Hollywood and Guns

[MotherBear]

On the Hollywood subject, gotta ask, is anyone watching Top Shot?

Yes and enjoying it much more this year now that the "voting" drama has been eliminated.

My husband and I were just talking about how much that's improved things. More shooting, less drama! Staying on the pet peeve subject, I think I may scream if I hear "hey diddle diddle, right down the middle" again.

[jimlongley]

On the Hollywood subject, gotta ask, is anyone watching Top Shot?

Yes and enjoying it much more this year now that the "voting" drama has been eliminated.

My husband and I were just talking about how much that's improved things. More shooting, less drama! Staying on the pet peeve subject, I think I may scream if I hear "hey diddle diddle, right down the middle" again.

Yeah, funny once. I used to shoot on a team with a guy who would mumble his shot placement after each shot, "There's a tenner", "That's an x", and other such. It was very distracting.

[bdickens]

Nearly everything from Hollywood concerning firearms is a pile of manure.

[philip964]

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[olafpfj]

you should know tho, that the sounds you are hearing are not what was recorded on the set, but are being added later in post-production.

Correct, it's called Foley art and I saw how they do some of it at Universal.

Many years ago I worked in post production and did a bit of foley recording. I would shake my head constantly at the sounds that the foley walker (the guy who actually makes the sounds) would come up with for gun handling. There actually is an expected standard of sounds for gun handling that they are expected to adhere to. I will have to say that having watched many gun scenes prior to the sounds being added they are pretty comically boring and devoid of excitement so the faux clicks, rattles and what not do actually help the scene immensely.

Yet the vast majority of people still get all their opinions entirely from contrived made up television and film...

If you want to see how much the sheeple have lost touch watch an old western from the 40's or 50's. You'll notice that the reactions of the bad guys when they get shot are much closer to reality as well as numerous other gun handling scene's. People back then, actors and audience, were war vets and certainly knew reality from fiction when it came to guns.

[Robert*PPS]

Or the "chirp" of silenced handgun...I've heard that that sound effect was completely made up by hollywood.

[Dadtodabone]

Glock 7.
Cedric, Andre and the gang in "Be Cool"
an expletive or 2.
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