For the people who are miscounting the shots fired: Murtaugh shot the first hole. Riggs used the same target and fired 7 shots. 8 shots, 8 holes. Riggs turned Murtaugh's shot into the nose of his smiley face. 🎯🙂 Have a Nice Day!
Of course, real shooters don’t act surprised when the gun goes bang. Of course my group would be about the size of a soccer ball at that range and speed but I don’t blink quite as much. And slow fire two or three tries at 5 yards I may be able to come close to duplicating his character’s accuracy.
I just realized the true significance of this scene .. It's not just about displaying their shooting skills ... But it also signifies the moment they realized they had just became partners as they are discussing the case.
I didn’t think of that, but I better understood what they were talking about. Sometimes I wait too long to watch movies I originally saw when I was young.
@@aviatorgamer3057 right. But we are noticing it because of competence in firearms, all the information and training available to us. But this is the 80s/90s I don't think many people back then noticed it as most of us do these days. But yes it would have been much more better if he didn't flinch. He's ex special forces, an excellent marksman and a badass cop. So he mustn't flinch
@@picallo1 I don't think that it's so much he's flinching it's because he's probably shooting blanks and The recoil is more in the front from blanks so it throws you off
It's called suspension of disbelief. I find it's something I have to use when enjoying 80's cop movies. Watching Riggs flinch while shooting in Lethal Weapon, Watching Jack Cates shoot more than 6 shots out of his revolver in the movie 48 Hours. I just set my disbelief aside so I can enjoy the movie 😅
When I was a kid I thought this scene was so awesome and still do, but as an adult that has to qualify regularly I noticed how he is flinching during every shot which is not so good...but still love the movie.
ROGER: "That's pretty fucking thin. " ROGER: "What the hell, thins my middle name." RIGGS: " Your wife's cooking I'm not surprised." ROGER: "Remarks like that will not get you invited to Christmas dinner." RIGGS: "My lucks changing for the better everyday!" 😂😂😂
when we were doing our yearly qualification day in the military my motor sergeant came out with his zero target complaining they had kicked him off the range. he had shot a + in the center circle and was currently drawing the circle around it. i'm a good shot, but holy shit. and yes i saw the target, he was halfway through the circle. he got removed because it was supposed to be zero and leave and he was essentially wasting the range's time.
@@Iggybart05the dipstick range instructor needed a Panama in his ass. Any time you see a soldier having fun with a skill, you see if that guy wants to make a sideways move to a more clandestine part of the job. Nice way to tell those that were aspiring for something greater to just fuck off. Any wonder why nobody wants to enlist?
spit'n Image + Spot on , the best TV cop duo has to be David Soul / Paul michael Glaser in "Starsky and Hutch" just Like Mel Gibson / Danny Glover they made A Great Duo to Watch , A Casting Agents Dream Pairing.......
Roger: Hell thins my middle name. Riggs: Yeah with you're Wife's cooking I'm not surprised. 🔫🔫🔫🔫 Roger: What!? Riggs: Nothing. Roger: Remarks like that will not get you invited to Christmas dinner. Riggs: My luck's change for the better every day.
Man... its been how may years since this came out and we still haven't gotten a buddy cop action series as good as this? So happy that i grew up with the full vhs set of L1-4.
I carried an M9 for 2 years (Base Security Norfolk) immediately following 9/11. My favorite day was qualifying with it (expert ribbon). I wanted a range gun so last Memorial Day weekend I got one on sale. That is one sweet firing firearm and buttery smooth.
They made several Lethal weapon movies together, and they had a brief scene in Maverick, like Lucki said... But yes, I wished they'd made more together...
It might be a reflex, since I've personally seen people who do the same, even when they're completely and 100% right on target... I even saw a young lady, in my "delayed entry program" for the navy, who had never shot a gun before, who kept both eyes open until the actual shot happened, and yet was the best shooter of the group... It defied most explanations and observations, but it proved that you can't define a book by the cover. I still wonder, to this day, where she, and her career, went from that day...
@@Arcturus572 I'm confused. When I was in delayed entry for 6 months waiting to ship to great lakes, we didn't do anything. We were just in our regular daily lives waiting to go to basic. We definitely didn't go shooting. Even in basic we didn't shoot for quite a few weeks in.
@@AccountInactive, I grew up around the army, and my dad was working at Fort Chaffee at the time I entered DEP, and he worked at the training aid service center, so I had access to all kinds of fun stuff, including a M-16 trainer... So my dad offered time on the weekends to the recruiters, to give the DEP kids some immersion into the military... I also had the privilege of being on board ship, and telling my dad that I'd like some of the aircraft recognition cards that the army had, and he loaded up a big box with all kinds of stuff and had it shipped to me, for free... I did have to explain to the CO and my division officer why I was getting such a big box, from an army base, and I was glad to give the ship training aids for all kinds of stuff like CBR aids, plenty of playing cards (I think I had enough for at least 5-6 decks per division), and all kinds of GTA's for a variety of things.
Years ago there was a tv show that had this bad Chinese guy who was fucking great at Kung fu...except he closed his eyes whenever he was striking. The cop who was chasing him found out about his nervous tick. The guy had the cop down but he blinked and the cop shot him right in the face. I wish I could remember the name of that show
Like a lot of creative people Gibson clearly is bipolar. A man living on the edge of sanity is pretty much who Gibson is. Much more than anybody realized at the time.
@@iamverita I say that anybody who claims not to wrestle with bigotry, that is to say unfounded prejudices is a liar. And most certainly, somebody on a downward spiral is going to say and do things the he or she regrets. I expect the same is true for you, even if you are not bipolar.
They got this from Magnum Force from the Dirty Harry series. The Dirty Harry series probably borrowed it from someone else!! Nothing in the movies is truly new, anymore!!
Because its a cop movie in the 80s with actors. They didn't put as much effort into realism back then. Back then they'd be shown how to hold the gun properly and how to shoot a few rounds, that's about it. Now they would train for months to become as convincing as possible. Just look at Keanu Reeves training for John Wick 3, its nuts.
It is reflex and he can shoot blind, he memorizes where it is as it is a static target. This is just for fun, it is the moving targets that are impressive.
This scene is great. These two guys describe the entire crime exactly right and then immediately shrug it off like there's no possible way it could be that simple. HAHA!
He is such a good shot that he closes his eyes every time he pulls the trigger. Shit… he doesn’t even have to look… he just encourages to bullets to find their mark and they listen obediently.
Justin Time+ At first I Did'nt Like the Leo Getz character , But over the Years (And Many Times Watching the Lethal Weapon films) I Have Now Come To Like The Little Guy.........
Watching Mel shoot I can see by the look in his eyes and his reaction that he hadn't fired a gun very often in his real life. I watch match shooters fire at ranges often and the reaction is nothing like that. The "flinching" I see is almost like he's surprised at how much recoil there is. His movements should be almost fluid and his face almost somber when the gun goes off. No blinking or physical reaction whatsoever. And that group (the smiley face) at that range would be olympic class shooting. Not likely.
In real life, that Beretta 92 when clamped onto a pistol rest - completely Motionless, and test fired at that distance all the way back shown here in the video, which is 25 yards, the shot pattern will look like how Riggs shot that 1st target at 7 yards which looks to me to be around 4 to 5 inches group. Even if you're an Olympic shooter, there's no way you can make that happy face at 25 yards because the gun is not even pinhole accurate in the first place at that distance. Only bolt-action rifles are that pinhole accurate at 25 yards. FWIW, love the movie and the scene nevertheless. This movie was shot at my home training range in Monrovia California AKA Santa Anita firing range. Too bad the operators decided to call it quits back in early 2000. I miss that place dearly; it was my home away from home.
"LOVE THAT-"COME TO RODGER",- & "NOT BAD FOR AN OLD MAN"!!!.."LOVE The LOOK on MURTAGH 'S Face when he sees the 'Smiley Face', That was made from so FAR AWAY,- I bet he REALLY could do That, Is There 'ANYTHING ' he CAN'T Do, - WELL!!!..LOVE THAT SCENE!!!...💯💯💯👍👍👍❤❤❤💋💋💋🔥🔥🔥
I dunno about back then, but the muffs I wore at the shooting range were specially built to hear talking but cancel out noises above a certain decibel. Meaning, I could hear the person next to me talking while the shots fired from my mosin were very quiet.
I know everybody loves Rigg's Beretta 92, it is a great Pistol, but Murtaugh's Smith and Wesson Model 19 is the Cat's Meow. Great, Great Revolver. 6 Rounds of .357 are nothing to sneeze at.
except for the fact that situations like that are EXTREMELY rare unless you are on the battlefield, in which a sidearm would be your LAST weapon of choice. not to mention that on the civilian side, the vast majority of times where someone with a carry license drew and fired their weapon, only 2-3 shots were fired. don't scoff at a revolver. so please don't throw obscure, unrealistic scenario's into the conversation.
Like Eric said, cops are going to be in areas that are far darker than that. I'm sure that most shooting ranges like that have lighting that can be made bright to near darkness.
I know how they made those perfectly round holes in real life. Adele, the lady who worked behind the gun range counter (also a bookkeeper) decided to use a heated 38 caliber bronze brush to poke holes through the target. Worked like magic. She had that happy face target signed by both Mel and Danny and they hung that target on their wall from that day on when they filmed the scene until their last day of operation when the range was shut down once and for all, back in 2004 or so. Sad day it was. Wished I get to keep that target, would've made a nice collectible movie prop. In real life though, you can't make perfectly round holes like you see here with round tipped FMJ rounds that supposedly Riggs and Murtaugh were using in their guns. Only wadcutter or semi-wad bullets we bullseye 🎯 shooters use for scoring purposes could cut perfectly round holes like these.
💡🙏🤩 And that’s the movie and scene that made me carry a Berreta in the beginning of my career as a Police Officer 😂 .... Slowing transitioned to a 1911 45cal ... then to a 1911 double stack .. then ended up with a Glock 34 9mm until retirement... However if I was on the job today ... I would absolutely carry a Staccato 2011 9mm ... which is what my Son carries on the job .... 🤔 Pricey but well worth the investment 🇺🇸
sirshredsalot 1977 I spent 4 years in The Corps and shot Expert at the range with the 14, 16, and 1911...I'm fully aware of what MOA is and how it is applied and measured.
Funny because the ppl bitching about that must not know that when you pull the trigger it should scare you a bit. Slow steady pull to the rear. But hey this is youtube comments so.
It was this film that convinced me to buy a Beretta 92FS, smartest purchase I've ever made! I have fired thousands of rounds thru it and it has never jammed on me!! I still carry it every day!!!! 🤟
I got one 10 years ago myself (the M9. Commercial variation). My favorite 9mm pistol and only one I own. I consider it the quintessential American 9mm. Traded a Sig 226 for it (a great gun in it’s own right) and never looked back. Carry classic Federal 9PBLE (9mm+p+ 115 gr JHP) in it clocking 1340 fps through the chrono
As an old U.S. Recon Marine vet I picked up on that in the first movie...but they were using the most recent shooting war to build the characters credentials...didn't bother me at all...it is after all a movie...and I think had Mel been an American he just may have made a hell of a U.S Marine.
When the Vietnam was ended with the Fall of Saigon in April of '75 Mel would have been 19. Had he joined at 17 places him in 1973. So he's right on the edge of the right G.I. age.
For the people who are miscounting the shots fired: Murtaugh shot the first hole. Riggs used the same target and fired 7 shots. 8 shots, 8 holes. Riggs turned Murtaugh's shot into the nose of his smiley face. 🎯🙂 Have a Nice Day!
I knew this when I first saw this movie back in the 80s.
People who watched this didn't pay attention, apparently! lol
Maybe they are talking about the first round. Martin only shoots 9 times but there is like 15 holes in the target. The "have a nice day" is on point
I've seen this hundreds of time for 35 years and knew that when I was 10 watching in the movie theater lol, but thanks 😉
Wow glad you explained that I'm sure we couldn't see that for ourselves lol
@@TurkishBenAirsoft There were a lot of comments seeing it wrong almost daily, that's why I had to pin this.
legend says he shot blanks and actually made those holes by blinking
Nah, you talking about Chuck Norris.
Neil Dohi lol
Of course, real shooters don’t act surprised when the gun goes bang. Of course my group would be about the size of a soccer ball at that range and speed but I don’t blink quite as much. And slow fire two or three tries at 5 yards I may be able to come close to duplicating his character’s accuracy.
Верю! =)
I was gonna say he’s no Chuck Norris. That’s sorcery’s
I just realized the true significance of this scene .. It's not just about displaying their shooting skills ... But it also signifies the moment they realized they had just became partners as they are discussing the case.
Yes sir
This is true.
male bonding AKA bromance is fostered in this scene 😆
I didn’t think of that, but I better understood what they were talking about.
Sometimes I wait too long to watch movies I originally saw when I was young.
As impressive as it is, no way Riggs is making those shots. He blinks with every shot fired
High waisted jeans, mullet hairstyle and a Beretta 92. Perfect combo for 80s/90s badassery
Would have been nice if Gibson was actually a competent shooter at this point though. Watching him flinch that hard is just cringey.
@@aviatorgamer3057 right. But we are noticing it because of competence in firearms, all the information and training available to us. But this is the 80s/90s I don't think many people back then noticed it as most of us do these days.
But yes it would have been much more better if he didn't flinch. He's ex special forces, an excellent marksman and a badass cop. So he mustn't flinch
Beretta 92....my carry gun....
@@davidseal8375 mine too
Danny Glover never flinches. He's actually fired a gun before.
Stan he’s done a lot of shooting to work that out
@@seanfinley5010 Im glad because I LOVE Riggs but the flinching is just trrrble.
I haven’t noticed that before. Good spot.
@@AnthonyThomas_Ant Thanks!
@@picallo1 I don't think that it's so much he's flinching it's because he's probably shooting blanks and The recoil is more in the front from blanks so it throws you off
This scene always makes me laugh! What a great combo these two were.
The double take they did in Maverick was hilarious!
"What the hell, thin's my middle name.."
"Your wife's cooking, I'm not surprised.."
Trish's cooking was a running gag throughout the series.
he flinches when he shoots and still comes out with a smiley face....awesome
that's movie magic!
@@Canceriansoul I like to think it part of his character. People can hit bullseyes blindfolded. He’s just that lethal!
@@abehambino Good point! I always wondered what if Riggs was in the original Die Hard movie.
Wait you mean this isn’t a documentary about something real? I’m so upset I could blink while I shoot something!
It's called suspension of disbelief. I find it's something I have to use when enjoying 80's cop movies. Watching Riggs flinch while shooting in Lethal Weapon, Watching Jack Cates shoot more than 6 shots out of his revolver in the movie 48 Hours. I just set my disbelief aside so I can enjoy the movie 😅
"That's right! She actually stops and says 'shit'!"
Makes me laugh every time.
When I was a kid I thought this scene was so awesome and still do, but as an adult that has to qualify regularly I noticed how he is flinching during every shot which is not so good...but still love the movie.
mikel carrow I just noticed that as well,blinks we each shot. Guess they had no technical help in making this scene.
When someone flinches during a gunshot it shows that they are mentally imbalanced. Since Riggs is bat shit insane....
Not only that, but the trigger squeeze needs work.
Mal doesn't just blink, he actually closes both eyes for multiple tenths of a second each time he fires. Glover is a solid shooter.
They should've sent Mel Gibson on shooting practice.
Who the hell is Mal?
@@bigkyle38 Your interprative dance teacher?
@@brustar5152 LOL!
whos mal
ROGER: "That's pretty fucking thin. " ROGER: "What the hell, thins my middle name." RIGGS: " Your wife's cooking I'm not surprised." ROGER: "Remarks like that will not get you invited to Christmas dinner." RIGGS: "My lucks changing for the better everyday!" 😂😂😂
I do not care about the plausibility of this actually happening. This is still my favorite scene this movie. It is outright hysterical!
I have unsuccessfully attempted that from much shorter distances. Unsuccessfully being the operative word. LOL.
@@armadillotoe I managed to get it from 25 yards... with a scoped .22 rifle... and it was sloppy as hell... and took like a minute :P
I can get it from 5-7 yards, maybe 10 on a good day.
when we were doing our yearly qualification day in the military my motor sergeant came out with his zero target complaining they had kicked him off the range. he had shot a + in the center circle and was currently drawing the circle around it.
i'm a good shot, but holy shit. and yes i saw the target, he was halfway through the circle. he got removed because it was supposed to be zero and leave and he was essentially wasting the range's time.
@@Iggybart05the dipstick range instructor needed a Panama in his ass.
Any time you see a soldier having fun with a skill, you see if that guy wants to make a sideways move to a more clandestine part of the job.
Nice way to tell those that were aspiring for something greater to just fuck off.
Any wonder why nobody wants to enlist?
There chemistry is great! Danny Glover and Mel Gibson are the best buddy cop duo.
Their not there.
I couldn't agree more. The pairing by the casting agent was genius.
spit'n Image + Spot on , the best TV cop duo has to be David Soul / Paul michael Glaser in "Starsky and Hutch" just Like Mel Gibson / Danny Glover they made A Great Duo to Watch , A Casting Agents Dream Pairing.......
Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy in 48hours isn't a bad pairing either.
Let's not forget Turner and Hooch
This was mildly funny. The scene I like is what Mertaugh says, "God hates me". Riggs says, "Hate'em back it works for me".
Both completely stupid comments.
Roger: Hell thins my middle name. Riggs: Yeah with you're Wife's cooking I'm not surprised. 🔫🔫🔫🔫 Roger: What!? Riggs: Nothing. Roger: Remarks like that will not get you invited to Christmas dinner. Riggs: My luck's change for the better every day.
Mell says have a nice day when he puts a smile 😃 on the target paper
I remember the laughter in the packed cinema. Sorry Millennials. You missed out
Man... its been how may years since this came out and we still haven't gotten a buddy cop action series as good as this? So happy that i grew up with the full vhs set of L1-4.
Love the Beretta 92/M9.. (carried the M9 for over a decade in the Navy and bought one a year ago)
I carried an M9 for 2 years (Base Security Norfolk) immediately following 9/11. My favorite day was qualifying with it (expert ribbon). I wanted a range gun so last Memorial Day weekend I got one on sale. That is one sweet firing firearm and buttery smooth.
@@jerrytaylor4078 Yes they are!
@@dundonrl Yes M9. I freak people out when I wear my sniper division shirt from Camp Lejeune saying " Don't run you'll only die tired"
Thank you for your service in the United States Navy.
The best damn duo of cop partners of all-time sorry they didn't make more movies together and they clicked and they worked off each other very well
I loved the cameo in Maverick.
They made several Lethal weapon movies together, and they had a brief scene in Maverick, like Lucki said... But yes, I wished they'd made more together...
"What do you do, sleep with that thing under your pillow?"
"I would if I slept."
:D
Which is kind of amusing, because at the beginning of the movie, we see Riggs’s gun under the pillow of his bed. lol
He closes his eyes every shot. Movie magic.
It might be a reflex, since I've personally seen people who do the same, even when they're completely and 100% right on target...
I even saw a young lady, in my "delayed entry program" for the navy, who had never shot a gun before, who kept both eyes open until the actual shot happened, and yet was the best shooter of the group...
It defied most explanations and observations, but it proved that you can't define a book by the cover. I still wonder, to this day, where she, and her career, went from that day...
@@Arcturus572 I'm confused. When I was in delayed entry for 6 months waiting to ship to great lakes, we didn't do anything. We were just in our regular daily lives waiting to go to basic. We definitely didn't go shooting. Even in basic we didn't shoot for quite a few weeks in.
@@AccountInactive, I grew up around the army, and my dad was working at Fort Chaffee at the time I entered DEP, and he worked at the training aid service center, so I had access to all kinds of fun stuff, including a M-16 trainer... So my dad offered time on the weekends to the recruiters, to give the DEP kids some immersion into the military...
I also had the privilege of being on board ship, and telling my dad that I'd like some of the aircraft recognition cards that the army had, and he loaded up a big box with all kinds of stuff and had it shipped to me, for free... I did have to explain to the CO and my division officer why I was getting such a big box, from an army base, and I was glad to give the ship training aids for all kinds of stuff like CBR aids, plenty of playing cards (I think I had enough for at least 5-6 decks per division), and all kinds of GTA's for a variety of things.
After this movie the Beretta 92F sales went 🚀
I'm so pro that I blink when I shoot.
Was just going to mention that...
Years ago there was a tv show that had this bad Chinese guy who was fucking great at Kung fu...except he closed his eyes whenever he was striking. The cop who was chasing him found out about his nervous tick. The guy had the cop down but he blinked and the cop shot him right in the face. I wish I could remember the name of that show
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Legendary movie! I grew up with movies like these, and I've always loved Mel Gibson.
Rose great actor, good director, just sucks it came out he aint the best person
Blokes an arsehole but he was good back in the day
Like a lot of creative people Gibson clearly is bipolar. A man living on the edge of sanity is pretty much who Gibson is. Much more than anybody realized at the time.
@@Kermit_T_Frog Bipolar is not bigotted. and it´s not being a shitty person.
@@iamverita I say that anybody who claims not to wrestle with bigotry, that is to say unfounded prejudices is a liar. And most certainly, somebody on a downward spiral is going to say and do things the he or she regrets. I expect the same is true for you, even if you are not bipolar.
Need to rewatch Lethal Weapon. Could watch this scene over and over.
This movie will always be one of the best I'M TOO OLD FOUR THIS SHIT!
"Do you sleep with that thing under your pillow?"
"I would if I slept."
Right there with you, Riggs.
She actually stops, and says shit! Epic!
“Yeah, your wife’s cooking, I’m not surprised.” 😂😂😂😂😂
One of my favorite scenes in the first Lethal Weapon. Amazing the showing off that goes on in a shooting range.
The hummed circus music made it even better.
Can’t speak for how pigs do it but, the competition Shooters I shot with under sponsorship of the army didn’t show off.
They got this from Magnum Force from the Dirty Harry series. The Dirty Harry series probably borrowed it from someone else!! Nothing in the movies is truly new, anymore!!
@@billkaldem5099That's bait.
When it comes to blinking while firing a weapon, Mel is the anti-Clint.
To be fair, that Beretta 92 FS is a hell of a lot easier to shoot accurately than that little revolver.
4 inch k frame Smith?
It is a sub 2" group at 10 yards and around 2.5 at 25
Martin Riggs one of the best male characters ever on screen.
"with your wife's cooking I'm not surprised" oh man 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Never understood how the character was supposed to be an ex special forces and such a great marksman with that kind of trigger flinch.
@Kevin Henderson what a dumb thing to get upset about. Chill, dude.
Because its a cop movie in the 80s with actors. They didn't put as much effort into realism back then. Back then they'd be shown how to hold the gun properly and how to shoot a few rounds, that's about it. Now they would train for months to become as convincing as possible. Just look at Keanu Reeves training for John Wick 3, its nuts.
Well if you could make 7 holes appear in just 5 shots you'd a great marksman too.
Bro the blinking is attrocious.....!
It is reflex and he can shoot blind, he memorizes where it is as it is a static target. This is just for fun, it is the moving targets that are impressive.
I remember that scene very well. Great fun. Utterly unrealistic but fun.
This scene is great. These two guys describe the entire crime exactly right and then immediately shrug it off like there's no possible way it could be that simple. HAHA!
Riggs blinked every time he fired.
Roger:"God Hates me" Riggs:"Hate him back it works for me"
Crazy 999 my favorite quote
"That's right; she actually stops and says 'Shit!'"
“That’s right she ACTUALLY stops and says ‘SH🔫T!’ …”
He is such a good shot that he closes his eyes every time he pulls the trigger. Shit… he doesn’t even have to look… he just encourages to bullets to find their mark and they listen obediently.
This was a great series of movies! One of those where all of the actors are perfect for their parts!
Justin Time he's a private eyesore!
Justin Time+ At first I Did'nt Like the Leo Getz character , But over the Years (And Many Times Watching the Lethal Weapon films) I Have Now Come To Like The Little Guy.........
"Remarks like that will not get you invited to Christmas dinner!"
One of the better lines here... "Comments like that will not get you invited to Christmas dinner! "
The fact that he flinches and blinks makes it impossible to be that good of a shot...
I love how Murtagh literally says shit, but in the same scene, Riggs gets silenced by the gun fire when he says shit XD
Because Murtaugh saying sheeeeet became a thing
"Have a nice day" damn, this guy is a pro!
ccttcrtfin
The humming is what makes this scene perfect.
Best gun range movie clip ever!
somethingsomethingDarkSide , and that’s the beauty of opinions.
You have to admit that the scene is pretty funny and can cause a good laugh.
I made it my mission to re-enact the smiley face at the range... I did it (not as perfect) but at only 10 yards...
I love this scene 😆. I almost wonder if their ad libbing it. It just comes off as natural.
This movie had the coolest gun sound effects.
Remember the scene very well. Thanks for sharing. :)
Watching Mel shoot I can see by the look in his eyes and his reaction that he hadn't fired a gun very often in his real life. I watch match shooters fire at ranges often and the reaction is nothing like that. The "flinching" I see is almost like he's surprised at how much recoil there is. His movements should be almost fluid and his face almost somber when the gun goes off. No blinking or physical reaction whatsoever. And that group (the smiley face) at that range would be olympic class shooting. Not likely.
I bet he isnt even a real police officer.
@@Bandit19990 Yes of course but even actors can practice shooting and get really good at it. Clint Eastwood in real life is an excellent shot.
@@thomasjefferson1457 Tom Cruise in Collateral, Robert Patrick in T2, Jackie Chan's entire career...Hell, even Jodie Foster for Silence of the Lambs.
In real life, that Beretta 92 when clamped onto a pistol rest - completely Motionless, and test fired at that distance all the way back shown here in the video, which is 25 yards, the shot pattern will look like how Riggs shot that 1st target at 7 yards which looks to me to be around 4 to 5 inches group.
Even if you're an Olympic shooter, there's no way you can make that happy face at 25 yards because the gun is not even pinhole accurate in the first place at that distance. Only bolt-action rifles are that pinhole accurate at 25 yards. FWIW, love the movie and the scene nevertheless. This movie was shot at my home training range in Monrovia California AKA Santa Anita firing range. Too bad the operators decided to call it quits back in early 2000. I miss that place dearly; it was my home away from home.
But it's in TH-cam
Best day of the week Sunday. Stay in bed no dealing with half wits. Thank God
Old but gold
No recoil from the gun shooting blanks and both eyes blinking shut with every shot ?
Uh-huh!
Dadaddadadada Dada Dadadada...... LOL!
The movie that made the Beretta M9 popular in America
one of the best scenes in all four movies if you ask me
Martin Riggs is still the most badass cop
Actually it was Chuck Norris shooting from another planet, blindfolded.
"LOVE THAT-"COME TO RODGER",- & "NOT BAD FOR AN OLD MAN"!!!.."LOVE The LOOK on MURTAGH 'S Face when he sees the 'Smiley Face', That was made from so FAR AWAY,- I bet he REALLY could do That, Is There 'ANYTHING ' he CAN'T Do, - WELL!!!..LOVE THAT SCENE!!!...💯💯💯👍👍👍❤❤❤💋💋💋🔥🔥🔥
All of the Lethal movies were great IMHO! 😂
Riggs cant seem to keep from flinching every round he shot. Great job Mr Spec ops. LOL
Took me all this years too realize a hole was already in the center when he put it up
I just bought a Beretta 92fs Compact M9A1 edition with rail because of this movie :)
Such a funny movie Mel gibson always had to be a wise ass which was funny as hell in the movie
Mel Gibson sure knows how to make someone "smile"
Like when when he blows open Arjen's aquarium in LW 2 and as he leaves the room with a shit eating grin repeating "big smile, BIIIIIIG SMILE!!!"
funniest part about this scene is there is no way they could hear each other with ear protection and that divider.
I dunno about back then, but the muffs I wore at the shooting range were specially built to hear talking but cancel out noises above a certain decibel.
Meaning, I could hear the person next to me talking while the shots fired from my mosin were very quiet.
Love this scene, this and the cell phone scene in 4 with Joe Pesci, love the series too
one of the very BEST duos that ever was in action movies
I know everybody loves Rigg's Beretta 92, it is a great Pistol, but Murtaugh's Smith and Wesson Model 19 is the Cat's Meow. Great, Great Revolver. 6 Rounds of .357 are nothing to sneeze at.
yes in this scene it sure is. no recoil at all. hahahaha.
except for the fact that situations like that are EXTREMELY rare unless you are on the battlefield, in which a sidearm would be your LAST weapon of choice. not to mention that on the civilian side, the vast majority of times where someone with a carry license drew and fired their weapon, only 2-3 shots were fired. don't scoff at a revolver. so please don't throw obscure, unrealistic scenario's into the conversation.
With a .357 one accurate hit is going to blow a hole in someone the size of a dinner plate.
And lets not get started on the .44!
I know revolvers have generally fallen out of favor, but I honestly love them.
I love this scene but damn that range has piss poor lighting.
Not to mention no vending machines
So does an alleyway at 1 in the morning, it's good practice
Like Eric said, cops are going to be in areas that are far darker than that. I'm sure that most shooting ranges like that have lighting that can be made bright to near darkness.
It also looks better (more dramatic, better color balance) on camera with this lighting.
One of the best scenes in the entire series 👍
I'm impressed.
Shooting nothing but blanks and still making perfectly round holes in them targets!
I know how they made those perfectly round holes in real life.
Adele, the lady who worked behind the gun range counter (also a bookkeeper) decided to use a heated 38 caliber bronze brush to poke holes through the target. Worked like magic. She had that happy face target signed by both Mel and Danny and they hung that target on their wall from that day on when they filmed the scene until their last day of operation when the range was shut down once and for all, back in 2004 or so. Sad day it was.
Wished I get to keep that target, would've made a nice collectible movie prop.
In real life though, you can't make perfectly round holes like you see here with round tipped FMJ rounds that supposedly Riggs and Murtaugh were using in their guns. Only wadcutter or semi-wad bullets we bullseye 🎯 shooters use for scoring purposes could cut perfectly round holes like these.
Alec Baldwin did too.
It's all about the editing, baby!
@@mattrhodes3963 sucks to be him. Too bad he didn't respect the rules of firearms safety and someone else paid for his dumbassery with her life.
What if Hickok45 tapped Mel on the shoulder after the smiley face and showed him up
Hahahahah only us gun guys get that one....Let's smoke some pot....
Life is good
Rog must be thinking:"He really MUST be sleeping with that Pistol! I've NEVER seen anybody, that was THAT good!!!
💡🙏🤩 And that’s the movie and scene that made me carry a Berreta in the beginning of my career as a Police Officer 😂 .... Slowing transitioned to a 1911 45cal ... then to a 1911 double stack .. then ended up with a Glock 34 9mm until retirement... However if I was on the job today ... I would absolutely carry a Staccato 2011 9mm ... which is what my Son carries on the job .... 🤔 Pricey but well worth the investment 🇺🇸
considering how much he's blinking, hitting the target that far away would be close to impossible
I can see you've never spent much time on a range...everyone blinks...has zero to do with accuracy.
Look up Minute of angle.
sirshredsalot 1977 I spent 4 years in The Corps and shot Expert at the range with the 14, 16, and 1911...I'm fully aware of what MOA is and how it is applied and measured.
I was telling the other guy to look up MOA.
sirshredsalot 1977 NP...my bad...it's hard to tell who is replying to whom in the youtube comments...take care dude.
A real good shooter, Mr. Gibson. Closing his eyes at every shot. ;-)
Noticed the same thing😀
I still can’t unhear Mel’s Australian accent.
One of my favorite scenes in this movie!
Are people actually seriously dissecting the accuracy (pun intended) of this scene?
Do you guys even Hollywood?
That's right! It's also an 80s action comedy, and this scene was clearly made for laughs.
Funny because the ppl bitching about that must not know that when you pull the trigger it should scare you a bit. Slow steady pull to the rear. But hey this is youtube comments so.
Canceriansoul Made For Laughs... Oh God remember seeing this in the theate, the whole place blew out laughing, this is hilarious.
You mean, that the targets being shot at are black.
classic you can't beat lethal weapon
This is one of the best scenes in cinematic history XD
That's what you call, "new school showing up the old school".
It was this film that convinced me to buy a Beretta 92FS, smartest purchase I've ever made! I have fired thousands of rounds thru it and it has never jammed on me!! I still carry it every day!!!! 🤟
I got one 10 years ago myself (the M9. Commercial variation). My favorite 9mm pistol and only one I own. I consider it the quintessential American 9mm. Traded a Sig 226 for it (a great gun in it’s own right) and never looked back.
Carry classic Federal 9PBLE (9mm+p+ 115 gr JHP) in it clocking 1340 fps through the chrono
I've never owned a gun, so never had to pay for "thousands of rounds" of ammunition. I'm still here and have all of that money in my pocket. 😅🤣😂
@@herrunsinn774 you’re missing out on a lot of fun, to say the least
Curious - - do you have a pistol license made in Maryland, or an actual Beretta product from Italy? There is a quality difference.
@@joehamlet7576 It's an Italian made Beretta.
Makes me want a beretta again.
Same! An all steel 92FS... fuck the polymer and lightweight frames
I actually have one because of this fucking movie 🤣
Couldn’t stop looking at Gibson flinching and blinking during every shot then can’t watch this now lmao
My favorite scene in the whole movie.
Imagine if Mel had been using live ammo; he would have jumped out of his skin!!!
I hope Glover gave him two in the arm for every flinch.
When his pronounces the word "thing" in "I saw the whole thing" Aussie accent!
"ah what the hell thins my middle name"
"Your wife's cooking I'm not surprised!!"
"What?!?"
Does it bother anyone that Mel Gibson is too young to have served in Vietnam. In 1969 he was only 13
Stuart Otis Yeah that detail kind of slipped through!
As an old U.S. Recon Marine vet I picked up on that in the first movie...but they were using the most recent shooting war to build the characters credentials...didn't bother me at all...it is after all a movie...and I think had Mel been an American he just may have made a hell of a U.S Marine.
Thanks for your service Steve!
When the Vietnam was ended with the Fall of Saigon in April of '75 Mel would have been 19. Had he joined at 17 places him in 1973. So he's right on the edge of the right G.I. age.
The character Martin Riggs may have been a few years older than Mel Gibson, that would have made him the right age!