Shows/Films ruined by cruddy gunfights

[Lenny]

Conversely I was going to mention The Raid as an example where cheapo After-Effects post-production gun effects worked really well (as opposed to TWD). Each to their own!

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by Lenny

Conversely I was going to mention The Raid as an example where cheapo After-Effects post-production gun effects worked really well (as opposed to TWD). Each to their own!

Like I said, it didn't ruin the movie, it was very convincing. If you didn't watch the special features, I don't think the casual viewer would ever know. But if you're going to go all the way with the training, it's a shame not to go with real guns.

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

If you didn't watch the special features, I don't think the casual viewer would ever know.

Aye, had me fooled. I was so swept up in it I didn't know for a long time they were Airsoft. At a shoe string budget of, what, 2 million dollars, it can be excused I guess. But given that TWD has a budget of around that per episode, plus access to what looks like real firearms (or decommissioned/blank adapted ones anyway), you would have thought the sfx and general realism of the gunfights would be better (hell, I could do a better job storyboarding and using After Effects, gimme a job, AMC!).

[Excalibur]

I think with the Raid, perhaps the reason why there are no real guns could be both the fact that it was a low budget production and that the filming was in a country that has really strict gun control and probably because of their limited budget, they didn't get or couldn't get blank guns. I was a bit surprised that the cop characters had rifles with silencers but no optics. Then again, in the behind the scenes training, neither did the rifles they worked with