Oleg Volk
Moderator Emeritus
Now I remember why I seldom watch movies...
Rented a couple of DVDs yesterday, Second-hand Lions and Sleeping Dictionary. The second one is a story of a minor British official going native in the late 1930s Thailand. It had two good actors in it. That was about all I can say that's positive. The film was done on location but came off grossly inauthentic. And the gun details were straight out the HCI handbook.
The only person to do target practice is one of the villains. He has a recoilless M1917 revolver...never any muzzle flip or cylinder gap flash...or, for that matter, any cylinder rotation when the gun is cocked.
Later, a character gets a .455 Webley from her father. She shoots at a villain once, grazes him to get his attention. Then she pulls the trigger five more times and get sa click every time. Five mis-fires in a row....riiiiiiight.
The action starts in 1939. In late 1940, two of the characters go to London...guess what, no WW2 is happening. I wonder if the film makers just think their audiences are that ignorant of history or there's some other reason. Maybe someday we'll see a movie closely based on Orwell's Burmese Days, as this effort was quite lousy.
Rented a couple of DVDs yesterday, Second-hand Lions and Sleeping Dictionary. The second one is a story of a minor British official going native in the late 1930s Thailand. It had two good actors in it. That was about all I can say that's positive. The film was done on location but came off grossly inauthentic. And the gun details were straight out the HCI handbook.
The only person to do target practice is one of the villains. He has a recoilless M1917 revolver...never any muzzle flip or cylinder gap flash...or, for that matter, any cylinder rotation when the gun is cocked.
Later, a character gets a .455 Webley from her father. She shoots at a villain once, grazes him to get his attention. Then she pulls the trigger five more times and get sa click every time. Five mis-fires in a row....riiiiiiight.
The action starts in 1939. In late 1940, two of the characters go to London...guess what, no WW2 is happening. I wonder if the film makers just think their audiences are that ignorant of history or there's some other reason. Maybe someday we'll see a movie closely based on Orwell's Burmese Days, as this effort was quite lousy.