Another movie irregularity

[Monkeyleg]

About once a year I watch the movie "Shooter", with Mark Wahlberg. It's pretty much mindless entertainment, and I like that the film's makers took pains to get at least some of the gun stuff right.

One of the glaring mistakes is the location of the shooter of the Ethiopian bishop who was standing next to the president. The actual rifle was a remote-controlled system on a bipod mounted in the bell tower of a church. Walhberg's rifle is found in a second-floor room of a warehouse, ostensibly by a police officer who saw a barrel pointed out the window, and who then shot Walhberg.

Wouldn't even the greenest ballistics "expert" see that the shot came from over a mile to the north and not from a couple of blocks to the west?

Also, what is the FBI doing providing security for the president?

[Hawkmoon]

Also, what is the FBI doing providing security for the president?

Secret Service detail were all too busy playing with hookers ...

[vaskidmark]

Also, what is the FBI doing providing security for the president?

Secret Service detail were all too busy playing with hookers ...

They quit doing that after the last time they got caught.  Now they just get drunk and can't navigate past a plastic barrel.

Puts pressure on the FBI to pick up the slack.  But they can do that without flinching.

stay safe.

[French G.]

Probably a nod to JFK conspiracies and plant guns.

[Monkeyleg]

A couple of other movie curiosities.

In "No Country For Old Men", Llewelyn Moss takes the suitcase full of money and goes to a motel in a town in the next county. Anton Chigurh, using a tracker with a range of no more than 100 feet or so, manages to track Moss to the motel. How did Anton Chigurh know to go to that town?

In "Enemy of the State", Gene Hackman's character is a former CIA or NSA operative who knows everything about electronic surveillance, satellites, etc, and lives in a Faraday cage to avoid being surveilled.  So why does he drive an El Camino, which is a rare and distinctive-looking car that would be instantly recognizable viewed from a satellite?

[DustinD]

http://cinemasins.com/ My favorite YouTube channel.

[230RN]

^ Very entertaining site.

Two things always irked the heck out of me, but I've sort of got used to them over the years.  I guess I've been brainwashed:

'Splosions a mile away where the speed of sound = c.  (Same thing with lightning bolts and the thunder.)

Sounds in space. (I seem to recall one where  a spaceship zooming across the screen exhibited the Doppler effect.)

Almost not worth mentioning any more.