For fun; Favorite hollywierd gun gaffs

[G.C.Montgomery]

If no one has already mentioned them...

Seeing a gun change from one shot to the next...
(ex, CSI episode in which murder weapon throughout the case was a Beretta M9 but quartering shot of weapon cycling in slow more is a Sig)

Shots that include cocking/decocking sound effects for Glocks!!!!!!!

[txinvestigator]

I love it when CSI types loook at a fired bullet and exclaim what type of gun it was fired from without any testing, measuring, etc.

Machine guns that go "click-click-click-click" when fired dry.

[anygunanywhere]

I really start to chuckle (and it drives Mrs. Anygun up the wall) when I see this stuff. One of my favorites is when the screen shows the target through the scope. There was a time when movies and TV didn't show the crosshairs. We must have been kindler and gentler.

The sniper movies that show the target out hundreds of yards but when the scope view is shown the face fills up the whole field of view.

Anygun

[solaritx]

along those lines, has anyone seen ANY sniper movie where the good guy doesn't shoot at least one bad guy THROUGH the scope that the bad guy is looking through?

One famous true time this happened and now no sniper is a sniper until he has done it also.

[Xander]

along those lines, has anyone seen ANY sniper movie where the good guy doesn't shoot at least one bad guy THROUGH the scope that the bad guy is looking through?

The Shooter.

[troglodyte]

Opening scene of Desparado (Antonio Banderas). To numerous to list but a blast to watch. Those bottles must have been made of kevlar.

Later in the film, rocket launching and machine gun guitar cases. I felt this was over the top...even for this movie.

[kwf2006]

You guys really want one to critique?

Watch the new Nic Cage movie "NEXT"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435705/

It was actually a pretty good flick.

The physics of it all was quite amusing.

My fav scene was when he advanced on a shooter at very close range with an

automatic, at a walking pace, while not getting shot even once.

[Skipper5]

TXI, I thought for sure I'd see a "porcelain Glock 7" somewhere in your list.

To add to your number 2,

People who get shot and fly back or get knocked off of their feet.

it personally delights me to see people flying backwards through plate glass windows.

I also enjoy the "aimed shot at the gas tank" trick that can turn any car or truck into a fifty-foot fireball.

A tiny, insignificant inaccuracy that particularly pleased me was in "The Sentinel" during the crime scene investigation after a Secret Service agent had been killed, when they were examining his gun and another agent declared that he must have been ambushed because "the safety was still on" and then proceeded to enlighten the local PD detective by informing him that "Secret Service agents are taught to draw and disengage the safety in a single motion." Since USSS agents carry Sig P229s that don't have a manual safety, that must be an interesting day in the firearms training course.

The accuracy that some actors can achieve with fully automatic pistols can also be quite impressive, as can the inaccuracy of any of their opponents with *any* firearm at any range.

As a Sig 229'er myself...caught that same gaff....I just looked over at my son (CHLer HK...) he knew mine does have a manual safety!
Ha....of well....the movies indeed.

[Snake Doctor]

Ya'll will have to forgive me if this is a repost, I just didn't want to read every one of those posts. If not, however, then I would add that nothing amuses me more in movies and TV when people rack the slides on their guns, thus loading them. It never ceases to amaze me that these people A) are carrying around all these guns yet keep none of them cocked and B) never feel the need to chamber a round until right around the corner from danger.

Oh, and then there's this... (Clean link)

[Wildscar]

2. In SWAT the movements and gun handling were mostly spot one.

There was one scene where they are at the shooting range. The scene where Street and T J McCabe are going up against each other. The 1911 that TJ has goes to slide lock right at the end of the match and he still pulling the trigger a couple more times and jerking the 45 like it’s still firing. Other than that I didn’t see anything else stand out. I will give them credit though. It was high in the shot so I didn’t catch it until like the 50th time I watched it.

[Rugrash]

The other night on the Sarah Conner Chronicles: the bad guy was shooting at her and she used an overturned recliner for cover. You could see the bullets hit the chair, but none went through it.

The chair was lined with Kevlar as one of the agents on the scene told the FBI dood that's chasing them.

-Rug

[Rugrash]

The thing that bugs me is all the creative grips that people use when holding weapons and fingers on the trigger when they shouldn't be. I especially love the dual index fingers on the trigger at the same time grip...a true Hollywood classic!!

-Rug

[gregthehand]

How about in SWAT when Collin shot a blasting cap on a claymore with a 1911 from what looked about like 50-75 ft in the dark? Most of the 80's cop movies were just FULL of stupid gun scenes. A few I can think of are Tango and Cash, most of the Lethal Weapon movies (COP KILLER BULLETS!!!!!!! ), and a few others.

[KC5AV]

The new trailer is out for Indiana Jones movie. Yahoo movies has a slide show of some stills from the movie. Pay close attention to slides 2 and 5.

[hi-power]

My personal favorite is in the movie Unlawful Entry with Kurt Russell, Madeline Stowe and Ray Liotta.

At the end when Kurt Russell empties a 9-mm semi-auto into the bad guy and drops the pistol, his next move is to bend over and pick up the purring cat off the floor and carry it outside to wait on the police.

My cat would either be stone dead from a heart attack or I would find a cat-shaped hole in an exterior wall after all that shooting!