BH>VH> DA>Remember that scene in Predator where the guy with the minigun 
lows
BH>VH> DA>away the entire jungle? Ever stop to think how much the ammo 
weighed?
BH>VH> That whole bit is on my short list for "The dumbest scene involving
BH>VH> firearms." :-)
BH>    I know the guys who helped set this scene up....
No doubt these guys were highly paid. :-)
BH>VH> If you see it again, have a stopwatch handy and figure out how long
BH>VH> the shooting goes on (total) and estimate (at 3,000-3,600 rpm) how 
any
BH>VH> rounds were fired.  You can't fit all that ammo in that backpack!
BH>    The backpack held the batteries to run the gun....
BH>VH> Now figure the weight, add in the weight of the gun, ammo chute,
BH>VH> backpack, and battery -- and tell me what you come up with.:-)
BH>    They only used enuf ammo to run for 4 seconds.  They then looped the 
sou
BH>to get the full effect for the 50 odd seconds of film clippage.  The
BH>vegatation was shot up by a bunch of extras with M16's, shotguns and
BH>anything else they could get their hands on...
BH>    Also, this model was setup to run at 6,000 rounds per second, which
BH>increases the ammo demands even more.
BH>    BUT, it looked cool, same as the second Terminator movie when he is in 
t
BH>computer bldg, taking out the entire police force....
It's like those Hollywood handgrenades, which seem to have at least 20
gallons of gasoline along with the four ounces of flake TNT. :-)
BH>VH> What I can't figure out is why in the scene where the Black NCO says 
I
BH>VH> see you" he doesn't just up with that M14 and put about five rounds 
into
BH>VH> the critter.
BH>    Becuz then we would have been out of the theater after 20 minutes.  :)
There you have it -- if movie people did what reasonably intelligent
people would have done in similar situations, most movies wouldn't last
half an hour.
BH>    THE WORST film scene was the M11-SMG tumbling down the stairs in his 
las
BH>film, True Lies and only shooting a round off, when it faced foreward
BH>towards the evil arch villians, and conveniently shot someone each time it
BH>fired.  If anyone knows of a worse scene, I'd sure like to hear about it.
Well, there are lots of scenes where the bad guy shooting a scoped rifle
from a steady rest misses, and the good guy with the snub-nosed .38 gets
him. :-)
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