Prop Gun Shooting. One crewmember dead New Mexico filmset

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by MT2008

To my annoyance, Guillermo Del Toro has gone on record joining the “don’t use real guns on movie sets” crowd…except that he’s gone the extra mile and claimed he already has not been using them for years now:

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/01/gu..._8LjYbGa6iOSiU

This sounds like BS to me. Most of the guns in “Pacific Rim,” for example, appear to be real ones.

Looking at the page, it looks like the only guns which were fired were the flare guns. I don't recall much non-Jager weapons fire in the film.

As for Hellboy II, aside from the custom made weapons, all you have are agents with their Glocks.

I never saw Shape of Water.

I suppose it makes sense for him, he makes films with a lot of CGI anyway, how much trouble could a few muzzle flashes be?

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

Looking at the page, it looks like the only guns which were fired were the flare guns. I don't recall much non-Jager weapons fire in the film.

There may not have been any guns fired in “Pacific Rim”, but that doesn’t mean the weapons which weren’t fired are not real guns. The handguns which appear in the scene where Ron Perlman’s gangsters draw on the kaiju-geek scientist are all clearly real guns, judging by their appearance. Otherwise, the M4s with M203s used by the soldiers in the film mostly look real, though it's possible that some of those in the background might very well be airsoft guns. The credits indicate that Charles Taylor (Movie Armaments Group) was the armorer on the film; the production would not have hired him just to supply and supervise the use of airsoft guns.

The guns in “The Shape of Water” also looked real to me.