Worst Book/Tv/Movie Gun Error?

[havanatrader]

I had the misfortune of tuning in to Melanie Griffith in the movie Cherry 2000 today. She's in a ford mustang that's being swung through the air by a crane, she raises what looks like a PPK out the moonroof and "throws" a bullet from the gun, killing one of the bad guys about 200 yds away. Looked like she almost lost the gun when she tried to throw the bullet out.
Of course, a dozen of them can't hit her with full autos and RPGs.

 

[havanatrader]

Lethal Weapon 4, ...
...
And to cap it off the director, Richard Donner, commented in the press how proud he was of all the subliminal anti-gun messages, such as a wisecrack by Mel about the pyscho in the beginning belonging to the NRA and little "no-gun" symbols all over the police station. Maybe Mel's comments to Joe about how he should't have a gun were part of it. Ughh. Sure sent great subliminal messages about how being unsafe was cool.

The worst gun handling in the movies, where guns are used to scare people and are handled as deadly toys and jokes, is perpetrated by the most anti gun actors and directors. It's intentional. They're trying to ingrain the "fact" that guns are dangerous and only played with by fools and bubbas.

 

[AeroDillo]

Plus a million for any Child/Reacher novel.

 

[MikePGS]

one scene you could see the actor (Cole Hauser) pointing his HK Mark 23 Socom pistol with the slide locked back while he is stalking bad guys.

You know, i could be thinking of the wrong model, but i'm pretty sure that the HK Mark 23 can actually fire a single round with the slide locked back. Supposedly this function causes excessive wear on the gun though, so i think the feature has been phased out.
I also forgot to mention every single episode of The A-Team... but i can hardly fault Mr Barracus, Colonel Smith, Faceman or Howling Mad Murdock, so maybe we should just ignore that one

 

[.cheese.]

I've been watching old westerns lately and am amazed at the capacity on those old revolvers.

10... 12.... 20 shots without reloading. Why did we need to switch to autopistols!?

Darn cylinders must have needed one heck of a holster though. Although the gun manufacturers were clever enough to somehow make it look as small as a standard revolver.

 

[Matt King]

Whats the biggest error that completely destroyed your sense of disbelief in a work of fiction?

Any book by Robert Ludlum.

 

[FieroCDSP]

I caught some "action" flick on univision one day at work.. It was horrible. The hero and attractive female tag-along were on a rooftop running from the BG's who were armed with M4/203's and one had an AUG.
The 203's were exploding mere inches behind the ventilation duct the hero was hiding behind, but thank God that sheet metal is hard cover. The guy with the AUG(with scope) was sighting through the scope and was missing them. I honestly forget the numerous other issues with it, but it was hillarious.

I have always loved the entire lack of detail regarding penetration of bullets, particularly the 7.62x39. Numerous times I've seen someone hosing a wall of a shack or a car, and the bullets fail to penetrate. I have personally shot through 1ft thick trees with my SKS, and there is still enough behind it to hurt someone. I wonder if cutting the lumber makes it bullet-proof?

 

[Samuraigg]

Easily Die Hard 2. Not only was it an annoying and gross error, its one that actually hurt the 2A cause. I've seen people argue for gun control on the basis that "they make guns now that go through metal detectors".

 

[MikePGS]

Also, I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure theres no way a Spas-12(?) can do this http://youtube.com/watch?v=eE4Snh-XKcE
Its from the movie Stone Cold with Brian Bosworth which is set in a universe in which every gun blows something up when it hits something. Warning, that clip may or may not be work friendly, I can't tell because my sound isn't working atm.

 

[Mikhail Konovalov]

Boy, am I glad I actually did research before writing anything of my own.

How about Benecio's 14 round 1911 mag in The Way of the Gun?

Generally a decent movie as far as gun handling, though, but there were a couple of glaring errors. Recoil-free spray and pray through the walls, anyone?

 

[USAFrenegade]

testar77 the ruger 10/22 can be interchanged to a .223. There is conversion kits for it. Why somebody would do that I have no idea.

 

[cnorman18]

"Warning Shot"

My favorite is an old TV movie where the whole premise of the movie is a howler. It starred David Janssen and was called "Warning Shot". Janssen's character was in big trouble because some witnesses to his shooting a prep falsely claimed that he never fired the "legally required warning shot." the whole movie was about his trying to prove that he actually fired a shot in the air before killing the perp--which would, of course, get you fired or at least laughed out of the squadroom in real life. I guess someone figured out that it was based on baloney, because I've never seen it since the first time, even on late-night cable.

Stephen King used to be awful--he did the revolver-with-safety thing in at least 3 books, and once repeatedly used "rifle" and "shotgun" as synonyms--but in "Cell" he seemed to be trying harder.

It's not a firearm error, but I once saw an episode of Miami Vice where the detectives were chasing a guy in a Lamborghini Diablo; they were driving a stretch Lincoln limo--AND THEY CAUGHT HIM! I never got into that show, anyway. If a vice cop is driving a Ferrari, wearing Armani suits and living on a yacht, there's something WRONG, man...

 

[Dark_Harvest]

Quote from: "AeroDillo"

"Plus a million for any Child/Reacher novel."



--Do you have specific examples for this?

 

[Tommygunn]

Stephen King used to be awful--he did the revolver-with-safety thing in at least 3 books

Believe it or not, there actually have been revolvers with safeties. During the 1960's series "The Avengers" Emma Peel carried a British revolver that actually did have a safety. Of course, that WAS British TV ...

 

[cnorman18]

Yeah, the Brits made an "automatic revolver" for a while, too--the Webley-Fosbery. No telling how many crummy writers THAT got off the hook.

 

[Coult D]

CNorman18 said Warning Shot"

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My favorite is an old TV movie where the whole premise of the movie is a howler. It starred David Janssen and was called "Warning Shot". Janssen's character was in big trouble because some witnesses to his shooting a prep falsely claimed that he never fired the "legally required warning shot." the whole movie was about his trying to prove that he actually fired a shot in the air before killing the perp--which would, of course, get you fired or at least laughed out of the squadroom in real life. I guess someone figured out that it was based on baloney, because I've never seen it since the first time, even on late-night cable
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Warning Shots is available from NetFlix on DVD. (Might be good for a laugh, Geez what doesn't make it to DVD these days)

 

[havanatrader]

In True Lies, Jamie Lee Curtis drops a SMG (uzi?) down the stairs. It keeps firing an ungodly number of rounds, killing the bad guys and sparing her and Ahnold.

 

[Pigspitter]

Worst error ever by far was on the history channel. They were showing rebuilt mil-guns being fired and they were showing a M249SAW beign test fired and the info box below it said "M-16, 2300round per minute"
Oh yeah, and I love how everybody only loads 4 rounds into the 13 round magazine of a Beretta 92.

 

[electrode1998]

Live leak video

Hey Novis,
I think I have a couple of screwups on the video. 1)No muzzle flash at all, 2)When he susposedly chambers a round the pistol sounds more like a pump shotgun.

Do I win a prize???
e'trode

 

[sharkhunter2018]

Kellys Heros - The sniper in the bell tower clearly has a Mosin Nagant PU sniper.

 

[First Shirt]

In the movie SWAT, the scene at the range where the bad cop wins the match against Hondo, he fires the last three rounds from a Kimber with a stovepipe jam. (We saw this in a theater, and I had to go rent the movie, just so the family wouldn't think I'd lost it!)

JWB

 

[tank mechanic]

In Black Hawk Down, they constantly show 7.62 rounds ricocheting of the fiber glass humvee hoods.

 

[AeroDillo]

Quote from: "AeroDillo"

"Plus a million for any Child/Reacher novel."



--Do you have specific examples for this?
Dark_Harvest is offline Report Post

Sir -

My dislike for Child stems from two main sources. First is what I read as his intense dislike of firearms and, generally speaking, those who own them.

Second is the outright disdain he's shown for the people he knows make up the majority of his readership. There are several interviews available online that showcase this in one form or another.

I have no strong dislike or disrespect for those that enjoy his stories - but it'll be a cold day in hell before he sees another dollar of mine.

 

[KiltedClaymore]

"Live Free or Die Hard". so many errors, but an awsome move! at one point the bad guys is using an M16 variant with a scope for snipeing. ok, i could buy that. then he pulls the trigger. turns out he is sniping in 3 ROUND BURST!!! not accurate, but tears up a room really nice.

 

[Dark_Harvest]

Aero,

Thank you for the reply. I do appreciate it. I hadn't picked up on that, but i make it a policy to never inquire as to the agenda/politics of any pop culture type whose work i enjoy... always ruins it...