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.
“You can’t have too much ordnance when there are zombies running around.”
You mean like the Atomic bazooka from the original “Outer Limits” series, or the Nuclear grenade from “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”? ;)
That’s a weird one. Maybe for a bad weather Sunday afternoon matinee, just for the novelty factor.
Actually, this article has a point. Guns should reflect reality in movies, because otherwise they feed the anti-gun rhetoric of how evil firearms are. When a person with no knowledge of guns goes to one of these movies and then later heres anti-gun BS about how evil assault guns are, they immediately picture someone firing a minigun and think, "Yeah, we need those outlawed!". Movies could be used to educate, not just entertain.
As to Star Trek and phasers, they can make them how ever they want, since they do not exist and there is no lying involved, just imagination.
As to who cars, most conservatives care and are upset by the inaccuracies about firearms displayed in movies. The sideways holding of handguns by gang bangers is one I can think of right off the top of my head.
That looks like Depends for incontinent convicts.
Uh... NO.
She’s a Sailor Fuku?
I should have joined the Navy!
I wish they would have stuck to the original concept for that movie.
Bio Force Gun
Genetic mutations.
No Cyberdemon.
Ugh!
Good movie.
Loved Reggie’s chainsaw fight.
Let’s not forget the Rifleman’s rifle. The lever on it was round meaning his trigger hand had to go further to chamber a round. It allowed him to chamber a round by spinning the rifle, which actually took as much time to chamber and fire one round as it would take a normal lever action to fire two or more rounds. Looked cool to us kids, but totally pointless.
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aka a broomhandle mauser 
I always called it the Big F’n Gun.
I remember his explanation on how that rifle worked. He said that you could rapidly fire the rifle by quickly slapping the ring into the stock, but NOT fire the rifle by slowly cycling the action, or spinning it. A little bolt attached to the ring by the trigger did this.
Dunno if it’s accurate, but I remember it said by Conner’s character.
“Ah ain’t got tahm t’bleed!”
Yeah, but that’s what they called it in the movie.
And they only fired it twice -hitting nobody- into the ceiling and wall.
That movie could have been so much more.
Here's a video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWbR8TTy9ng
Matt also had hand grenade buttons on his jacket.
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