
 
Lethal Weapon and Die Hard
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Those two movies did more for Beretta 92FS sales than the Army selecting it for their standard sidearm. I never bought one though.

Remember the gun that Hans Gruber used in Die Hard?
 
Vic Morrow as Sergeant Saunders was my TV hero growing up.
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Mine too. I keep saying I'm going to get one of those semi-auto Thompson's, and I don't really care if they work or not. :D

That wasn't what made me want A gun though. Everyone had A gun when I was growing up. Shotgun, 22, something.
 
I've always wanted an M-79 grenade launcher since watching Apocolypse Now.

I'd also like twin .45s from the game Hitman but it's a crying shame they are AMT Hardballers...
 
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