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Skiprr wrote:

LarryH wrote:

thankGod wrote:Earlier, I mentioned the movie Shoot 'Em Up, with Clive Owen, as a supreme recent example of getting almost everything wrong. Anybody else see this bizarre flick (definitely rated "R")?

Bizarre is right. The whole movie was a spoof on shoot-em-up movies. There was so much "spoof" in the movie I couldn't figure out what, if any, agenda the writers/director might have had. They throw out some gun-control rhetoric but it's hard to take seriously when one of the main characters is a liberal politician trying to take down the "gun nuts" while he's cloning babies to use as spare parts for himself.

anygunanywhere wrote:2. Racking slides and cocking hammers. You know that when they do that they mean bidness.

Amusing experience several years ago while sitting on a jury for a guy who committed numerous armed robberies. In one of them, he held a group of adults (I believe it was 5+) at gunpoint in an apartment for about 20 minutes while he collected wallets and cell phones. The victims had a difficult time retelling the story and my 11 fellow jurors were shocked to hear that he terrorized them by constantly racking the slide on the "shotgun" to emphasize his demands. I felt like I just told the other jurors that Santa Clause wasn't real after explaining the "shotgun" was empty and was actually a kids pump action .22.

To stay on topic, The Way of the Gun (circa 2000) is one of the few movies that gets much of the gun handling correct. Was watching "Primal Force" (ca 1999) the other night on TV and one of the characters was shooting a pistol with two fingers (both hands) on the trigger.