06-15-2010, 11:02 AM
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Norm!
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Finally thank you Cracked
A few weeks ago we talked about things that pissed us off in movies
Cracked looks at gun myths including the one that really grinds my gears. Number 2
http://www.cracked.com/article_18576...to-movies.html
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06-15-2010, 11:04 AM
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tromboner
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I want to click the link... but if I do, I know that 3 hours of my life will be gone forever.
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06-15-2010, 11:16 AM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
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I love their line at the end:
Everything we know is wrong. If those of us raised on action movies have to fend off a Red Dawn-style invasion, it's going to be a total clusterfata
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06-15-2010, 11:25 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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The ammo one always gets me, and they left out the other one that kills me.. guys running around with handguns shooting everything accurately and holding them sideways and stuff.
Didn't know about the silencer thing though, now I'm depressed.
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06-15-2010, 12:19 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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From the movie: Date Night, I learned that when the gun is turned sideways, it means "Kill Shot". ....... 
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06-15-2010, 12:43 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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My issue is not that they constantly c0ck guns, but that they constantly make the cocking sound whenever you touch them anywhere or if they are picked up or if they are moved or waved around or shaken in any way. Click-clack-click-clack-ca-chuck-shoomp-click-swish
Last edited by Hack&Lube; 06-15-2010 at 12:52 PM.
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06-15-2010, 12:50 PM
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Norm!
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I keep going back to movie scenes where guys are sneaking around, or setting up an ambush. Its quiet, the hero waits, the villian is walking into the trap, perfect . . . . suddenly CLICK CLACK.
I also love watching people with pistols, pointing them at their feet and working the action.
I've never seen one guy in a war movie cleaning his weapon, even after marching through 17 miles of rain. Crossing 4 muddy rivers or rolling in the sand.
They get back to their tent, put their rifle down and have some deep meaningful conversation about the morality of the situation instead of doing what they're suppossed to be doing . . . clean your frackin weapon.
The other thing that I hate is the deadly accurate fire or the mexican effect with machine guns.
I remember in Die Hard Willis is coming down a rope and he lets spray while twisting his body and three villians are o ringed.
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06-15-2010, 12:52 PM
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One of the Nine
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I always got a kick out of that scene in Casino when Nicky silences his gun with a pillow when he shoots that chick in the head.
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06-15-2010, 01:05 PM
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I brought up how annoying the constant cocking of the guns was getting in Lost. Another thing that drives me crazy is the apparent need to absolutely pound a new magazine into a gun like they're trying to smash it out the top.
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06-15-2010, 01:07 PM
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Norm!
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The other thing that you always see is the commando style of taping clips together top to bottom.
They always show these special forces guys rotating clips.
The first time you bash that bottom clip against the ground chances are the rim of the clip bends and it won't feed bullets.
Or better yet, the rim bends outwards and your rounds are forcably ejected.
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06-15-2010, 01:09 PM
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Offered up a bag of cans for a custom user title
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Like as if a light saber could deflect a plasma gun. Sheeesh.
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06-15-2010, 01:15 PM
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You mean to tell me that alot of stuff that happens in a movie is fake or embellished?
Well, son of a........
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06-15-2010, 01:15 PM
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Norm!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nage Waza
Like as if a light saber could deflect a plasma gun. Sheeesh.
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Well, its not as much a light saber as it is a beam of light frozen using Force magics.
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06-15-2010, 01:29 PM
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Voted for Kodos
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I don't mind when special agents have deadly accurate aim, I mean... they are trained for that right? They have taken post doctorate studies in shooting a handgun while doing a spinning endo on a motorcycle.
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06-15-2010, 01:51 PM
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Norm!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Byrns
I hate it when people call them clips when they're actually called "magazines".  |
You will die a peasants death
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06-15-2010, 02:10 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the curve shot in the Matrix
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06-15-2010, 02:19 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pinner
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the curve shot in the Matrix
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Since that movie was all about hacking the code of a virtual universe to do what you wanted to, I don't think it applies.
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06-15-2010, 02:22 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
You will die a peasants death
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What? You own a Springfield Rifle or something?
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06-15-2010, 02:25 PM
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Norm!
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Everytime I see a picture of Kim, I have a flashback to team America World Cops with Susan Sarandan screaming
"You will suffer a peasants death"
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