Movie Gun Peeves
A list. One of mine is when, in the dead quiet after an epic gun battle, one good guy looks at the other and says “Shhhh, did you hear that?” No, he didn’t. He was in a gun fight and is now near deaf.
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May 6th, 2014 at 7:51 pm
Full auto firearms don’t go clickclickclickclickclick when the mag goes dry.
May 6th, 2014 at 8:16 pm
Cocking the hammer on striker fired guns.
May 6th, 2014 at 8:22 pm
I always snicker derisively whenever I see someone onscreen get on their cell phone immediately after popping off two or three dozen rounds in CQ inside a house (“Taken”, anyone?). He’d be lucky if he could hear himself shouting at his own shadow.
May 6th, 2014 at 8:31 pm
He DID say he has a certain set of skills…
May 6th, 2014 at 8:51 pm
The only movies I remember that address loud noises from gun discharges is the brief gunfight in the open of Chow Yun Fat’s The Corrupter and 2 scenes in Guy Ritchie’s movie Snatch.
May 6th, 2014 at 10:18 pm
The Never Ending Belt Of Machine Gun Ammo ™
May 7th, 2014 at 1:57 am
A can on a revolver.
May 7th, 2014 at 8:42 am
I seem to remember Blackhawk Down addressing this directly as well.
May 7th, 2014 at 9:09 am
Dissolving dead bodies. A wave of bad guys gets mowed down, the camera cuts away, cuts back to the next wave of bad guys at the same place – where are the bodies? Did they get better, or did someone move them?
In a Vietnam movie with rice fields, you can kinda pretend the bodies are just underwater.
May 7th, 2014 at 9:10 am
Archer also addressed it (sometimes).
Especially with the main character’s progressive hearing loss.
May 7th, 2014 at 1:16 pm
I like it when they hold someone at gunpoint then rack the shotgun or cycle the slide to show they are serious and will shoot. Complete with no cartridge expelled.
May 7th, 2014 at 4:54 pm
Typical – the good guy has a handgun (maybe a knife). He kills a bad guy who was carrying an assault rifle. Does he stop to pick up the assault rifle and extra magazines? Hell no. He continues on killing bad guys with his pistol/knife/sharp blows to the back of the head.
And for those of us who really know…. when soldiers are carrying an assault rifle but the ammo pouches on their gear is for a different weapon. In the 1980s, you could bet that any character carrying a M&P-5 or Uzi would have M-16 ammo pouches.
On the issue of pouches, the team leader for the good gusy says something along the lines of “this is a good place to make a stand”. Then, the team members whip out Claymore mines and trip flares. Question: where the hell did they carry those? It is the mine equivalent of endless magazine. You can set up trip flares and Claymores. But one of your team members has to be dead tired from lugging a heavy ruck sack around the battlefield.
May 8th, 2014 at 7:39 am
One of my buddies tried out his grandfather’s .22 pistol without hearing protection. His only exposure to guns was from movies and videogames. He didn’t know how loud they were because they’re not that loud in movies and games.
May 8th, 2014 at 4:12 pm
Old Windways — Blackhawk Down addressed it because it’s pretty prominently mentioned in the book.
Sid — how about how NO ONE in these war movies has a ruck, or even an asspack? (We carried a ruck and an asspack – sometimes two asspacks for NCOs, if they were smart enough to score the old H-type suspenders.)
When’s the last time you saw a MG gunner lay in his gun on the bipod, stage some extra ammo nearby (or even have an AG assiting him), and have some limit stakes set in preparation to lay supporting fire from the lfank to cover a deliberate attack? Nope, they just charge in, shooting from the damned hip like a wave of Cossak tank riders from WWII. . .