Movie Guns

[MolleMan]

When your sittin around the tv with friends or family watchin a good action shoot'em up movie do you find yourself rattling off the different kind of guns the good/bad guys are carrying or is that just me?

 

[murdoc rose]

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Main_Page

 

[VegasAR15]

Do that all the time. I'll even try and quiz the wife on them, sometimes she knows, mainly if its a Glock, which it seems to usually be.

 

[Humakavula]

I've actually been banned from talking about guns during movies...

 

[MICHAEL T]

I don't pay a lot of attention to the guns. Most movies just use plastic it seems that never shoot empty.

 

[Roughneck08]

Humakavula, same here!!! I go on and on to my fiancee trying to educate her and sometimes finding myself telling her the history of each firearm. All she says is "It's just a movie" lol btw she is pro-gun

 

[gantry]

LOL, ohh you gun geeks.

 

[LHRGunslinger]

*sighs hanging my head* Yes. I do that. Incessantly.

 

[ol' scratch]

Yes I do. It drives my wife crazy. I was able to uncover one of the plot twists in a show we watch because I was paying attention to the firearm a person was using in a flashback.

Part of the fun for me is trying to id the firearms used in a movie. Sometimes it messes up the movie for me because I see firearms that are not historically accurate. My favorite example of this is Saving Private Ryan and how the Garands don't have lockbar sites. I have had to train myself not to notice so it doesn't bug me. There are many other examples in the movie, that is just the one that bugs me to death.

 

[jordan1948]

YES! Along with all the things they're doing wrong or missinterpreting.

 

[MolleMan]

yeah i'm also a victim of trying to identify as many guns as possible in a movie and like others my wife hates it lol.

 

[Captcurt]

Oh yeah, all of the time.

I also critique their shooting stance and how bad they flinch when they "jerk" the trigger. It should be mandatory for an actor to actually shoot a gun before they make a movie.

Then you have directors that have an actor carry a SxS or O/U and then dubs in the sound of a pumpgun. Really smart.

 

[mokin]

On occasion. My wife is amazed that I can catch a split second glimps of a firearm and be able to identify it, recite the caliber, how it operates, etc., as well as some bit of trivia if it may be something a little exotic but have a hard time remembering where stuff goes in the kitchen.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

Regarding poor guncoaching in movies, I wish the advisors would get them to quit emptying the gun in a scene, locking the slide open, and then shooting the next quick scene with the gun back in battery. Let's have one or the other, with some consistency in the story. I understand that if the scene calss for tree shots, that's all they load, and make sure the gun is now empty/safe, but, they could shoot the scenes so that a now empty gun doesn't detract from the scene.

 

[Guillermo]

My daughter and I do the same thing and my current wife just sighs.

She knows that we enjoy it and rarely complains unless we let it go on too long.

IMFDB.com is a great resource.

Often guns are what makes a movie worth the time.

Let's face it, the boob tube is chewing gum for the eyes.

 

[mesinge2]

originally posted by Jordan1948
Along with all the things they're doing wrong or missinterpreting.

Like in Red heat when Arnold fires eighteen shots out of a S&W model 29 without reloading.

 

[Prion]

pause, rewind, slow motion.....imfdb.com

 

[kyhuntsman94]

Yeah, my wife hates that! I am no longer allowed to rattle off the misrepresentations of firearms in movies. I have to put on a different hat and have been told to sit back and enjoy the movie and "stop nitpicking the inaccuracies of firearms".

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Like in Red Dawn when Arnold fires eighteen shots out of a S&W model 29 without reloading.

Uh, that's Red Heat.

 

[mesinge2]

Stevie-Ray, oops, thanks.

I fixed it.

 

[DammitBoy]

any idea if this movie gun is based on anything real?



Nick Cage in the new movie, 'Drive Angry' with some funky pepperbox

 

[PapaG]

Unfortunately, my vice is correcting the writer/director/whatever when the guns being used are from the wrong period. Don't know how many civil war/pre CW, shows I've seen where they had trapdoor Springfields. Saw one the other night, supposedly taking place "immediately" after CW and they had Colt Peacemakers and 92 Winchesters.

Dale Evans used double action revolvers, I think Colt, that had added on ejector rods under the barrels.

Kind of fun, though, just like finding the electric fan on the bar in an old western a few years back.

 

[Lazyshooter]

I only watch gun movies when I'm alone cause I get in trouble when I try to watch them with others.

 

[UKarmourer]

Looks similar to the gun used in 'sharpes rifles' IIRC it was a naval volley gun used by pat harper ( the irish sgt)

Small trivia- was at a film armourer company last week- got to fondle the very gun used in the series, as well as one of the guns used in primeval.
Friend of mine made them both.

 

[sig220mw]

All the time.