Have we talked about this before??

[C-pher]

It can't just be me. But I love to watch shows on TV, or movies and try to figure out what gun they are carrying.

Like I was watching CSI:Miami, and Horatio Cane carries a Beretta 9000S. One of the other guys is carrying a P99 or an SW99.

Things like that.

That's normal isn't it? I mean, sometimes I miss part of what I'm watching because I'm trying to figure out what he's carrying.

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Oh, it can be much worse. Glenn will pick them apart for something that is wrong. Both of us are even worse on some military ones Even pick apart uniforms. [lol]

 

[SiameseRat]

Yeah we do that too. Whenever Patrick and I are watching tv and guns are part of the show we usually pay more attention to the firearm than the plot. However, for a lot of typical Hollywood crap, that's probably not a bad thing.

 

[Adam_MA]

Oh yeah.. I'm with you on that.

It's good fun!

Adam

 

[MidKnight]

Well, I'm in that club. I always try to figure out what they've got. Normally with pretty low sucess rates...

It's much more fun to laugh at the mistakes... like the sound of a safety being flicked off a glock as it's drawn, the weired clack sounds guns make when moved, holstered, looked at.

 

[Pilgrim]

I recently watched a James Bond marathon. One pic had him being held in a prison tower when a guard came in. The guard was carrying an AK47 looking really menacing without a mag in it!

I do it too.

 

[KMaurer]

I've pretty much got out of the habit of paying close attention to the guns in most movies and television shows on the assumption that almost everything will be wrong. The only time that's been contradicted recently was the movie "Proof of Life". Not a great movie, but far and away the most accurate one I've seen recently. Not only did they spend a heck of a lot of time planning the op than in the "action" sequences, but they actually chose of coordinated set of weapons that fit the operation, rather than a haphazard assortment of different weapons that looked "cool". I think that the armorer/weapons specialist for the film, Thell Reed, probably had something to do with it.

CSI and Numb3rs keep me busy enough these days. I find a dozen things to bore my wife with every time (other than their standard approach of spending resourse as if they had an infinite budget and got a percentage of everything they spent in solving a case).

Ken

 

[dwarven1]

I know what you mean, Ken... my wife gets upset when I start laughing at an inappropriate moment. It's usually when they've done something like rack a shotgun slide... that they've been covering someone with for a while. Or some such stupidity like that. Just can't keep from laughing...

 

[Adam_MA]

I especially LOVE how in movies it is necessary to rack the slide EVERY damn time you pick up/draw your gun...

Kim is usually the one to point that out to me!

Adam