This post is appreciated. However, don't worry about us blaming the armorer for all the shit about guns that's inaccurate in movies. Criticizing Hollywood for gun inaccuracies and stupid handling is a trademark of the gun-owning community, but I think we take for granted that most of the ignorance is because Hollywood is full of liberal idiots who don't like guns and don't know anything about them.
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Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008
And seeing them 'ad lib' and drop the gun when we have rubber guns for that kind of thing?!?!?! It's enough to give you a stroke!
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Yeah, what the hell is with that? I've seen plenty of movies where I watch actors throwing down or dropping guns that are quite obviously not the rubber stunt versions.
Like in "Die Hard 2: Die Harder". Remember the scene where Bruce Willis fires an MP5 loaded with blanks at the police chief, and then he ejects the magazine to show him that it's blanks? When he takes out the mag, he throws the MP5 down on the floor HARD. I don't think the MP5 used in that scene was a rubber version (because I'm not aware of rubber guns that have detachable magazines), and I can't imagine they would have mentioned him throwing the gun on the floor in the script, so I think Bruce actually threw down a real, expensive transferable MP5 while ad-libbing! I bet (in fact, I
hope) Mike Papac yelled at him for that afterwards. Something else you should ask Mike about!
But anyway, it really is crazy to me that actors could have so little respect for other people's property. Maybe it's just me, but when somebody hands me something expensive (doesn't matter if it's a gun, a car, a computer, whatever), my first instinct is to treat it with
care. After all, it's not mine, and I don't want to pay for it if I break it, plus I believe in taking care of stuff. But I guess this instinct is eroded in the minds of too many actors who get paid such ridiculous salaries that they don't give a shit what they break.