Posted on 03/03/2009 8:55:16 AM PST by yankeedame
#1: Rose McGowan’s M203 from Planet Terror
You are a nuttier gun nut than me if you think a stripper with an M203 prosthetic leg is either hot or cool. It’s just dumb. Also, I realize this is science fiction/fantasy but how does she pull the trigger? Unquestionably, this is the stupidest gun in movie history.
#2: Arnold’s Rail Guns from Eraser
Railguns exist now as experimental weapons; the Navy hopes to have shipboard versions some day. Railguns create an electromagnetic field on two rails. A conductive projectile completes the circuit, and something called a Lorentz Force sends it off the rails at incredibly high speed. The railguns in Eraser are supposed to shoot their aluminum bullets at nearly the speed of light. That means: a.) recoil would be fatal to the shooter and b.) air resistance would ignite the bullet almost immediately. And yet, Arnold is able to shoot one with each hand. Bonus: check out the nifty X-Ray scope.
#3: Jesse Ventura’s Minigun in Predator As a member of the commando team in Predator, Jesse Ventura humps a 7.62 caliber minigun around the jungle. Besides the problem of hauling enough ammunition to feed a gun that shoots 166 rounds a second, and the difficulty/impossibility of controlling such a gun by hand, there is also the issue of the king of all hot feet you would get from the cascade of smoking empties. Finally, it takes two truck batteries to run the thing. The filmmakers ran a cable under the actor’s pants leg to off-camera batteries to power the minigun motor.
#4: Clint Eastwood’s Harpoon Gun in The Dead Pool
What to do when the bad guy steals your .44 magnum? Simple. Take a nearby harpoon gun off its deck stanchion and shoot it from the hip. Never mind that in real life, the recoil of shooting a harpoon weighing several pounds would knock you down and maybe break some bones. But, because this is a movie, all that happens is Harry delivers the worst catchphrase of the series (English translation: “You’re s*** outta luck.”) then impales the villain, recovers his piece and coolly walks away.
#5: Steve McQueen’s Mare’s Leg from Wanted: Dead or Alive
If you’re a few years older than me, you might have owned a cap gun version of the Mare’s Leg from Wanted Dead or Alive (1958-1961). Today, if you must, you can buy firing replicas of Steve McQueen’s cut-down Winchester Model 92. Besides the recoil of such a gun and the pointlessness of turning a rifle into a pistol, the real reason the Mare’s Leg makes the list is, the gun and ammo don’t match. The rifle is a .44-40, but the small cartridges didn’t look impressive enough in the gun belt on camera, so McQueen wore .45-70 shells instead.
Jesse the body and The Governator....
1 entertaining but stupid movie....2 future Governors. People in California and Minnisota should be ashamed of themselves.
Yea, but #1 had Rose McGowan so it wins bonus points.
They should have voted for Subzero (both in Running Man).
The Angry Cricket?
Noisy Cricket.
Not dumb because it came from “space” and had a hell of a lot of recoil that matched it’s firepower.
I was going to try to follow the rules and post a SFW image of Rose McGowan on this thread... but an extensive Internet search has revealed that no such images exist...
no mention of rambo’s m60 dressed up to mimic a dshk?
Minigun scene fake?? Yes. Coolest expenditure of lead known to cinema?? Yep.
“My name is Cherry”
“yes, you are”
that says it all about Rose McGowan
Those are nice little 'windows' in the cylinder so you can see which cartridges are loaded. uh huh
Don't get me started on 'Big Baby'
Is turning a rifle into a pistol more pointless than turning a pistol into a rifle?
You guys forgot the “backwards firing gun” from that TRAVESTY of ammovie “Ballistic” Ecks vs Sever”
SOOOOOOO BAD
The crotch gun was awesome!
“C’mon, SEX MACHINE!”
lol!!!
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