WORST firearm moment in a movie

[noresttill]

again, not wrong, but silly

I was watching Men In Black 1 (I realize its not Black Hawk Down) and when the "bug's" van is getting towed he pulls a shotgun on the tow truck driver. The driver flashes what looks like an anaconda out of his coveralls, says "Please" or "Give me a break," and then turns his back to the bug and goes on hooking up the van.

No wonder the next cut is a gunshot and the bug walking away with both guns.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Okay, never once watched the show, but while chanel surfing last night I catch a horrib little "Me Too!" cop drama called NCIS. I wtahced it for exactly one scene:

Hot Chick Agent and Young Hip Male Agent (she in a Prada pant-suit he in Ohio State t-shirt and jacket) have broken into a house, warrantless, and triggered the alarm... and are calmly "hacking" into the suspects computer.

Barney Fife rural cop enters, levels his revolver at them and demands they produce ID. They say they're Feds, he doesn't by it. He makes them cuff themselves. Stepping closer once they've cuffed themselves, Hot Chick Agent (who picked her handcuffs in 2.5 seconds) judo flips Barney to the ground, disarms him, and presses her gun into his chest!

Her finger on the trigger!

That is probably accurate, as the hot chick is a former Mossad agent, and somebody that is used to "interrogation techniques" probably doesn't give a rip about gun safety for somebody she's just taken down. NCIS is probably the second best show on TV.

I don't know where he's getting it or what it is, but I think Segal is recreating with some interesting chemical substances.

You mean like chocolate milkshakes and pizza?





Oh and BTW, Cannon was William Conrad, not Robert

 

[mbs357]

Counter Strike isn't a movie, but this is a horrible blunder (not counting the poor ballistics, and gun handling in general).

All the guns in CS (Well, a great deal of them) are backwards.
Ejection ports on the left side for nearly every gun.
And this is intentional. The develepors HAVE to know that they're backwards.
But I guess they think that this side is 'more exciting' or something.
:banghead:
Brass is constantly flying in your face, and the character whips that AWM around real good with his right hand while the left hand works the bolt on the left side.

Of course, if you're playing left handed, everything's hunky doory. ;D

 

[KriegHund]

Counter Strike isn't a movie, but this is a horrible blunder (not counting the poor ballistics, and gun handling in general).

All the guns in CS (Well, a great deal of them) are backwards.
Ejection ports on the left side for nearly every gun.
And this is intentional. The develepors HAVE to know that they're backwards.
But I guess they think that this side is 'more exciting' or something.
:banghead:
Brass is constantly flying in your face, and the character whips that AWM around real good with his right hand while the left hand works the bolt on the left side.

Of course, if you're playing left handed, everything's hunky doory. ;D

Thats a rediculous game. I tried it once and hated it.

Vastly prefer Delta Force 2, or Rogue Spear.

 

[mbs357]

Infiltration was an amazing game...most realistic one I've ever seen.
For the original Unreal Tournament engine.
Unfortunatly, the mod seems pretty much dead now.
You can get UT for pretty cheap, I'm sure, and try Infiltration if you want, but I doubt you'll find any servers to play on. There are bots built into the game though.
Another bad thing about about Counter Strike...you have to crouch perfectly still to get one accurate shot off. Fire once, bam, good hit...but then if you fire again you go wide about 20 feet...
Don't try to fire while walking either. Aim at a doorway and hit the floor near your feet. This is true unless you're using the Desert Eagle or the AWM. Two guns I believe the developers have purposed "ubar'd!!1" just because they like them. They're the two most accurate and powerful guns in the game.
I could go on for days about this game.

 

[Talonap]

Actually it goes like this... Gibson aims his laser at something metal (completely rusted and not reflective, maybe the shovel to a backhoe)behind the BG and the laser reflects down and back onto the BG's butt who is bent over taking cover. First of all, the laser itself wouldnt have reflected down in this way. But the point you make, LawDog, remains. The chances of a bullet following the reflection of a laser are a million to one.

-Dev

Edited to add: It really gets me when any group of soldiers/militiamen/gangsters/police or whatever all stand in a circle around their target. They would all shoot each other if anybody started shooting.

Actually, they did this in, "Total Recall". No one got shot, and to make matters worse, they were all shooting at a Hologram of Arnold:banghead: !!!

 

[Jack Straw from Wichita]

Worst firearm moment in a commercial

Not a movie, but an old Isuzu TV commercial:

"Joe Isuzu" picks up a revolver, fires it, hops in his Isuzu, races ahead of the bullet, stops the car, and catches the bullet with his teeth. Apart from the intentional absurdity of an Isuzu outrunning a bullet, the ad depicted an entire unfired cartridge flying downrange.

-Jack

 

[Meplat]

That was the background that Zaitsev and Hathcock came from, and I believe Hayek the Finn did as well.

Lest we forget, there was once a conscientious objector who overcame his objections and who went on to be one of WWI's greatest warriors. Grew up shooting wild turkeys on he wing through the head with a rifle, then carried that skill to Germany. Tennessee hillbilly.

Anyone remember a feller by the name of "York"?

 

[Meplat]

Whoever mentioned busting locks... the key is to shoot down on the lock, not directly at it. A 158 grain .357 mag will bust a masterlock. I've seen it done. (though I don't have the cajones to try it myself)

Honestly don't know about shooting a Master Lock off, but a good swipe with a hammer will do it easy as pie. We had one field, catfish pond in the back, fallow year. Fellow wanted to run some cattle on it, Dad said "NP", wasn't going to plant there that year anyway. Guy gives Dad some small pittance (hell, he'd have let him run them there anyway for the free fertilzer they'd distribute for the next year's crops). Next thing you know, I get ready to go fishing, gate has been padlocked. Dad fixed that with a clawhammer. One good (as you say) downward stroke. Next day, new lock on the gate. Dad waited for the guy to show up, explained he had allowed him to run his cows on his place....not sold it to him for twenty bucks. As the fellow was getting out of his truck to unlock the gate, Dad took said trusty claw hammer, popped the second lock, handed it to him, gave his twenty back and told him to have his cows off the place by weeks' end. Think the feller's jaw is still hanging open. But, his cattle were gone...

 

[Meplat]

I never understood the silenced revolver. Not a movie, but there was a TV show this week staring Tom Sellick where one of the Baldwin brothers was a hit man carrying a silenced revolver.

It must be easier for the prop guys to slip a "silencer" onto a revolver barrel, rather than get a longer or threaded barrel for a pistol. Having said that though, I just finished a novel from a pretty good writer who had the bad guy carrying a silenced revolver.

For the record, Dan Wesson revolvers (due to their interchangable barrel configuration and very minimal chamber to forcing cone tolerances can be effecitvely suppressed. If I am not mistaken, there is one other (not common) Russian made revolver with close enough tolerances to make this possible. If you don't see the cylinder latch in front of the cylinder on a suppressed revolver, get yer ear muffs on. Things are going to be loud when the trigger's pulled.

 

[Meplat]

After the gas tank test they used about five or six rifles to fire into the driver's door of the same Caddy. After about 50 rounds they inspected the car. Plenty of the rounds had gone through both doors, so anyone sitting in the front seat would have been perforated repeatedly.

MythBusters did a follow-up to that show, because so many people complained that they should have been using the everyday tracer rounds like you and I buy "over the counter" at the local Wal-Mart. They fired three (I think I remember that correctly) thirty round magazines into a full dismounted gas tank, and nada. The tank was by this time, as you can imagine, pretty well perforated and depleted of fuel (and I would guess full of fumes). Finally, on the last mag fired, since the shooter was having to aim so low to hit tank that still held fuel, a round struck the concrete pad the tank was sitting on, throwing enough of a spark to ingnite the fumes. Nothing too spectacular, but with perserverance they DID manage to start a small blaze big enough to perhaps roast a steak on.

 

[iapetus]

Has anyone seen Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit? I haven't, but according to the ChildCare Action Project, it contains an unacceptable level of gun violence.

Soes anyone know if this is realistic gun violence? (I don't know much about the ballistic properties of plasticine myself).

 

[bowfin]

I vote for the gunslinger's shadow in "The Quick and the Dead" that had sunshine coming through the bullet hole.

 

[kentucky_smith]

MythBusters .... DID manage to start a small blaze big enough to perhaps roast a steak on.

That can't be right, just last night in the movie Sharky's Machine, the bad guy Burt Reynolds is chasing in the beginning shoots an unmarked cop car through the hood and sets it on fire.

 

[bowfin]

Oh, and any movie that shows a 747 Jumbo jet losing half of its fuselage from decompression when a .38 special bullet hits punches a hole through it.

 

[FPrice]

Has anyone seen Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit? I haven't, but according to the ChildCare Action Project, it contains an unacceptable level of gun violence.

Soes anyone know if this is realistic gun violence? (I don't know much about the ballistic properties of plasticine myself).

My son and I are Wallace and Gromit fans. The "bad" guy had a SG that looked like a bolt action Mossberg rifle. There is hardly any "gun violence" to speak of (especially from an avid gun-owner's POV). Remember that part of the werewolf legend concerns killing said monster by use of a silver bullet. I have a feeling that whomever reported "an unacceptable level of gun violence" may very well consider the mere existence of a gun as unacceptable.

 

[zookrider]

Can't believe nobodies has mentioned Super Troopers when the guy shot his steel cup wearing partner in the groin. I've taken a softball in the cup and it's enough to make a grown man cry.

 

[Fire4Effect]

In the movie My Blue Heaven when Rick Moranis (the FBI agent) drops a big chandelier on the bad guys with one shot from his trusty .38 revolver from across the bar

 

[Fire4Effect]

My favorite gun scene in a movie is still Harlem Nights when the 4 hit men are shooting up the store front trying to hit Eddie Murphy. 3 bad guys are using Thompson's and every time they stop shooting the 4th guy squeezes off a couple of shots from his .22 pistol, further aggravating his partners...

 

[45Frank]

Had to responde to this one.
Two bad ones come to mind. First is i don't recall his name the guy who sang the song about the card game, no when to hold them or something like that.
He was stuck in a cabin and his gun didn't work so he took the bullets and but them into the holes in the door that the indians were shooting at and he was opening and closing the door for his aim and hitting the bullets with i think a whiskey bottle or something and hit every indian that was charging and they turned and ran.

The second was Barnaby Jones he hit a sniper from about a 600 feet on top of a football stadium with a snubnose after the sniper missed him and he rolled over and shot from the ground and he was about 65 then.

 

[VirgilCaine]

2) Anyone notice the 10 round mags in the AK variants? Also, John Locke, the supposed gun expert, taking a handgun, and ignoring the multitude of rifles when they go wandering off into the jungle.

Aren't there single stack mags that hold only 10 rounds or something but look as big as the 30 rounders?
Couldn't the prop department get some of those and not look like total maroons with their tiny mags for the multinational corporate magnates project...

 

[VirgilCaine]

For the record, Dan Wesson revolvers (due to their interchangable barrel configuration and very minimal chamber to forcing cone tolerances can be effecitvely suppressed. If I am not mistaken, there is one other (not common) Russian made revolver with close enough tolerances to make this possible.

Yes, it's called the Nagant. Not that uncommon. This is the first time I've heard from someone who might actually know something about guns that there are revolvers other than the Nagant that can be silenced.

 

[VirgilCaine]

And that bullet-proof vests are so reliable that no-one will think twice about shooting a friend wearing one in order to help his fake his death. Similarly, no-one is ever afraid to allow an enemy to shoot them in the chest while wearing a bullet-proof vest (e.g. so they can pretend to die, then supprise them later), and never worry that the armour will fail. or that the BG will shoot them in the head.

AFAIK, in the real world, if you are shot a couple times in a decent vest, you aren't going to die or have the armor fail. If you just got through a firefight and the vest caught multiple shots, okay. But if you haven't been shot at all, I wouldn't expect a vest to fail.

 

[Offwhite]

The Last Dragon

In the 1985 movie The Last Dragon, the hero Leroy, is fighting with the crazy little bald white guy in the warehouse, I think his name was Eddie Arcadia or something, and at the end his says something corny & fires what I think I remember as a 1911 style .45, big flash, big boom, all that hollywood crap, at Leroy's head. At which time he spins around like he's been shot in the head. When Eddie walks up to him & turns him over Leroy opens up his eyes & then smiles & he is holding the bullet in between his teeth.

There is a couple of things wrong with this 1)The bullet would have blow the back of his head off (or at the least left a nice little hole). There is no earthly way he could have stopped it. 2)when he opens his mouth & shows the bullet, if my memory serves me correctly,the bullet is still in the casing. WOW, big f-up. 3)I thought the casing said 9mm & I thought that it was supposed to be a .45 (God knows the the barrel opeing was large enough to shoot a canon.

I am not too sure about the bullet being in the casing & I doubt anyone has that movie to check... I am actually kind of embarassed to admit that I've even see that movie.

 

[Razor]

There is a couple of things wrong with this 1)The bullet would have blow the back of his head off (or at the least left a nice little hole). There is no earthly way he could have stopped it.

But...Leroy had The Glow.