Things you're tired of seeing in movies

[glunark]

Speaking of raiders, it always bugged me just before he went to see Marion when he was talking with Brody, you see him packing his six shooter for the trip, then as soon as everything kicks off, he pulls out a 1911, which we don't really see again after that, he is certainly back to the revolver when its time to shoot the sword guy.

 

[Riceball]

I was watching Raiders the other day and not so much a "sick of seeing" thing as an "I wonder" thing is if and where Indy carries spare ammo? Since he's an experienced adventurer, I figure he carries spare ammo and not just the 6 rounds in his S&W. So just loose rounds in his bag or a box of cartridges(what I'd imagine). In ToD, it looks like he's looking for ammo when he hands Willie his gun before she drops it out the window, and I'm sure it is quite difficult to reload on a horse ala LC, so it was easier just to reholster it. But when they get to the temple of the Grail he has it out again before being captured so I'm sure he reloaded before they went in there.

Maybe he keeps some loose rounds in his pants pockets or in his jacket, not ideal but it works. As for loading/reloading a revolver on horseback, it's doable depending on whether you're doing it the old fashioned way and loading loose rounds or using some sort of reloading aid like moon clips or a speedloader. Of course, this is referring to modern revolvers using modern cartridges, I don't think that you could load a cap and ball revolver will on horseback.

 

[Solos blaster]

In the shoot out, he uses both his S&W M1917 and a browning Hipower, not a 1911.

I believe the explanation is that the 9mm blanks were easier to fire or more reliable than the .45acp ones so the browning was opted over the 1911. As the browning DID exist in 1936 but was newly manufactured, it is unlikely Indy would have had one. It is believed it should have been a 1911 but us movie nerds...:lol

 

[glunark]

Yeah, I went over to IMgdb to check out the guns and saw the same thing.

Which raised another issue, Indy gives his gun to Belloq, but has another identical one when packing for his trip.

Do you reckon he has a drawer in his house just full of revolvers?

 

[Axlotl]

In the shoot out, he uses both his S&W M1917 and a browning Hipower, not a 1911.

Wow - you learn something new every day.
I had never even heard of a Browning Hi-Power until last year when my dad acquired one on a trade.
I wasn't impressed at all (looked like a poor man's 1911 to me) until he broke it down and put it back together.
It breaks down into 4 pieces. That's it. It's a brilliant piece of engineering. I love that little gun.

 

[p51]

How about when there's something that causes large areas to vanish underfoot? So many movies, you have the good guy either just missing driving into a chasm that's conveniently just beyond where they stopped. Worse yet, a good guy and bad guy about face off and forces they haven nothing to do with drop the ground exactly where they're standing (not one inch closer) and neither even jumps back, having been surprised that the ground just vanished?
Where does the ground go at a time like that? Anyone would be freaked out and running back to avoid it crumbling further.
SW: Force Awakens, the ending of the Twilight movies, and it's happened in plenty of other films as well.
So sick of that.

 

[Solos blaster]

Maybe he keeps some loose rounds in his pants pockets or in his jacket, not ideal but it works. As for loading/reloading a revolver on horseback, it's doable depending on whether you're doing it the old fashioned way and loading loose rounds or using some sort of reloading aid like moon clips or a speedloader. Of course, this is referring to modern revolvers using modern cartridges, I don't think that you could load a cap and ball revolver will on horseback.

Pretty much what I've alluded to as well, loose rounds....somewhere. I don't know how prevalent "speed strips" were(his wouldn't have needed moon clips for .455 elay), but it would make more sense if they were available.

Yeah, I went over to IMgdb to check out the guns and saw the same thing.

Which raised another issue, Indy gives his gun to Belloq, but has another identical one when packing for his trip.

Do you reckon he has a drawer in his house just full of revolvers?

He gives Belloq his gun and his whip if you look closely, and when Indy is running away - no whip. I would imagine he does have more than a few revolvers and whips in storage or just buys them when needed. Especially since, the one he carries afterwards is a different revolver and not the same one, yay for continuity lol.

Wow - you learn something new every day.
I had never even heard of a Browning Hi-Power until last year when my dad acquired one on a trade.
I wasn't impressed at all (looked like a poor man's 1911 to me) until he broke it down and put it back together.
It breaks down into 4 pieces. That's it. It's a brilliant piece of engineering. I love that little gun.

Yeah, it is a Browning design but not one he actually manufactured but is seen as his best. Nothing came close in capacity and reliability until the 1980's I believe(Beretta).



P51:
Oh yeah, you can definitely tell it is an after effect added later. I can't imagine anyone NOT running the other way when the ground opens up in front of them lol I know I would!

 

[Riceball]

Pretty much what I've alluded to as well, loose rounds....somewhere. I don't know how prevalent stripper clips were(his wouldn't have needed moon clips for .455 elay), but it would make more sense if they were available

Stripper clips wouldn't work for his revolvers, you can't reload a revolver using stripper clips. For the Hi-Power, maybe, but I've never heard of an automatic that could have its mags reloaded via stripper clips, outside of old autos like C96s with the fixed internal mag.

 

[Solos blaster]

Stripper clips wouldn't work for his revolvers, you can't reload a revolver using stripper clips. For the Hi-Power, maybe, but I've never heard of an automatic that could have its mags reloaded via stripper clips, outside of old autos like C96s with the fixed internal mag.

Ugh...I meant speed strips, not stripper clips lol...whoops.

 

[Proper]

In the vein of the reloading issue, in The Revenant, Leonardo fires a flintlock pistol, then jumps on a horse and fires again as he rides away. Oops! What's wrong with that picture? I remember it happening at least one other time in the movie, with either a pistol or a rifle, but can't remember the instance now.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

I tried watching that movie and couldn't make it halfway thru before I left the theater.

 

[Zombie_61]

...Which raised another issue, Indy gives his gun to Belloq, but has another identical one when packing for his trip.

Do you reckon he has a drawer in his house just full of revolvers?

Yep. One drawer for sidearms, one for whips, one for shirts, one for pants. And, of course, one for socks and underwear. And a closet full of fedoras.

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Indy don't wear underwear... he goes commando!

 

[Zombie_61]

Indy don't wear underwear... he goes commando!

TMI, man. I don't want to know. :lol

 

[Trap Joe]

LOOOOL. That is so true

 

[LrdSatyr8]

Knew you couldn't handle the truth! LOL

 

[p51]

One thing I'm painfully tired of: Helicopters flying through very tight streets, at redline speeds. The closest film for that being done realistically is in "Blue Thunder" and that's because they used real aircraft in a real city for that. But in those scenes, you'll see they're half a block away from the walls of any buildings. NO chopper pilot would fly the way you see in so many movies, because you'd never survive the trip.

 

[glunark]

Speaking of Blue Thunder, when he rose up behind the bridge in whisper mode, that was supposed to be a surprise to the cop standing there, and it was, because of whisper mode.

How many times have we seen that scene coped in other films with ordinary helicopters, even harriers (and a bird of prey) and still people can't hear them?

I hear the police helicopter on a night when its a mile away, if it was ten feet below me on a bridge I was standing on, or just behind a hill, pretty sure I would hear it.

 

[mattycsi]

How come when a company or police computer network is down, there is always a convoluted reason for it? It always has some grand plot point like the terrorists did or it was hacked etc. Its never just the guys in I.T fiddling with it and it will be back up in a while, the number 1 reason why company's computers arent working at any given moment.

 

[Riceball]

On the subject of helos and flying, how about in every giant monster movie where you see choppers, and jets for that matter too, attacking the creature from within a couple hundred yards, or much less, and very low altitudes when most weapons can be fired from well outside of normal visual range, like thousands of yards. Of course it's to put them into attack range of the monster so that the pilots can be shown to be in peril, but since the weapons tend to have little to no effect anyway why can't see we them attacking from a more realistic distance and altitude?