Doug.38PR
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Is it just me or do gun effects in movies seem very weak over the past 10 years or so?
They sound more like they're shooting a quick cap gun or fire cracker. People talk louder than the gunfire
Movies used to make gunfire more convincing and attention getting (like in real life) It drowned out and carried above the rest of the noise in the movie and often even had some kind of echo effect.
Warner Bros from the 1940s-1990s always seemed to be the best at it.
I.E. in the 1948 movie Treasure of the Sierra Madre when Humphrey Bogart catches Tim Holt falling asleep, takes his gun away, orders him back into brush in the dark and moves out of view....the loud ring of two gunshots that follow after a few moments of silence leaves you no doubt as to what just happened and even startles you a little.
In the 1972 movie Magnum Force when the motorcycle cop pulls the car of mobsters over and is quietly talking to them, we are startled when he pulls his revolver and the loud effects of a .357 Magnum start ringing out as it guns them down in the car and quietly walks away.
And of course we all know Dirty Harry's famous .44 Magnum cannon sound effect.
The "Diplomatic Immunity" BOOM "has just been revoked" from Lethal Weapon too was quite the attention getter as Danny Glover's M-19 rings out after a neck turn
Paramount isn't bad either.
Indiana Jones entering the Nepal Bar with his S&W firing away at German thugs was effective.
But all movies prior to 10 years ago tried, however they could, to make guns sound like what they were: Loud, carrying over everything and attention getting.
Now they all sound like a wiffle bat hitting the sidewalk.
Even when they "remaster" sound effects for older movies, they make them sound very weak and less realistic. Such as in the dirty harry movies. Sound more like a door slamming shut.
Or the Terminator. The gunshots in the "remastered" version of that sound like popcorn popping.
They sound more like they're shooting a quick cap gun or fire cracker. People talk louder than the gunfire
Movies used to make gunfire more convincing and attention getting (like in real life) It drowned out and carried above the rest of the noise in the movie and often even had some kind of echo effect.
Warner Bros from the 1940s-1990s always seemed to be the best at it.
I.E. in the 1948 movie Treasure of the Sierra Madre when Humphrey Bogart catches Tim Holt falling asleep, takes his gun away, orders him back into brush in the dark and moves out of view....the loud ring of two gunshots that follow after a few moments of silence leaves you no doubt as to what just happened and even startles you a little.
In the 1972 movie Magnum Force when the motorcycle cop pulls the car of mobsters over and is quietly talking to them, we are startled when he pulls his revolver and the loud effects of a .357 Magnum start ringing out as it guns them down in the car and quietly walks away.
And of course we all know Dirty Harry's famous .44 Magnum cannon sound effect.
The "Diplomatic Immunity" BOOM "has just been revoked" from Lethal Weapon too was quite the attention getter as Danny Glover's M-19 rings out after a neck turn
Paramount isn't bad either.
Indiana Jones entering the Nepal Bar with his S&W firing away at German thugs was effective.
But all movies prior to 10 years ago tried, however they could, to make guns sound like what they were: Loud, carrying over everything and attention getting.
Now they all sound like a wiffle bat hitting the sidewalk.
Even when they "remaster" sound effects for older movies, they make them sound very weak and less realistic. Such as in the dirty harry movies. Sound more like a door slamming shut.
Or the Terminator. The gunshots in the "remastered" version of that sound like popcorn popping.
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