WORST firearm moment in a movie

[Stauble]

Now the Patriot is my favorite movie of all time but Ironfisht reminded me of a "gun blopper" in it.
wen Gabriel and some of the other people ride bak to thier camp and the british are thire waiting for them and they fight, Col. Tavington loads his pistol, clearly throws the ram rod away , and shoots the reverend. he then looks up sees Gabriel and starts to load the same pistol, with a ram rod. not only that he throws the ram rod away a 2nd time.

there are of course many horrible gun scenes but too jump out at me
watching harry potter with my little brother, in the beginning a half giant bends the uncle shot gun barrel. the uncle fires the gun and makes 2 holes int he roof.
Mr and Mrs smith was the most ridiulous gun movie ive ever seen
cant pik ouit any1 part, the hole thing was bad

 

[raghorn]

Desperado

ALL of the scenes where Antonio Banderas is firing one pistol in each hand.

 

[Black Majik]

I was watching Stephen King's Sleewalkers last nite. Man that movie sucked!

Anyways, theres one part where the mother monster takes away one of the police officer's handgun, walks out to the lawn, shoots ONE ROUND into the police car and it blows up! Shoots one more shot into another car and it blows up too!

Sheesh, I turned off the movie and went to bed.

 

[Burt Blade]

What is wrong with a gun in each hand?

Many Cowboy Action Shooting competitors do that with a pair of single-action revolvers. It is called "Gunfighter" category in the Single Action Shooting Society rule book. Those folks seem to hit the targets pretty regularly that way. I know a lady who is about 5-foot-nothing that shoots a pair of Colt Lightning replicas in .38 Special, Gunfighter style.

Life imitating art?

 

[GregGry]

I think it was in the movie Dropzone, when Wesley Snipes and some bad guy were shooting it out in an empty office building, and then they both ended up pointing their semi-automatic handguns at each other's faces.

Both slides were in battery.

One guy (forgot which) pulls the trigger -- on an empty chamber. The other guy then figures he has the first guy dead to rights, and pulls his trigger -- also on an empty chamber.

The gist of this absolutely stupid, inane plot device is that of, "Whoops, didn't realize I'd fired my last shot!"

But, these are semi-automatic handguns! You'd KNOW if you'd fired your last shot -- your slide would be locked back!

-Jeffrey

I think that was called "the art of war" and if thats it, that scene was so stupid

My personal favorite is one of the charlies angels movies. I have never seen the movie, just the previews, and in the previews, I noticed a blonde haired chick firing two chrome guns. I thought to myself (they better be .22s) and much to my surprize, they were a pair of .50 (guessing .50 because of the barrel hole size) desert eagle pistols!

 

[bogie]

My only problem with Enemy at the Gates was that all the action seemed to happen at about 50 yards, including the final scene.

Welcome to the world of urban combat.

Yup. Stuff happened, and happens, that close. Why do you think that people pay that much attention to camoflage? The thing you don't see in the movie was the incredible attention to detail that was paid in setting up the snipers' hides and escape routes.

 

[Fluffster]

I know it's far from being the worst fiream moment, but having the Teflon-coated Bullet canard repeated in Ronin annoyed me all the more because much of the the gun action in that movie was less than outrageous.

 

[bogie]

The scene in "Last man standing" where Bruce Willis propels the guy out the door and through the air with a pair of 45 autos pretty well ruined my enjoyment of the movie from then on. Utterly ridicules.

Fistful of Dollars was the better remake of Yojimbo, but hey, Last Man Standing was fun.

The scene is predator where the one little guy is carrying a gattling gun and firing it from the hip.

The one little guy was a fellow named Jesse Ventura...

 

[bogie]

I would _really_ like to see an IPSC-type competition involving a group of red targets surrounded by white targets (balloons?). You start with two Glocks or Berettas, with 30 round mags in each, and you have to dump all the rounds, while hitting all the targets, and missing the "good" targets, in the least amount of time. No rounds allowed left over.

I think that could be fun.

Call it the "Full Woo."

Anyone else here seen "The Killer," "Hard Boiled" or "A Better Tomorrow" - Hong Kong at its best. Of course, one of the bad guys is packing a TC Contender...

 

[san408]

This definately isn't one of the worst moments. Hell this movie is my Holy Grail.

In Full Metal Jacket, Pvt Pyle shoots himself in the latrine with an M1A that is on safe.

See for yourself, since I'm sure most of us here own a copy.

 

[Nnobby45]

Too many silly scenes to count. From the cop cocking his/her revolver and holding it right up to the eyes with finger on the trigger, while peaking around a corner to somebody cocking their lever action carbine numerous times after just cocking it in the previous scene.

The absolute worst, in my book, are those cerebral midget, pre-pubescent, adolescent, horses's fanny scenes where the cop points gun at BG and says "freeze"--at which point the BG points his gun at the cop and says something like "no, you freeze", and the cop keeps saying "put the gun down!" as they continue their standoff with guns pointed at each other. Keereist!

At least the scene where the bartender shoots the cowpokes with his behind the bar scattergun, and one flies out the swinging doors and lands in the horse trough, and the other goes through the window, is entertaining.
Why'd you have to get me started on this, anyway?

 

[Cesiumsponge]

In Full Metal Jacket, Pvt Pyle shoots himself in the latrine with an M1A that is on safe.

When he shoots the drill instructor and himself, there are no exit wounds or shattered tiles behind them. I want to say that isn't typical at ranges like that but I don't know for sure.

Another vote is the ammo in one of the Lethal Weapons that punches a zillion holes in the bulldozer bucket.

Lastly, Die Hard 2 quote:

That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It dosen't show up on you airport X-ray machines, and it cost more than you make here in a month.

 

[Fluffster]

In Full Metal Jacket, Pvt Pyle shoots himself in the latrine with an M1A that is on safe.

Feeling a bit stupid...what's the difference between M1A and M14?

 

[Cesiumsponge]

The absolute worst, in my book, are those cerebral midget, pre-pubescent, adolescent, horses's fanny scenes where the cop points gun at BG and says "freeze"--at which point the BG points his gun at the cop and says something like "no, you freeze", and the cop keeps saying "put the gun down!" as they continue their standoff with guns pointed at each other.

That reminds me of the Simpsons scene where a robber takes Homer's unloaded gun and points it at Homer. Homer then says something to the lines of "haha, that gun has no bullets" and holds up a box of ammo teasingly. The robber then fixes the gun at Homer again and says "give me the bullets". Homer screams and throws him the box of ammo.

 

[Malamute]

"What is wrong with a gun in each hand?"

Nothing, but in the movie scenes, the guns are usually wagging back and forth like a happy hound dogs tail while firing.

Two handed shooting isn't a skill that most master. Those that do spend a lot of time practicing doing exactly that.

 

[Aguila Blanca]

The other Segal movie.
He's fighting this guy, handgun vs. crossbow. They're going back and forth, Segal is totally owning the bolts fired from the crossbow with his handgun. Segal runs out of ammo or something and then there is a Mexican Standoff. The guy fires a bolt at Segal. Segal then turns around, grabs a sword. He then turns to face the incoming bolt. He raises the sword above his head and then manages to perfectly split the bolt in half with one downward blow from this thing. How do you turn around, grab a sword, lift it way over your head, then swing the sword, all while the bolt is flying at you at probably 300 miles per hour from 20 feet away?!?!

Don't remember the name of it, but I saw that one. I think it's one of his more recent movies, and Segal's movies have been moving progressively farther from reality toward a sort of metaphysical fantasy genre. I don't know where he's getting it or what it is, but I think Segal is recreating with some interesting chemical substances.

 

[C-grunt]

Semi Auto Bolt Action

I think its in Anaconda, where the girl shoots the snake multiple times with a bolt action rifle she only cocks once.

All the Terminators, wouldnt future robots be better shots.

 

[peacefuljeffrey]

I think its in Anaconda, where the girl shoots the snake multiple times with a bolt action rifle she only cocks once.

All the Terminators, wouldnt future robots be better shots.

We'll just have to wait and see, now, won't we?


Oh, and be careful when posting about Anacondas and cocks in the same sentence, okay?

-Jeffrey

 

[bosshoff]

Not a movie yet, but...

The "A-Team!"

All those rounds fired, and no one ever hit! I have heard that they are making this into a movie, soon.

 

[another48hrs]

James Bond in Dr. No.

Man comes in and fires all 7 shots of his 1911 and has slide lock. Bond makes him drop the gun. The slide is clearly locked back on the floor. As Bond and the guy talk he inches toward his empty gun and picks it up and tries to fire at Bond, suprise the gun is empty. The worst part is when Bond says something to the effect of "Sir that is a Smith and Wesson and you've had your six."

 

[DarthBubba]

Bad flick gun abuse

I would have to go with any 80's vintage Vietnam movies where a firefight ensues and the squad support MG crew fires continuously for 7-10 min. with out changing barrels on an M60.

DarthBubba :banghead:

 

[Missourigunner]

WORST firearms moment in a movie

Remember also the scene in S.W.A.T, when bg shoots down the LAPD Helicopter with a .50 Caliber Rifle. Scene shows the bullet traveling.

 

[G36-UK]

Feeling a bit stupid...what's the difference between M1A and M14?

According to one of my books (correct me please), the M1 fired a .30 round.

When the NATO 7.62 round came into use, the M-1 was used as the basis for the new rifles. The final Trial rifle, the T-44, is what we know as the M-14.

The M-14 has a 20 round (detachable?) mag, as opposed to the M1A 15 round, or the M1 Garand's 8 round.

It also featured select-fire, which was dropped after there were a few problems.

There was also the M-14A1 which had a bipod, and pistol/fore grips.

When the M-16 came into service, a lot of M-14s were sold to the Isrealis until they got the Galil.

(Also according to this, the Mini-14 was meant to be a version by Ruger for 5.56.)

(could be wrong on a lot of this, check please.)

 

[ckyllo]

44 minutes, no matter what gun the bad guys were shooting weather it was handgun, 7.62, 5.56 the shots sounded the same. in the final shootout b/g and cops both had ar platform but the b/g ar still sounded like the ak. and the cops sounded differnt but they were the same gun.that and the 30 second steady full auto fire out of 1-30 round mag. basically the entire movie was a bad moment from beginning to end.

swat during the qual range scene, they were throwing down their M4s on the ground, one of them bounced on impact ( airsoft?). where was the sling? never leave your weapon! the up side was when same scene Sam L Jackson didnt do a handstand or flip or whatever that the others where doing. his response was you only do flips in John Woo movies or somthing like that.

the up side to swat was it did give me a neat way to use up some old playing cards for a long range poker game

 

[mordrid52]

M1A is the name Springfield Armory uses for their commerical semiauto clones of the M14.