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Movie Theater Shooter
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Super Awesome Sniper Rifle (what I called ours in 06)
...Or...
Special Application Scoped Rifle (if you wanna be like a nerd and stuff)
SASR is the 50
Shit, now that I’ve rewatched that scene, his SASR experience might be the most realistic part of that whole dumpster fire of a film.
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lol no. However it does serve as a "lets get drunk and laugh at this stupid fucking movie" way to kill time. Oh and it helps with making jokes about how stupid it was lol. Other than that, no.
the power of movies and the never depleting mag of 1 round , 800 men killed with that one magic round .
The only real depiction of a sniper is God, played by Bill Paxton in the greatest film ever to grace our screens... Navy SEALs
Yes he did play a good part in that movie I will admit but a lot of that movie was a joke also.
THAT MOVIE WAS A BLESSING FROM SNIPER JESUS ITSELF! HOW DARE YOU CALL THE 1990 INSTANT HIT CLASSIC MASTERPIECE A JOKE!
THERE WAS NOTHING ON STARLIGHT SO HE SWITCHED TO THERMAL! HE VAPORIZED HOSTILES! HE DIED DOING WHAT HE LOVED. HOW DARE YOU SIR.
lol
Hi,
LOLOL that is true operation of that POS semi auto bolt action.......Nothing Hollywood'd up with it!!
Sincerely,
Theis
LOLOL that is true operation of that POS semi auto bolt action.......Nothing Hollywood'd up with it!!
Sincerely,
Theis
If you watch closely movies like Band of Brothers, you'll notice the actors manually cycling their M1s and M1 Carbines. Blanks often do not have enough "oomph" to cycle the bolts. In training we regularly use blanks mixed in with live rounds in our AR magazines to induce a "fail to fire" so we have to deal with a malfunction on the fly. We don't use blank adapters, so the bolt won't cycle.
Posted to IMFDB by Weapons Coordinator Ryan Steacy: "I was the weapons coordinator on this film. The Barrett used was a real one firing blanks. After multiple strafing runs by the helicopter and the amount of dust and crap floating in the air from all the explosions, the gun did malfunction a few times on multiple takes. Unfortunately the way it was edited together made it seem like he was cocking it after every shot."
Posted to IMFDB by Weapons Coordinator Ryan Steacy: "I was the weapons coordinator on this film. The Barrett used was a real one firing blanks. After multiple strafing runs by the helicopter and the amount of dust and crap floating in the air from all the explosions, the gun did malfunction a few times on multiple takes. Unfortunately the way it was edited together made it seem like he was cocking it after every shot."
Little did he know, the system was operating as normal lol
The movie, ehhh. It was mildly entertaining back in the day.
You want to see bad... watch the TV series! I managed one excruciating episode and that was plenty.
You want to see bad... watch the TV series! I managed one excruciating episode and that was plenty.
Dude I heard the show was a raging dumpster fire. Is it worth watching and turning into a drinking game? If I play by myself, I’m almost guaranteed to win.
Oh man... it was indeed a oxygen fueled, raging, tires and baby diapers dumpster fire. It was so bad that everyone hated it, not just people "in the know".
I dunno - you’d be drinking like it was Gatorade in the Sahara if you did!
I’ll have to try and find the videos we took so we could prove that they were shit to higher and the armorers lol.
No, the show was ungodly horrible. The movie was okay, what do you expect from Hollyweird. The books were much better. Whoever the technical advisor for Stephen Hunter is has some experience.
Lots of interesting ballistics concepts and ideas that were explained in detail while weaving them into the story were glossed over with a sentence in the movie.
Left a lot of significant revelations being relegated to 'heres more bad guys' in the movie ?
You can’t deny that having Levon Helm, legendary drummer for The Band, explain conspiracy theories was not almost as good as those headlights!!
Hey Ridley, got any Beemans?
RIP, Levon! The third bright spot in a stupid movie
Cheers, Sirhr
PS... read the books. Hunter does write a good yarn!!!
I agree. I enjoyed the movie, but the book is much, much better. (Isn't that usually the case). The entire "Bob Lee" series of books are pretty well done. Enjoyable reading. I'm impatiently waiting for the next one!
Yes, Bob Lee Swagger novels are uniformly awesome, written by a real "gun guy" ... who understands them and their use. You will find yourself far less frustrated reading the books when it comes to gun details. Stephen Hunter knows his stuff. I admit I did not keep reading after Bob Lee got too old to be the main character.
I've enjoyed the later books as much as the earlier ones. I especially liked "G-Man". A very interesting "alternate timeline" look at the "Gangster era".
I caught some “behind the scenes” thing on this one time and I believe it was because of all the sand that kept getting on the action or something was causing it not to cycle so he had to keep manually cycling it for the scene.
Movie is absolute trash anyways. I like how at the end of the movie all of a sudden he is sniping left handed (which Mark is left handed) but at the beginning he’s a righty. More Hollywood fuckery.
Movie is absolute trash anyways. I like how at the end of the movie all of a sudden he is sniping left handed (which Mark is left handed) but at the beginning he’s a righty. More Hollywood fuckery.
Posted to IMFDB by Weapons Coordinator Ryan Steacy: "I was the weapons coordinator on this film. The Barrett used was a real one firing blanks. After multiple strafing runs by the helicopter and the amount of dust and crap floating in the air from all the explosions, the gun did malfunction a few times on multiple takes. Unfortunately the way it was edited together made it seem like he was cocking it after every shot."
I really didn’t notice right away how the gun was cycling I was too involved watching the helicopter which was a nice part I thought.
As far as the 50 goes, pretty sure they just did that to amp up the drama and urgency of the scene. Jeez boys it’s a freakin movie, just sit back and try not to take it so seriously lol
Why not take it somewhat seriously though? The gun grabber liberal machine sure as hell well will. Numerous examples can be cited where politics referenced movies (and even worse, Youtube).
If you want to make the tv show a drinking game, you’ll end up with alcohol poisoning.
I had it on in the background while reloading a year or so ago and when they started talking about the shit involved to take a long range shot it was a comedy show. You’d think they would at least do their homework instead of purely making shit up on the fly.
Is that a nightforce with s&b elevation knob?
Is that a nightforce with s&b elevation knob?
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No shit, in the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare, they spent so much time on appearances and realistic character/weapon models...yet they put an S&B illumination knob on a NF ATACR...on the AX50 lol. I thought it was funny.
Regardless, Shooter has given me eye cancer.
Shantel VanSanten is probably the best part of the show
That's an epic ass........
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