More Things in Film That Bug Me

[waksupi]

I'm sure you must have taken a distance and aimed carefully; the movies & TV, the guys are right on top of the strongbox!

One padlock was very close range, no ill effects. Hitting the top of the lock pops most hasps easily.

 

[springfield art]

A gunman with practice can indeed shoot a single action as fast as a semiauto. Bob Munden ring any bells?
I've shot several locks off over the years with no ill effects. These were all illegally placed locks on property where I was the manager.

Sure, there's always some guy who is supernaturally talented, but the average joe? No. Extraordinary nerve-muscle-brain complexes result in a Tom Brady or one of those fast guns, but that's the exception.

 

[TechMoron]

Besides the aforementioned guns out of their era, things that bother me are blue jeans in the old west and flinchlocks that go 'full semi-auto'.

 

[FLTaft1948]

I'm a grouchy old Coot and I don't like anything, either.

From one to another, grouchy old coots rule!

 

[WonkyEye]

I usually give inaccuracies a pass, but the one that bothers me every time is the explosion that throws the guy. I guess movie heros don't get blast lung. The other is in a big battle scene where the protagonist and antagonist wade through the battle as if everyone else is toddlers attacking with blunt spoons until they finally meet each other and have a worthy opponent. Oh, and I almost forgot about the gunshot that would normally result in severe blood loss, infection, amputation that takes out the hero for about 2 minutes, but. Then they recover and continue to dispatch bad guys as nothing happened like they just had the wind knocked out of them or something

 

[WonkyEye]

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[CaptainVane]

I usually give inaccuracies a pass, but the one that bothers me every time is the explosion that throws the guy. I guess movie heros don't get blast lung. The other is in a big battle scene where the protagonist and antagonist wade through the battle as if everyone else is toddlers attacking with blunt spoons until they finally meet each other and have a worthy opponent. Oh, and I almost forgot about the gunshot that would normally result in severe blood loss, infection, amputation that takes out the hero for about 2 minutes, but. Then they recover and continue to dispatch bad guys as nothing happened like they just had the wind knocked out of them or something

While Blue Bloods is drama tv, they seem to get gunshots right. Recent episode Jamie got shot. He was on the ground instantly, rolling around in pain and completely oblivious to the remaining gun battle going on around him.

 

[springfield art]

Also, even in extreme adventure, dangerous, jungle or desert films, the attractive women had crop tops at best; no defense against mosquitoes, etc.

 

[Eutycus]

What exactly did the Scoutmaster Kirby Randolph (John Payne) do to weaken the breech of the old guns in "Sante Fe Passage"? He used only a file and did something to the guns that he gave to the Indians. The guns held for 1 shot then "blew up" (or out) at the 2nd shot. Could that have been done with only a file or was this some sort of Hollywood imagery?

 

[WalnutRed]

Shows where even people who have never fired a firearm are are expert shots., and every shot is instantly fatal.

 

[earlwb]

It used to not bother me but after I studied anatomy more I found that all of those Movie and Tv shows where the good guy gets wounded in the small of shoulder is actually a potential deadly wound. You have both the major artery and vein going through there along with the major nerve bundle too. Any wound likely cuts or severs one of these or all.

I also notice now how everyone uses those flintlock lookalike Springfield trapdoor conversions too. But I do like the pistol version though if it stayed as a .45-70 and not a lame .22 RF blank conversion. You know the bad guy shoots the good guy with what looks like a large caliber pistol and it makes a weak pop and no smoke where there ought to be a big flame flash and quite a bit of smoke. I know my .69 flintlock does though. You could almost hand throw that 750 grain .69 mini ball at someone and injure and stop them.

Speaking of smoke you see little to no smoke in the big bar saloon room shootouts either. With everyone shooting at each other you would think that the room would turn into a suffocating cloud of smoke.

Of course the good guy with a 12 gauge pump racking the slide at every corner before going around the corner cracks me up every time.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Of course the good guy with a 12 gauge pump racking the slide at every corner before going around the corner cracks me up every time.

Right up there with the guy or gal holding a single action revolver on a guy, who puts his hands up, even though the piece isn't cocked. Same for a SxS shotgun with uncocked, external hammers....

LOVED it when Tom Chaney in True Grit tells Maddy she better cock her piece, which was a Colt 1st Model Dragoon, and after the first try he tells her, "all the way back 'til it locks"...., THEN she blasts him! Now THAT was what a little gun knowledge and good writing/directing can do for a movie!

LD

 

[2 shots]

when the good guy runs between 10 thousand rounds of machine gun fire does a roll and takes the bad guy out at 300 yards with a .38 snubbie... from the hip. does chuck norris come to mind