Movies and TV always get the sound of gunshots wrong, with or without "silencers". As it happens, I've heard a bullet flying by overhead a time or two, and it's a very distinctive sound.

I first heard that sound in the early '60's when a bunch of us were pulling and scoring targets for shooters qualifying for the Camp Perry match -- we did it all day for two days. Hundreds and hundreds of bullets going overhead.

Talk about noisy!

Ken V.

Movies and TV always get the sound of gunshots wrong, with or without "silencers". As it happens, I've heard a bullet flying by overhead a time or two, and it's a very distinctive sound.

I suspect the filmmakers are going for dramatic effect, rather than sonic accuracy.

I suspect the filmmakers are going for dramatic effect, rather than sonic accuracy.

You're right.

When have film makers ever really gone for accuracy?

(Well, sometimes they do, but it's extremely rare.)

Ken V.

When have film makers ever really gone for accuracy?

Ken V.

I believe in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. When Asians fly, they typically choose to jump from rooftop to rooftop and occasionally take it to the trees. Little known fact but I looked it up on Wikipedia.

I believe in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. When Asians fly, they typically choose to jump from rooftop to rooftop and occasionally take it to the trees. Little known fact but I looked it up on Wikipedia.

In reality, only the women can fly. Men are too dense.

Following my thread on Fast/Furious, what film/s are good for accurate or fairly accurate warfare, fighting, shooting etc.
What films are very bad and why, what was wrong, did the lead hold his gun upside down, lol.

Every movie where a person is shot and the round knocks the person into the air. The most egregious of them was a movie called Fled in which the bad guy shoots through the peephole, hits a woman in the eye and she somersaults backwards and lands on the floor.

Every movie where a person is shot and the round knocks the person into the air. The most egregious of them was a movie called Fled in which the bad guy shoots through the peephole, hits a woman in the eye and she somersaults backwards and lands on the floor.

What was the depression era remake of A Fist Full of Dollars, starring Bruce Willis? He sent people flying through windows, acroos rooms, or through doors with dual 1911's. Very realistic!

What was the depression era remake of A Fist Full of Dollars, starring Bruce Willis? He sent people flying through windows, acroos rooms, or through doors with dual 1911's. Very realistic!

Oh yeah the one with Bruce Dern and Christopher Walken...what the crap was that called? Just a second, tabbing out to check. "Last Man Standing" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116830/

Oh yeah the one with Bruce Dern and Christopher Walken...what the crap was that called? Just a second, tabbing out to check. "Last Man Standing" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116830/

It may have been a remake of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, but which was itself a remake of YOJIMBO...which I think actually was a borrowing of a Dashiell Hammett detective story...