Most ridiculous movie firearms scenes

[John Joseph]

 

[Ks5shooter]

The movie ,, Heat....Al Pacino wearing a suit jacket has about 15 30 round mags on him, shoots them all ,never gets hit by four bank robbers with 15 30 round mags each.

 

[Kaeto]

The Garage shootout in 'City Heat'. Where Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds keep pulling out handguns with longer and longer barrels. the last gun each pulls out of their waistbands is an Artillery Model Luger (Eastwood) and a Colt Buntline (Reynolds)

 

[Slamfire]

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.

I would like to buy some of those rounds, if anyone knows a source

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Uhhh...yeah. Guys shooting in concrete parking garages, or particularly in a concrete stairway in a high rise.

I can’t imagine the decibel level.

Remember the scene in "Walking Dead" where Rick fires his Python inside the tank? The noise and over pressure were so bad, it knocked him unconscious.

I hate it whenever TV or movie cops draw a Glock and the producers throw in the sound of a safety being clicked off......like every time, ugh.

 

[JR24]

That was a movie that really surprised me with how much I liked it.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

a 14 shot N-frame

I gotta get one of those.

My vote goes for Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis. He carries two 1911s and every time he hits someone they go flying backwards ten feet.

 

[jmorris]

I like the ones where an empty 55 gallon drum or two sheets of dry wall keep the guys from being shot. Lots of “don’t try this at home” things in movies.

They don’t call it BS though, I think it’s referred to as “artistic license”.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

I like the ones where an empty 55 gallon drum or two sheets of dry wall beep the guys from being shot. Lots of “don’t try this at home” things in movies.

They don’t call it BS though, I think it’s referred to as “artistic license”.

Couches.

Every living room couch in Hollywood is made of Kevlar, apparently.

 

[jmorris]

Funny how sometimes the most ridiculous can be more accurate.

 

[GAF]

Financial stability from a slot machine is more probable than Hollywood getting most gun scenes to match reality.
Suspend your disbelief and enjoy.

 

[jmr40]

Antonio Banderas had several over the top shooting scenes in the movie Desperado. They are so over the top no one would possibly think it realistic, more like comical. With twin Ruger P-90's.

A fellow with a scoped 2" S&W shoots someone about a mile away.

If the fellow was Bob Munden or Jerry Miculek then it might be realistic.

 

[Speedo66]

I love the scenes where everyone has just been shooting, but then they point weapons at someone, and no matter what the gun, they all re-cock the guns and they all sound like pump shotguns. And never a live round is ejected.

Hey, it's Hollywood, suspend belief upon entering.

 

[Fiv3r]

There is a dark comedy from about 8 years ago called Tucker and Dale Vs Evil. It's actually a pretty good flick that turns the "Murderous Hillbilly in the Woods" horror genre on its head. Basically, it's about a bunch of dumb paranoid college kids going on a camping trip and getting freaked out by a couple of completely harmless if a bit rough looking locals and comically offing themselves accidentally as they overreact to their run ins with Tucker and Dale who mean them absolutely no harm.

At one point, one of the kids gets his hands on a double action service revolver. He tries to squeeze off a shot but the gun won't fire. One of the locals he's pointing it at helpfully points out that the safety is on. The kid turns the gun around, barrel toward his face, flips some sort of safety and gun goes off automatically blowing his head off. The whole idea of a safety on a service revolver and then a double action gun with the hammer down just going off is goofy. Made for a comedic moment, but rubs you the wrong way as a gun person.

 

[Alte Schule]

One of the Die Hard installments. #3 I think. Towards the end of the movie Detective McClane (Willis), in order to stop some type of pending apocalypse, has to shoot a wire that's about fifty yards away. With a snubbie , at night, in the rain.

 

[PapaG]

Maybe not the "most" ridiculous, but certainly one of the best known, and still ridiculous was the famous scene in the original Dirty Harry movie. You know - the first scene where Harry asks the bad guy; "Do you feel lucky?"
Harry pulls the hammer back, cocking his Model 29, but if you watch closely you can clearly see the cylinder rotate as Harry pulls the trigger.
Another similar goof-up was in "Stand By Me." Near the end of the movie after the kids had found the body, the juvenile delinquent gang was going to take the body from the younger kids. The main character (played by Wil Wheaton) fires a warning shot in the air with a 1911. Yet immediately following the warning shot, he points that 1911 at the leader of the juvenile delinquent gang, and cocks the hammer back again. Every 1911 I've ever had re-cocked itself after it went off.

Just watched Harry do what you described....

 

[Yujun]

The scene in Lone Wolf Mcquaid when Chuck Norris grabs a mini-Uzi and does a 360 degree spin hip-firing all the way and nails every bad guy... while miraculously missing the horses.

 

[The Evangelist Cowboy]

Magnum Force, Bad Cops using a suppressed Colt Python.

 

[boom boom]

OK, not a movie but an episode of Monk has the murderer steady his rifle's aim by supporting the barrel with a cord on the window blind. Strikes me that that sort of thing messes up your aim..?

Believe that was the pilot episode.

 

[boom boom]

Mine was an episode of the old FBI show where Efrem Zimbalist Jr. would fire a snubby and a car would turn over and explode. A second, is The Sting,a guy saves Robert Redford's character's life by shooting an assassin with a silenced revolver (not a Nagant btw). Sgt Schulz in Hogans Heroes carries a U.S. Krag rifle.

 

[22250Rem]

Just watched Harry do what you described....

.... I just went and watched that scene several times and I clearly saw it, also. I'm surprised I never noticed it before. What's up? A model 29 S&W cylinder rotating when the trigger is pulled? Am I missing something here?

 

[CapnMac]

Couches.

Every living room couch in Hollywood is made of Kevlar, apparently.

3/4" thick plywood tables.

Also, doors, which are either unobtanium or tissue paper, which ever is best for the scene.

 

[CapnMac]

Antonio Banderas had several over the top shooting scenes in the movie Desperado

To be fair, that's the Robert Rodreiguez sequel to El Mariachi, which had an impossibly-accurate gunman with a guitar case of arms. There were a number of reloads in Mariachi, but also a lot of cartoon-style gun handling.

But, in seeing both movies, it's entirely clear why Quentin Taratino (who is all about cartoon violence made gory) is such a pal with Robert Rodriguez (they teamed up to make the cartoon Machete series).

 

[CapnMac]

just been shooting, but then they point weapons at someone, and no matter what the gun, they all re-cock the guns

Which may (only may) be an artifact of how movie scenes are filmed. Just because a scene has continuity after editing does not mean the scenes were filmed in that sequence. (B-roll footage can be filmed before A-roll and the like; scenes are often filmed whe nthe light is right for the camera position, not in temporal continuity.

 

[CapnMac]

in order to stop some type of pending apocalypse, has to shoot a wire that's about fifty yards away. With a snubbie , at night, in the rain.

Yeah, and per the story, an RCMP loaner, with presumably .38-200 loads. Makes me smile every time.