More Hollywood stupidity

[StatesRightist]

So the wife's watching a DVR'd copy of Bluebloods tonight. In the span of 15 minutes I hear/see:

1. A woman sitting in a limo shot and killed. She's shot through the side window, yet the entry's dead front on.

and my favorite

2. The shell casings are 10mm they find, one character says those are rare, then the other mental midget/character says "except in gang shootings, they use them."

Hollywood is to stupid to breath and I need an Tums to watch those Wahlberg smucks. They make their living playing character's with guns, yet they oppose them every time they can.

Maybe it's just me.....

 

[mc5aw]

It's not just you. Hollywood has so many clowns infiltrating it, it should tour as the world's largest circus. And for the record, I can't digest the hypocrisy of "actors" like Wahlberg, Clooney, et al who make a living shooting things up on the big screen, but don't approve of those naughty firearms off screen.

 

[Joewisc]

My all-time favorite movie cliche':
* "IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND." (In "Taken" Liam Neeson shoots his friend's wife in the arm)

 

[TheHobbyist]

I wish they gave more "air time" to the people who support their local community and do a "good turn" daily.

 

[Buckey08]

One of these day's all those clowns are going to meet at the same intersection, YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!

 

[snubbyfan]

The one that gets me is when a character draws his gun and there's a hammer cocking sound and the gun's a Glock.
Also when they open a revolver and spin the cylinder there's a spinning ratchet sound then they do the "wrist flick" to close it.

 

[StatesRightist]

A couple more, the sound of taking the safety off of a Glock and having to rack the slide to shoot someone in the middle of the gun battle.

 

[speedyquad]

wanna know what the truly scary thing is? they make millions of dollars doing this, and the general masses eat it up. so maybe they aren't too stupid to breathe. i bet they have a Tums every time they read a fictional un-realistc scene, or they just look at their paycheck...i bet that they don't care...they get paid either way.

 

[StatesRightist]

wanna know what the truly scary thing is? they make millions of dollars doing this, and the general masses eat it up. so maybe they aren't too stupid to breathe. i bet they have a Tums every time they read a fictional un-realistc scene, or they just look at their paycheck...i bet that they don't care...they get paid either way.

If you are using money as a measuring stick for value, or success/worth and intelligence, you might need to rethink your values and evaluation process.

 

[Road Rat]

Yep. I shook my head a couple of times during that episode of Blue Bloods!!!!!

The "kids" in Hollyweird these days have absolute no knowledge about much of anything!!

SAD...........

 

[chud333]

Love it when they think they are "Gangstas" by turning the
handgun sideways to shoot. And the idiots who "never" run
out of ammo on a six shot revolver or the unlimited magazine
on an automatic.

Chuck

 

[nawilson]

My all-time favorite movie cliche':
* "IT'S JUST A FLESH WOUND." (In "Taken" Liam Neeson shoots his friend's wife in the arm)

I thought you were quoting Monty Python at first...

I like the people that are thrown around when shot by handguns. It is also fun to watch the actors playing super-duper commandos blink when they shoot.

 

[snubbyfan]

The cup and saucer grip by "trained" FBI agents.

 

[A10]

I'm surprised about this happening on Blue Bloods, they've been fairly good in the past. I know Selleck is a gun guy and would think he'd know better.

 

[Delta Rose]

My favorite was in last night's episode of Grimm on NBC. They made a reference to recovering a .600 nitro express bullet from a person's body. Like that's gonna happen....

 

[pumpedTSI]

The cup and saucer grip by "trained" FBI agents.

Hey now, I'm a cup and saucer fan and I do very well with it....

 

[blujax01]

You cannot top this week's episode of CSI NY when they "matched the unfired 9mm cartridges found in the magazine with the ones registered to you in CODIS proving that your gun was used in the crime!"

 

[sophie]

I too watched Blue Bloods and saw all the supposedly bullet holes in the street side of the limo, yet the future bride in the back seat took a direct hit from the front. Don't make a lot of sense. I think Tom Selleck looks better on a horse than he does with black hair and black mustache and little bitty too small glasses on his head. Don't get me wrong Tom is one of my favorite and I like what he stands for I am just saying he makes a better cowboy. Hollywood won't take the chance on westerns anymore. What a shame.

____________
James

 

[Arik]

There was an episode of NCIS LA where the bad guys used AKs and an NCUS agent found an empty AK mag and said how rare these were and if they left it they must have been in a hurry. If its so rare i should be rich, i have a drawer full of AK47 mags!

But seriously i watch these shows for entertainment not for accuracy. Its all make believe.

Oh and even if Sellek is a gun guy doesnt mean he is their advisor and sits in on every scrip writing and every screen shot to make sure they have their guns and gun lingo down correct.

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[REM 3200]

Love it when they think they are "Gangstas" by turning the
handgun sideways to shoot. And the idiots who "never" run
out of ammo on a six shot revolver or the unlimited magazine
on an automatic.

Chuck

Hey man, haven't you ever heard of a belt-fed revolver?

 

[speedyquad]

If you are using money as a measuring stick for value, or success/worth and intelligence, you might need to rethink your values and evaluation process.

absolutely not, but the fact is, their inconsistencies matter to very few of the viewers. if it did, their paychecks would be less. let's face it, they make a lot of money for not doing much than being creative. they create a fantasy, one which you can choose not to watch if they don't achieve 100% accuracy on everything. their job is to tell a fictional story. the story need to be interesting to keep viewership up. it's more interesting for the 10mm rounds to be rare and used by gangs than if any tom, rick, and harry can buy 500rds a day at the local lgs.

what i am saying though, is the bottom line for them is to tell a story, in an hour, using about 8 days from story concept to final production, all while making as much money as they possibly can. so where you may care about little gun inconsistencies that 99.9% of the rest of the viewers don't know about, much less care, the producers have bigger fish to fry when it comes to production.

i am taking this side as i used to get so annoyed when i would see improper use of atv's in shows and movies. once i allowed myself to understand it is just a work of fiction and not get so bent out of shape, i have been able to enjoy more with less disappointment. this goes for a lot of things, not just hollywood productions...

 

[snubbyfan]

I keep remembering new ones. I've even got my wife catching the discrepancies. I don't remember what we were watching but it had a Glock at slide lock, the character was pulling the trigger and it was going click, click, click as if a hammer was falling on an empty chamber.

 

[Jswiney9]

My favorite was in last night's episode of Grimm on NBC. They made a reference to recovering a .600 nitro express bullet from a person's body. Like that's gonna happen....

im sure not too many people have tested the .600 nitro express on ogres though. that show is MEANT to be a fairytale, kind of different.

 

[riverrat38]

In "Lethal Weapon III", Mel Gibson is about to be crushed by the blade of a large dozer. Danny Glover tosses him a gun that had been taken from a dead bad guy. He yelled "cop killer bullets" as he tossed the gun. Gibson catches the gun and fires the magic bullets through the heavy steel blade, killing the bad guy operator. The bullets make an interesting pyrotechnics display as they penetrate the blade just in the nick of time. The dozer comes to a sudden stop, inches from Gibson.

Rick

 

[Straightshooter2]

My favorite was in last night's episode of Grimm on NBC. They made a reference to recovering a .600 nitro express bullet from a person's body. Like that's gonna happen....

Must have been the 10th person in line. They were probably also trying to find out what cause the very large hole in 9 other people.

CW

 

[mbliss57]

You cannot top this week's episode of CSI NY when they "matched the unfired 9mm cartridges found in the magazine with the ones registered to you in CODIS proving that your gun was used in the crime!"

What is scary is that is what they want to be able to do, hope to be able to do..

 

[BarbC]

Cracked did a great piece about Hollywood and their magical guns: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies) | Cracked.com

And this one too! http://www.cracked.com/article_19781_6-stupid-gun-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html?wa_user1=3&wa_user2=Movies+%26+TV&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=yesincite

 

[blujax01]

What is scary is that is what they want to be able to do, hope to be able to do..

A couple we are friends with are not anti but not pro either. From our conversations it is obvious that they think this sort of hooey is real and that everything they know about guns they learned from The Box. They ask how long it took to get all of my firearms registered and how much did that cost? And I don't think they believed me when I told them that in Ohio this is not a requirement. Does the government have a limit on how many I can buy? And my personal favorite: "How many FBI Watch lists do you suppose you're on?" They had no idea that most WalMarts, KMarts etc. as well as some other chain stores sold ammunition.

That's okay, with their permission I got their son a BB gun for his 10th Birthday. Small steps...

 

[The Tourist]

@blujax01, while I agree with you, it's not possible to live "off the grid." At some point in time--even your birth--someone put something into a computer somewhere. Even some of the old timers used to comb cemeteries looking for infants born around their own birth dates. They could get a birth certificate, and since there was no drivers license or credit cards in that name, a new identity could be built. Even that's impossible now.

As for conspiracy theories, I don't frankly care if some black-ops bureau is studying me from somewhere in Area 51. I was once followed around for three days by local law enforcement. Since I have a common motorcycle nickname, the cop followed around the wrong guy from the wrong bike club. Attention Ofc. Fife, Andy wants you back at the office...

For me, it's not so much guns, I see errors in just about all movies and TV show. But personally it's knives. How can any production company make so many mistakes with something safe at one end, and pointy on the other? I mean, it's two, and only two parts!

For example, if the bad guy is Yakuza, the hero is not going to get a scratch his girl friend can bandage up with an Ace Bandage.

I polish tanto knives. His intestines are going to run into his shoes. A cut on the arm goes to the bone.

I also saw Milla Jovovich take a folder right through her forearm and still move her fingers. Out came that Ace Bandage, and she was as good as new. BTW, actors don't get infections from filthy knives...

 

[handejector]

My favorite-
Hero is pursuing BG through a large building/warehouse/woods/wherever.
He has cleared many rooms, walked down several hallways, up a staircase or two, and been expecting an immediate encounter with said BG, who is armed with something good like a SMG with a 1000 rd magazine.
The music eventually tells us contact is iminent, so the hero FINALLY racks his riot gun or the slide on his Superpistol to chamber a round.
Good thinking, Ace.