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You're right ShootingJames, but we have lost something in the name of being efficient.
Ever see that tricked out Walther P-38 that Napoleon Solo carried in The Man from Uncle or the battered, but still effective Colt Goverment Model that Magnum carried. How about the Colt Python with the six inch barrel that Hutch (David Soul)carried on Starsky & Hutch or the Webley Mk VI carried by Higgins on Magnum P.I.. Oh well. Last edited by Jcordell; 11-15-2009 at 12:20 AM. |
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As for Van Damme, "JCVD" is actually pretty good, though in a bunch of ways that are mostly unintentional. I doubt the new "Universal Soldier" movie he's working on will be any good, though... Quote:
That's the problem with Hollywood and the way they depict gun ownership. Either they show average people using nothing about hunting rifles, shotguns, and revolvers (while only police/military types get the latest semi-auto pistols and assault weapons), or they show criminals going into gun stores and buying fully automatic weapons as if to imply that this happens in real life. In other words, two different extremes that don't represent reality. It's not like they'd ever show "good" average guys legitimately owning using semi-auto AR-15s to protect themselves, like many folks I know. Only BGs and government types get to use the nasty black rifles in Hollywoodland. Nobody else. Quote:
Oh, yes, and I also miss how, in the 1990s movies, it used to be that every single subgun was either an Uzi or an MP5, and every assault rifle was an M16 or an AK. The newer weapons like the FN P90 and UMP and MP7 just don't have the same on-screen appeal. Quote:
I also find it hard to imagine that politics play into it because of how many films I see where it's obvious that the director has a fixation upon the firearms. You can always tell that the director likes the guns when they show lots of close-ups of the weapon being loaded/cocked, or just handled in general. An example I always think of is F. Gary Gray, who's quite liberal in real life. Yet his movie "The Negotiator" is basically two and a half hours of SIG P226 worship, or maybe even fetishism (check it out if you don't believe me). Last edited by MT2008; 11-15-2009 at 02:15 AM. |
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Yeah, there is a bit of a lack of Hi-power's in movies, which is a shame. The last thing i remember seeing it with enough screen time is the FEG clone in American Gangster (does that count ). Also, i believe in the video game Killer 7 (which i hope to make a page for soon) Curtis carry's two Hi-powers.
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Id like to see everyday guns, I know more people with ruger p-series than kimber warriors, and more people carrying lcps than the m92fs. Springer xds are fairly common, people seem to like them better than glunks, bt the only movie i've seen an xd fired in is crank.
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