Annoying Hollywood gun errors

Last night I was watching Ringer (a really good show BTW). A supposed NYPD cop is checking out an apartment to make sure its empty. He draws his weapon and advances with his weak hand thumb wrapped securely on the top of the slide... Bet a dollar that's not taught in the Academy!
 
How about the 100lb hottie in miniskirt and stilletos touching off repeated rounds from a short barrelled 12ga with pistol grip-only stock and not even teetering a bit. Also see repeated rounds fired from bolt rifles w/o the bolt ever being worked.
 
I used to get annoyed by this. Then I read a piece by Dave Anderson in American Handgunner: as far as he was concerned, bad guys watch this stuff too and if they want to learn how to handle guns in a way that minimises the chance of them hitting anyone that was OK by him.
 
brucev said:
One that immediately comes to mind is putting silencers on revolvers.
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still it would atleast deaden the sound though so its not too much of a big deal plus the russians actually created a few revolvers without that gap between the clyinder and the forcing cone for that kind of deal.

just shows you how commited they were to trying to kill us at one point.




the things that get me are things like the one handed shooting without even aiming. I mean you can actually shoot like eastwood did in sudden impact with the amt automag but well you still have to actually aim not just point in the general direction

Dirty Harry (Sudden Impact) Target Practice - YouTube

and eastwood was actually aiming when he fired as I discovered that well if you hold your arms parallel to whatever your looking at it lines up with the sights, its abit like shooting a gun with a laser without the laser, basically trained point shooting.


and the other thing that really gets me is just how many damn bad guys have top of the line full auto weapons in all of these tv shows or the latest and greatest pistols that just came on the market like 3 weeks ago.

its like they were handing them out at the local S Mart to anyone who looks shifty.

I mean not only is it stupid but for the people who arent gun people they dont know how full of **** that is and its just a negative mark against us gun owners.

basically its yet another reason why I want to throw the damn tv out the window sometimes and its little wonder that the source of all this **** also has the worst and dumbest ****ing damn gun laws in the country, california.

there completely disconnected from ****ing reality I tell ya.





pilgrim6a said:
"Doctor No"
Bond, James Bond's pistol changes from one scene to the next. The bad guy runs his 1911 empty, drops it, then picks it up and pulls the trigger 3 times(Click,Click,Click).
Then our intrepid hero says, "That a Smith & Wesson and you've had your six."
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yeah theres alot of little gun errors in that film, probably caused by the budget overruns and schedueling problems that they faced.

hell they even considered canceling the film at one point because of how over budget it was, which was about a 100 K back in 62' probably the equvalent of 10 million nowadays.

and you forgot to mention the biggest error from that film, bonds packing a walther PP in .380! not his 7.65 mm PPK that was more or less the standard pocket cartridge of that era.
 
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Many years ago Mad Magazine spoofed western movie guns.
Hero's gun seldom runs out of ammo never hits a bystander.
Pioneer womans shot gun which can be pointed 45 degrees into the air and still hit an indian on a fast horse 100 yds away. Bad guy gun unable to deliver a fatal shot to any goodguy. There were others such as the indian's winchester able to be fired one handed from a fast horse on rough terrain and hit a trooper through the chinks in the log cabin.
 
Ditto to all of these...

One thing that I don't think has been mentioned is when the shooter runs out of ammo, he throws the gun at this opponent. I thought it was really funny in Casino Royale (Daniel Craig version) when the bomb maker that Bond was chasing threw his gun at Bond...and Bond caught it and threw it back at him! :p

I have to wonder if the people that make these movies are really so ignorant about guns, don't care, or think the viewers all are. I did read an interview with Kevin Costner where he spoke about his shooting in "Open Range." There is a scene where he shoots 14 shots from one six shot revolver...he acknowledged that it wasn't realistic, but said they didn't want to lose the drama of the scene by him having to grab a different gun, or to reload. I guess in Hollweird, reality doesn't matter...if it interferes with the scene. ;)
 
In the Dirty Harry video Kavinsky linked, you reckon Harry changed holsters during the lunch break, or someone just told him how to wear it? When you first see him, as he is putting up the target, there are three straps across his back, up to 0:56, when he picks up the Automag and faces the target. Then, at 1:06, when the black guy gets closer, you can see his back again, and there is just the two straps of a Bianchi X1500. Not a Lawman, I see, in this one.
 
On an episode of Criminal Minds that aired a few nights ago Reese was toting a revolver during the entire show, but when they cornered the BG he had a semi-auto in his hand.
 
"How about the 100lb hottie in miniskirt and stilletos", magically producing a full size 92 from concealment.
Must be one of those garter belt holsters from the old Galco catalog.
 
What about taking the rifle out of the shoulder to work the lever every time?

Maybe that is the way you have to use a Winchester '92.....even if it is before the Civil War....

Or grasping the barrel with the left hand while cocking it with the right hand? Shouldn't they fan it like ALL good cowboys do???

Or when they actually show someone reloading it is only one round then they are good to go for another 40-50 rounds? Or always shooting the handgun from the hip?

Or firing about 100 rounds with 75 or so ricochet's in the woods or cabin. Seems no one can hit anything until they have a showdown.

How about going into the General store and telling the clerk that you need a box of cawtridges, some sugar, bacon,coffee and flour.

Apparently ALL of the guns used the same cawtridges what ever they happen to be. Never seen them carry a frying pan, coffee pot or any silverware either...when they do have it seems like it always gets left on the campfire.

Selling like coffee pots, frying pans and silverware would be a quick way to get rich instead of anything else...

How about the Doctor removing a bullet and determining that it was a 44 instead of a 45....thought they were all the same cawtridges!

Or the double barrel shotgun, but no one has any extra ammo for a reload so they just throw it to the ground.

How come every one that is shot horseback has to have the horse fall to the ground with them even though only the rider was seems to be hit?

Enough for now....just had to get that off my mind!

Randy
 
We have some sharp eyes here.

One of the best has to be cocking the hammer on a glock.

One of my favorite movies is Last Man Standing. The first guy Bruce Willis shoots with both his 1911's goes flying back about 20+ feet and does a back flip. Later you see Bruce loading up about 25 mags, I guess 3-piece suits have lots of pockets to hold mags. The 1911's also hold about 15 rounds each.

The movie Shooter another favorite. In the beginning the spotter calls out a distance and says "and closing" when Mark Wahlberg looks in the scope and the target is actually going away. Next Mark puts one rifle down and gets out a Barrett to take down a helicopter. He chambers a round then fires. The empty case ejects then Mark pulls the charging handle back to chamber the next round. This continues till he takes the chopper down about 5-6 rounds.
 
I seemed to notice on CSI: Miami, that every time the
heroes enter an, unknown to them, building or house, it's a
tactical entry, guns drawn, pointing at victims, even when
finding a victim in a car trunk. There's no directorial setup to
explain why it's necessary. I suppose they get their morning
coffee the same way, for "dramatic effect". Free coffee, for sure!
TACC1
 
Kavinsky said:
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the things that get me are things like the one handed shooting without even aiming. I mean you can actually shoot like eastwood did in sudden impact with the amt automag but well you still have to actually aim not just point in the general direction

Dirty Harry (Sudden Impact) Target Practice - YouTube

and eastwood was actually aiming when he fired as I discovered that well if you hold your arms parallel to whatever your looking at it lines up with the sights, its abit like shooting a gun with a laser without the laser, basically trained point shooting.


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Gotta love Hollywood:

Dead silence in the forest and I'm to believe that a car cannot be heard approaching and stopping 50 yards away?

44 Automag rapid fire one handed with car killer rounds??

No ear protection anywhere to be found???
 
People constantly throwing away guns when empty.
Their LGS LOVES those guys :)
 
How could the Bionic Woman bend a guy's gun barrel while he's holding it? Wouldn't he have to be bionic, too? Glen Campbell shoots a .50 Sharps carbine and no recoil whatsoever. In "butch Cassidy" Robert Redford's Colt grows half an inch while he watches Kathrine Ross strip (4 3/4" to 5 1/2").
 
First of all, they ARE movies, not documentaries, but still...silencers on revolvers, never ending clip or mag supplies, shooters of Thompsons or Uzis that fire wayyy more rounds than those weapons carry, entry holes that look like exit holes, loads of sparks and smoke, either too little or too much recoil, cars being destroyed by a single .38, semiautos not having rounds chambered till the last moment, semis firing while the slide is locked back, wheelguns never running out of ammo, gunfire in a small room NOT temporarily deafening all who were there, out of period weapons, total beginners being experts shots, people who treat DA guns like they were SA, people using for cover materials a .22 would penetrate, yet FMJ bullets cannot, ridiculous accuracy on hip shots, or fireing from horseback or motorcycle, incredible flinching by actors, the list goes on and on. BUT...the vast bulk of these movies make money, while portraying firearms unrealistically, so there are plenty of actors and directors (AND VIEWERS) who care less for detail than entertainment. I'm often of that crowd, but some things can virtually ruin a show for me. I especially like 'tough guy' actors who are utterly anti gun in real life. Where's their morality when it comes to earning their living from something they claim to despise?
 
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