While watching NCIS LA last night. A woman had a 92F shooting at the Bad Guy. She missed him. Next thing the 92F goes click 3 times with the slide closed. The BG looks at her with a surprised look. With the weapon not firing. The BG got shot buy G, Sam and Kenzi. next you see the woman. The slide on her 92F is NOW open. Only Hollywood can do this.
You must not watch a lot of TV or movies. For Hollywood that’s pretty damn accurate.
You have to remember, though, most of the people watching these shows/movies, acting in them, and directing them don’t own or shoot guns. And I can pretty much promise that those folks would never in a million years notice these things. And given the quality of a lot of entertainment out there, I’d rather they get gun stuff wrong (where no one will really notice or care) and spend that money on better writers.
I will say, though, that most movies/TV shows have gotten a lot better in recent years about realism when it comes to guns.
Nothing new with them. They have been doing it for years. But the look on the BG face. was like. wow
My favorite are 80s TV shows where the actor has a handgun with the slide locked open but they are still adding gun shot sound effects.
indeed… movie producers of days past didn’t seem to have a problem letting little errors slip into movies. i’m immediately reminded of Omega man, with cars obviously driving around in the background of a city where he’s the only one alive…
I just finished watching Lost season 6 on DVD. Every single time a gun of any kind was brought up to the shoulder the ‘cocking sound’ was added in. I mean even if it was just bringing it up from low ready to high ready. That gets annoying.
My favorite were the 20 shot Colt SAA’s in the westerns, well that and the 10 shot double barrel shotguns.
hahahaha! Great season finale huh? :lol:
How about the cop that cocks his gun despite having fired several shot prior, just as he corners a BG?
These things used to bother me so much when I was young. I was about 8 when I first noticed the common dry firing click on an open slide.
I was watching Justified earlier this year, and in the episode with the gardener and the rich guy/con man, the rich guy is looking at several pistols to use in an upcoming gunfight. He picks up what I swear was a water pistol that vaguely resembled an N-frame S&W. I was so looking forward to this show as a worthy successor to The Shield, and was sorely disappointed.
I was watching the Terminator (original) for a few minutes yesterday. When Arnold first corners Sarah Conner in that disco place he pulls out the long slide 45 with laser sight, despite having shot it already that night, and cocks it.
I did see him put in a new mag once though!
i have to say that it seems like movies and TV shows are getting a little more realistic with the gun stuff.
you don’t see so much of that dual wielding pistol crap like in the 90’s. I can kind of forgive an early slide lock if it helps the plot along.
I’m still trying to figure out why hollywood uses guns in their films and shows considering they’re so evil and all.
because they’re only used by those above us and those beneath us, in movies.
Plus when the BG is shot dead. They show the body. No Blood. :dirol:
One of the worst I’ve seen recently has to be Resident Evil: Afterlife - things like bottomless mags, shooting a short barreled 12ga. one handed, shooting quarters out of said shotty, etc., made it difficult to watch. I didn’t expect much more than mindless zombie-killin’, but geez… doesn’t anyone in Hollyweird realize how fast a sub-gun goes through a 30rd mag?
What really got to me was when they got into the armory full of all kinds of good stuff and came out of there with nothing but a couple buzz-guns and some cheesy pistols - WTF?
One of the worst movies for endless magazine buzzguns was Crank 2: High Voltage. Incidentally, it was a hilarious movie. But at one point, Statham goes cyclic with a micro Uzi for at least 30 seconds without reloading.
Of course, it also shows Arnold walking into a gun store and taking what turns out to be a Full Auto Uzi… Which of course reinforces the “assault weapons” are machine guns blurring…
For those of us that are firearm enthusiasts and work in the hollywood machine the whole gun handling thing can be an embarresment and scary at times.
Sometimes you get an adviser and director who know proper handling, sometimes you get one but not the other.
Usually an armorer brings the weapons,usually they’re pretty good,other times they are brought to set by the props guys who may or may not know anything about them.
Cute things like revolvers with no rounds in the cylinder, pistols with no magazines in them"but we’re not firing in this shot?".
Sweeping the entire crew with a loaded (blanks but still) full auto weapon, not waiting for action to do a mag dump. I have a friend with permanent hearing damage thanks to three full loads of 12 gauge just over his head by an over anxious actor.
Some times you can point out errors and they get corrected, other times you get the weird look and the “but that’s the way I want it”
speech from the director, shrug, walk back to the camera sit down.
We do get to play with some neat toys occasionally, the7.62mm mini gun was a hoot and watching special effects blowing things up is always fun.
Adding to nfranco’s perspective, this is an article written by a gun enthusiast who designs guns for video games:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2010/07/21/on-guns-in-video-games-guest-post/
It offers a similar perspective about balancing the needs of the platform to entertain with realism.
I think if it bothers you that TV/movies/video games aren’t PERFECTLY realistic, then you need your head examined.
But I do agree that in some instances you can’t help but go, “hey, come on now, that’s just way too over the top, even my grandmother wouldn’t believe that’s possible.”