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.
So I guess a good litmus test for if you are trapped in the Matrix or not would be to touch a gun. If you touch it or wave it around and it goes "clack clack" without you cocking it, chances are pretty good you are in the Matrix.
So I guess a good litmus test for if you are trapped in the Matrix or not would be to touch a gun. If you touch it or wave it around and it goes "clack clack" without you cocking it, chances are pretty good you are in the Matrix.
That and the fact that you don't really know what steak tastes like.
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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.
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They even have stoppages! Can you believe that? They are doing essentially a section attack on an Iraqi position and the LMG gunner yells out "stoppage" and clears his weapon and then continues on. I was amazed when I saw that. Simply fantastic!
The main one that bugs me is pulling the cocking handle back when a new magazine is put into M/16/M4/C7 rifles.
When the last round is fired the there is a bolt catch that holds the bolt open. When you place a new magazine in the rifle, you hit the bolt release which allows the bolt to push the top round into the bore to be fired. There is no need to pull the cocking handle again, but it happens a lot.
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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.
Face/Off is the worst movie of all time for that. for some reason Nicholas Cage and John Travolta can fire thousands of bullets at each other and not hit a godamn thing, but if they shoot at anyone else it's a perfect one shot to the head. course that's the same movie that had a boat blow up after it jumped and landed in water, so i'm guessing they didn't care about small details like aim
Face/Off is the worst movie of all time for that. for some reason Nicholas Cage and John Travolta can fire thousands of bullets at each other and not hit a godamn thing, but if they shoot at anyone else it's a perfect one shot to the head. course that's the same movie that had a boat blow up after it jumped and landed in water, so i'm guessing they didn't care about small details like aim
Thats always what made me laugh about Star Wars.
When Obi Wan and Luke come across the Jawa's and Kenobi states that nobody shoots with the precision and accuracy of an Imperial Storm Trooper.
Then throughout the rest of the trilogy the only person that they actually hit is Princess Leia and they merely winged her.
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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.
My favorite is when people are able to fire 2 handguns at the same time, in two directions, with amazing accuracy.
Handguns are hard enough to aim with 2 hands on 1 gun.
I've always been partial to the scene in 'Naked Gun' where Leslie Nielsen and his opponent conduct a gun battle from opposite sides of the same Oil Drum.
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Apparentely I'm told by some ex-military guy that silencers can indeed be made to silence enough that you only head the mechanism of the gun working but I can't verify this.
It would have to be an incredibly long silencer for that, and you'd probably have to use a really small calibre round.
But even then I doubt that it would be that quiet.
And I don't know enough about silencers, but if it was too long I wonder if you'd get enough of the back pressure to force the mechanism back to pick up the next round.
Plus I think it would probably wreck the balance and accuracy of the weapon, you'd probably have to get really close, and at that point you might as well use a knife.
Just guessing though
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