Coolest looking “gun” props in cinema history

[squirrelstailor]

Having grown up in a houseful of guns, and shooting all of them regularly (weren't many people around) it's the "real world" guns that you can own and shoot that look coolest to me.

Possibly my favourite (and I'm not alone) is the .44 Auto Mag which was invented and made in Pasadena California for a brief time, in the 1970s.

They're hard to find and expensive, but a friend has three of them, which he picked up relatively cheaply at Pawn Shops who didn't know what they had.

So I've had the opportunity to fire this amazing pistol. It's hard on the hand due to the violent recoil, really too powerful a round to make for a practical handgun. But it looks so cool on film!

clint eastwood 45 auto mag - Google Search

I was going to say it was in Death Wish as well however I checked and it was the Wildey Hunter in 3.
My current favorite real gun is the Smith & Wesson Model 500 from John Wick 4.
That said also really like the Heckler & Koch USP Match from Lara Croft.

 

[flimzy]

Well there’s my currant project.

 

[adamszki427]

blades modified M11 is neat.... foxes 1911 from wanted is also pretty cool.... i guess we have to mention robocops original auto 9. and what about axel foley with the annihilator 3000 from Beverley hills cop 3?

 

[userd1402]

Talking of Blade, I love the modified ‘kanji’ Berettas in Blade 2. Ron Perlman wields a matching pair built by Bapty in London around the same Berettas previously used in Judge Dredd’s Lawgivers, hence the grip bases;

 

[adamszki427]

 

[greenmachines]

I was going to say it was in Death Wish as well however I checked and it was the Wildey Hunter in 3.
My current favorite real gun is the Smith & Wesson Model 500 from John Wick 4.
That said also really like the Heckler & Koch USP Match from Lara Croft.

USP, a beautiful extension to the human hand

 

[Rik1138]

For real guns, I have always loved the look of a good ol' fashioned round-magazine Tommy Gun...!
From pretty much any gangster movie...

And, speaking of gangsters, don't forget Danny Vermin's '.88 Magnum' from Johnny Dangerously...
They probably wouldn't include the line 'It shoots through schools' these days...

Almost too bad they didn't try to make a fake gun that was sized for an '.88 magnum' round.

 

[dkaniel]

For me, I'm old school... M1911 .45 ACP as seen in The Getaway with Steve McQueen and Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks

 

[greenmachines]

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For me, I'm old school... M1911 .45 ACP as seen in The Getaway with Steve McQueen and Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks

I think it was subconsciously accepted as not spoken but accepted as universal truth.

 

[Jamesfett]

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For me, I'm old school... M1911 .45 ACP as seen in The Getaway with Steve McQueen and Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks

...., Magnum P.I., Cobra (Technically the 9mm version), Terminator 2, Casablanca, Sahara, Expendables, Remo Williams, Escape from L.A., Titanic, Rambo 4, and approximately 56,756.32 other things. Classics never go out of style.

 

[Jamesfett]

If you want to go blind scrolling, IMFDB breaks down appearances by variants. It just keeps going and going.

M1911 pistol series - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games

www.imfdb.org

 

[greenmachines]

If you want to go blind scrolling, IMFDB breaks down appearances by variants. It just keeps going and going.

M1911 pistol series - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games

www.imfdb.org

It's like a "denial of service attack" that only works on imfdb specifically. Jamesfett offhandedly suggests it and, due to an unusually high read rate, nearly all of therpf users simultaneously request imfdb's largest page.

 

[The Goon]

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"Hooper drives the boat, Chief."

 

[renaissance_man]

I realise this doesn't follow the title of the thread but others have chimed in with non projectile weapons.
For me you can't beat the aesthetics and ergonomics of the Type 2 "Boomerang" Phaser.

 

[TheBeast]

My too favs

I would have suggested 'two favs', but browncoats don't focus on grammar. I don't recognize the second, tho'.

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I mentioned elsewhere trying to use a Nerf Longstrike to make, but I suppose it would be more of an homage.

Most representations have large wood stocks, based on real world examples.

While I have plenty of real world firearm and movie energy weapon favorites, seems rude to mention in this thread.

More fun to find the real slug throwers at the heart of props.

 

[peterquill]

 

[Duncanator]

 

[corranhornjje]

Bob Lee Swagger sniper rifle from the 2007 movie Shooter.

 

[renaissance_man]

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Bob Lee Swagger sniper rifle from the 2007 movie Shooter.

I forgot how ridiculous his character's name was. Thanks for the reminder

 

[DamnYankee123]

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Agreed with the selection above, from other members...the prob is: too many cool guns in movies

What a lovely design. Something about the Wasp's color scheme makes me all wiggly inside.