Goofy Movie Gun Lines?

Notice that all guns have a really bass boom when shot? Even .22 BOOM. They almost never leave the sound of gunshots unedited.
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Actually, if I understand it right, they do leave the sound of gunshots unedited. That's because they don't use them at all. They can't. At least not with analog tape. I don't know about digital tech, but with film/video tape, the sound of a gunshot maxes out the media (pegs the meters), and comes across as a loud pop, no matter the caliber. .22s are smaller pops, but they are all pops, sounding nothing like a real gunshot.

The gunshot sound effects are just that, sound effects, intended to make us think of the actual sound of the shot. They "sound like" a gunshot on film, but aren't actual gunshots.

(and Glocks with safeties arn't just movies, and for some reason, it annoys me more in the books I read)
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I saw some Glock safeties for sale at the gunshow last weekend! Apparently its a little widgit that you stick in behind the trigger, and push out with your finger when you need to shoot. Amazing!:rolleyes:
 
"Listen up you primitive screw-heads! You see this? This is my BOOMSTICK!"
Bruce Cambell in Army of Darkness waving his double barrel shotgun around, then does a sales pitch on it.
"Shop smart; shop S-mart, you got that???!!!"
 
" Actually, if I understand it right, they do leave the sound of gunshots unedited. That's because they don't use them at all. They can't. At least not with analog tape. I don't know about digital tech, but with film/video tape, the sound of a gunshot maxes out the media (pegs the meters), and comes across as a loud pop, no matter the caliber. .22s are smaller pops, but they are all pops, sounding nothing like a real gunshot. "

I do sound effects at an amateur level for video games.

Very often they do use sounds from real guns. Take for instance, Battlefield 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYXqXm_LLHg

This video compares two big video games, Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3. I find Battlefield (the 1st and every alternating video) to sound much more like what I hear at the range. Modern Warfare gun sounds are incredibly dull and bassy. I guess that's what happens when you fire so many guns without hearing protection though :D You lose the high end of your hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8WQsIxhro here's a great (fairly short) video from the sound designer of Battlefield 3. He talks about why they exaggerate sounds and their process. There's footage of them in the middle of a military "war game" with tanks, blank rounds, jets, the whole shebang and then getting source audio from there to analyze it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkxuPX5l7zM

I'm sure there are some big name films that use terrible sound effects but we (sound designers) are not all like that! :p

EDIT: My original point is that today with our microphones with high SPL tolerances, compressors/limiters, and control over input signal, you'd be surprised what you can record with a $100 mic and a computer.
 
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Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon series) and the cop killer bullets..............
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The worst wasn't the quote but when a Mac 10 fired a full auto burst of cop killer bullets through the front bucket on a backhoe.:rolleyes:
 
I find it funny that we hear ricochet sounds when the military are assaulting a sand beach, in jungles, inside of wooden buildings, etc.

How many times have we heard that someone "put the safety on (or off)" on a double-action revolver?
 
Another favorite is when there's a show down and everybody raises their guns and you hear a hundred hammers being cocked back even though nearly everyone is holding a glock.




Ike
 
Were there any gun scenes or lines in Disney's "Goofy Movie"? :confused:

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That really is what I thought of when I saw the thread title.
 
There are cordless framing nailers that use replaceable fuel cells instead of a compressed air hose. That clip is pretty dark so I can't tell if that's one of them or not.
 
Actually, if I understand it right, they do leave the sound of gunshots unedited. That's because they don't use them at all. They can't. At least not with analog tape. I don't know about digital tech, but with film/video tape, the sound of a gunshot maxes out the media (pegs the meters), and comes across as a loud pop, no matter the caliber. .22s are smaller pops, but they are all pops, sounding nothing like a real gunshot.

The gunshot sound effects are just that, sound effects, intended to make us think of the actual sound of the shot. They "sound like" a gunshot on film, but aren't actual gunshots.
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sweetie, that whole process you discribe *is* editing.
 
Just saw an old Kim Bassinger/Jeff Bridges movie called Nadine (well, about ten minutes of it, I just couldn't take any more), and she checks out a house with her double barrel shotgun by holding it next to her side and sticking the gun through each doorway while she stood outside the doorway. Priceless.

In A Perfect Murder, Gwyneth Paltrow told her estranged husband that she was going to turn him in for his attempted murder of her (which for some reason annoyed him), then HIT him with her gun, then after a brief struggle she shoots him in the shoulder, and then instead of holding him at bay tries to run right past him while holding the gun... :rolleyes: It's otherwise a pretty good movie, but I hate when they have women doing stupid stuff with guns.
 
2 guns?.....

I could never understand why some "good guys" who already have a sidearm or firearm go & get a "special gun" for the exciting 3rd act climax :rolleyes:.
I don't mean a scene like Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry in Sudden Impact(1984) using a .44 AutoMag semi auto to fend off the bad guys.

I mean scenes like Wesley Snipes pulling out a customized CZ-75 at the end of Rising Sun(he plays a LAPD LT who has a 92F 9x19mm).
Or rookie auto theft detail detective; Charlie Sheen going out & packing a then new Steyr GB 9x19mm over his LAPD issue pistol, :confused: , The Rookie(1990).
Even Sly Stallone grabs a big snub revolver for no real reason in the 1990s era action classic; Demolition Man(1993). His LAPD; John Spartan character uses 2 Beretta 9x19mm sidearms at the start so how is a .357magnum or .44 snub going to do any better? :rolleyes:

I also don't get why film-TV hero characters never pick up the bad guy guns or use them. If a horde of spec ops commandos or ninjas was bearing down on me, Id load up that SAW or AK then grab a few high cap pistols. :D

CF
PS; I, for 1, have no problems with calling magazines clips. I also use Rooney Guns, 6 shooters, hog leg, etc etc.
 
Or later in the same film when she curves a bullet all the way around round room, killing like 7 people, and then herself with the one bullet.
 
Uhhhh... Wanted was straight comic book fantasy.

Fiction with strong elements of scfi or fantasy is *supposed* to have stuff that really, honestly, can't actually happen.
Movies in those genres, I give a free pass on a vast amount of what would otherwise be "gun screwups" since one must take into account a signifigent amount of artistic license.
 
Die Hard & Lethal Weapon II....

2 popular action films filled with gun flubs & "huh :confused:" moments includes the first Die Hard(1988) & the cop thriller Lethal Weapon II(1989).

The scene in Die Hard, where John(banged up & hanging from a fire-hose) "shoots" the office glass of the huge office building is real Hollywood hype.
I worked full time as a security supervisor for three years in a 40 story office building a lot like the Die Hard location. The office glass was thick and would NOT crack apart or break with simple 9x19mm pistol rounds.
I doubt any small arms would completely crack office glass.

In Lethal Weapon II, when Martin Riggs(Mel Gibson) slams his Dooley pick-up into the beam of the beach front house then rips it apart causing the entire house to crash was way, way off.
I got a entire barber shop of guys arguing about that scene. Lol.
 
Note really a "goofy line" but my buddy and I had a laugh...

In "End of Watch", the main character holds up a Glock 22 to the camera ("Glock 22" is CLEARLY seen) and states "This is my issued sidearm, a Glock 19..."

Oi...
 
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