annoying hollywood gun tropes

Ghost Magnum · Jun 11, 2022

There is plenty gun tropes that get on my nerves. But I will start the thread with one that stands out. At least to me.
The trope when the hero runs out of ammo or jams. He or she throws the gun away. Bang, bang, click. Throws gun away and looks for another gun. Its particular jarring is some movies the gun belongs to the hero. That means the hero threw away their personal property. Some guns are valuable. Like a python or a older model 29. Some movies the hero throws away a gun then the next gun is the same model. One eye bro raising example is the ending of Old Henry. Henry defeated the bad guy and tosses his personal revolver on the ground and walks away.
Throwing your guns away is stupid. You are just giving the enemy another weapon to use against you. On top of the fact guns are expensive. Bullets are cheap.

Rustyt1953 · Jun 11, 2022

lihpster · Jun 11, 2022

What bothers me more is when the hero, after killing hundreds of the enemy at hand to hand range runs out of ammo in his gun and just gives up rather than picking up a fallen enemy's weapon and fighting on.

Ghost Magnum · Jun 11, 2022

lihpster said:
What bothers me more is when the hero, after killing hundreds of the enemy at hand to hand range runs out of ammo in his gun and just gives up rather than picking up a fallen enemy's weapon and fighting on.

Yeah, that’s pretty jarring too. The fact that the hero can slaughter that many without running out long before that is kinda funny.

NFrameFred · Jun 11, 2022

First one is not annoying, just painful for me. Every time I watch the original "Dirty Harry" the scene at the police monument in the park in San Fran when Clint is instructed to remove his 29 from under his coat and toss it - when that 29 hits the concrete (supposedly) and skitters away the sound effect of that happening sours my stomach and makes me involuntarily wince. Every. Single. Time.

There are lots of goofy stories, myths, and outright fanciful exaggerated lies and misinformation abounding about these movies - but heard one (unverified) account that there was a pad/blanket laid out that he was supposed to toss the gun on and he missed. Got some doubt about that one given the shape of the guns as they survive, but the tall tales and blarney that are passed around about those films and those guns are never ending.

But lest I inadvertently hijack the original subject . . . back to the original premise of the thread as stated - scripts where people in desperate apocalyptic circumstances survive a violent shootout, dispatch many and/or chase off the rest (always just as they're almost overrun and low on ammo

), and instead of picking up the dropped weapons of their adversaries and scrounging any spare ammo they had on their bodies, they simply quit the area and move on. Especially where only one or two of the good guys is armed and the gaggle of people they are protecting have no weapons. Doesn't make 'walkin' around sense', to quote my dear departed dad . . .

I notice John Wick don't play that silly ****

Bill Raby · Jun 11, 2022

A dozen guys with machine guns can't manage to hit the good guy from 10 yard away. But the good guy can take them all out with a pistol and not miss once. I think it is because when the bad guys start shooting the good guy always starts doing acrobatics. It impossible to hit a guy that is doing flips. So why don't the bad guys ever start jumping around?

Racer X · Jun 11, 2022

that a "silencer" is silent. And firing a round in a sealed automobile. Where is the blood running out of their ears?

UncleEd · Jun 11, 2022

Bill Raby said:
A dozen guys with machine guns can't manage to hit the good guy from 10 yard away. But the good guy can take them all out with a pistol and not miss once. I think it is because when the bad guys start shooting the good guy always starts doing acrobatics. It impossible to hit a guy that is doing flips. So why don't the bad guys ever start jumping around?

Bill Maher covered this quite well
in his Friday June 10 show.

Rustyt1953 · Jun 11, 2022

Sergio Leone mastered the use of a four second ricochet after each shot with nary a rock in sight.

TEXASJake · Jun 12, 2022

A quick note on the Dirty Harry scene ... no, the gun was tossed on the concrete and Clint Eastwood did not want to do it. The director told him he wanted a "realistic" sound so had him toss the real gun on the ground.

That gun was then sent back to Smith & Wesson, refinished, and then given as a gift to someone associated with the movie. I think that gun is in the National Firearms Museum in DC. You can google it under guns made famous by the movies or something like that. Just an FYI.

Old 44 Guy · Jun 12, 2022

Hollywood gun scenes scare me to death at the movies are so Hollywood stupid.

Kiwi cop · Jun 12, 2022

My pet hate is the Glock or similar that runs out of ammo and all you hear is "click"', "click", "Click".

Won't recheck without the slide being manipulated.

But then hey, I watch movies to be distracted from reality, not because I think they are real.

wood714 · Jun 12, 2022

Might pain a few to watch Mike throw 4 guns away.

Great watching him take them thou!

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS6kAKj8R9o[/ame]

Beemerguy53 · Jun 12, 2022

UncleEd said:
Bill Maher covered this quite well
in his Friday June 10 show.

What's a Bill Maher?

Beemerguy53 · Jun 12, 2022

Annoying Hollywood gun tropes...hmmm...where to begin?

* Exaggerated muzzle flashes...
* No gun ever recoils, but...
* People who are shot fly backward through the air when hit...
* No unintended victims get hit, no property is ever damaged...
* Copper bullets spark...
* Bullets spark on anything they hit, even dirt...
* Full-auto firearms are in common use by everybody...
* Aimed shooting is rare; spray-and-pray is the norm, and...
* Spray-and-pray is effective...

And to address a point that's been made...yeah, it's Hollywood and it's only a movie. But...I'm convinced this kind of stuff plays a role in whipping up public support for more gun laws.

chief38 · Jun 12, 2022

The worst is when they shoot 7, 8, 9 or more shots out of a SAA Revolver without a reload.

BigBoy99 · Jun 12, 2022

A few weeks ago I watched a Grade B (maybe even C) war movie where good and bad guys are equipped with sub machine guns. No one is carrying ANY spare magazine or ammo! Thousands of rounds are fired and never a magazine is changed. The only handgun is a single shot P38 which must have the slide cycled each time it is to be fired. In one scene, the good guys are running in a field, each one carrying ONLY their SMGs. When they all jump into a foxhole, each one, now magically has a bag filled with hand grenades. I wish the exemption Hollywood had which permits them to distort reality and make fiction into fact would be rescinded!

cadmike · Jun 12, 2022

Good guy holding bad guy at bay by pointing a 1911 at him.
With the hammer down.
The scene cuts away with a sound affect of a gun being cocked.
But then the hammer is still down on the 1911.

Donn · Jun 12, 2022

Happened twice, on different episodes of, (the new), Hawaii Five-0. Close-up of a revolver. Trigger pulled, cylinder rotates, weapon fires, followed by the sound of a spent casing hitting the floor. Drove me nuts the first time, but a second? C'mon Hollywood. I refuse to believe someone in production doesn't know better.

76Y40 · Jun 12, 2022

Never forgot the laughter when we watched "The Green Berets", about 1969, at our outdoor amphitheater in Vietnam.

Apologies to John Wayne.

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