It’s bad enough that guns in “real life” get such a bad portrayal by media, but that representation is compounded by Hollywood over and over.
For instance, remember that freakish knife attack in New York little over a year ago?
A guy walked behind the counter of a Texas Smokehouse restaurant, swiped four knives and started slashing and attacking people walking down the sidewalks. Finally, an off duty cop took him out. Of course the media, in its default “guns cause all crime” mode, said, “Other cops arrived, along with paramedics. The woman and Singh were rushed to the hospital, as was the gunman.” Gunman?
I took a screen shot of that one.
Guns in movies have all these supernatural powers that guns in real life apparently don’t have. You can see their muzzle flash in broad daylight, you can shoot more than a dozen times with a six shooter, sometimes they fire when no one is touching them, there are 12 gauge shotguns with zero recoil…it’s amazing.
One of my favorite “catches” is the semi-automatic handgun unexpectedly going “click” at someone when it’s empty. See, how it really works is, when an auto fires its last round, the slide moves backward and locks in a very open position. There’s no way the shooter would not know that his firearm was empty and there’s no way the intended target would not know…if Hollywood was just a teensy smidgen more accurate.
Most of the time, you’d find that all the threatening, pointing, and shotgun play is done with an empty chamber. You find that out after the fact because at the end of whatever confrontation is going on, the shotgun gets “racked” for effect when it’s pointed at somebody up close and personal. Don’t get me wrong, that “shick-schick” is very intimidating and also a very cool sound (especially in surround sound), but it’s a little anti-climatic to realize that up until that point, nobody had a round chambered and if a trigger was pulled nothing would happen.
Then there’s just obvious crap that even the novice can catch…scope caps still covering the lens, scopes on backwards, or even upside down like in the freeze frame captured from Flash Point:
Another of my favorite catches is somebody cocking a firearm more than once.
OMG that aggravates me something fierce! I guess I’m not the only one, because someone made this awesome video! Watch it!
7 comments:
The funny thing is, any random gunny would be happy to work with movie producers, prop people, and foley artists to make this stuff accurate. But nooooo...
but but but *if* they hired people to fact check and shed gun owners and shooters as knowledgeable *sane* members of society wouldn't that sorta put a halt to their agenda?
My wife hates it when she is watching a movie that involves guns with me since I always say outloud things like "NO RECOIL" and "OUT OF AMMO" and "NO ROUND IN CHAMBER" and "VIOLATION OF RULE 4" etc. etc. etc. I love the scope on upsidedown.
Dan, did you see the rifle on GunBrokers.com that had a scope mounted upside down and the guy didn't know it? He was inundated with emails for his rare SNOWWIS scope! He posted about it and told people to stop emailing him because he didn't have more than one and he didn't know where to get one because nobody he talked to could find the SNOWWIS company! LOL People will probably razz that guy for a very long time!
HA! I didn't see that one. Awesome.
LOL, yeah I fall into that group. I sit watching a movie and notice every little detail that they mess up. I to guess the semi going click with the slide racked back or actually firing with it back is a personnel pet peeve of mine. I have pointed out the mistakes so much my wife now notices it also.
The movie clip was a hoot, makes you relieze that some people out there are that ignorant of guns, and how they function.
I once saw one of the popular cop shows use a Henry Ar-7 as a sniper rifle. What a joke.
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