Guns in the movies.

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So all this research into pistols over the past month or so has got me totally discombubilated. Last night I was watching the new Get Smart movie and I found myself picking out the models of pistols they were using in the various scenes. 23 using the big Desert Eagle, Smart plucking the Berreta 92 off the display of the old stuff, and a couple of other models that I can't remember at the moment.

I'm sure I'm not alone in this. I'm sure at least some of you look at the guns first to see if you can pick out the model and THEN look at the decolletage of the leading lady? Com'on now, be honest..... :D
 
I've been naming the guns since I was a small child. Every time there's one on tv or a movie, wife looks at me and says; 'what kind of gun is that'. She gets a kick outta me always knowing the model

I'm so in love with them, to me the gun steals the scene lol

Hollywood is however, amazing at ####ing gun specifics up; revolvers firing 10 or more rounds, hand guns being loaded to the sound of a shotgun pump racking, big guns having no recoil. Dumb #### like that
 
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The best is in the matrix when they go into the main floor of that building and are shooting all the gaurds. "neo" is shooting mulitple pistols and submachine guns shooting pistol rounds and they cut to a close up of .223 rounds flooding towards the floor. I love finding firearm related continuety errors.
 
How about use issues, anyone else watch a show and think - no way he could do that without getting a great big owie. Keefer Sutherland is one of the best, he's modified the modified Weaver so much that he's in danger of losing an eye to the slide on his Sig. One of the few movies that I've seen that wasn't too bad in that department was Collateral with Tom Cruise. Anyone else see decent use in a film?
 
^ Yea Collateral was really good in terms of realistic gun usage, so was Heat
...and Miami Vice...

Weren't those all directed by Michael Mann? LOL He must be a GunNut
 
BCRider said:
So all this research into pistols over the past month or so has got me totally discombubilated. Last night I was watching the new Get Smart movie and I found myself picking out the models of pistols they were using in the various scenes. 23 using the big Desert Eagle, Smart plucking the Berreta 92 off the display of the old stuff, and a couple of other models that I can't remember at the moment.

I'm sure I'm not alone in this. I'm sure at least some of you look at the guns first to see if you can pick out the model and THEN look at the decolletage of the leading lady? Com'on now, be honest..... :D
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yea, the gun takes the scene.. probably the whole scene, heck half the time I hardly notice the "decolletage of the leading lady"
 
Fonix said:
^ Yea Collateral was really good in terms of realistic gun usage, so was Heat
...and Miami Vice...

Weren't those all directed by Michael Mann? LOL He must be a GunNut
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The only thing about "Heat" was when they started into the big face off in the street they forgot to dub in sound effects of the bullets bouncing off of every damn thing (I used to love shooting low at the range back in the army and hearing all the weird noises the ricocheting bullets would make) :D
 
Fonix said:
I've been naming the guns since I was a small child. Every time there's one on tv or a movie, wife looks at me and says; 'what kind of gun is that'. She gets a kick outta me always knowing the model

I'm so in love with them, to me the gun steals the scene lol

Hollywood is however, amazing at f**king gun specifics up; revolvers firing 10 or more rounds, hand guns being loaded to the sound of a shotgun pump racking, big guns having no recoil. Dumb s**t like that
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This is how I am with helicopters. They almost ALWAYS play the wrong sound for the helicopter in the scene. For some reason they seem to think every helicopter needs to sound like a Huey.
 
Fonix said:
^ Yea Collateral was really good in terms of realistic gun usage, so was Heat
...and Miami Vice...

Weren't those all directed by Michael Mann? LOL He must be a GunNut
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:shotgun: Watch the special features on the Collateral DVD.
 
i love it in the 3rd bourne movie when bourne is pointing his gun at the shrink, and it goes for sig to glock and back and forth with the camra angles :)
 
I love to call the gun the guy carry, and the one flaw that you see often in movie is the slide lock, and you keep hearing the same guy shooting.

Michael Mann use to have is actors trained in the proper use of firearms. I cant remember the name of the guy, but He was an ex-cop and former firearms trainer for police. And that show in his movie and TV show. Miami Vice was the first cop show too be so near reality. And still one of the best in my mind.

Another caracters that was not too bad before he keep doing D movies styles , was Steven Seagal. This guys is a real Martial art expert, he blend his shooting technics with is martial art. He keep using an old Colt 1911a1, as stock as possible in most of his movie. I read a paper a while ago about him. This guy his shooting every day, it is part of his training. But , in his last movie, I think he stop training, cos he keep getting bigger...

Yves
 
SMITH45 said:
Michael Mann use to have is actors trained in the proper use of firearms. I cant remember the name of the guy, but He was an ex-cop and former firearms trainer for police. And that show in his movie and TV show. Miami Vice was the first cop show too be so near reality. And still one of the best in my mind.
Yves
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Jim Zubiena. An old IPSC guy. This was him in this clip.
h ttp://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q2Il86-38A
 
Nobody has mentioned this website yet? ... I like it quite a bit, and it gets a little better all the time. Some of the articles are very well done (and some need a lot of work.... and the beauty of it is, you are free to contribute if you think you know better, or can do better).

BCRider said:
...the new Get Smart movie...
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http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Get_Smart

c4pyro said:
The best is in the matrix...
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http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=The_Matrix

ian_in_vic said:
One of the few movies that I've seen that wasn't too bad in that department was Collateral with Tom Cruise.
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http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Collateral

Fonix said:
^ Yea Collateral was really good in terms of realistic gun usage, so was Heat
...and Miami Vice...
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http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Heat

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Miami_Vice_(2006)

relliott said:
Check out the movie Ronin. Great cars as well as the guns. Best car chase sequence since Bullit!
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http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Ronin

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Bullitt

reid134 said:
i love it in the 3rd bourne movie...
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http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=The_Bourne_Ultimatum
 
you think that was something- the old "get smart" had a panel behind the chief's desk that held most of the armoury- i can remember racks and racks of M3 carbines, some with night sights, some not, but all were m3's- like they went into the cmp and bought every one in the place- granted, it was kind of farcical, as kaos's guns were all mp40s and lugers, but it made for a good show- as far as pistols were concerned, control seemed to prefer 2 inch revolvers in 38 spcl- i can't recall whether they were colt s or s&w-
 
I have a Browning P35 that was used in the gun display in the movie Rambo filmed in Hope B.C.



Iwas in 434 fighter squadron with NATO in Germany 1959 to 1963.
 
magnum research inc. actually have a desert eagle movie featured section at the very top of their homepage
 
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