Gun tropes that bug you in games/movies/TV

[Stschil]

In addition to all of the movie blunders (not a gamer, so no issues there), my most current pet peeve comes from 'Swamp People'. Though I love the show, it kills me when they over dub the .22 rifle shots with high powered gun shot sounds.

 

[nailknocker]

I have never understood when oxygen became an explosive. I remember one of those doctor shows, where some nut planted a bomb in the hospital, bomb squad shows up and informs everybody that the bomb is attached to the main oxygen line. If she blows, the whole building will evaporate, hmm.

 

[cintile]

I hate how Jack Bower can shoot something with a pistol from 20 miles away, and then half the time what he shoots explodes as if he just used a rocket launcher.

 

[CPT Nervous]

Not gun related, but why does every car crash end up exploding? Seriously, like every time a car hits anything, it blows up. If real life was like that, fender benders would end up killing dozens of people. Is everything in movies just chemically unstable?

 

[hopper68]

Not gun related, but why does every car crash end up exploding? Seriously, like every time a car hits anything, it blows up. If real life was like that, fender benders would end up killing dozens of people. Is everything in movies just chemically unstable?

Top Secret Pinto scene - YouTube

 

[ArcadiaGP]

This. Right here.

[video=youtube;i4iDWXstrWY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4iDWXstrWY[/video]

 

[CathyInBlue]

Is everything in movies just chemically unstable?

Heath Ledger

River Phoenix

Jim Belushi

Chris Farley

Andy Kaufman

Elvis Presley

Macaulay Culkin

Matthew Perry

Robert Downey, Jr.

Lindsey Lohan

Amanda Bynes

Miley Cyrus

Yeah, I'd say everything in Hollywood is chemicly unstable.

 

[JetGirl]

You forgot Sheen.

 

[Patternpimp]

Last season Rick told Carl to roll down the window before firing a gun inside of a car. At least Ricks TV character learns from his mistakes.

Firing guns from inside a small space or car, yeah... they really don't represent the concussive force of that very well.

Walking Dead actually got this one right... When Rick was in the tank in an early episode and fired it, he practically knocked himself out from the shot

 

[JettaKnight]

This had to be mentioned, but worth repeating - the incessant racking of slides!

Also, none of these slides ever lock back after the last round.

 

[indiucky]

This had to be mentioned, but worth repeating - the incessant racking of slides!

Also, none of these slides ever lock back after the last round.

A funny thing about that.

I watched the DVD of "Lost" and they had a special feature entightled, "The right to keep and bear arms, the guns of Lost". In it the actors talked about "IC's" or "Inappropriate Cocks" and on that show it became an inside joke among the actors to "rack the slide or bolt back" at moments during filming that would be inappropriate...When you watch the show you will see scenes where someone is spilling out their guts about some tender moment in their life and all of a sudden you will hear the sound of a bolt or slide being racked back by one of the others on set...They also said that to a T none of them wanted the FN FAL due to the weight of the gun...I know the one guy said as he was getting his script for the day he would be chanting in his head, "Glock, Glock, Glock, Oh please let it be the Glock today"and then all of a sudden he would see the Gun Wrangler coming up to him with the FN FAL and he would get PO'ed...They showed one scene where the scene called on one of the actors to toss him the FN FAL and when he caught it he kind of shoots a dirty look at the other actor who tossed him the weapon and you can see it in the seen...

 

[twfshelton]

How about the a suppressor just screws on any gun without a threaded barrel. And in one scene, guy has a glock and the next a 1911

 

[JetGirl]

in one scene, guy has a glock and the next a 1911

That's just called "upgrading"...and it's a real thing.

 

[Scout]

The repeated "click click click" when someone with a pistol runs out of ammo.
The fake gunfire that sounds like firecrackers in a garbage can. (first Batman movie)

 

[Faiden]

Pointing any gun causes a "chik" sound. A particularly bad one I saw recently was when the camera followed a round that had been fired from a rifle... well, apparently the round gets expelled out the barrel, casing and all. Who knew.

 

[BuddieReigns]

I'm fairly certain it is this movie: Chains (1989) - IMDb . I know the movie was called Chains. My friends in I would rent it on VHS in high school over and over because it was so bad. There was a scene where the huge gang had cornered two couples out for a date who happened to find themselves in the wrong neighborhood in Chicago I believe, and then they become involved with a gang member who is being chased by the huge rival gang. Well they end up in some abandoned building and a sniper from outside behind cover shoots one of the boyfriends through the window, and suddenly the gang member that has teamed up with them jumps up to the window and just shoots without aiming or having any possible ability to know where the sniper is, and shoots the sniper right in the head with s snub nosed revolver, and then yells, "A**shole!." It was hilarious. We would watch that scene over an over again.

 

[dcr465]

TV show Person of Interest. 5 people in car. Passenger in back seat phone rings. At same time front seat passenger emptys a pump shotgun out the window at bad guys. The back seat passenger then hands phone to shotgunner and he proceeds to talk on it as the car merrily speeds away. LMAO!!!! I'm pretty sure 6 12ga blast in car would be really close to setting off a Flash-Bang grenade in there (probably a lite on the flash). Anyway, why weren't all the occupants squirting blood out their ears!!!

 

[drysdaleg]

My wife listening to some horrible song by Nikki minja? Some sort of clown rap lady on MTV all the time. One song she talks about a glock, then the song pauses and you heat a hammer cock back.

Drives me nuts.

 

[Bartman]

It gets on my nerves to see anyone on tv or movies pumping a shotgun one handed.

 

[CPT Nervous]

It gets on my nerves to see anyone on tv or movies pumping a shotgun one handed.

Yes, but that's possible.