Most ridiculous movie firearms scenes

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Bones741 said:
To improper springs can cause the hammer not to lock back for the next round. Or improper sear/ hammer engagement The hammer fallows the slide back to resting position . Requiring it to be cocked manually again.
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Oh, okay. I'm sure that's what it was in "Stand By Me." Hollywood wouldn't make a mistake.;)
 
Just thought of another one that made me furious.

In the 1st "Transformers" when they state that "sabot" rounds burn through armor at 10,000 degrees.....

Seriously, if there was anyone involved with making that thing who even knew what a sabot was, they bloody well should have known that they don't burn through armor- HEAT rounds do that. All they had to do was change ONE word and it would have been, well, more accurate anyway......:(:barf:;)
 
JONWILL said:
Any of the John Wick movies. Non stop killing. Guy can’t miss and can’t seem to get hit.

Two of my favorite gun scenes though are the one with Charles Bronson in “Once Upon a Time in the West”. Guy says. Didn’t bring enough horses, Charles Bronson’s character says “ No, you brought 2 to many”


The other is the ending shootout in “Open Range”
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When I saw this thread the first thing I thought of was Charles Vs Jack Then Charles Vs Henry, the best western ever
made.
Open range is right up there as well.
Todays movies just suck as far as real semi auto handguns, the slide stops back &
they keep shooting, rolling & shooting accurately & the bad guys can't hit anything.
But the thing that bothers me more than anything is ---No Recoil---I want one
of Matt Dillons 45 LC that a 5 year old can shoot without recoil. Then watch the Dirty Harry movie,
he used real 44 special loads & the difference is = Wow!
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
Just thought of another one that made me furious.

In the 1st "Transformers" when they state that "sabot" rounds burn through armor at 10,000 degrees.....

Seriously, if there was anyone involved with making that thing who even knew what a sabot was, they bloody well should have known that they don't burn through armor- HEAT rounds do that. All they had to do was change ONE word and it would have been, well, more accurate anyway......:(:barf:;)
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Oh yeah, and the rest of the movie is certainly realistic, not.
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
Just thought of another one that made me furious.

In the 1st "Transformers" when they state that "sabot" rounds burn through armor at 10,000 degrees.....

Seriously, if there was anyone involved with making that thing who even knew what a sabot was, they bloody well should have known that they don't burn through armor- HEAT rounds do that. All they had to do was change ONE word and it would have been, well, more accurate anyway......:(:barf:;)
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You mean the abomination of a movie about transforming robots from outer space?

Because those films were NOT the Transformers of my youth.
 
OK, I just watched Sharknado The last one: It's about time. No one in that movie can even hold a gun. They have maybe 4 guns in the whole movie and keep using them over and over.

I live in a state where we have fire tornados. Tornados made of fire. So Sharknados are not all that absurd. But really bad gun handling is.
 
There's one scene in the original Red Dawn where the brothers are on their way back to the mountains and they stop off with some townspeople.

I don't think they ever said who the people were but the man was played by Ben Johnson and as soon as brothers walked into the house he took their rifles cleared them then opened the actions and leaned them against the wall which of course is the proper thing to do.

And I'm not sure if it was part of the movie or just Ben Johnson being Ben Johnson and doing what you would naturally do in that situation.
 
Slamfire said:
I still remember the TV series Lady Blue. The primary character was a smoking hot red head Cop chick with an attitude and a 357 Magnum. I guess the writers wanted her to be Dirty Harry in a skirt. Anyway, the only scene I remember is Lady Blue taking her 357 Magnum and shooting one shot into a van of bad guys, and the van blowing up. I never had any idea of the explosive power of a 357 Magnum, one round completely disintegrated a full sized van. :what:

I would like to buy some of those rounds, if anyone knows a source :uhoh:
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Did Winchester make a Black Talon in .357?
 
Tombstone shoot out at OK Corral with the three round double barrel shotgun doc had. In same gun fight there was a lot of rounds fired from six shooters, especially doc.
 
Thought of another one that has bugged me, being a bit of a Mosin 91/30 buff. In "Enemy at the Gates", in the first sniper scene (when Zaitsev first "proves" himself while hiding among the dead), he begins by taking a rifle offered to him by Danilov, a "political officer" who does not know how to operate the bolt-action weapon. Danilov has already tried to fire the gun, which is apparently empty, having been taken from a dead soldier. The knob clearly drops when he does this. When Zaitsev takes the gun, he opens the bolt to check and load it, and an empty case is ejected. If there was indeed an empty case in the chamber, the gun should not have been cocked already when Danilov picked it up, as cycling the bolt would have ejected it.

Perhaps it was a live, but failed round? I don't know, but it didn't look like one..

Incidentally, the DVD/poster image for the movie shows the rifle in "left-hand" configuration, apparently a reversed image. Another THR user here pointed that out to me (I think it was GunnyUSMC.)
 
The Last Hunt, I'm watching now one of the hunters finds he has shot so much the rifle is hot. He pours water from his canteen down the barrel to cool and then shots it, without pouring the water from the barrel.
 
Anybody mention, SG-1 where they shoot down flying saucers with P90s?

Is this realistic, there was a movie with Robert Loggia. He was being bitten by a beautiful vampire who seduced him. He shot her off him with a J frame he had in an ankle holster that he reached as he was on the couch with her. We all know a J frame wouldn't affect a vampire.
 
P5 Guy said:
The Last Hunt, I'm watching now one of the hunters finds he has shot so much the rifle is hot. He pours water from his canteen down the barrel to cool and then shots it, without pouring the water from the barrel.
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It was so hot all the water evaporated?
 
The first Star Wars movie came out in 1977. I went to see it with friends. I was 23 yrs old. I've always liked horror and Sci-Fi movies and TV shows and I liked them then. But I couldn't get into Star Wars. The guns had a lot to do with it. The blasters looked like they were made out of painted plastic pop bottles and were completely impractical. Hans Solo's piece had a scope on it that was never used and was based on the Mauser with it's impractical grip. No one in the flick knew how to shoot or hold a "blaster" of any kind. I shouted out loud in the theater "Just shoot that blankety, blank with the flashlight sword". But none of the dudes in the plastic armor would.
 
The blasters in SW were Sterling SMGs tarted up with scopes and such, as well as a couple of MG-42s on the Imperial side, and they rounded out the Rebel's stash with Beeman and Hamerlei airpistol.
BTW, Han shot first...
 
RedlegRick said:
The blasters in SW were Sterling SMGs tarted up with scopes and such, as well as a couple of MG-42s on the Imperial side, and they rounded out the Rebel's stash with Beeman and Hamerlei airpistol.
BTW, Han shot first...
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Oh yeah he shot first...I recall that distinctly and it was one of the few things I liked about the movie. They, Lucas, edited that out in later versions to make the movie more palatable to their version of the parents of 10 year olds. Tells ya all you need to know about Lucas.
 
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RedlegRick said:
The blasters in SW were Sterling SMGs tarted up with scopes and such, as well as a couple of MG-42s on the Imperial side, and they rounded out the Rebel's stash with Beeman and Hamerlei airpistol.
BTW, Han shot first...
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In the second movie, the rebels had Lewis guns. (On Hoth, during the Empire's attack there are some in the snow trenches.
 
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