Times that Hollywood just didn't get it right...

Rembrandt

Saw this posted on another site, thought it was pretty interesting. How many errors have you seen in the movies concerning firearms?....you know, cowboys using guns that were not period correct, or six shooters that shot 15 rounds....Rambo with a partial belt of ammo, shoots for 10 minutes and still has ammo left...

Any others you've seen?

Lowrider

How many times has the camera been looking close up at the business end of a revolver and you can plainly see there are no cartridges in the gun?

The other one I love is the Cadillac, or whatever, blasting down the road, and when it runs off a cliff and blows up on the way down, the burning car is now a Rambler, or some other piece of junk.

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Edited by - Lowrider on 08/17/2002 20:59:46

interstatepawnllc

Hey Lowrider,......Rambler a piece of junk? Hell that was AMC's budget battlewagon. My dad own one, for 30 years. I dont think he ever changed the oil, plugs or anything else. IT WOULD NOT DIE!!

EVILDR235

How about in Goldfinger when the bad guys Lincoln is picked up a crane to drop it in a press.A camera shot of the bottom of the car shows that it has no motor or tranny in it.Or in American Graffiti when the 55 Chevy flips upside down revealing a TH400 automatic that had not been invented yet.How about the TV show Wanted Dead or Alive.Always shows Josh Randall(Steve McQueen) holding a Winchester 92 model that shoots pistol ammo,but has what appears to be 45/70 ammo on his belt.
Dr.Evil

Harleeman1030

I just love it when the gun changes hands in between takes

goes from left to right in a flash lol

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offeror

How about crooks who hold guns on people, and only when things get even more serious does he rack the slide, revealing that up until then the chamber has been empty. Then, for good measure, when somebody tries something cute, he racks it again to show he's REALLY serious -- still no round is ejected, of course....

Or the other thing is, to show he's serious, he cocks the hammer back on a semi-auto, probably one with no decocker....

And they're always talking about the "safety" on a revolver.


- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

Edited by - offeror on 08/18/2002 00:56:47

Big Sky Redneck

I just love the recoiless guns that blow whoever clean off their feet when it with it and I love the cowboy movies that show the shooters throwing the gun in front of them to fire a shot, like they are flicking the bullets out instead of firing them.

marinebadger

Oh man, don't get me started...I sometimes wonder why I chose to
make acting my career...
Don't forget sound effects...idiots out here don't understand that
modern revolvers do not click like single actions when you spin the
cylander...also, I have seen movies where an AK and an M16 sound the
same! Morons, I say! I have seen an actor standing with their Beretta
with the slide locked back signaling the end of their ammo...only to see them point and hear another shot! In "Double Jeapardy" Ashley
Judd opens the cylander on her snubby .38 and we see all the primers
have been fired...watch the Matrix for the amazing recoilless Desert
Eagle...
And Offeror...I kid you not...what you describe with the slide and
realizing it is an empty gun...I saw a news story in OKC where a man
robbed a convenience store even though he racked the slide 3 times
and ejected nothing. The clerk had no idea. If I saw that, I would
own that gun and the robber would be dead or severely beaten. That
is a real life illustration of why everyone should at least be
educated about firearms even if they don't own one.

Wow....now I know why some of my friends won't see movies with me if
there are guns involved.


"a Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean amother"

Iconoclast

The one which always brings me the biggest chuckle is Rambo II when Stallone is shooting up the control room w/ the "recoiless" M60 and it cuts to a shot of the brass falling at his feet . . . all of it fired blanks! Another pure fantasy - Arnold firing unknown thousands of rounds from the hip with a mini-Gatling in Terminator II. I'm still trying to figure out how he does this with the 300 or so rounds he's carrying - must be a modern day cowboy, huh?

What stands out in my memory are the films where some care was taken with such details: Red Dawn, The Wind and the Lion and Unforgiven .

Rembrandt

RoboCop is on the police firing line with his modified Berreta and must have fired over a 100 rounds.....where did they store all that ammo?

Westerns where the guns don't produce smoke....someone must have forgot smokeless powders weren't around at that time.

Movie "Blackhawk Down" where you could actually see an M60 belt full of blanks....

Revolvers with silencers?.....Oh well....

Lightning

I like it when the "good guy" is in a room full of "bad guys" with full auto machine guns and nobody can hit him. Yet he takes his Jennings 22 or whatever and never misses.

.280 freak

The original "Lethal Weapon", Mel Gibson on the firing range with Danny Glover. Mel visibly flinching badly, pulls the target in, two perfect clusters, center of head, center of chest.

Yeah, sure, okay.

pickenup

Back to the sound thing. When you HEAR a full auto, and SEE a semi. My wife calls me a nit picker. I'm always spotting stuff wrong with gun stuff. Or when they squeel tires on dirt roads.

If I knew then, what I know now.

EVILDR235

Once saw a prison camp movie with a German Officer is holding a P08 Luger.Camera looks away for a second.When it comes back to the Officer,he is now holding a Walther P38.The movie was not the Great Escape.or Stahlieg 17.
Dr.Evil

Nighthawk

I love to watch the six shooters fire 10 or 12 times then they empty the caseings and reload as fast as I could on my best day with a speed loader.

Rugster


Toujours Pret

joeaf1911a1

Funniest one I saw was on episode 10 of "HBO Band of Brothers" when
they piled up several frag grenades and shot them with a Bazooka
to blow up a road block. But then, its only hollywood and not
facual.

gars320

My favorite is "THE COMANCHEROS" with John Wayne & Stuart Whitman, where it starts out with the sign "Louisianna 1837" before the duel that puts Stuart Whitman's character on the run, so you know exactly what time frame the story takes place in. Then John Wayne clinches it by saying how "Texas has become mighty abliging now that some people are talking about joining the states" and in the next scenes John Wayne and everybody else are using Winchester Repeaters and Colt SAA's. This was all happening while Texas was still a republic, according to Wayne's love interest. Somehow I just don't believe these weapons were around in 1837 before Texas even became a state.


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idsman75

I saw a movie once where an actor made a "cocking" motion complete with "cocking" sound effects while he was holding a Glock. I just about fell out of my seat. The shotgun props in "Exit Wounds" are lousy. You can see flames inside of the barrels for a few seconds AFTER a shot is fired. The list goes on and on.

William81

Have you notice that most people that get shot in movies fly between three and ten feet when they are hit, I never knew the 9mm had so much knock down power .

The other common silly thing in most is the extreme muzzle flash, especially from full-autos.

Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....

Edited by - william81 on 08/18/2002 19:33:22