How many times did they cock their weapons in this movie?
I mean, they cock their guns so many times that there would be live rounds all over the floor.
And why would you be holding an uncocked gun in a situation like that anyway. I wouldn't even have the safety on!
SpiltPersonality
I noticed the same thing, but it happens a lot in movies. Everytime somebody raises a gun there is a cocking sound effect. I especially love it when somebody raises a glock and you hear a cocking noise since they don't have am external hammer. I guess it's just for dramatic effect, but I wish they would cut it out because it gets pretty ridiculous.
shareYou're right about all you said. There are movies out there that focus on my own area of expertise and i 'go with the flow' when they completely get stuff wrong, but sometimes i feel somewhat 'distracted' when it's clearly done for 'wow' factor.
One example is the firearms cocking. What kind of idiot would go into a live fire situation with an uncocked weapon? So, I'm not going 'ooh, sounds good' I'm thinking these policemen/soldiers/spies/special forces members etc etc are green. They know nothing. So makes me lose some suspension of disbelief.
It's one of the things i liked about Black Hawk Down when Eric Banna's character say's 'here's my safety sir' after being admonished for hqving a hot weapon.
I can accept things like 'compression' etc in story telling. Things that are needed to put a wide field (time/vision etc) into cinema, but putting something in 'coz it looks cool' is stupid imho... but i dont make movies
SpiltPersonality
If they were constantly pulling back the slide & clambering rounds, I'd agree. But it's actually not unreasonable to drop the hammer back & put it into single/first action during a lull. That's precisely what LF does on several occasions, and he later cocks his weapon by distinctly drawing the hammer back & NOT the slide.
shareIt's about time I read this. By my count, and I think I missed a couple, guns were cocked, hammers drawn back, and safeties clicked off 4791 times. In the last 20 minutes. I am sick of this inanity. Movie people think we're stupid, apparently. Examples: Chinese food is always eaten out of the carton with chopsticks, everyone has full auto weapons, ice cream is eaten directly out of the carton, hit the bad guy once on the head and then run (instead of making his head look like pudding), turn on a VCR or DVD and the TV comes on, and a million others. There, I've got it off my chest.
Billy the Kid
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So long as you feel better :)
Um... I hate to be the first to break it to you, kid (and after all these years), but the act of cocking the gun does not extract any rounds from it. Why would it? Where you got the idea that there should be "live rounds on the floor" is beyond me.
shareKorb, my good man, if there is a round in the chamber, and you rack the slide (as done in virtually every scene), then a live round will absolutely be ejected. You will see, 95% of the time, whenever a semiauto is brought in to play, the actor will rack the slide. Even if no shot is taken, the next instance he'll rack it again. Pump shotguns (used in movies 90% of the time just so they can pump it) work the same way. And if no shot were fired, you can't pump it again without depressing the slide release button. I once saw a movie where the actor, a woman, pumped the shotgun 5 times in one scene, all one-handed. Can't be done, plus she'd be spewing her ammo onto the floor every time. The Hollywood idiots even put pumps and slides on space weapons. See Aliens, Men in Black, etc. what ammo are they supposed to be chambering? Lightning bolts?
Billy the Kid
I think Korben was just nitpicking about the difference between cocking and racking to prove his "gun creds"