Movie Guns

A lot of today's movie/TV gun action is strictly fake. "Guns" are deactivated or complete dummies "firing" propane gas. The sound is dubbed in later. Ever since a few stupid actors blew themselves right off the set and out of the world with blanks, Hollywood doesn't even like to use them, hence the propane guns and other gimmicks to simulate firing. Obviously, the fake guns are not the only dummies around Hollywood sets.

Jim
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Richard:
...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. [/quote]

Depends. The Marines have (or, perhaps, HAD)a lot of ex-NCOs who have been promoted to officer ranks. I knew one nearing retirement a few years back that was a Major. Ex gunnery sargeants, etc. Good marines. Good officers. Just not fast-trackers nor likely to rise much above Major.
 
One of my favorites is from Pulp Fiction, when Samuel Jackson is in the coffee shop -

"...and mr. 9mm here is the shepard, protecting my righteous @ss in the valley of darkness..."

and he's pointing a 1911 .45 at the guy.

Another one of my favorite blunders is when someone is threatening someone else by waving or pointing a gun at them - and the slide is locked back. I'd probably laugh at a guy trying to threaten me like that!



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I hate it when they refer to guns incorrectly and try to give horribly inaccurate descriptions.

This sitcom Titus on Fox, the star referred to a Glock 9 which could hold 17 rounds of .45. Hmmm, I'd like one of those!

Big Al, Are you sure about the Pulp Fiction error, Was Jule's gun a 1911 clone or maybe a BHP which is in fact 9mm. Just a thought.

-bamf
 
My 13 year old son noticed something in "Saving Private Ryan". In one of the scenes, the .30 calibre linked ammo for the machine guns did not have any primers in it. He noticed it right away and I didn't. It couldn't be that my eyes are getting old, could it? ;)

David

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bamf:
Big Al, Are you sure about the Pulp Fiction error, Was Jule's gun a 1911 clone or maybe a BHP which is in fact 9mm.

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It was a 1911 clone, but a cheap looking one. Could have been a Llama or a Star, both of which were produced in 9mm. Rather than give the movie makers the benifit of the doubt, I'll just agree that they messed up. :D
 
Well, not only do I try to identify the guns, find the errors, etc., I also ask myself, 'Should this particular character be using this particular gun for this particular situation?'

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Three of my favorite Minigun FUBARs:

1) Matrix; from a hovering helo, with a free gun (i.e. no T&E or aiming device), Neo manages to put down parallel :confused: lines of fire on either side of Morphious, without hitting him no less, while strafing the length and breadth of the room.

2) Terminator 2; uses an unpowered Minigun to hose down the LAPD with more than 5000 rounds from an ammo pack that holds about 1000 rounds.

3) Predator; I think it is the same unpowered Minigun used in T2 and after a two minute fusillade (from a weapon that fires 4-6000 rounds a minute), Sarge tells Dutch that he capped off 200 rounds from the Minigun.

I think it is hysterical.

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[This message has been edited by blades67 (edited August 07, 2000).]
 
Repeated clicking noises as if a hammer is falling on a empty chamber multiple times in a single action semi-auto (Another 48 Hours...gun was a Desert Eagle).

Harley Davidson,and the Marlboro Man: Don Johnson complaining to Mickey Rourke about how much it costs per round ($2) every time Mickey touches off a round in his 454 Casull. Yet Don Johnson is just tossing away his Desert Eagle 44 Magnum magazines without thought. Current prices for D.E. magazines are $45. In "91" when the movie was made the magazines were probably not a whole lot cheaper.
 
I hate to post twice but this one is worth it! Today's Detroit Free Press had an article about the use of handguns during crimes. They cited one handgun as being...are you ready?....A semiautomatic machine pistol! I thought the board would like that one. Regards, Richard.
 
I hate to post twice but this one is worth it! Today's Detroit Free Press had an article about the use of handguns during crimes. They cited one handgun as being...are you ready?....A semiautomatic machine pistol! I thought the board would like that one. Regards, Richard.
 
Mr. Blonde, Yeah, and that's why I also find all the lawyer shows like "The Practice" to be phenomenally stupid and fake - they are. The only show that for many years was very very good was Law & Order, but over the last 2 years it's gotten much more unrealistic regarding the legal maneuvering, presumably to please the ever-more-dumbed-down public. On guns, I don't know enough to identify every gun, so I wouldn't be as annoying to others as some of you guys. :)
 
Back to "Pulp Fiction" for a minute. Jules pistol was a either a Llama or a Star in 9MM. If you watch carefully, you can see the extractor alongside the slide. Also, the Colt 1911 was made in 9mm as well. It was made in the original style 1911, and in the series 70 as well. Most 1911's used in movies are in 9mm, as they have never been able to make a 1911 in .45 ACP work with blanks.
Paul B.
 
I always hate when the good guy is running along an open space and the BG's are using UZI's and AK's on full auto but they can't seem to hit him.

Also, what's with holding the handgun 'sideways'?

Another thing is when someone is being shot at and they run with their hangun alongside their head like it's a 'shield' or something.

In The Matrix at the beggining of the movie the dark-haired girl jumps thru a window and rolls down a flight of stairs to come into a crouching position with thwo handguns drawn and ready? I was instantly in LOVE!!!! :) :)

Were those Makarovs by chance?

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I was an extra in the (Annette Benning Robert Downey Jr flop) movie "In Dreams"....

I was one of the cops that was to be in the "background".... at any rate, my gun was a rubber Glock 17 that looked like it had been used in a fire scene - it was charred and warped.... the barrel/slide pointed off to the right - I begged them to give me a better gun to no avail.

at any rate - the swat guys had either HK MP5 replicas (the $500 airsoft guns) with working surefire lights, or they had old beat up Bushmaster AR 15's with collapsible stocks (and the bolt carriers removed so no one could possibly fire the thing if they smuggled some ammo onto the set).

The SWAT team's kevlar vest was black cloth over a piece of plywood.... on the inside they had stenciled - "NOT BULLET RESISTANT".

lots of fun, got paid $5.00 and hour (it was a long 10 hour day). Really dissapointed after I struggled to sit through two hours of the movie to find that we (the cops) were cut out of the movie.

Seems like the guys running the weapons detail on the movie sets are pretty cool guys considering the anti gun climate in hollywood. Dealing with the directors & actors must really be a PITA.
 
blades67, it was the sam minigun in all three movies, Matrix, T2, Predator,
Also someone said something about 9mm 1911's in Pulp Fiction, Colt made(makes?) them. Some cheap imports are in 9mm...
Rusty, cool story, I watched them film the movie "Drowning Mona" right down the street from me, it was cool, got some free food, talked to cool people, met the actors, had a fun time, the movie was sort of a dissapointment is wasnt that good. But it was still a cool experience to see how movies are made.
 
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In The Matrix at the beggining of the movie the dark-haired girl jumps thru a window and rolls down a flight of stairs to come into a crouching position with thwo handguns drawn and ready? I was instantly in LOVE!!!! :) :)

Were those Makarovs by chance?
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Santana
I want to know where whe was hiding those guns. :D :D
luv dat movie!!!

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