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10-05-2009, 10:44 AM
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Let's not forget another classic Hollywood firearm myth; the fact that any gun from a .38 snub-nosed revolver to an M60 machine gun can cause a car to explode if shot in the fuel tank. This was actually addressed rather comically in "Last Action Hero" when Schwartzenegger was plugging away at an oncoming car expecting it to turn into a fireball but was shocked when it kept on going. Two other movie weapon faux pas involve hand grenades; namely the mistaken belief that it's possible to pull the pin wih your teeth and not suffer serious dental injury, and that a that a High-Explosive Fragmentation grenade is supposed to generate an almost Hiroshima-like fireball upon detonating, instead of a roughly medium-size dust cloud and a few scattered puffs of dust from fragments impacting the surrounding area.
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10-11-2009, 08:28 PM
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I don't know if this one qualifies, but as I'm sitting here watching Tomorrow Never Dies, I can't help but be reminded how when the hero takes an assault rifle or SMG from a dead bad guy he/she just killed, they never seem to bother taking any extra ammo!
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10-11-2009, 10:34 PM
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The only exceptions I can think of are Blood Diamond and the first Die Hard.
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10-11-2009, 11:10 PM
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Well apparently they don't need to cause they have unlimited ammo ( I mean Bond seems to have fired off at least 100+ rounds from a 30 round magazine )
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10-12-2009, 12:52 AM
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 ) and wore it all through the movie.
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10-19-2009, 05:14 AM
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Sometimes night vision can be bothersome and there seemed to have been enough natural on screen light to make night vision pointless
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10-19-2009, 03:40 PM
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I also love how the folly editor always has to insert the sound of a hammer being cocked every time a pistol is drawn, even if it's a hammerless gun like a Glock or a Walther P99. More often than not, even when the gun is a model that has a hammer, you can tell that it hasn't actually been cocked. I was just watching a TV show where a bad guy pulls a Taurus PT92 on another character, and you hear the hammer get cocked into SA as he draws it, but you can clearly tell that the gun is still in DA mode.
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I guess it's because theoretically, the bad guys are supposed to have unlimited ammo, too (unless, for the sake of plot convenience, they happen to run out just when the hero needs to shoot them). Last edited by MT2008; 10-19-2009 at 03:46 PM.
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10-22-2009, 01:31 AM
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In a lot of movies, we rarely seen the good guys carry extra mags. Sometimes we see maybe one or two mag reloads and the scenes they are walking into are literal war zones. Like in Punisher War zone, we see the actor Ray Stevenson had some training, in the behind the scenes, he was drilled by US Marines, but in character, he didn't carry enough mags for his M4 to last the entire battle. He had to bust out his extra handguns to shoot around. I mean who carries 4 sidearms into battle with his primary? He had his custom M4, 2 full auto Beretta 92s, a USP compact and then a customized S&W 500. He could of had room for several more M4 mags in place of those extra handguns.
Some of the only movies were we see the character carry a descent amount of extra magazines for anything was in Heat where everyone carried what I can see more than 6 extra mags. In Terminator Salvation, Christian Bale as John Connor carried so many extra mags, he had some on his arms and extra grenades for his M203. Now that is preparing for war with the machines.
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10-23-2009, 12:52 AM
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A few years back, one Friday or Saturday night I was cycling through the cable channels when I came upon one of those cheap, made for video movies. It was a group of women in shorts, and t-shirts being chased by some guys for whatever they took from the villains out in some wilderness. One of the women makes a comment that the chief bad guy must surly be out of ammo. They cut to the guy with a Beretta, or Taurus as he unzips his jacket to reveal that he is wearing a vest just covered in spare magazines. I turned the movie off after that, as I felt that I had just seen the best scene in the movie!
 David.
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10-23-2009, 03:59 AM
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We also rarely seen in movies and TV shows anyone reloading and when we do see them reloading, the director made it look as dramatic as possible.
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