Hollywood Gun Stupidity Thread

[DoggyDaddy]

I recently watched "Fistful of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". I want to learn how to make that "peeeeeeeeeewwww" ricochet noise.

 

[Ingomike]

Independence Day, when Judd Hirsch answers the door, he racks a double barrel shotgun. You hear a racking sound, but he has the double barrel shotgun....
Any show where the character grips a Glock, and it makes a clicking/cocking sound.

Many movies today do hire armorers to handle and guide the use of guns but you are right, a lot if the past movies had had racking and cocking of guns that didn’t and, of course a round was never ejected when they actually did rack a gun that could be racked.

I suspect those that know guns are not involved any longer when the sound department does its thing and I doubt the sound guys know anything about guns…

 

[BigRed]

I'm still ****** that after I rack the slide on my Mossberg 500 I have to reload.

I cannot begin to tell you how many birds I have lost due to that malfunction.

 

[littletommy]

On the other side of the coin, one show in particular that seemed to pay attention to firearm detail, was Bonanza. The main characters on that show obviously spent time with firearms, especially Michael Landon. I even notice them moving the muzzle in a safe direction so as not to sweep others. One of the many reasons it’s an all time great show.

 

[ZurokSlayer7X9]

I recently watched "Fistful of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". I want to learn how to make that "peeeeeeeeeewwww" ricochet noise.

One time I was shooting at a range in some gravel pit and was shooting a .45 at some pieces of plywood down range. One of the rounds must have missed and hit a rock at an angle causing it to ricochet at a forward angle. It sounded exactly like those "pew" sounds from the old west movies as it flew away.

 

[Flingarrows]

One time I was shooting at a range in some gravel pit and was shooting a .45 at some pieces of plywood down range. One of the rounds must have missed and hit a rock at an angle causing it to ricochet at a forward angle. It sounded exactly like those "pew" sounds from the old west movies as it flew away.

The metal binder clips that you use to clamp larger packers of document together does the same thing, and comes back towards the shooter.

Ask me why I do not use those binder clips any more…

 

[VinceU1]

Maybe all the guns in all the movies and tv shows should be flintlocks?

 

[KellyinAvon]

The Chief’s Special that Clemenza hid behind the toilet was about 3 years early since it debuted in 1950 and Michael shot The Turk and McCluskey in 1947.

That’s pretty close, plus it’s a great scene. I’ll let that one go.

 

[actaeon277]

Maybe all the guns in all the movies and tv shows should be flintlocks?

They'd still mess it up.

 

[Bleachey]

The incredible marksmanship of the heroes versus the bad guys always amazed me. And the toughness of the lead characters (good or bad who seem to be able to take multiple rounds when the extras go down with one shot).

 

[DoggyDaddy]

They'd still mess it up.

What sound does a flintlock make when you rack the slide?

 

[dekeshooter]

My wife has been binging The Blacklist. Every time someone pulls out an auto pistol there is the sound effect of a revolver being cocked. I laugh every time.

 

[russc2542]

Many movies today do hire armorers to handle and guide the use of guns but you are right, a lot if the past movies had had racking and cocking of guns that didn’t and, of course a round was never ejected when they actually did rack a gun that could be racked.

I suspect those that know guns are not involved any longer when the sound department does its thing and I doubt the sound guys know anything about guns…

I'm pretty sure most of the armorers are basically just prop handlers that passed an online safety course and have no artistic or dramatic input to the end product and limited actual authority on set. Otherwise they'd spend the whole production crying in a corner.

 

[Hkindiana]

Raiders of the Lost Ark begins with “Cairo 1936” yet tge Germans are armed with MP-40’s which came out in 1940

 

[Hkindiana]

In the movie “The Revenant” Leonardo DiCaprio is galloping on a horse with a flintlock, and manages to somehow fire it several times