Hollywood Lies!

Woody55

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Entertainment is generally more important than education in the movies. Do you have any favorite firearms related examples of movies being inaccurate?

So I don't steal anyone's thunder, I'll start with a slightly different tack. I "knew" - from watching several movies - that mortars made this cool little pong noise when they were fired. Not too loud. A hint of a metallic ring to it.

The first time I fired one, I was shocked at how loud they were. It wasn't a cool little pong. It was a great big KER BLAM.
 
I remember in Saving Private Ryan the Sniper (I forget his name) fired 9 or so rounds from a 1903 Springfield without reloading.

I rember in some movie an AK had a straight AR mag, or was it an AR with an AK mag.

And just about every action movie has guns with regenerating ammo, I would love one ofthose.
 
Movies (and tv) are rife with innaccuracies about firearms, and gun handling in general. The biggest and most obvious to anyone who shoots is the sound.

Name any show where there is any gunplay at all, and note that while NONE of the actors are wearing hearing protection, they NEVER have any trouble with hearing anything after shooting.

They can speak in regular conversational tones and clearly hear and understand everything. They can shoot handguns and sometimes even rifles and shotguns inside closed rooms and still hear a whisper!

Sound effects editors putting in the sound of a hammer being cocked when someone draws and points a hammerless auto pistol....

rifle caliber brass spillling to the floor when the actor is "firing" a pistol caliber SMG....

An auto pistol going empty (sometimes even without the slide locking back) and we hear "click, click, click" as the actor repeatedly pulls the trigger....

There are many, many others, too many to list individual examples.

Don't get your information about guns, medicine, the law, sex, basic physics, gravity, or anything else from Hollywood. IF you do, you will be sorry.
 
And just about every action movie has guns with regenerating ammo, I would love one ofthose.

No kidding, right? What was that one from Judge Dredd? Lawgiver? Lawbringer? Something like that.

Hammer-fanning is always a good one - pick any western. Darn near flayed my hand trying it - not my proudest moment:o
 
They can speak in regular conversational tones and clearly hear and understand everything. They can shoot handguns and sometimes even rifles and shotguns inside closed rooms and still hear a whisper!

An auto pistol going empty (sometimes even without the slide locking back) and we hear "click, click, click" as the actor repeatedly pulls the trigger....

sorry.

I actually laughed out loud at those 2 especially the slide lock one. I don't think I have EVER seen a slide lock back in movies or TV
 
I just saw a double barrelled shotgun fire two shots and click when the trigger was pulled again. Don't know what the movie is.
 
I believe it was "Sudden Impact" where the bad guys where shooting into the box they thought that Clint was in. the one bad guy shot several times with the gun at slide lock.
 
The Punisher movie ( not the one with Thomas Jane, but the other guy) it show the guns at the first and it shows a Walther P22 S. The "S" is plainly visible. I just hate that they could not hide the fact it was a blank gun. My other problem is when they show people loading rounds with fired primers...lol
 
Just last night the wife was watching a movie, chick with break action singal shot, Loaded a shell & the sound of a slide racking :D So Hollywood ; )
Y/D
 
Wasn't it Bullet where right at the beginning a shotgun blast sends someone flying through the air across a room and off a wall?

And Clint Eastwood does the same thing with a pistol in the Dirty Harry movies.
 
In an episode of "Criminal Minds", the young kid (Spencer Reed) was searching a house with his revolver cocked and finger on the trigger. YIKES!

Flash
 
A semi or full auto, open or closed bolt, suppressed weapon fires repeatedly (and far quieter than it would be in reality)... pffft, pffft, pffft... but, regardless of the gun, you never hear the bolt or slide cycle.

C
 
Ahh, one of my favorites...

The "Bones" episode when Temperance happens to find two fully functional M1928 Thompson submachine guns in the Jeffersonian museum. While firing them, Booth has no hearing or eye protection and there is no muzzle climb on the guns while they're firing them.

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/1/15/Bones_141.jpg

Notice how forward booth is to her muzzle.............

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW
 
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Guy I work with brought up the History Channels Tale of the Gun on youtube or somewhere. The episode that caught my attention was about Mausers. Several times they showed folks in period uniforms firing the rifles with absolutely no kick/recoil.

And the common one that grinds my gears is where some guy- any guy picks up a bolt action and cranks away at all the cycling motions like it's iced up, or eh's affraid someone will take away his manly man card if he don't try to break off the bolt handle on each stroke.

And I'm sitting here now watching a Michael J Fox movie- The Frighteners. There's some chick on here who's managed 20 rounds through a pump shotgun, and some sort of spook chick who's managed about that many though a side-by-side without reloads. R Lee Ermy was in it, but he was already dead, got killed again by another hobgoblin anyway, but he had dual M-60's that never ran out of ammo.

And what was with the weird way that Winchester got shouldered every time in "Winchester '73"? That nearly drove me to fits.
 
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