10 Biggest Lies Told By Action Movies

10. Ammunition Clips Are Bottomless

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKYyYGf4l8Y Any movie featuring a gun battle has one thing in common: There is no shortage of bullets to go around. Automatic weapons, which in real life usually have 30 rounds per clip, allow these characters to miraculously spit out hundreds of rounds without needing to reload. Even small caliber weapons and handguns, usually 15 shots or so, can fire off 30 or 40 bullets at a time like a cheat code's been entered. Conservation of ammunition is never a factor in action movies. The hero seems to always have extra clips tucked away on his person, with which he can use to reload in the most bada** way imaginable. Bullets are treated as if they magically regenerate at the will of those using them. The villains ONLY run out of shots when they've got the protagonist dead to rights. Otherwise their guns unleash brass like never-ending fountains of death. A great example of this is the 1987 classic Predator. There's a scene in which Dutch and his band of precision killing machines let loose with a solid two minutes of gunfire, leveling practically an entire forest. Shooting at nothing in particular, mind you. Just in case someone or something might be in the vicinity that needed killing. Now for a mission where you've been dropped in unfamiliar territory in a foreign country, cut off from HQ and resupply and with an unknown predator picking off your team, you would think saving your ammo for when it was really needed would be of tantamount importance. Not for these guys. The leisure with which they fire their weapons is amazing. And let's not forget that Predator is the movie that introduced the war machine known as the mini-gun (ironically named because it's a gigantic helicopter cannon) to the public. Ammo belts for those things probably weigh 50 pounds each. Better to not have to carry them around anyway. Arnold and his gang aren't the only culprits of such wasteful behavior. My biggest peeve with The Walking Dead is that in a world where there are no more working factories to manufacture ammo, the characters open up with machine guns on one or two zombies when they could easily just walk around them or trot away at a brisk pace. It drives me nuts. This is a common theme with action movies. The Expendables, John McClane, pretty much any war movie ever, in fact pretty much any movie ever involving guns. Except for Open Range. That one actually depicts firearm combat semi-realistically, with guys standing less than 10 feet apart and repeatedly missing each other. So if for any reason you're ever involved in a gunfight and suddenly feel the need to unload a thousand rounds into a wall in an attempt to intimidate your foe, you might want to think twice. However, it's a good thing characters in movies are given the gift of unlimited ammo, because that leads us to...