Movie gun glitches

[DanB]

This thread could go on forever. Although not a malfunction but still not right. Any slow motion shoot of a guy shooting a machinegun. You can usually tell the shell casings are blanks by the crimped shell casings.

Wasn't it one of the Bourne Movies where Matt Dameon was holding a Glock/Sig/Glock/Sig combo in the same scene?

 

[TedKennedy]

Pulp Fiction - youth gets shot during the car ride. Those two guys would have been screaming at each other after the round went off inside the car, deaf.

Pretty much any movie where guns are going off inside house, helicopter, whatever, and the actors carry on conversation. Huh? What'd you say??

 

[NikatKimber]

This thread could go on forever. Although not a malfunction but still not right. Any slow motion shoot of a guy shooting a machinegun. You can usually tell the shell casings are blanks by the crimped shell casings.

Wasn't it one of the Bourne Movies where Matt Dameon was holding a Glock/Sig/Glock/Sig combo in the same scene?

Yup. The last scene in the 3rd movie. It went from black Glock to two tone Sig, back and forth every time they switched camera angles. They edited it out in the DVD release.

 

[NikatKimber]

Another one, at the beginning of the second Ms Congeniality, the bank robber is holding a 1911 on Bullock, and decides to get more serious with her threat... so the robber cocks the hammer on the 1911.

 

[Tom K]

I remember a movie with Martin Short (think it might've been called Bad Luck or something like that) where in a scene towards the end, a guy has a gun that alternates between being a Beretta 92 and a 1911, depending on camera angle.

There is a scene from a TV show that was memorable to me because it showed three cops at a range firing line. (The show may have been The Rookies.) They were all shooting revolvers double action. The first one was firing with absolutely no recoil. The second was shooting and simulating recoil, except about a half-second late. The third one was good on his timing of simulating recoil at the shot, until he got to an empty chamber and made the gun "recoil" anyway.

 

[TonyRumore]

Wasn't it one of the Bourne Movies where Matt Dameon was holding a Glock/Sig/Glock/Sig combo in the same scene?

That is what is called a "continuity" error. It usually occurs when they have to go back and reshoot parts of the scene at a later date for whatever reason. The earlier recording is viewed very carefully up to the point where they plan to cut-in with the new scene. Then they make sure all the props, costumes, etc are all exactly the same before they do the reshoot. Of course the guys reviewing the earlier film are not gun experts by any means and probably just missed the gun type on that one.

Tony