The glaring goof was redoing the movie with Jeff, the gun hating liberal, Bridges. He's as close to the Rooster Cogburn character as Bloomberg is to Wayne LaPierre.
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Gun Related Stupid Movie Mistakes
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The glaring goof was redoing the movie with Jeff, the gun hating liberal, Bridges. He's as close to the Rooster Cogburn character as Bloomberg is to Wayne LaPierre.
I don't know about you guys, but the way Barney Fife wields around that Colt with his finger on the trigger, I find myself ducking behind the sofa.
Yeah, but you know that Barney's only got the one round, and that one is in his shirt pocket.
Recurring bloopers on Castle Beckett is shown in skin tight jeans and a -I'm not sure what they call it but it's a tiny little jacket that you couldn't possibly hide any thing bigger than an LCP under- but when she needs it that Glock appears like magic.
And always , right before they kick the door down the entire team racks their slides
And always , right before they kick the door down the entire team racks their slides
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one of my pet peeves is in westerns where they take the ammo and pull the bullets with their fingers or teeth so that they can make a "Bomb" out of the powder....
Always levering the rifle several times... guess he REALLY means it now!!....or always lowering the rifle to work the lever.
Always firing "From the Hip" regardless of the firearm type being used.
So...how DO they keep the gun belt on and still have it SO low? They didn't have any velcro...... defies gravity for sure.
Firing the double barrel shotgun and then throwing it away....could they not figure out how to reload? 2 shells is all they can get? DUMB!
Rant off....
Randy
Always levering the rifle several times... guess he REALLY means it now!!....or always lowering the rifle to work the lever.
Always firing "From the Hip" regardless of the firearm type being used.
So...how DO they keep the gun belt on and still have it SO low? They didn't have any velcro...... defies gravity for sure.
Firing the double barrel shotgun and then throwing it away....could they not figure out how to reload? 2 shells is all they can get? DUMB!
Rant off....
Randy
As I mentioned earlier one of my biggest pet peeves is the SAO pistols being fired from condition 2. So, three years ago ABC started airing the show “Rookie Blue”, I watched the show and in the very first episode they did it w/ a BHP.
So, I mentioned it on their FB page and one of the directors sent me a message explaining the protocol they follow when there is a scene in which a gun will be pointed at anyone.
First the set armorer gets the gun out of the locker and verifies that it is clear. He takes it to the actor who will be holding it and they both reverify. Then the person who it’s going to be pointed at verifies and as a final safety precaution the gun is dry fired. He said that the protocol was direct result of Brandon Lee being killed
Long story short he noted that the disconnect likely came after the dry fire because no one thought to recock the gun. Season one had already been filmed but he promised me that it would be corrected in season two.
From season two on I have never seen an uncocked SAO on that show. I was truly impressed
So, I mentioned it on their FB page and one of the directors sent me a message explaining the protocol they follow when there is a scene in which a gun will be pointed at anyone.
First the set armorer gets the gun out of the locker and verifies that it is clear. He takes it to the actor who will be holding it and they both reverify. Then the person who it’s going to be pointed at verifies and as a final safety precaution the gun is dry fired. He said that the protocol was direct result of Brandon Lee being killed
Long story short he noted that the disconnect likely came after the dry fire because no one thought to recock the gun. Season one had already been filmed but he promised me that it would be corrected in season two.
From season two on I have never seen an uncocked SAO on that show. I was truly impressed
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The main problem is that movies are full of all kind of technical errors. It only bothers the people that are experts in that field. This forum is populated by firearm people who can pick out errors immediately while most of the audience is enjoying the movie. I restore old Jeeps so when I watch war movies they almost never have the appropriate Jeep for the period (just about every movie gets taken apart on various antique Jeep forums) "John Wayne in a Korean War Jeep in In Harms Way, a WWII movie) I can only imagine what other enthusiasts say about other topics. I've mellowed over the years and try to watch the story telling myself "it's probably the only piece of equipment they could find that was semi close". Sometimes it works, but my wife still has to tell me to shut up and watch the movie.
I kinda did that when U 571 came out. Also, on older 1940s and most 1950 and some 1960s war movies--mostly ones made by Warner Brothers, it irritates my eyes to see stickers on German helmets, and placed in the wrong areas==as well as those over-sized, ugly, pigeon-looking breast eagles you see on their versions of German uniforms.
I'm currently sitting on the couch, sipping good bourbon and watching Mob City. There was just a scene involving two bad guys with 1911's and the stereotypical hard boiled detective with his snubby .38 (looks like a nickel Colt Dick Special, but can't say for sure) and a .30 M1 Carbine in a gun fight on a merry go round. Much to my surprise, the 1911's hammers were cocked and one gangster actually performed a reload when his gun ran dry and the slide locked back. The detective transitioned to his revolver when the Carbine ran dry. After dispatching the immediate threat, he retrieved the rifle, reloaded and re-engaged. Color me impressed!
Of course it's not all perfect. I've seen suppressed revolvers and the obligatory shotgun blast that blows men through walls.
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Lots of right handed people are left eye dominant, and vice versa. My father was right handed, but nearly blind in his right eye, and he shot rifles, shotguns, and handguns very well using his left eye.
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In the original movie, "The Day of The Jackal", French detective Lebel tracks down the Jackal (Edward Fox) to the apartment overlooking the French square. The Jackal has just attempted to assassinate Charles DeGaulle. When he misses the first shot, Lebel and a French gendarme break into the snipers nest. The Jackal turns and places a shot into the gendarme, who immediately falls to the floor (The round looks to be a .22 cal).
The gendarme drops his MAT49 9mm SMG, and Lebel picks it up, emptying the magazine into the Jackal. The jackal is propelled into the wall from the impact of the rounds.
While it's one of my favorite thrillers, the scene where the Jackal is slain, nearly ruins the movie. The movie was made in 1973, and really had limited special effects.
The gendarme drops his MAT49 9mm SMG, and Lebel picks it up, emptying the magazine into the Jackal. The jackal is propelled into the wall from the impact of the rounds.
While it's one of my favorite thrillers, the scene where the Jackal is slain, nearly ruins the movie. The movie was made in 1973, and really had limited special effects.
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I liked how Scorpio mainly used an MP-40 as well as a Walther P-38. I hated how he held both weapons when firing them.
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Couldnt find an image w/ Scorpio and his MP-40
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In my 42 years of shooting I can't recall seeing any of my bullets hit anything and make a little shower of sparks...any of you??? That's a Hollywood special effect I could do without!
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Same here. Ive been shooting for 40 years BB Guns excluded.
I've got nothing to contribute here except to say I've got to get me one of those .45 Magnums!
LAR Grizzly or Wildy .45 Winchester Magnum?
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The one that drives me crazy isn't a gun thing as much as a cover thing.
According to the movies, an empty steel oil drum, a 1/2" pine board, an upholstered sofa, the back of a car seat, and damned near anything else can stop a heavy handgun round so long as the good guy's hiding behind it.
That, and the apparent impossibility of bullets penetrating glass, making it needful to laboriously break out a window before you can shoot out of it... but nobody ever shoots at the guy while he's doing it.
According to the movies, an empty steel oil drum, a 1/2" pine board, an upholstered sofa, the back of a car seat, and damned near anything else can stop a heavy handgun round so long as the good guy's hiding behind it.
That, and the apparent impossibility of bullets penetrating glass, making it needful to laboriously break out a window before you can shoot out of it... but nobody ever shoots at the guy while he's doing it.
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When watching one of the first episodes of Firefly on DVD I made my girlfriend (now wife) and a friend of ours wait with the show on pause while I figured out what gun the character was holding.
Astra 400 or 600 by the way.
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Astra 400 or 600 by the way.
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The main problem is that movies are full of all kind of technical errors. It only bothers the people that are experts in that field. This forum is populated by firearm people who can pick out errors immediately while most of the audience is enjoying the movie. I restore old Jeeps so when I watch war movies they almost never have the appropriate Jeep for the period (just about every movie gets taken apart on various antique Jeep forums) "John Wayne in a Korean War Jeep in In Harms Way, a WWII movie) I can only imagine what other enthusiasts say about other topics. I've mellowed over the years and try to watch the story telling myself "it's probably the only piece of equipment they could find that was semi close". Sometimes it works, but my wife still has to tell me to shut up and watch the movie.
I have seen many M-38's and CJ-3's visiting WW2 movies.
I've redone 1 M-38, 2 M-38 A1's and one CJ 3A down to the bare frame and a complete redo. Sorry, this was before restoring to Military original was the thing to do.
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My son-in-law is new to guns, so I seldom miss a chance to show him BAD gun handling, and stupidity in movies/TV.
We were watching Taken. The hero has gone to the CIA guy's house, and when the CIA guy comes home he greets the hero, and excuses himself to "wash his hands". And from under the vanity he pulls out a Beretta of some sort (92 or 96) and sticks it in his pants, under his vest.
I immediately start harping on, "he shoulda checked the gun, you always check the gun, never assume the gun is loaded/empty, always check the gun".
About five minutes later the CIA guy whips the gun out to shoot the hero and the gun goes "click click click", because the hero had already been in the bathroom and unloaded the gun.
Another fine teaching point. "See, if he had checked the damn gun he would have seen it was empty, and either reloaded it before going out to shoot the hero, or taken it on the lam out the window".
That scene bugged me too, on two levels.
First that he doesn't check the gun, second that he doesn't immediately feel the weight difference. It's covered in the film when he chastises the guy for sitting behind a desk so much he forgot the feel of the weight difference, which is plausible i guess,but the difference in feel is substantial. Enough that you'd check the gun even if you normally didn't.
But at least the film does try to explain why a seasoned agent would make such a mistake, so kudos that they even address it instead of acting like nothing weird just happened.
Still, it's such a good film I can live with it. Esp. since no one got blown 20' off a building roof by a 380. lol.
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Getting a 1911 in condition two scares me!
I can lower the hammer on a six-gun all day long but never a 1911.
Just me.
Try wedging your thumb between the hammer and the frame, then slowly easing the hammer down as you remove your thumb.
Sorry, not really a thread hijack. One of my favorites, and I can't believe nobody has mentioned it, was Tuco shooting from the bath tub in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"!
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Remember it's Hollywood and some of the actors are city raised and some are anti gun, they still take the money.
A cable network ran a documentary on Bonnie and Clyde before the new and improved Bonnie and Clyde special.
The revolver of choice in the Documentary by actors for some shots was a Colt Python. Nice, now if I can find a pre war Python.
In the new B&C special Frank Hammer emptied a BAR then picked up a Winchester Model 12, he kept squeezing the trigger and it fired, never did work the pump action. When it was over he the model 12 down. A man who's life depended on guns throwing one down in the dirt and rocks? Hello, even if I was rich I wouldn't throw my shotgun down.
A man like Hammer probably would shove some more buck shot in, rack it and ease up to Clyde just in case....
I have issues when a movie from lets say 1949 has 56 Olds or 55 Ford Starliners in it.
My wife is an RN, we can't watch TV hospital crud, shje goes that's wrong. That would kill someone..
She's getting good, we quit watching regular TV years ago but when some person who could not find gainful employment and went into acting does something stupid with a gun, she says that is not right, right? She hunts, has her own guns. I love that woman beyond compare. I'm the best husband in the world and it's not really because she can hit a skeeter in the eye at 100 yards, right, right.
A cable network ran a documentary on Bonnie and Clyde before the new and improved Bonnie and Clyde special.
The revolver of choice in the Documentary by actors for some shots was a Colt Python. Nice, now if I can find a pre war Python.
In the new B&C special Frank Hammer emptied a BAR then picked up a Winchester Model 12, he kept squeezing the trigger and it fired, never did work the pump action. When it was over he the model 12 down. A man who's life depended on guns throwing one down in the dirt and rocks? Hello, even if I was rich I wouldn't throw my shotgun down.
A man like Hammer probably would shove some more buck shot in, rack it and ease up to Clyde just in case....
I have issues when a movie from lets say 1949 has 56 Olds or 55 Ford Starliners in it.
My wife is an RN, we can't watch TV hospital crud, shje goes that's wrong. That would kill someone..
She's getting good, we quit watching regular TV years ago but when some person who could not find gainful employment and went into acting does something stupid with a gun, she says that is not right, right? She hunts, has her own guns. I love that woman beyond compare. I'm the best husband in the world and it's not really because she can hit a skeeter in the eye at 100 yards, right, right.
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