It's only a movie. It's only a movie.

[lihpster]

Started watching a movie. Picked it because it has people using guns to fight monsters. Nice enough premise to waste an hour and a half. I'm seven minutes in. No real action yet, just introducing the characters. We see one woman from the back. She seems to be doing some ballistic experiments, as she is heating ammo in an air fryer, for some reason. We get a real good closeup on her hands as the test the round for temp, then pick it up and load it into an AR magazine. Backwards. We then see her insert the mag in the weapon with the round pointed back at her. At that point I paused the movie. I was laughing too hard to keep watching. I mean, if you're going to do a nice closeup, maybe choose one that doesn't show a total ignorance of weapons by the whole cast and crew present at the moment of filming. Nobody said that's not how it works?
Had to get that off my chest. Back to the paused, and now a comedy, movie.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Sometimes I appreciate how the Hollyweirdos take the trouble to identify their [lack of] creds early on.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Doug627]

Maybe she is one of the monsters that doesn't know any better.

 

[Doug627]

Maybe she was one of the armorers on the set of Rust.

 

[DEF3]

Yep, we went through a time when the actor “seemed” to be familiar with the prop chosen and handled correctly. Then we went through the times of every bad guy had to cycle the action. Haha! Why wasn’t it ready to roll already. Then the recoil aspect, hand gun/long gun. The shows today have seemed to be on track with early ones. More accurate representation so to speak.

 

[biku324]

I enjoyed 'The Hunt' partly because of Betty Gilpin's weapon handling. It's supposed to be a horror flick, but I laughed all the way through it. Could be me ...

 

[Rustyt1953]

I don't let prop/wardrobe inaccuracies distract me from my entertainment experience. I let the stories take me where they will.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Some stupid Svengouli movie, where they were in a space craft picking up a stranded human from the moon or somewhere and before they lifted off a creature snuck on board. The space rocket had boxes of hand grenades “ down on the storage deck” and several boxes of 1911s that didn’t eject any empties. I think they may have had an oxy/acetylene burning outfit too. I was always under the impression that the less weight the better on lift offs, etc.

 

[lihpster]

OK. The rest of the movie had no more glaring mistakes, beyond the stretching of capacity usually seen. The same character even loaded a magazine properly, later.
As entertainment goes, meh. It was OK. Even though they kind of set it up for a sequel, I hope nobody wastes money on that. The title of the movie is Elevation, if anyone's interested.

 

[yaktamer]

My oldest kid watches a lot of police shows--SWAT, 9-1-1, The Rookie, etc. He always starts laughing when there are shootouts between the cops, using their Glock pistols, and the bad guys using full-auto weaponry, because he knows I'm going to start shouting, "Patrol rifle!" at the TV.

 

[lihpster]

My oldest kid watches a lot of police shows--SWAT, 9-1-1, The Rookie, etc. He always starts laughing when there are shootouts between the cops, using their Glock pistols, and the bad guys using full-auto weaponry, because he knows I'm going to start shouting, "Patrol rifle!" at the TV.

I always love when they serve a warrant with a SWAT team in full battle rattle, but the first guy through the door is the Detective with his Chief's Special.

 

[TX-Dennis]

We like to watch a current show called Tracker. It's a fun and fast paced show, but the guy racks his pistol every time he pulls it out of his waistband (yup, just tucked into the back of his pants) - usually several times per episode. It's annoying.

 

[S-W4EVER]

Maybe she was loading an HK?

 

[Rudi]

As long as Alec Baldwin wasn't in it.

 

[DWalt]

My oldest kid watches a lot of police shows--SWAT, 9-1-1, The Rookie, etc. He always starts laughing when there are shootouts between the cops, using their Glock pistols, and the bad guys using full-auto weaponry, because he knows I'm going to start shouting, "Patrol rifle!" at the TV.

The Rookie doesn’t even use blanks. Muzzle flash is added digitally. There may be other shows that do the same.

 

[LVSteve]

With movies I can roll my eyes. With military history documentaries I get mad. One of the worst was the De Havilland Mosquito segment in Top 10 Bombers. Douglas Bostons and Beaufighters are not even close to a Mosquito to anyone blessed with the gift of sight. Seemed that the show's historian and/or editor were blind as a bat.

 

[Grayfox]

I saw Elevation, the movie the OP was talking about. Good cast. Anthony Mackie and Morena Baccarin. But didn't make much sense.
Humanity is attacked by huge, insect like creatures. But for some reason they won't go above an elevation of 8000 feet. Survivors live in the mountains.
The monsters are bullet proof. Baccarin is some sort of scientist trying to find a way to penetrate their armor scales. She finally comes up with some sort of chemical coating that she paints on the bullets and suddenly a 5.56 can go right through the critters and causes them to explode.
Its actually a fairly decent action movie, but you gotta lean heavily on suspension of disbelief.

 

[WR Moore]

Decades back a photo of an AR in the vertical rack of a police cruiser made the rounds. The magazine was inserted upside down. Yes, it's possible. One hopes it was a gag photo, but it probably wasn't.

 

[Rodan]

I try not to let this stuff get to me, but sometimes it's like they didn't put forth any effort at all. What's worse is when they went to lengths to write gun stuff into the script, and it's completely wrong.

We watched a movie recently about the FBI hunting an active shooter that had inherited guns from his military father. The main weapon was an "X25 vintage sniper rifle", which on screen was a sporterized Enfield 303. The "OSS assasination pistol" was a Micro-Uzi, of course being fired one-handed and full auto...

I try to ignore all the uncocked 1911s, and Glocks being 'cocked' with a clicking sound every time the hero turns a corner, but if you're going to write gun stuff, please hire someone that knows what they're talking about.

Next, we can talk about motorcycle and car sounds that are dubbed in...