Hollywood handgun portrayal BS

"That's not necessarily historically inaccurate. I think Billy the Kid carried a double action Colt Ligntning.
Smith and Wesson was certainly around during the cowboy era."--B.L.E.
Most likely a happy coincidence.:)
OTOH, there's no excusing Winchesters and SAAs in "The Comancheros", a John Wayne horse opera supposedly set in 1843 Texas.:rolleyes:
--Well, it WAS The Duke...;)

From Wiki: "Although set in 1843 Texas, the characters all use Winchester lever action rifles and Colt Peacemaker pistols, which were not available until 1866 and 1873 respectively."--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comancheros
 
I loved watching the old Westerns and still do but some of them seemed to be set in time warps. And since virtually all of them were filmed just north of L.A. in the Simi Valley area, they all had that same "look" of hilly country with big boulders. It sure didn't look like Oklahoma or Kansas, though it was close to parts of Arizona. However, many were set in the 1930s and 1940s when the movies were actually being made. There were telephones, cars, and even busses. Yet you had cowboys riding around wearing two-gun holster outfits, which would have been hard to find even in 1885, much less in 1935. Just the same, there would have been more than a few old-timers around who would have remembered very clearly the old days of the West. Some of the early Western actors had been cowboys, yet were sometimes shown with DA revolvers, invariably Colts. I suspect that it was the old movies that made us think that everyone used only Colt Single Actions and Winchester lever actions.
 
The Roy Rogers Show was one of my Saturday morning staples. Somehow, the idea of a 'modern Western' never really settled with me, but I still howled at Nellybelle's (the self-willed Jeep) antics!:D
 
Ironically, Pat Brady died in a car accident. However, judging from photos in Ed McGivern's book, published just before WWII, there must have been a lot of people wearing Hollywood holsters out on the plains and in the "high country." Don't you think Elmer Keith sort of had that look in most of his photos? He had sort of a passing resemblence to Harry Carey, too
 
No offence but when I see threads like this I wonder if car people get together and complain about chase scenes, or cops complain about cop scenes, or excons complain about jail scenes, or doctors complain about er scenes, or.....well you get the picture. I am under the impression it is all bs and for entertainment only. We notice guns because we are into guns
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Oh yea we do, if anything a lot worse then gun guys.
 
Movie BS peeves other than guns

I watched The Hunt for Red October with a former nuke Electronics Tech and a former sonar operator, when it first came out. It was almost like MST3K, with the sarcastic commentary...

I was guilty of much sarcastic commentary during Die Hard 2. (I was a Navy pilot when it came out, and am still a professional pilot.) Just a few examples: 1) Altering the glide slope path of the Instrument Landing System (ILS) should be something an airline crew should notice, since final intercept height is supposed to be cross-referenced off of either distance measuring equipment or a cross-radial from another navaid. Edit: that was then; now, GPS and the Flight Management System would also provide corroborating or disagreeing data.2) Seizing the control tower at Dulles would not disable all the other ATC facilities in the area. 3) Airliners would not all stack up in the sky. They'd be diverted in short order by Approach Control and/or Center to Washington National, BWI, Philadelphia, Raleigh-Durham, Norfolk International, or even Andrews AFB or Dover AFB if things really got ugly. All are within 45 minutes flight time, and all airliners are required to have at least a suitable reserve of fuel - just in case.

I used to date a Nurse Practitioner, and am now married to an RN. We won't go into medical dramas...

So no, it's not only guns and gun people.
 
MLeake, then you must have really enjoyed the CGI'd aerial scenes with the exaggerated swoopiness of the Zeroes in Pearl Harbor :). Some of Red Tails could be accused of the same, but in that you at least sensed a bit of intended whimsy--for lack of a better word--with those shots. In either case, not sure those planes/pilots were capable of such maneuvers!
 
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Yeah... I taught aerobatics for a while, although the T34C is hardly a Pitts or Christian Eagle...

I couldn't stand the aviation sequences you mentioned; I hated Independence Day; the list goes on.
 
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