Annoying Hollywood gun errors

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There may have been posts on this subject in the past but I'm sure many of you get amused or annoyed as I do when you are watching a movie or tv show and you see obvious errors with how guns are handled or presented. I could list several but the one that aggravates me the most (and it is almost universal...even in otherwise accurate shows) is whenever a semiauto pistol is drawn or pointed quickly, it makes a loud "racking" or "cocking" noise. Usually these are Glocks that don't even have a safety to "click", let alone make a loud racking noise! If you haven't noticed this, you will now be unable to NOT notice it! Any other pet peeves when it comes to Hollywood and guns? (I also have to add almost never removing the finger from the trigger...even when chasing the bad guy down a crowded street!)
 
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I recall one of the recent Bond films having him enter a BG's place with drawn Sig. Somewhere during the early part of the search, his slide becomes locked back without firing a shot and he completes the search with a locked back slide.

Obviously happened when the weapon was cleared during a break and the slide was never put into battery before filming resumed.
 
The biggest one is where the perp hold a gun sideways above his head with his arm twisted like a question mark and kind of looks like a matador getting ready to give a bull the coup de gras.
Next one is where someone shots a pistol at a car and it tips over and explods in flames.
Next in line is anytime someone with a handgun gets about a foot and a half away and holds a gun on someone at hugging distance.
Of course the main old one of useing guns that werent invented yet.
Shooting more rounds than the gun can hold.
Shooting guns out of the other guys hand at 70 yards. Seeing a guy get hit with a 45 and him not knocked down but gives a nice going away speech.
Seeing a crowd of people cooperate when some gangsta pulls a gun.
Gun twirling.
 
Lets see....

The never ending ammo supply
Seeing a car take what appears to be a million hits but never a single hole in the sheet metal.
Anyone sent careening through the air by the impact of a bullet
How many hits a good guy can take and have them all be flesh wounds while the bad guys get dusted by a single shot.
Having the bad guys blast away at the hero with full auto weaponry while the good guy takes them out with one bullet apiece.
Gunfighters hitting impossible targets from the hip at distances that even a scoped rifle would be a challenge.
The sound of police officers or soldiers drawing on someone and hear guns being cocked and racked.

But the biggest errors with guns and Hollywood are actors profiting from the sales of tickets from the movie while out of the other side of their mouth saying that guns should be banned. I cannot think of no bigger error than that.
 
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Saw a photo once of tough guy with revolver , firing errantly with 8 ejected shells in mid air from the wheel gun.

retards

Bill
 
Old period westerns where they used modern double action revolvers instead of single actions. Seen that quite a few times. I also get a kick out of the flicks where the rubber tips of the Indian prop lances are waving about like a wet noodle. The old "B" movies and other low budget films are notorious for lack of continuity and anachronism's. But I think they can be pretty funny to watch.

Cheers;
Lefty
 
The 20 second gun battle in a closed room with 4 guns blazing away, and as soon a the shooting stops everyone begins talking in a normal tone and no ones ears are deaf because of the muzzle blast.
 
Aimpoints/EOTechs mounted backwards.
Impossibly quiet suppressors.
Backward flight of someone shot with a 9mm, .45, 12 gauge whatever.
Pretty much any weapon shown on Scy Fy channel movies, they're all a cross between an AK and an AR.
Even Bruce Willis isn't immune to the backwards aimpoint:
bkwrdaimpoint.jpg
 
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In addition to most of the ones listed above.

Waiting until the very last second to chamber a round (rack the slide on a pistol or work the action on a pump shotgun) or cock the hammer on a single action pistol or revolver.

David
 
Gunslinger808 said:
Aimpoints/EOTechs mounted backwards.
Impossibly quiet suppressors.
Backward flight of someone shot with a 9mm, .45, 12 gauge whatever.
Pretty much any weapon shown on Scy Fy channel movies, they're all a cross between an AK and an AR.
Even Bruce Willis isn't immune to the backwards aimpoint:
bkwrdaimpoint.jpg
Click to expand...

Later in this film one of the SEALs is stalking through a village with his MK23 drawn and out...... with the slide locked halfway back, as if jammed. He must have been firing blanks in a previous shot and had the slide jam, but was told by the director to keep going. The F-18s with empty weapon racks suddenly being armed with "napalm rockets" at the end was silly, too, but I loved the film anyway.

To think that retired SEAL Harry Humphries was an adviser on the film, yet let Bruce Willis carry an M-4 with the Aimpoint mounted backwards, makes me scratch my head a bit, though...
 
The sound of brass bouncing when someone is shooting in a field with a revolver. This was a mistake they made in The Walking Dead earlier this year. Whey Shane and Otis were trying to get away from the walkers and one of them was using Rick's Python. Every time it was fired you could hear the sound of brass bouncing off concrete.

CW
 
Oh were to I start?

20 rounds from a wheel gun
40 rounds from a auto
No recoil
No flash
Always have to rack the gun.... even after a shoot out
A huge pistol being hidden under a t-shirt
The sound of a hammer being cocked back on a DAO gun

I could go on....
 
Many of the previously mentioned.

Impossibly quiet silencers especially on revolvers that are thumb sized.

Never ending magazines.

Cars that explode and fly through the air from a single hit from a 9mm handgun.

Good guy or bad guy protected from pistol or rifle fire by hiding behind an empty steel drum, simple sheet rock wall. sofa or other piece of furniture, hollow core interior door or car door.

Poor continuity such as a type or brand firearm changing between cuts in a specific scene.

Period inappropriate firearms. Guns that had not yet been invented for the time period depicted in the film or TV show.

Obviously inoperative, blank or empty guns magically restored to functional service.
 
To add to the rest:

Episode of NCIS: Bad guy runs a mag, slide locks back. He drops the mag, inserts a new mag, releases the slide forward, and then... manually racks the mag (without a round ejecting) in a big dramatic show, and starts firing again (before getting shot a moment later by Ziva).

Cop show (don't recall which one). Cop enters house with gun drawn, runs house, encounters BG... and then racks the slide to challenge him...

I believe about 100% of TV/Movies with aircraft depict things wrong (wrong aircraft type, wrong tactics, impossible range, firing from the exact same hard point for every single missile shot, repeating the same enemy aircraft exploding shot for every one shot down, and (the one I notice that very few others ever will) the wrong ejection seat in the plane (e.g. An F-15 seat installed in what is supposed to be an F-16).
 
While this isn't specific to guns, the actors in the scenes were wearing them. ;)

Once on Bonanza I seen a Jet crossing the sky leaving a contrail and on The Big Valley,
while a Jet wasn't in the scene, a nice long contrail was shown across the sky.

In another Bonanza it looked like a big box type truck, or semi,
was crossing the hillside in the background.

I couldn't venture to guess how many car / truck tire tracks I've seen in old Westerns.

One thing I have noticed that is gun related, Chuck Conners,
on The Rifleman, racks his rifle a lot and many times, after firing a
couple of rounds, no spent casings are ejected.
 
Oh, I almost forgot, my favorite Hollywood Gun scene...

The original Superman shows in black and white. Superman is advancing on a BG who empties his revolver into Superman's chest while he grins and puffs his chest out. When the BG is out of bullets, he throws the big revolver at Superman, who ducks so the gun flies over his head harmlessly...

Yeah, cause the fake bullets wouldn't hurt the actor, but that big ole revolver sure would have given him a bruise!
 
I've always wondered about duel wielding handguns. Like denziel Washington in training day, or any number of old westerns with heroes with a gin on each hip.

Any accuracy to this. Did any old time outlaw really fire from both hands at once. Are there any Leo's or hard core special forces guys out there kicking in doors with a desert eagle in each paw?

I doubt it, but it'd be a pretty neat trick it true.

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