Who else counts rounds at the movies?

[foghornl]

Too many movies with A LOT of the sound of rounds being fired, but you only one muzzle flash for 5 or 6 shot sounds.

IIRC, in the movie "Texas Across the River", guys were loading rounds into their revolers one at a time, SAA revolver style, but the swung out the cylinder and dumped the empties like a modern DA revolver.
Where can I get some of those guns????

 

[Seminole]

Who else counts rounds at the movies?

Do you mean that some people DON'T?

 

[BattleChimp Potemkin]

I do. Specifically in the movie Silent Hill. The female officer, when paired with the main charector of the movie again, she only has one mag left for her Sig. Scary to think how many rounds were expended in a short amount of time we didnt get to see...

I used to love Robocop movies, until I decided to do a round count. My thumb hurt form the clicker going nuts. Gave up and counted bursts rather than individual rounds .

 

[JohnnyGrey]

I do. Specifically in the movie Silent Hill. The female officer, when paired with the main charector of the movie again, she only has one mag left for her Sig. Scary to think how many rounds were expended in a short amount of time we didnt get to see...

She fired a few rounds on that herky-jerky acid spitting thing outside, then she put a few into the reaper as he shoved his giant blade through the steel door. Then she fired the last one into the ceiling in the sanctuary after the reaper tore off that woman's skin and hurled it against the door. That's about a mag. In the building where the "beast" was, she pointed her gun at Christobella and stupidly pulled the trigger on an empty chamber and was then attacked by her henchmen and eventually burned alive. A lot of things were crazy in that movie, but the gun details were realistic.

 

[HGUNHNTR]

I don't, it is fiction right? I expect 25 rounds to pour out of a colt saa.

 

[tinygnat219]

That's one reason I always liked Star Wars gunfights. We don't know WHAT the magazine / charger capacity is on a Blaster.

 

[Old Grump]

Guilty

I look for recoil and count rounds as a reflex. Always impressed with miraculous shots made from the waist with no eyes on the sight.

 

[Picard]

Movies directed by Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral, etc.) seem to have realistic gunfights. The actors often reload and run out of ammo, which I like to see.

 

[Jubjub]

I just saw a counter example to the large capacity revolver in the movie Bound, made by the Wachowski brothers before they did The Matrix. There's a scene where Joe Pantoliano shoots three guys with a 2.5" Smith M66. He shoots the first guy once, the second guy once, then fires three shots into the third guy before the gun starts clicking empty. One round too few. Maybe he kept an empty chamber under the hammer.

 

[halfbreed808]

yep count the rounds, notice the type of gun, but mostly notice when a weapon fires and the slide is to the rear. I can kinda deal with the bottomless mags, it's just a movie. But boy I gotta get one of those special semi's for myself.

 

[ChrisVV]

Came home and titanic was on and it was at the part where the baddy is chasing them through the ship shooting the colt as it is sinking.

I was counting. Then I read this thread title and laughed.

 

[Nivek]

That's one reason I always liked Star Wars gunfights. We don't know WHAT the magazine / charger capacity is on a Blaster.

From http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/DC-15_blaster_rifle:

The weapon's tibanna gas cartridge carried enough gas for approximately 500 shots, depending on the power settings of the weapon (The highest power setting shot 50 rounds per clip).

Sorry to ruin your fantasy

 

[Nivek]

Slight tangent here...

Anyone ever notice how a lot of movie characters run around with a gun for a long time (in a very scary situation), but wait until they get behind a corner to pull it out and chamber a round??

Specific scene in mind is in Dawn of the Dead (remake) where the jerk, Steve, crawls out of the wrecked bus, pulls out his Beretta 92, checks the magazine, then chambers a round. Seems to me if I was running from zombie hordes, I would ALWAYS have at least one of my guns ready to fire RIGHT NOW! Maybe just me, i dunno...

Sorry for the threadjack, now back on topic!

 

[Ivy Mike]

there was also a goof in The Punisher.

in the final shootout scene, the Punisher fires a 1911 empty then without inserting a new magazine, hits the slide release and prepares to unleash more mayhem.

Whatever loading system he's got, I want it. Talk about saving my thumbs on high capacity magazines.

 

[Nivek]

Slight tangent here...

Anyone ever notice how a lot of movie characters run around with a gun for a long time (in a very scary situation), but wait until they get behind a corner to pull it out and chamber a round??

Specific scene in mind is in Dawn of the Dead (remake) where the jerk, Steve, crawls out of the wrecked bus, pulls out his Beretta 92, checks the magazine, then chambers a round. Seems to me if I was running from zombie hordes, I would ALWAYS have at least one of my guns ready to fire RIGHT NOW! Maybe just me, i dunno...

Sorry for the threadjack, now back on topic!

 

[Nivek]

DOH! Double post!

...FAIL

 

[BruceRDucer]

Yeah. And its rather like the Westerns, when you see the Cowboy riding his horse across the wilderness. He camps at night, and instantly he has a large iron skillet, a metal coffee pot and so forth, cooking bacon, beans, & biscuits, the normal cowbly fare. Then he rides off the next day on his horse, no pot, no skillet, and no gear....go figger.

 

[AirForceShooter]

I stopped when I found out Hoppy carried a 22 shot colt .45

AFS

 

[SoCalShooter]

Its a horrible habit and it ruins most movies for me along with crappy gun play.

 

[1858rem]

just read the one about Bruce Willis ..... i like the rig tomb raider has, spare clip backpack sorta thing

 

[Kind of Blued]

Came home and titanic was on and it was at the part where the baddy is chasing them through the ship shooting the colt as it is sinking.

I was counting. Then I read this thread title and laughed.

It's also peculiar how or WHY he bought an unheard of gun, immediately had it nickel-plated and engraved, and took it on the Titanic within a month...

 

[burningsquirrels]

limited edition first-run pistol? they were rich... lol

 

[Master Blaster]

I only count when I cant help myself because it becomes silly 30 shot SAA's etc.

 

[SsevenN]

Wanted was a fun movie, it had it's improper gunny moments.

By far the most glaring moment of ***? was when the main char was pointing his gun at a guys head. He visually (for us) cocks the gun, which was already cocked. Then proceeds to draw the hammer back from a double action pull while saying, 'look at my finger'.

The reason I'm so offended is the director obviously wanted him to 'de-cock' the weapon so he could use the double action pull, but had his head so far off his shoulders he actually filmed the exact opposite action!

 

[Smokin Gator]

counting rounds

As long as the movie shows the shooter reloading a few times I don't really mind that they don't show him do it every time you'd think he'd have to reload. At least they've shown that they are aware that the guns don't have unlimited ammo and he may have reloaded as they cut back and forth between scenes. I don't have the best hearing and when you have the subtitles on the subtitled description of what is happening with the gun is funnier than what you just see on film.. Mark