Worst gun film of the decade

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I nominate Reservoir Dogs.

1. An unarmed civilian is pulled out of her hijacked car passenger window at gunpoint and survives (because she refuses to resist).

2. Another hijack victim is armed and shoots her agressor and is killed by an undercover cop, whom she mortaly wounds!

3. The torture scene of the cop is obscene. This bias is doubled by the little cliche "doughnut joke" on the duty guys who back up the under cover cop which also turned my stomach. Irony used to have theatrical or literary weight. Now it is dose of prozack for mom and the latest "safe" drug for ADS for little Johnny.

4. When the poor undercover cop gets the call from the boss, he picks the phone off of the cover of Guns and Ammo! I kid you not! Guess he got what he deserved while gut shot , by not taking out what appears to be a Tomcat in his boot and a .38 revolver in his pocket to save himself. Yet when he kills the sadist, it is with a large frame semi-auto pistol handed to him by Harvey.. The same generic stainless model everyone else in the cast carried!

5. If Quentin T. is not an avowed anti, he is at best a cinematic hack at film noir and Harvey Keitel, whom I like to watch as an actor, and as co-producer, has lost my respect in his craft.
 
Never seen R-Dogs because I dislike the kind of brutality I heard was in the movie. However, no matter what Tarantino's politics, Pulp Fiction was a great film.
For the worst gun movie of the decade...well if you mean by politics, it could be one of dozens! One that stick in my mind is Captain Ron...a family on a cruise in the Carribean is attacked by pirates and when they manage to overpower one, the father throws his gun away, despite the protestations of the title character because "No guns!"
Another might be The Lost World, with its greenie-weenie "hero" disabling the hunter's rifle and thereby causing the deaths of dozens of people.
If you just want poor gun handling as the criteria, there are almost too many to list.
 
How about "The Trigger Effect", with Kyle McLachlan, Elizebeth Shue, and Dermot Mulroney? Power goes out in LA area (not identified in the movie, but the appearance of the place is S. California). After a day of it, MacLachlan's character and his brother go to a gun store for some protection, over the protests of his wife ("not with a baby in the house!" aka it's for the children). Clerk at the store says no sales on handguns b/c of 14-15 day waiting period (that must be CA), but long gun sales are OK (that is not legal in CA, waiting period applied for long arms at this time of 1995/6). Clerk takes $600.00 watch for "$300.00" Winchester 1300 and a box of light shot. After Mulroney's character protests that the clerk said there was no shotgun ammo left and that the gun was previously tagged for $95.00 (in what world for a new Winchester!), the ammo disappears (and is replaced when Mulroney apologizes). When leaving the store McLachlan's character is overcome with excitement over having the shotgun, and starts pointing it at his brother like he's Mr. Cool.
Later in the film, when a burglar comes into the home (no phones either--no 911), the viewer discovers that Elizebeth Shue's character threw the gun (and ammo) into the pool. The two brothers then go down to intervene (why?) with knife and bat. They confront the burglar on the front lawn, and burglar gets shot by a neighbor who thought that the alarm clock in hand was a weapon. The neighbor plants a gun on the dead perps body, and when questioned about it being traced back to him, answers 'no' because he won it in a poker game (yeah, like those serial numbers don't mean anything?). There are a few other stupid things in the movie, but it just says that people can't be trusted with guns, because they can't handle such situations of emergency and crisis.
 
Wow, Mod, that is indeed excrement.

And I disagreed about Reservoir Dogs. I liked it, although the torture scene really was pretty bad--gave me that kicked-in-the-gut feeling.

What I really didn't get is why the undercover cop didn't shoot the sadist to save the uniformed cop BEFORE he cut off the poor guy's ear and poured gas on him???
 
Yeah, I saw The trigger Effect.

If my wife would have thrown a firearm into the pool, she'd be going in right after it!

Of course, MY WIFE shoots better than me, and has nicer guns... :(
 
The Dirty Harry film that portrays a hit from a .44 Mag (or .44 Spl according to afficionados of these movies) as being able to lift a 200lb man off his feet and throw him through a plate glass window.

Any old cowboy movie.

Any movie that shows a slide rack on a semi auto pistol.

Lethal Weapon - impossible handgun accuracy drawing a face with 9mm's on a paper target at 30 plus yards, or a hit in the chest with a .308 that produces a neat trickle of red stuff instead of the well documented exploding tomato of real life.

Any movie that shows a 30 round clip as having 14 second continuous burst capability.

Oh Lord I could go on forever,

Mike H
 
Lethal Weapon 4.

I confess, I finally watched it. The "good guys" routinely point guns at people for fun, break numerous laws in their quest to enforce them (ha!), Riggs throws a licensed CC handgun in the ocean because "You don't need a gun", etc...Were I a police officer, I would bring him back to the station in cuffs, with signed affidavits from several wronged parties.
 
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. Liked the movie in a goofy sort of way, but the gun stuff was bullcrap. Especially liked it when Don Johnson gets shot in the shoulder with a 454 Casull and says "Damn, that really hurt" then walks away alter massaging the shoulder. Yea right.

Point of no Return with Bridget Fonda with her Hammerli 22 target pistol as if it were some high power sniper pistol.

Movie that made me really cringe was The Fourth War with Roy Scheider and Jurgen Prochnow. Prochnow is a East German comander who just happens to have a Beretta 92F as a sidearm and all the russian soldiers have lasers mounted on their AK's and so dot he American troops on their M-16's. Stupid movie. Thank God Frankenheimer has come back up since then, especially with Ronin.
 
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Muahahahahaaa !!!! You forgot the part about the uber yuppies with bulletproof leather jackets who could only be shot in the face. Don and Mickey's choices to get the job done ? A Desert Eagle and a Ruger Vaqeuro (converted to 454 of course!). Just perfect..
 
Most of the other replies have anti-gun
themes as well as BAD physics. Oddly, one
which was carefully researched on historical
guns, but was HYSTERICAL was " The quick and
the dead with Sharon Stone. You will not only
see ridiculous impact effects, but one
bullet make a horizontal hole through which
a 45-degree angle sunbeam travels before
resuming angled travel! It's worth renting
the movie just to laugh at. crankshaft
 
i really like Resevoir Dogs.

i just think its an entertaining movie, i don't think about it as just a movie with guns and it should be more real. the characters in the movie are supposed to be pretty f***ed up and thats what that torture is about. i forgot his name but "Mr. Blonde" was made out to be a pretty deranged kind of guy and he got what was comming to him.

i don't know what you're talking about with the guns the under cover cop had. the berettta and .38 were his guns. thats what he carried. if you didn't notice he was wearing different clothes and everything the day of the robbery. its wasn't supposed to be the same day and i guess "Joe" gave them all the S&Ws. the undercover cop had that smith on him when he got shot also.

hey at least he didn't die right away like most people do in movies. come on in some movies the guys die in just a few seconds after getting shot in non vital areas like their arms.
 
I really liked Reservoir Dogs, but not for reasons that had anything at all to do with the gun aspects of it. Simply put, the dialogue in that movie is superb! The entire first scene of the movie in the coffee shop sparkles. This movie MADE Tarrantino (who is, so far as I understand, not an anti.).

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How about a movie called Copy Cat, wherein the heroine smugly tells her partner about how to save karma by shooting the brachial nerve/artery in a perpetrator's gun arm to avoid killing him, only to do it later in the movie and have the BG switch gun hands and shoot her partner?

How about Breakdown, in which every single thing you could possibly do wrong with a gun IS done wrong? (Travel in the desert unarmed, not shoot a man who holds your wife captive when you have a chance, talk down a kid who's holding a lever-action .30-30 on you when you're pointing a pistol at his chest and have every reason to believe he'll shoot, fail to use that same .30-30 against a semi-tractor trailer that is ramming your pickup from the rear as you drive at 80mph down the highway with your spouse in the driver's seat...)

There are just soooooo many....
 
I suppose part of my initial gall towards RD might be explained by the fact that I've intentially missed so many films and my expectations started going up again.

I also was intrigued by the first scene, but for myself, the movie which had potential, deteriorated into a series of cheap shots - pun intended.

My recollection of details may have gotten somewhat confused by the aparent vogue of flashback timelines also.

Maybe I'm getting old. Black humor has never bothered me and I don't mind a "kick in the gut" if it causes me to think. I have less tolerance for style over substance these days.
 
Well, I don't know if it was the worst, but this old blaxploitation film I'm Gonna Git You Sucka was a funny movie. This one guy (forget his name) straps 4 guns in his waistband, two ak's on his back, sticks a couple in his pockets, straps on a hand grenade for good measure, holsters one on each ancle, several bandoliers of ammunition, an M16 in one hand and a Brand X shotgun in the other, steps outside and slips on a round!
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You can hear all the guns go off by AD, remarkably he stands up and says "Damn, time to reload."
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Kaps,

That movie sounds like that it had one of the Wayans, or Mario Van Peebles, as the star of that shocker.
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I'm going down to the video shop (right now) to BUY my own copy - not just RENT one. Just kidding !
 
I'll second lethal weapon 4. Only watched for Jet Li. Why couldn't he have just beat both of them to death at the end, would have been a better movie.

For the most unrealistic, I want those 1911's that Bruce Willis had in Last Man Standing, rounds pick a guy up, throw him through a glass door, and twenty feet out in street, where he flips, lands on his head, and rolls away in the dust.

For good gun safety, I'll admit I liked when the guy accidently shot the other guy in the back seat in Pulp Fiction. And Out of Sight, where another bad guy trips on the stairs and shoots himself in the head. Not good gun safety, but drives home the point about having your finger on the trigger.
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Note: Out of Sight and Pulp Fiction were BOTH Taratino flicks. (Out of Sight, BTW, was almost word-for-word from the Elmore Leonard novel by the same name, as was Jackie Brown after the Elmore Leonard novel Rum Punch)

Tarantino has a great sense of humor about firearm safety. That whole scene in the car in Pulp Fiction made me nervous, seeing John Travolta's finger in the trigger guard of his .45, pointed at the camera. Then BOOM, reality of the danger is shown! Amazing. How often do we actually have illustrated what can happen when you run around with your finger on the trigger of your pistol when you're not yet ready to shoot? NEVER! Then there's the business with hit man (John Travolta again) lying in ambush in Butch's (Bruce Willis's) apartment, needing to take a dump, and leaving his subgun on the kitchen counter. Oops...! What's the lesson, gang? Only a fool leaves himself unarmed....
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That message is repeated again and again in Out of Sight, especially in the trunk scene.

FWIW...
 
Anything directed by Andy Sidaris. These movies are the ultimate in non realistic brain dead never do well gun handling I have had the sad misfortune of watching. They run on Cinemax and Showtime, usually late at night, and I can guess the only reason they are around is to showcase buxom females playing agent for whatever made up alphabet agency. I have watched about a total of 30 minutes of these movies over the years, and I can say if you want to find yourself completely at a loss for why this would pass as entertainment, check one out.
Oh, they use Ruger .22s as if they were .44 magnums, and pistol crossbows with "explosive" bolts. These movies must be where the antis get all their information.
 
Regarding "Reservoir Dogs": I liked the dialog but not the plot. How, for instance, did the bad guys manage to kidnap a cop while escaping from their botched robbery?

Also, what's the significance of the title? There weren't any reservoirs or dogs in the movie.
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Like in Dr. Dolittle, where the Guinea Pig (Chris Rock's voice) is saying "Why do they call me a Guinea Pig anyway? I'm not Italian, and I'm not pork."

Hysterical.
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