What are your movie pet peeves re: guns?

[Chemist45]

Texdotcom wrote

tboesche wrote:

Dave2 wrote:

Scott in Houston wrote:Occasionally, I've seen movies where they show the bullet in flight... WITH THE FREAKING BRASS STILL ON IT.


Never noticed that one. Do you happen to remember which movie/show it was?



The opening credits for CHUCK does that

Just out of curiosity, in the opening sequence of Chuck, doesn't the little man riding the bullet bother you more than the brass case still on the projectile?

[The Mad Moderate]

A common one - any pistol going "Click, click, click" when it's empty - and it's a 1911 or Glock or something which isn't double-action.

Saw that last night halfway through Walking Tall; the cop's girlfriend empties a Glock and it then goes "Click, click, click" as she keeps pulling the trigger. I don't think the slide was even locked back, as an extra faux pas.

2. Cops and military characters with fingers in the trigger guards. This one tells me the actor has had no training, hasn't bothered to have been told, and isn't a firearms shooter.

How else are you gonna pull a trigger

Clarify the issue, please?

Rule #4 Keep your bogger hook off the bang switch until you are on target and ready to fire.

[ixmerlinxi]

no iphone here huawei ascend and yes the darn buttons are too small

[rdcrags]

It took 7 pages for someone to mention "no recoil". Clint Eastwood movies show it; most others do not. Makes me smile when the gun fires and doesn't move a bit.

[Skiprr]

It took 7 pages for someone to mention "no recoil". Clint Eastwood movies show it; most others do not. Makes me smile when the gun fires and doesn't move a bit.

Yet still most flinch and blink. Sigh.

[trvlgnome]

The magical vaporizing bullet. Go ahead, shoot the drink out of his hand. The bullet explodes the bottle but never hits anything behind it. Same trick if you shoot the hangmans rope, streetlamp, the back window of a car...never hits the windshield, wall, house, whatever.
Always be sure of your target AND WHAT'S BEHIND IT!!!

[Scott in Houston]

The magical vaporizing bullet. Go ahead, shoot the drink out of his hand. The bullet explodes the bottle but never hits anything behind it. Same trick if you shoot the hangmans rope, streetlamp, the back window of a car...never hits the windshield, wall, house, whatever.
Always be sure of your target AND WHAT'S BEHIND IT!!!

Maybe they are using the super-duper Acme frangible bullets?

[PappaGun]

This one goes along with the terrible accuracy of everybody in the movies. Lack of collateral damage. You can't get in a gun fight with 10 crack heads in the middle of a neighborhood and not have to worry about where the 1000s of rounds that aren't hitting anybody are going.

The new Hawaii 5-0 does that all the time.

They love to empty their weapons in to a beach full of young, beautiful bodies and hit the only old, ugly BG.

[The Annoyed Man]

the one that irks me the most is the ones where man does karate man shoots at man doing karate man doing karate NEVER get shot then grabs the slide and PULLS it right of of said gun, IF that really happened some one has a defective gun..

Let me guess..... Posted from your iPhone?

no iphone here huawei ascend and yes the darn buttons are too small

Holy smokes!

Sorry....I couldn't help myself.

[OldCannon]

One thing that was odd to me. There's a scene in The Other Guys where Mark Wahlberg points his Glock at Will Ferrel's character. I could immediately tell that the Glock barrel was a "blank adapter". I'm getting too smart to watch movies with guns in 'em now

[Skiprr]

Here’s one I forgot about: “cowboying,” as in flinging a handgun forward as you shoot to, I suppose, help the bullet along by throwing it out of the barrel. It’s most commonly seen when the actor is using two handguns and firing them in an alternating, reciprocating action, a la Antonio Banderas in the big shoot-’em-up bar scene in Desperado. Not to be confused with the idiotic plot-point of Wanted where Angelina Jolie teaches the new recruit to “spin” the bullet as it comes out of the barrel to make it curve around an object in front of the intended target.

I think “cowboying” has some basis in fact, though. Shooting an SAO revolver necessitates the cocking of the hammer between shots, and if you have a gun in each hand you have no choice but to do that with the thumb. So a natural motion develops that loosens the wrist a bit and rocks the barrel upward as the hammer is cocked between rounds.

The early movie moguls looked only at trick-shooting in Wild West shows and evidently decided that the small wrist movement should be exaggerated, should include some full-on elbow action so as to be clearly visible to the audience. The result is that we have icons like Randolph Scott, Jimmy Stewart, and even John Wayne immortalized on celluloid trying to throw the bullets out the barrels of their guns. Since we know about the single-action thing, though, that still doesn’t grate as much as seeing contemporary actors do it with a pair of Glocks...

[OldCannon]

Here’s one I forgot about: “cowboying,” as in flinging a handgun forward as you shoot to, I suppose, help the bullet along by throwing it out of the barrel. It’s most commonly seen when the actor is using two handguns and firing them in an alternating, reciprocating action, a la Antonio Banderas in the big shoot-’em-up bar scene in Desperado.

True, and it was silly, but Desperado was really meant to be a parody of a revenge themed movie. And, of course, EVERY cowboy movie made since TV started did that whole "sling the bullet" maneuver. I once read that budgets were so low in some of those old TV shows that there weren't even blanks, so the actors had to fake recoil, but since there was no smoke, they also waved the gun forward and back quickly to emphasize their shooting.