The Worst Hollywood Gun Tropes in Movies & TV!?!
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Nobody wears a god damn holster. Dude will stuff a desert eagle into the waisteband of their grey sweatpants and then it never falls out when they're sprinting.
One that irks me, almost everything is cover. People hiding behind plywood doors, car doors, around the corner of a home interior wall... and the bullets never get through those things. I remember one show/movie scene where a couch was stopping bullets.
We all hate the hospital scene in _Transporter 2_ when the ruse is up and Lola fires her full auto pistols at Frank who's using an office door as a shield. ~_~
I hate it when someone is being chased in a life-threatening situation and they ignore or throw away an available weapon that could totally change their predicament.
Something they DIDN'T DO in the first Die Hard. In fact he even utilized the 9mm ammo from the terrorist's HK MP5 sub machinegun in his own Beretta 92F (pre FS). He also used their HK MP5s he picked up along the way and their own plastic explosives to their demise. That was written like how it would play out in real life. If you see a select fire HK MP5 just laying there with a bunch of extra magazines you aren't just going to run off all willy nilly leaving it lay while you are completely outnumbered and outgunned.
Indoor gun fights where people are whispering to each other like everyone can hear just fine.
Two detective have a shootout in some seedy apartment hallway, 5 minutes later they're having a normal conversation as though they didn't just obliterate their hearing.
One thing that annoys me in movies is when someone holds another person at gunpoint with single action pistol that isn't cocked (or worse - there's no bullet in the chamber) and only later cocks the hammer (or racks the slide) for dramatic effect. It's even worse when it's a standoff and the other person could just shoot them with no risk.
Another thing is that pistols often don't lock back on empty when they should and instead the click of an empty gun is how they realize they ran out of ammo.
Bugs me when a cowboy is resting his rifle on a rock and is shooting at somebody approximately 50 yards away and the bullet ricochets off the Rocks 3 ft from the guy he's shooting at. But then on the other hand he can hit him from 200 yards, while on a horse at a full Gallop from 200 yards away with a Six-Gun
Mine is when the hero runs out of ammo, all the bodies and guns from the people who died, and he doesn't grab a gun and mags.
The gun trope I hate is when someone goes into a California gun store (or store in any other ban state) and comes out with an AR-15 ten minutes later. One example is Reacher who had no ID and bought a bunch of firearms from an FFL in New York.
I really hated the line in “What we do in the shawdows”. That quotes that.
I thought that the show implied that Reacher had robbed the store 😂
@@garrettlundy3959 No, in season 2, he simply bribed the owner with a lot of cash.
Well that’s the way it should be.
Like most things in Hollywood, reality is optional... Very optional. Good guy shoulder wound, seeing daylight through a bullet wound, throwing a gun when it runs out of ammo, racking a shotgun slide more than once to intimidate a suspect.
My pet peeves are cocking sound with striker fired; besides cops, no one ever carries in a holster, handguns can outshoot rifles; in cop shows, the detective with their handgun will enter the room first ahead of SWAT with their rifles; one is ever deaf after a shootout; trigger finger discipline; lousy cover like a couch will stop bullets; getting a handgun shot out of a hand without major injury; silencers are whisper quiet.
6 gun that shoots 20 times with outloading
In western TV shows and movies all the characters are shooting Winchester model 92s, and it is obvious that the time period is the 1870s or 1880s.
All these shows where the plain clothes officers don't carry any spare magazines or they do a raid and nobody except for the swat guys have long guns. Another one is the amount of shoot outs that they do, and nobody gets taken off the case and put on a desk.
The jackal, Bruce willis... Bruce, we love ya man. But the dude gets his arm blown off and doesn't go into shock. Doesn't bleed out in seconds... just starts running.😂😂
I mean I'm sure it'd take longer than seconds before you die from getting your arm blown off. He did only live like 30 seconds after that anyway
The one I really can't stand is when they open the cylinder and spin it and it makes that ratcheting sound like single action non swing out cylinder revolver.
I’m actually neurally sensitive (essentially cursed with being overly stimulated. In my case an over saturation of detail), and I can’t help but count the rounds fired. It’s my biggest pet peeve with them shooting unlimited rounds, and never reloading.
In the final shootout (Sons of Katie Elder) the Duke fired his Colt 16 times w/out reloading. In Tombstone, Doc (Val Kilmer) fired his DB “Street Howitzer” 3 times.
There are many tropes that annoy me. However, one that really fries me is someone firing a full auto Glock 18C one-handed. There is no way anyone can do it with the amount of recoil and lift that has!
There's no way anyone without training could, but I've seen it done.
Not a gun trope but tires squealing on dirt
I hate it when they make suppressors sound like whispers.. And when they pew pew someone, the other guy 10 feet away can't hear it...
3 things . 1. rapid firing a bolt action rifle without working the bolt. 2. When bullets bounce off cars and trees without leaving so much as a scratch but just a spark, and 3. This one was in my all time favorite movie Saving Private Ryan, which except for this one part i think the most realistic war movie In the initial assault on the beach, the firing of m1 garand rifles with barely any report and absolutely no recoil.
The lack of recoil is annoying.
The whole Tremors series is free on TH-cam right now, Burt Gummer is the best firearms guy In any movie series. He has detailed monologues about what sort of ammo is effective against various graboids, shriekers, and ass blasters.
In no particular order...
1. Slides that lock back too early on semiauto pistols. Even thought the magazine might hold 12 rounds, the armorer only loaded 3 blanks because the actor is only supposed to fire 3 rounds in that scene. (Pulp Fiction)
2. Strong side belt holsters worn as cross draw holsters (Minority Report)
3. Silencers on revolvers.
4. Shotguns that don't recoil when fired (like in Heat)
5. Have you noticed that when racking a pump shotgun the sound it makes is different when it has ammo in it? The sound they use in movies is usually the sound made by racking an empty shotgun.
6. Semiauto shotguns that do not eject an empty shell casing when fired (No Country for Old Men).
The trope that pisses me off the most is the gun shop trope where every conceivable military weapon is hanging on the wall. Machine guns, Laws rocket, Bazookas, hand-grenades. (Commando-Schwarzenegger)
Commando was 1985 and pre Hughes Amendment 1986. MGs were much easier to come by then and not much more than their semi-auto only counterparts.
Reacher season 1 hurt me when Reacher says that 90 grain 9mm means it was subsonic. It was pivotal to the whole plot for the gun to be suppressed. And the only clue was the bullet weight. And they went with a lighter than standard for caliber bullet weight. Tell me you know nothing about guns, without telling me you know nothing about guns.
Revolvers that never need to be reloaded.
When they rack the slide after pointing the gun at them for 5 minutes.
Regardless of genre, but especially cop shows, they draw their pistol and check to see if it's loaded. Really?, you're caring an unloaded pistol on duty?
a 9mm bullet throws a 190cm bad guy back 3 meters but a couch or a turned tabletop stops bullets
"Trained professionals" using folding stock rifles or submachineguns and never bothering to extend the stock and fire the weapon correctly.
I believe it was Ozombie where a soldier charges an M16 like it was an AK. He grabs air next to the ejection port and pulls on nothing, but there is a cycle sound effect. A quick google search could have prevented this.
Early on in the walking dead Shane carries his glock in a holster, in season two however he starts carrying it Mexican style appendix without a holster. All for the hollywood cool I suppose? At least they got somewhat better in the holster department later on.
Haha. I just watched SPECTRE last month: the movie where James Bond shoots down a helicopter at 150+ yards, from a moving speed boat, with a .380 PPK 😂
And you’ve already covered my favorite trope: The off screen shotgun pump sound effect followed by the camera cutting to a character holding a double barreled gun
So I will list something you didn’t cover: The actor/actress who doesn’t know how handguns work OR the director that doesn’t have a functional prop gun so they just hold the gun perfectly steady and CGI a fireball over the muzzle when they need to shoot…. Now that I think about it, that may have helped Alec Baldwin 🤣
As long as they have cuts where they don't shoot a lot before the cut, I just head canon that they reload during the cut away.
Regarding the "Drop your gun or your girlfriend dies!" trope, I appreciated how the first MIB movie actually addressed that with the bug hiding fully behind his hostage while Tommy Lee Jones taunted him to show his face and they'll put him out of his misery. Slightly realistic part in a completely unrealistic movie!
Revolvers with a suppressor that makes no sound
My thing is the noise. They fire these guns and act like the bang has no impact. Even indoors or in a car it's like the noise is no big deal.
But Yankee, the Glock people tell me that their pistols have 3 internal safeties...you just have to pull the trigger to deactivate them. 😅
Almost every shootout that takes place outside and people are taking cover behind a metal object (e.g., cars, dumpsters, etc.), there are sparks flying off of whatever metal objects the bullets hit. Why?
The Simpsons is famous for showing pump double-barrel shotguns. At least in my house.
I hate the indoor gun battles with multiple shooters, and there is no smoke filling the room.
The 43 shot revolver....
Agree, in EVERY scene just before a gun is to appear you ALWAYS hear a sound of a gun being cocked or a slide being racked, regardless of what the story line is. Does Hollywood think we’re so stupid we won’t know a gun when we see it?
Long story short Bruce Willis made me LAUGH SO HARD in Die Hard 4. "That's enough of this kung fu s***!" I fight dirty!! Just keep on doing what you are doing kid!🤣😉
Reminded me of "They Live" 1987 with Rowdy Rod Piper. "You dirty MFer!" Lol
Hearing a slide racking on a revolver drives me crazy
Burt from tremors was great, tackleberry in police academy, but predator 2, where's any officer that has a desert eagle?
I'm sure there's Pig Bois who own Desert Eagles. They just don't carry them. It's likely they only pose with their Desert Eagles in front of the bathroom in their black silk thongs in a bid to feel like they're badasses.
@@williambray4134
Plenty of people use Desert Eagle .44s and .50s for deer and bears.
@JohnDoeEagle1 Well no shit, but that wasn't the question now was it?
Semi auto emptied out, slide locked to the back and the gun keeps on clicking while the trigger is being pulled, it is just hilarious XD.
Also, whipping the pistol while shooting, I guess for increased velocity SMH
What annoys me is that rarely do actors use their ejector rods on revolver (mostly westerns)
They always shake the revolver in a hurry😂
Walking dead head shots with no sights
Bond used an Armalite AR-7 in .22lr to shoot down the helicopter. (Goldfinger) No doubt Q supplied 007 with explosive, heat seeking bullets.
It makes me laugh when a bolt action rifle automatically ejects casings across the room without the sniper ever moving anything other than eyes and trigger finger.
bullet proof car doors...
Revolvers with silencers
I love that Ruger hat
Pumping a SxS and including the sound of Pumping when it's a break action smdh.
Also they will he had a registered or an unregistered firearm, cause not every state makes you have to register your firearms.
Firearms registry is against federal law. Hint.
@JasonG-y5g tell that to the state of New York, Illinois, or California. All three states require to have a license to purchase a firearm.
No california doesn't @@robinshull6510
i can't remember the movie name but it happened in the third movie, a guy was shooting a lever action without working the lever and he put ridiculously fake recoil on it too
Recoil, recoil? What movie bothered to fake recoil, realistic or not?
@@Flipperhome jeepers creepers
@@gerardmcquade9102 I didn't see that one but I think I made my point. Realistic gun play is exceeding y rare if it exists at all
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The slides racking and hammer cocking doesn't bother me much because they serve a narrative purpose. It isn't just about effect, the audience is trained to know these sounds and it helps the scene move along without any extra explanation...there's a gun in play.
They really should be able to use the right sounds with the right weapons though. Most of the time "props" are actual guns so we know they have access to them
No recoil!
They all rattle 😄
In what about bon when the call the shotgun a rifle, drives me nuts evrey time
Watch that The Jackal tv show that came out recently 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Gun trope: Making a cocking sound with a Glock, Makeing a racking sound with a single shot shot gun. Scilencer on a revolver or shotgun.
There are shotgun and revolver suppressors
Bond took down the helicopter with an AR-7. I believe it is supposed to be chambered in .22Lr. Not to say that it would take down a helicopter in reality, just not a .32Acp and not a shot from a short PPK barrel.
The armourer (not Q yet) says that the break-down rifle (AR-7) is in "point two five caliber". Why not .22? Just sounds larger? Film maker logic often escapes me.
The cup and saucer technique of holding a gun, especially if they are portraying a soldier, spy, tactical FBI agent. Or the hammer cocking noise on a stricker fired gun.
I can't stand that click click 💩 either
In From Russia With Love James Bond shoots down a helicopter with a 22LR from an ArmaLite AR-7 survival rifle.
Over exaggerated recoil
Underrated recoil
@TheYankeeMarshal , John Wick is the most accurate.
Way too much CGI and "gun fu" for me....
@ but it's probably the best portrayal of guns in movies, and personally as a martial artist I like the style of fighting he uses. It's direct and precise.
You're kidding... John Wick: Chapter 2 has the worst trope of suppressed pistols, making no sound ever done in a movie.
@ yeah, I understand that that part is not quite accurate, but other parts are very accurate, at least compared to literally every other movie out there.
@davidguymon1673 HEAT 1995 Michael Mann knows his guns, being a gun nut himself. Even the audio of gunfire is realistic sounding.
It's not a movie or tv show for me. It's a videogame, in Fallout 4 when I unholster the double action 44 revolver the character spins the cylinder, ruined the game for me. I play FO New Vegas, or Fallout 1 or 2, instead.
I shudder every time I think about that God-awful abomination of a shotgun in Fallout 3.
The constant slide racking.
One I don't like is the guns akimbo trope, in real life it's incredibly impractical, hard to aim accurately and reloading is ridiculously difficult, and this is in some of my favorite shows like Black Lagoon and Soul Eater.
What trope is that? I know what arms akimbo is, but a "guns akimbo" position would be preposterous even in an anime....
@@_XR40_ It means dual wielding guns typically pistols, it's a trope you see in alot of media.
@@NouveauView Okay, guess that makes some sense. Just never heard that phrase, so it made weird mental images...
See if you can do a video without flailing your hands around the whole time while you talk.
I remember watching a movie with Burt Reynolds it was called " Malone". A guy with a model 19 Smith & Wesson revolvers he had a silencer on the end of the barrel. Go watch the movie you'll see it it's in the beginning of the movie so you don't have to sit through the whole movie.
"Silenced" revolvers are in a lot of old movies. Only reason you don't see more of it these days is that most movies don't even show revolvers any more....