Movie Guns

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Does anyone else have this sickness? When watching a movie with my spouse, I am forever identifying handguns and gun mistakes.
1) "Colt Python, 4". See the ribbed barrel, honey?"
2)"Hey, he ALREADY chambered a round!"
3)"Full size Glock 9mm."
4)"Hey, that cop just threw away a $100 15 round magazine when he reloaded!"
5) "1911 .45".
6) "HEY, THAT'S EIGHT SHOTS FROM THE REVOLVER!"
 
How about westerns.Watched a John Wayne the other night.Year 1868,winchester rifles and colt peacemakers.

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I try not to do it, but the ubiquitous flaws are too damn annoying sometimes.
The worst is when good guy racks slide, points at BG. When BG does not give up, GG then pulls back hammer. Say what??
 
All of the above! But another that really gets me is when the cops or hero, run around with their drawn handguns, pointed up right beside their ear, or kinda right under their throats.

Of course, I'm well aware that the director wants the gun in the close shot of the actor's face, and the only way to get the shot is to have the actor hold the gun under his throat. 99.8% of directors in Hollywood don't know any more about real firearms (other than that they hate them), and safety, than I know about being an astronaut.

"Hey you, copper, with your gun pointed up under your jaw, where's the bad guy? Up in a freaking helicopter??!!"

J.B.
 
It sucks having the least amount of gun knowledge, because it ruins every movie you see. Like, you are watching a movie, thats actually a great movie, and they do something wrong related to guns, or say something incorrect, "god what a crappy movie!" :) It sucks.
 
Happens to me with every single movie! damn habit, doesnt let you enjoy the movie.Hehehe!
Anand.
 
I agree with Chipperman, that's probably one of my most hated sequences. I see it alot happening like this though - Someone will be pointing a handgun at another person, then, they'll rack the slide, chambering a round (the first, since no round was ejected) and then go on to thumbing back the hammer as if they're indicating, Hey, I'm serious here! It constantly amazes me that they have people holding others at gunpoint with an unloaded weapon. Hollywood must think that the general public is completely ignorant about weapons.
Yet another is the complete disregard for safety rules. A movie that I barely watched because I couldn't stand it was one of the most recent Mel Gibson/Lethal Weapon ones. I almost believe that they break as many safety rules as people being assaulted in that movie. Complete nonsense and actually offensive.
EricO
 
Add to that the common mistake of running around with their finger on the trigger!

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Sub MOA:
How do you cock a Glock?[/quote]

You have the sound man throw in some slide racking noises, even though it is plainly obvious that nobody is doing that (a la Matrix).

By the way, saw the comment about holding the gun pointed up next to the actor's face... saw some derisive commentary somewhere (wish I could remember where) where the author referred to that as a full-Sabrina or half-Sabrina (after the Charlie's Angel character featured prominently doing the same thing during the opening credits).

Full Sabrina was two hands, gun pointed upward next to face, half-Sabrina was a one handed pose that Agent Mulder of the X-Files likes to use when clearing rooms (after all - why point it at the potential threat?)
 
Ever seen blanks laying in the open?
I saw U571, the WWII submarine flick near the beginning there is a scene where the sub torpedoes a merchant ship. The survivors are in a life boat and the Uboat commander orders a sailor to machine gun them. It took a lot out of the scene for me when they panned the kid with the machine gun and you could see that the belted ammo was obviously loaded with blanks.
I can only imagine what it did to the actors' hearing to be running around in such cramped quarters (even for a set) and blazing away with tommy guns. I wonder how people like Eastwood who have been making shoot-'em-up movies for decades can still hear.

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Those who use arms well cultivate the Way and keep the rules.Thus they can govern in such a way as to prevail over the corrupt- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
 
I watched "Topaz" last night, and in the scene where John Vernon, playing a Cuban officer, shoots his lover who has leaked info on Russian missiles to the French, the hammer of his 1911 is DOWN right after he fires the shot. Bugged me silly.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Chipperman: ... good guy racks slide, points at BG. When BG does not give up, GG then pulls back hammer ...[/quote]You can actual do this with a few pistols. On any of my S&W autos, I can chamber a round with the safety engaged -- causing the hammer to return to the uncocked position after the round has been chambered. After flicking off the safety, you can then manual cock the hammer.
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The wife and I watched a movie about a female USMC Captain who shot her ex lover a Major. The military prosecutor changed the charges to 1st degree murder because the Captain checked out "a box of 230 grain full metal jacketed cartridges." The Major was shot with a Beretta 9mm! The Major had 35 years in the service and was due to retire. Get real! He would have been RIF Bait long before. Regards, Richard.
 
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