I know that the subject of guns and movies has been discussed a zillion times. I guess this makes a zillion + 1.
I was watching "Street Kings" tonight. In the opening scene, Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) wakes up, picks up his 1911 from under a blanket, inserts a loaded magazine, then does a press check that shows a round already in the chamber. Why remove the magazine when the gun is already cocked and locked?
"Goodfella's" was a movie with a pretty substantial budget. Yet they screwed up a few times. In the scene when Henry Hill wakes up to find his wife Karen sitting on top of him and pointing a S&W snubby at him. I've read on a couple of websites that it's a blued gun that only looks like stainless because of the lighting, but I've played and replayed that scene several times. It's blued in one shot and stainless in the next.
Also in "Goodfellas" is the scene when Tommy goes to Stack's apartment to execute him with a suppressed 1911. When the shooting is repeated in slow motion, you hear the thunder of the .45 unsuppressed. Probably just for effect, but it's a little silly.
In the movie "Marathon Man," Dustin Hoffman is thinking back to the time he found his father dead on the floor from suicide, with a 1911 lying by his head. The hammer is down, meaning that the gun was either unloaded or didn't have a magazine in it (I'll have to watch the scene again to see if there's a mag in it).
How much would it cost to have someone who knows guns say, "hey, don't do that"?