If by “television” you include advertising, and if by “stupid” you mean “awesome”, I give you this spot from the 2016 political season.
Yep, that’s the movie I Wanted.
If we are going with gun noises, how about every drawn gun in movies that makes all kinds of clicks, snicks, etc when moving them? They don’t work like that. They aren’t a bunch of loosely connected metal parts.
While we’re on the subject, going into a tense situation, making a statement, then cocking a hammer or racking a slide to emphasize it. Either they went in with an empty chamber, rendering a firearm useless for at least a couple seconds when you might need it, or they wasted a perfectly good cartridge.
Sometimes they rack the slide or pump the shotgun action multiple times!
Again, not really a trick, but:
I love the original Robocop, but it drives me up the wall when he busts down the door to the drug warehouse and everyone starts shooting at him and 2/3 of the bullets are impacting the floor at his feet! like they all are shooting at his tootsies and missing. You’d think the majority of the bullets would impact the wall behind him. This actually happens in a boatload of TV shows/movies.
Jaws is my favorite movie (obviously), but shooting a scuba tank with an M1 Garand or any other rifle doesn’t cause an explosion. Mythbusters did test it and the best you can hope for is a small hole in the tank and the tank flying around due to the rocket effect of the air escaping.
You would think so…but
Mythbusters also busted the beginning of Saving Private Ryan where the bullets where seen lethally ripping through the water for many feet.
I assume they start to tumble and veer and lose a lot of kinetic energy.
So, how deep do I have to be before the “swimming” bullets just tickle me?
When Jaws was first in theaters, someone asked Jacque Cousteau his opinion of the ending and he kind of snorted and said if you could score a hit on the tank, the shark would stand on its tail and dance backward across the water! Would you pay good money to see that? You sure the hell would!
Depends of course on what sort of gun and ammo.
But I recall long ago reading from a reasonable source that bullets from a typical hunting rifle (e.g. .30-06) fired straight down into the water would be stopped within 10 feet.
That is why underwater guns fire flechettes or other specially-designed bullets.
Exactly. One of my main complaints about long distance shooting also. The bullets are impacting the ground around our hero which means the shooter miscalculated the yardage by about 300 yards. The bullets (if they miss the target) would be hitting far down range.
Mythbusters also tested this. They fired into a clear plastic tank about 10 feet deep. I forget the exact distances the various bullets went but the 12 gauge slug blew the bottom out of the tank and destroyed it.
Movies feature monsters like Godzilla 2014 that easily survive bomb attacks.
Yet, later in the film soldiers with rifles line up with M16’s.
It’s pointless to even carry guns when fighting Godzilla or the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe).
I guess directors like the visual of using infantry with M16’s. Their effectiveness doesn’t matter.
As already mentioned, Mythbusters tested this. High speed rifle rounds tended to disintegrate within 3 feet or so. Slower moving and less energetic rounds from pistols went further, up to about 8 feet or so into their 10 foot pool. As mentioned, the shotgun slug made it all the way through the pool.
I’m not sure how far the rounds from Saving Private Ryan would have penetrated into the water. Had the weapons been fired close to the water, the rounds would have disintegrated quickly and not penetrated very far (a few feet, tops), but the Germans weren’t firing from the edge of the water. They were back some distance, allowing the rifle and machine gun rounds to lose some energy before hitting the water.
For movie/TV Mythbusters-type gun tricks, Hollywood Weapons does just about any one you can think of. The setups are often very cheesy but Terry Schaffert does have a legit military background and Larry Zanoff is one of the best studio armorers in the the business.
Here’s a stupid gun trick, the Jet Li pulling the slide off of an enemy’s weapon in Lethal Weapon 4, analyzed by Forgotten Weapons on Youtube. While you aren’t going to be able to pull this off in real life, it’s surprisingly close to being possible. And with a particular model of pistol (as Ian shows in the video) it is basically possible.
That is a failure on 2 counts, as the actual landing zone was several hundred yards away from the German bunkers, not the 100 or so that is seen/implied in the film, making the angle shallow enough that they would just richochet off the surface of the water and never penetrate at all.