Strange firearms incidents in movies/shows

[Phfinneuss]

Something strange in the movie The Revenant,-

I won t say it just yet. Watch the scene where Hugh fires a pistol at the French, over the spotted horse s withers. Slow it down with frame skip/1 1/16th speed.
Watch how the pistol fires. See what happens.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

The movie was rife with Hollywoodedness....imho...

When the Indians attack the group of men in the woods, the wooded area is surrounded by an open space. The white men are sheltering in an "island" of trees surrounded by meadow, and there are trees again. The distance to the far woodline is like more than 50 yards..., YET you can't see any Indians launching arrows. There is just a constant stream of arrows coming into the scene from off camera from all directions. Clearly showed the director didn't understand anything about Plains Culture bows, and also bet the audience wouldn't either. I was thinking, gee if the Plains Culture bows were that effective at that great a distance, coupled with the speed between shots..., they would never have adopted firearms....

OH well....

LD

 

[bubba.50]

There’s also a scene where Leo’s flinchlock pistol went double-action on him.

 

[necchi]

Something strange in the movie The Revenant,-

Nothin new there, it's called Hollywood
, you aughta watch Jeremiah Johnson real close,

 

[necchi]

There’s also a scene where Leo’s flinchlock pistol went double-action on him.

, I haven't watched it for awhile,, but wasn't his flintlock darn near full auto in that scene?

 

[William Lincoln]

The real truth is Hollywood doesn't show the high death toll of the
men who went up against Native Braves. Using clubs and tomahawks
the Shawnee braves took out dozens of armed men. The Braves launching
those arrows, in real history, would have killed those men. Native Americans were
just outnumbered and- the real change came in the 1850's with repeating
revolvers and faster loading rifles. Hollywood creates the fantasy that ends
with what they need to portray. Fact is native American Braves were awesome
warriors--and German soldiers, portrayed in movies as stupid "krauts" were
devastating warriors, numbers wise, the best on Earth. Hollywood is pure
fantasy and to be ridiculed as the fakes they are.

 

[Colonial Boy]

My favourite (until I remember another one) is the “Blue Max”, all those German soldiers running around with LeEnfield No4 rifles which didn’t come into general service till WWII.
And in some prints of the film the Irish Republic flag waving in the breeze.

 

[bubba.50]

, I haven't watched it for awhile,, but wasn't his flintlock darn near full auto in that scene?

I haven't watched it in a while either but seems to me like he got at least three shots out of it.

 

[User_Dan]

I hear Alec Baldwin has some neat movie tricks also

 

[TFoley]

...and German soldiers, portrayed in movies as stupid "krauts" were devastating warriors, numbers wise, the best on Earth

My late Uncle Micky, who was on the other side during WW2, was a radio op/Funker/comms specialist who ended up after the war fixing early TVs and wireless sets in North Wales [long story, not for here]. In spite of his MOS, he was involved in the airdrop into Crete, fought up Greece and the Balkans and ended up in Normandy in time for the invasion. He then fought out of France, Belgium and the Allied invasion into Germany, and was in a column that got strafed on a road outside Rhieindahlen in early 1945. When WE got posted to JHQ Rheindahlen in 1977, I would drive to and and from work along that same road.

A simple and easily-pleased man - due to spending his first eighteen years in an orphanage in Dresden, he was also brave beyond belief - he had the Second and First Class Iron Cross and three close combat awards - and he was not a 'rifle' soldier. His injuries left him in constant pain, and he died in 1968, aged only 48.

 

[toot]

There’s also a scene where Leo’s flinchlock pistol went double-action on him.
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There’s also a scene where Leo’s flinchlock pistol went double-action on him.

now I like your analogy of a man flying out of a chopper. sorta line what happened back in 64.
!!

 

[Capnball]

I remember watching an Audie Murphy western once and there was a scene where three cowboys were on a dusty trail standing next to their horses while being shot at. One guy yells "Hit the deck!" Which I understood to be a phrase developed by navy basic training instructors for new sailors to do push ups around WW1.
If nothing else, it seemed completely out of place.

 

[Rick1]

Loved the movie Quigley -Down Under but wondering how far the long shot was at hitting the water bucket the horseman was holding while galloping away.
That water bucket was a moving target many hundreds away that only would have been possible in the movies. Still enjoyed the movie and magic shots made with the Sharp Rifle .

 

[Woody Morgan]

Loved the movie Quigley -Down Under but wondering how far the long shot was at hitting the water bucket the horseman was holding while galloping away.
That water bucket was a moving target many hundreds away that only would have been possible in the movies. Still enjoyed the movie and magic shots made with the Sharp Rifle .

Copied from the above video's comments..

"Q. If Whitey rode 35 mph for 46 seconds, how many yards away did he place the bucket?
A. 782 yards. 1 mile = 1,760 yards."

Or .44 miles.
Gotta account for acceleration and jumping the fence though. Still...

wm

 

[Colonial Boy]

This has nothing to do with guns, but how many of you remember the squeal of tyres on dirt roads in the movies?

 

[bubba.50]

Copied from the above video's comments..

"Q. If Whitey rode 35 mph for 46 seconds, how many yards away did he place the bucket?
A. 782 yards. 1 mile = 1,760 yards."

Or .44 miles.
Gotta account for acceleration and jumping the fence though. Still...

wm

7 or 8 hundred yards ain’t a stretch for that Sharps. A friend of mine shoots 600 yard matches with a repro musket & minie balls. He says when shooting prone if the wind’s right he can shoot & roll over in time to see the bullet hit the target through his spotting scope.

 

[Treestalker]

I love the buzzards flying over and the word bar says 'screech!' I been in the woods most of my life and I've never once heard a buzzard make a comment...

 

[TFoley]

Loved the movie Quigley -Down Under but wondering how far the long shot was at hitting the water bucket the horseman was holding while galloping away.That water bucket was a moving target many hundreds away that only would have been possible in the movies. Still enjoyed the movie and magic shots made with the Sharp Rifle .

Uh, he's not shooting at the bucket being held by a moving horseman. Please take another look. Alan Rickman fires a revolver shot to tell the horseman to stop and drop the bucket. 'Quigley' then shoots it a couple of times...

 

[user 51569]

Something strange in the movie The Revenant,-

I won t say it just yet. Watch the scene where Hugh fires a pistol at the French, over the spotted horse s withers. Slow it down with frame skip/1 1/16th speed.
Watch how the pistol fires. See what happens.

Hahaha if you’re slowing movies down to 1/16 speed just to find errors you might have a problem

 

[mushka]

Movies try to entertain, not educate us. If movies were education we'd be dumber than we presently are.