Authenticity

[ohhrico1969]

As gun lovers, I know we all like watching action shows and movies. When watching certain programs I drive my wife crazy with my opinions on what shows are more "realistic" when it comes to gun handling and such. just for fun, what shows, movies do you guys/gals think does a good job of demonstrating LEO, military tactical, and gun handling.

Tears of The Sun-especially when they had to leap frog retreat.
The TV show The Unit-gun handling

Those two immediately come to mind. Any others?

 

[TimberWolf7.62]

I know I drive my wife nuts with my comments like "Oh, BS, that Uzi fures at 950 rounds per second! It would be empty by now!"
But I have noticed that they're gotten a lot better in the past few years about gun-related realism.

 

[Texas42]

My wife doesn't let me talk about guns either. : )

Glad to be among good people.

I really liked Tears of the Sun.

 

[dobarker]

Band of Brothers is full of really good gun related moments. But by far the best is in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Clint Eastwood is actually cleaning his pistol. How often do you actually see that? James Stewart cleans his rifle in "Winchester 73" And in the movie SWAT, Collin Farrel has a Franford Arsenal brass polisher on top of his gun-safe.

Also, in QuigleY Down Under, Matthew Quigley complains that he got his reloading equipment taken along with his horse and has to have the general store owner make some loads for him by cross referencing British .577-450 lead.

 

[swsmailman]

Only one that I can think of at the moment is Band of Brothers, which is my all time favorite war movie or would it be mini-movies.

 

[ROGER4314]

On Criminal Minds, most building entries are done finger off the trigger......that's good. On one episode however, Dr. Reed (young guy with long hair) made an entry with his revolver cocked and finger on the trigger. ARRRRRGGGGHHH!

My favorites are the shows with Uzi's, Thompsons, Mac's etc. with stick magazines that shoot 700 times with no reload. Wish I could find a gun that did that.

Flash

 

[Texas42]

As long as they aren't sci fi or double weilding pistols, I think movies have gotten better.

Band of Brothers ROCKS!!

 

[MAJIK_BONE_77]

I love the new HBO show "The Pacific". Great show, very realistic, done by the same people who did "Band of Brothers". U should check it out.

 

[swsmailman]

I love the new HBO show "The Pacific". Great show, very realistic, done by the same people who did "Band of Brothers". U should check it out.

If i had HBO I would, definitely going to pick it up once it comes out on DVD.

 

[DoubleActionCHL]

"Pacific" is well done. There was a scene recently where a Gunny was running a firing range. A Lieutenant swept the line with his .45 and the Sergeant grabbed the weapon from him, unloaded it, handed it back to him and told him that the next time he catches him pointing that weapon anywhere other than downrange, he's going to shove it up his ass. Looking a bit indignant, the Lieutenant looked at another officer standing next to him with an "I can't believe a lowly sergeant just yelled at me," look on his face. The other office said, "Don't look at me. He's right!"

I loved it!

 

[dobarker]

As well in saving private ryan, tom hanks uses a thompson the way they were trained to, short 2-3 shot beats. The best example is right when they meet "ryan" when taking down the half-track.

 

[Wolfwood]

"the rifleman" IIRC
uh...
"a piece of the action" episode of star trek TOS.
spock keeps his finger of the trigger of his thomspon and keeps the barrel ina safe direction.
(take that whover was talking about scifi)
hmm...
NOT boondock saints. definatly not.

 

[MAJIK_BONE_77]

"the rifleman" IIRC
uh...
"a piece of the action" episode of star trek TOS.
spock keeps his finger of the trigger of his thomspon and keeps the barrel ina safe direction.
(take that whover was talking about scifi)
hmm...
NOT boondock saints. definatly not.

Not that anybody cares but the reason "Spock" properly operates his Thompson is because Leonard Nimoy was an Army Sgt before he started acting. (take that, yes I'm a geek)

 

[Wolfwood]

Not that anybody cares but the reason "Spock" properly operates his Thompson is because Leonard Nimoy was an Army Sgt before he started acting. (take that, yes I'm a geek)

dood. that is epic level coolness.
i was not aware of that.

 

[goodfellas]

"COMBAT" by far the best with actual reloads and you can even see troops cleaning their guns from time to time.

 

[oldguy]

Tom Selleck seemed to try being authentic with guns, I especially liked Quigley Down Under.