More Hollywood gun folly?

"...guess gas guns (propane flames) for safety?..." Gun shot sounds are added in editing. No reason the flash can't be CGA'd. More likely blanks with no BFA though.
Always wanted an SAA you didn't have to reload just like Roy and Hoppy had.
 
Andy Blozinski said:
I've noticed in many lower budget movies they digitally put in muzzle flashes and the actors make recoil motions.
wogpotter said:
Its mostly a budget thing.
By using "AirSoft" they don't need a gun wrangler on the set.
AirSoft is a boon to props departments because they are realistic enough that all sorts of highly restricted guns that look cool can be used fairly cheaply & without restrictions.
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Not to mention that the filmmakers don't have to worry about the actors flinching, closing their eyes, etc.

Witness Gert Fröbe as the titular character in "Goldfinger"—he repeatedly looks as if he was profoundly uncomfortable even holding a gun, much less firing one, and I've heard tell that this isn't far from the truth.
 
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All that still can't hold a candle to the 1950's western film where the hero shoved a bullet through a hole in a piece of wood, then hit the primer with a rock, shooting the bad guy off his horse 30 yards away...
 
One of the things I get a kick out of, in a lot of the older war movies. Every time someone gets shot, they stand up, spin around and fall and die. Happens in some of the old westerns too. I like the old movies.
 
Like in the Audie Murphy biopic, To Hell and Back, when Murphy is shooting up the company of Wehrmact soldiers with the .50 caliber on the burning tank, the Germans seem just clutch at their stomachs and fall over.

If you ever get the chance, read Audie Murphy's memoir of the same name as the film. It's much less sanitized, and much darker, along the lines of William Manchester's Goodbye, Darkness.

Whenever I watch an Audie Murphy film, I have to remind myself that this man personally killed over 400 enemy soldiers during the war.
 
I forget which one it was, a Chuck Norris movie where he's shooting it out with Columbian drug dealers and he's able to keep firing even though the 1911 he's holding is empty and the slide is locked back...

"The Walking Dead", or rather the Director, is notorious for having Rick Grimes point his Python while holding it up above his line of sight and aiming downward at the BG's/Zombies/whatever. He never actually uses the sights...

In the movie "Echelon Conspiracy", this monstrosity of what looks to be an AR-15 mated to an AK-47.

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Why do you guys keep watching if it is so stupid or even offensive?

"I don't like that restaurant. The food tastes like crap, and the portion is too small."

It is entertainment. They do things to make you feel good. Don't watch if it doesn't do it for you.

-TL
 
I just watched a re-run of "The Mummy Returns". Don't mess with "Lock-Nah" the chief henchman of the bad guys.
He drops a flying Horus falcon with one round from the standing position using iron sights in a SMLE!:eek:
 
gunnerk19 said:
In the movie "Echelon Conspiracy", this monstrosity of what looks to be an AR-15 mated to an AK-47.
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According to some film-gun blogs, there are a number of Eastern-European-produced action movies that use mocked-up Kalashnikovs to represent ARs, due to scant availability of real ARs in the area—an unfamiliar situation for those of us in the States!

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Universal_Soldier:_Regeneration#.28Faux.29_M16A2_.28Bulgarian_AR.29

In an ironic parallel, IIRC a number of episodes of the "Mission: Impossible" TV show show soldiers in Soviet Bloc countries carrying M1 Carbines, due to the non-availability of real AKs in the States in the 1960s. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah..I love it when someone in a movie gets angry and racks the slide for extra emphasis effect to let the other character know they're serious.
So...they were pointing at the other character with an unchambered weapon this whole time?!
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I'm just impressed that they physically rack the slide. Sometimes you get the slide rack sound byte while they're just raising/ leveling the pistol towards their target.

In a similar vein, it bugs me when they treat a semi auto pistol like a revolver, reaching their thumb back to that hammer which (in my experience) is considerably more awkward/ less practical/ more dangerous on a pistol than the revolver. One time on HUMAN TARGET they did it on a Glock, complete w/ hammer cocking sound byte!
 
I see a lot of old Westerns and history movies where the characters are armed with guns that weren't invented yet. Trap door Springfields and 1873 Colt Peacemakers during the Civil war era and stuff like that.
 
Why do you guys keep watching if it is so stupid or even offensive?
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You've missed the point.
Part of the fun of watching tv shows is the entertainment value from the show, in itself.
And Z Nation is very entertaining, regardless.
I watch every one.
More fun also comes from finding their faus-pas, especially with the gun stuff.
Hot wiring modern cars is another one worthy of insult, too.
Enjoyment is where ya' find it.
 
Was watching O Brother... last night. In the scene where George "Don't call me babyface" Nelson is shooting at the coppers pursuing him with a Thompson. Fires a long burst, stops to cuss at them, cocks the weapon, and begins firing again. When he cocks the weapon you can see the chambered round eject.
 
I remember reading that many of the "space guns" and bull pup movie guns are dressed up mini14s not sure if it's true, my memory fails me quite a bit these days.
 
The futuristic looking Whitney Wolverine made appearances on sci fi shows decades ago.
Check it out with a web search if you're not familiar with this very neat rimfire pistol from the mid 1950s.
As Cool as a 1955 Ford Crown Victoria.
 
Yes the "Morita Mk I Rifle" & the carbine as well as Sniper versions in "Starship Troopers" were Mini-14's with an external bullpup stock.
 
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