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One tiny goof that always bothered me


Riggs talks about suicide a few times in the film and he mentions that he has a special hollow point bullet 'just for the occasion'

...but the bullet they show in his suicide scene and at the end when he gives it to ReAnn is not a hollow point.

This just always bothered me form the first time i saw it at the theater. Somebody dropped the ball when choosing that bullet prop. Maybe it was Donner's fault, dunno, but it seems SOMEONE (Mel, or a crew member) would've noticed it and pointed it out.

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I miss the IMDB Boards

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Yeah, I agree. Hollywood rarely cares about technical correctness about just about anything but this one could have been handled easily.... Either get a hollow point or just don't show a close-up of the round.

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...but the bullet they show in his suicide scene and at the end when he gives it to ReAnn is not a hollow point.


He gave her a symbolic bullet, but kept the special hollow point in case he decided to revisit suicide..



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but the one he put in the gun in the trailer when cartoons were playing was not a hollow point either.

honstly i don't think donner knew the difference. but somebody shoulda caught it

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I agree. Kinda shocked too, to be honest. The movie does many things right in the details. For instance, Riggs is seen collecting his shell casings like cops are trained to do. So they cared about the finer points. Odd that no one caught that.

Also, it's a huge pebble-mart. Millions of shelves of pebbles and only thousands of customers. Your pebble isn't selling? Make more pebbles. Lots of customers are only window shopping. You pebble helps even if collecting dust.

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Well if you want to get into the finer details of the guns in the movie, I always cringed at the firing range scene when he moves the target so far out and makes a smiley face. The gun he was shooting at that distance would be lucky to have a 1 and a half inch group with good ammo... but the way he flinches when he shoots and moves his arms while shooting is ridiculous. Could a very good marksman make a smiley face? Sure but they wouldn't look like Gibson when they were shooting because if you moved around like Gibson did you would be lucky if all your shots even hit the target let alone hit where you were aiming. In the end watching any movie with guns is best done without thinking about reality because it is rare that a movie ever gets the details right when it comes to guns. I often wonder if there is one arms guy for the movies and they found him at an anti-gun rally because the mistakes they make in movies are so plentiful its pathetic.

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What you say is true. So true that I am happy when they ever show someone actually reloading a gun. Any little attention to detail is a breath of fresh air.

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