Best and worst in same movie:
In the Line of Fire, in which we see the guy create the moulds for a composite double-barreled pistol in, I'm 90% certain, .38 S&W (looked like the .380 2Z loading), but then displayed hunters as drooling idiots, AND implied during testing that the round caused destruction somewhat lighter than a 20mm explosive round!
Quigley Would've been better if they'd made some nod as to the variables one encounters beyond 400 yards with those old rainbow-tragectory rounds. (.45-90?, .45-70?) The business of taking his sight out of a pouch and putting it on and making the 1000 yard bucket shot was cool, but come ON!
Copy Cat started with a stupid assertion about how a shot to the brachial nerve in the gun hand was the way to end a gunfight, but ended with some grim satisfaction, when the heroine not only discovers otherwise, but eventually uses the Mozambique drill.
The Untouchables
A couple of dumb gun scenes, but overall... priceless. "What are you doing?" "Checking my gun." "Did you check it before?" "Yes." "Then leave it alone; all you can do to it is [mess] it up."
Then there's the remark about bringing a knife to a gunfight... And a great sequence in the train station. Rewound and watched that one several times...
There's actually some decent gun-handling in Beverly Hills Cop, what with reloads, etc. Strange sound effects, though, complete with dubbed-in racking sounds before shotgun blasts. Then you get Beverly Hills Cop II, in which "major firepower" is considered to be two pistol-grip pump shotguns at the same time. Prey tell me how one operates two pistolgrip pumpguns at once? But at least that was a comedy...
Agreed on the "cop killer" bullets in Lethal Weapon III. I have lost huge respect for Gibson, Glover, et al, for spouting off teary-eyed about the inherent evilness of guns and cartridges (*that don't exist!!!*), and then straight-up *glorifying* them in their movies, time and again!! I swear, Beretta needs to pin a MEDAL on Mel Gibson's chest, that boy has sold so many 92F's. (Sort of like GM promised a Trans Am a year to Burt Reynolds after Smoky and the Bandit. Lasted two years.)
More when I think of 'em.
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