While the Peckinpah film is in my Top 10 of all time, “bullet time” was a special effect while what The Wild Bunch used was traditional slow-motion (and Bonnie and Clyde did it first two years earlier).
Going totally from memory … but wasn’t the briefish firefight at the beginning of Alien Nation somewhat realistic?
Open Range was quite good. It shows that it showed how many time you shoot and the bullet just misses. Also that you just need to walk right up to the bad guy and pull the trigger.
You mean the part where the gun shoots through an entire car?:dubious:
Get thee to the Box O’ Truth. No, it’s not rigorously scientific, but I find the site interesting, and besides, “shooting stuff is fun.” Brassfetcher.com is another interesting site with lots of pictures of the author shooting large hunks of ballistic gelatin and examining the cavities.
Cars are usually concealment, not cover, particularly if your opponent is using saboted shotgun slugs, as I remember the baddies using in “Alien Nation”. The engine block may be different, but shotgun slugs usually have the right of way over everything else on the car.
Thanks also to the recommendations for “Open Range”. Youtube has the final gunfight on it (in three parts). I disagree with the guys shrugging off getting hit with .45 slugs as much as they do, but the scene was very entertaining.
I’d like to nominate—at the very least so it’ll be easier for me to remember to check this thread for updates :D—Rambo IV for an honorable mention, only for it’s attempt at showing the effects of a .50 BMG on a living target.
Probably not for anything more than that, aside from the unflinching brutality and the lovely sound design.
Came in here to say this…it’s consistently lauded by gun experts as getting it 100% right in every scene.