Gun-related bullshit such as:
- The clanking and clacking sound effects they add when someone picks up a gun
- Adding the clicking sound of a thumb safety being engaged/disengaged when the gun has no thumb safety (such as a revolver)
- Someone holding someone else at gun-point without the hammer being cocked (applies to, e.g., single-action revolvers and automatics, and most often happens with the latter)
- Someone manually cycling the action when there's already a round in the chamber
- Firing full-autos for long periods of time without reloading (a typical 30-round magazine in a full-auto with a typical cyclic rate of say, 800 rounds per minute, is empty after about 2 seconds of sustained fire).
- Silencers on ordinary revolvers (much of the silencer's effectiveness is negated by the barrel-to-cylinder gap from which gases escape with little restriction, bypassing the silencer altogether).
- Actors who have no clue how to hold a pistol, like in this hilarious screen shot from The Walking Dead - https://i.imgur.com/1zeauIO.png - and in this one from Ash vs Evil Dead, where the chick is doing the exact same thing as the equally inept Walking Dead chick - https://i.imgur.com/oNByPUC.png
- CGI being used to make it look like a gun is being fired instead of using actual blanks. The older cheapskate counterpart of such horseshit is sticking a pyrotechnic of some sort in the barrel of the gun, which doesn't look like true muzzle flash at all, and doesn't cause the action of an automatic to cycle.
- Anachronistic guns, such as an M1911A1 in a WWI movie, or a Colt SAA in a US Civil War movie.
- Blanks are better than CGI, but live rounds are better than blanks, because they produce the correct amount of recoil. As far as I know, only one major movie ever used live rounds for the shooting scenes. From an industry with budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and which routinely puts massive, real explosions on screen, there's no excuse for them not being able to figure out how to safely fire live rounds on camera, especially when countless YouTubers with budgets that are effectively zero dollars in comparison to a Hollywood movie budget, fire live rounds on camera all the time without issue.
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M1sterDoct0r (4423)
3 months ago
Being an expert on something definitely ruins your enjoyment of the thing.
My uncle is a doctor & says he can't watch hospital shows cause they get so much stuff wrong that it pisses him off.
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PSville (636)
3 months ago
The same could be said about novel-to-movie adaptation, with many becoming disappointed with the movie's lack of depth compared to the novel, which provides more information, details on the characters, settings etc. I remember reading Blatty's masterpiece The Exorcist and then watching again the horror classic: I was disappointed with the very short interaction between the two priests in the end, which was very engaging and deep in the literary version.
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