[Stalin's Ghost]

Ever think how much movies shape the public's interest (and mine) in guns? I can always get somebody to go shooting if i tie in the gun to a movie.

I have a very nice British Martini for "The Man Who Would Be King," piles of Mosins from "Enemy At The Gates," my Winchesters and Colt replicas from all those John Wayne movies, a Mannlicher Deluxe like "Snows of Kilimanjaro," my Kentucky flintlocks and Brown Bess replica for "Last of the Mohicans," a Navy Colt replica like "Glory" -the list goes on...we haven't even started on the gangster and detective movies, Dirty Harry, the spies and James Bond in the gun safe...Want to get somebody to go try an AK platform -"Say hello to my little friend!"

I forgot the Bowie knives ("The Alamo" , Arab knives ("The Wind and the Lion"), cutlasses (every pirate swashbuckler ever made) and Viking axes ( Kirk Douglas in "The Vikings"..."Odin!")

"The only difference between a man and a boy is the price of his toys."

(Now if I can just find a GE Minigun like the one in "The Terminator." John Milius, the director, was an NRA Director, so his movies seem to appear in my list above, but I think the ammo costs would be a little steep.)

 

[AbueloMark]

Die Hard = MP5

I want.

I saw Zulu ('64) when it was a 1st run in the old movie houses that were in every downtown across America. I was 8 and I wanted a M-H ever since. Got my wish in '06 at the age of 50 when I got one from IMA.

 

[daveccarlson]

From the Quentin Tarantino _Jackie Brown_: Sam Jackson exclaims: "AK-47--the very best there is! When you absolutely, positively got to kill every m****f**** in the room."

Personally, the firearms are what often pique my interest in a film I might not otherwise see or particularly care for. So it is more like the other way around. I went to see the _Mummy_ purely because Rachel Weisz was in it, but was gratified by the guns used as well.

I was asked what I thought of the _4 feathers_ and honestly, the only good thing I could remember about it was a single shot from a Snider-Enfield!

Don't overlook the Colt SAA and Winchester cultists addicted to WESTERNS.

 

[clayshooter2]

The one thing everyone always remembers from the movie "Snatch" is that big ol' Desert Eagle. I've wanted one ever since.

 

[Portholio]

These days I think this is true, but even more so of Video Games. Every kid within eye sight knows what a 1919 Browning and MG-42 are at the range, even if their dad doesn't play Call Of Duty. They also ooh and ahh the G36, which is in all the Modern Warfare games.

I wish it was Rachel with the Lewis Gun in the Mummy. That would have been epic.

 

[daveccarlson]

Very good observations on the video games. When I've got the SVT-40 out, older shooters often wonder what kind of SKS or M14 it is! Younger shooters, well, CoDWaW has seen to it that "everyone knows what an SVT-40 is!"

 

[shjoe]

agreed with all of the above posts. esp after watching "enemy at the gates", i bought a decent mosin nagant repro-sniper and am still coveting rachel weisz

 

[daveccarlson]

:crossfingers:

Ha! As I've repeatedly said: Rachel W. was about the only thing that that film had going for it... OK, maybe the initial Volga crossing scene and the initial meeting of Jude Law/Vassily Zeitsev with the commissar love-triangle/rival guy... Also adapted for a video game.

 

[clayshooter2]

Very good observations on the video games. When I've got the SVT-40 out, older shooters often wonder what kind of SKS or M14 it is! Younger shooters, well, CoDWaW has seen to it that "everyone knows what an SVT-40 is!"

I agree Dave. When I first started buying Mosins my nephews knew exactly what there were because of Call Of Duty. Whether they could pronounce Mosin-Nagant, well that is a different story.

 

[Ronbo6]

I bought a 1943 Ishevsk 91-30 in as close to original shape as I could find (no refurb, no stock varnish, good rifling, but barrel not really cleaned much since the rifle was outside Berlin in 1945) after watching Zaitsev's early success with an unscoped Mosin in 'Enemy At The Gates' just to see if the shots shown using that cannon in the movie were feasible (they were). More impressive because Z had never fired that specific rifle before, and he connected with his first shot.

Before that, I had a Finn M39, a Hungarian M44, and a TT40, none of which would have told me what I wanted to know.

I don't know if I can link any of my other purchases to movies, though.

 

[daveccarlson]

Breaker Morant: "We used rule .303! We caught them and we shot them under rule .303!" Perhaps the most "bad***" line about a British Enfield?

 

[daveccarlson]

"Old skool original gangsta": Model 1928 Thompson submachine-guns [Chicago typewriter] in 1930s gangster films?

 

[Joop]

I think it has an effect.

Did anybody else notice a spike in the availability and prices of Arisakas, once "The Pacific" aired on HBO? Or, the same with SVT rifles, after they used one on "Top Shot"? I think they were directly related, myself. I know that I had only ever seen one or two Arisakas at local shows before the mini-series came on. After that, there was one on every other table and the prices were ridiculous.

John

 

[AbueloMark]

At the time that EATG came out in '01, we had a long thread in which we debated whether it was Rachel Weitz's keyster we saw or whether that was a stunt butt. Since she has appeared au natural in Stealing Beauty in '96 I think I won the argument conclusively.

 

[shjoe]

ABSOLUTELY, Grandpa! no Tula tatoo there.

 

[Bucko]

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Category:Movie

Got this saved in my favorites....enjoy!

 

[Lancebear]

Think Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers drove American WWII stuff way up. Not just firearms. Now if only somebody would make a WWI movie about the USMC at Belleau Wood. "Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die" is one of the best first hand accounts. Terrible fighting and losses. Favorite quote from the book, "Men who aim every shot aren't afraid of numbers", Germans found out how good a Marine with an M1903 was. USMC took heavy losses also.

LB

 

[Ed Novak]

"..a little." "Thank you Comrade Commissar."

 

[Barksdale123]

Took my Soumi to the range a while back and no one know what it was, except an old Finn. I guess "Winter War" is not on Saturday afternoons.

 

[cruisey]

Breaker Morant: "We used rule .303! We caught them and we shot them under rule .303!" Perhaps the most "bad***" line about a British Enfield?

It is indeed ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaAQsxAQYHg