Now this is a rabbit hole! There are far more of these than I'd thought, ranging in structure from blog-like to database-like, with some updated by the host and some allowing user contributions (with some of the latter using wiki software). Many also include television, games, comics, or other media; and databases for those forms of media in particular also exist. More mundane subjects, like locations and songs used, are each covered by several sites. To keep the scope narrow, here are some more interesting ones that include films:
Ultimately, it seems that we are devoid of an Internet Internet Database Database. Wikipedia comes close with some of its lists and categories, but only includes those it considers notable. Some of the databases do link to each other; e.g., the Cars Database has a directory page featuring smaller databases such as those for busses; LEGO and similar brick systems; and Microsoft and Nokia: https://www.imcdb.org/links.php
There's also Starring the Computer ( http://www.starringthecomputer.com/ ): A list dedicated to naming the computers used in movies and TV shows, including perennial favorites like Hackers and Jurassic Park.
We really need an "internet movie meta- attribute database" with a way to represent all this stuff. Cuz as far as I know, nobody's set up a whole website for the Internet Movie Household Appliance Database, it's not THAT big an interest.
But if I could just log onto the IMMADB and open the Household Appliance tab, it'd be cool to find out what that cool-looking vacuum cleaner was...
Isn’t that just a subset of IMPPDB? The Internet Movie Product Placement Database, with company.type=‘hoover’ enabled? Which would be very convenient to know who paid what for advertising.
Taking this a step further, we could have an everything (including movies) meta-attribute database that allows you to query that one radio interview where the actor co-starring Kevin Bacon in 3 movies talked about a brand of lawn mover that they really liked. (It had the color blue in its logo.)
These days you can also feed an image of a car to Google's image search, or to Yandex image search—the latter is more head-on about recognizing stuff in general, while Google still tends to suggest handwavy and useless descriptions like ‘sports utility vehicle’.
Yup, there's also the mark that it's a ‘background vehicle’ under the image. The site's UI could use some work, though—I'm saying that as an occasional user.
I didn't even feel like it had much of a focus on gun fights, but apparently it's like a detailed firearms museum. They also have airsoft product placements... I'm not that surprised, some people probably bought the featured airsoft guns purely for display.
Wow, Bruce Willis in Die Hard and Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon used the exact same gun, "The live-firing handgun that was used in both films has since been 'retired' to a glass museum case."
Be very careful with those. It's *very* easy to end up on the wrong side of the ATF. I.e. on that one you posted, he's calling it a pistol, but it appears to have a stock to me.
I believe that makes it a rifle in ATF terms. Rifles have to have a 16" barrel, or they're short-barreled rifles that require a whole bunch of extra paperwork and some taxes. The class is called NFA Items, and includes fully automatic weapons. I.e. making that thing is the same as home-manufacturing a machine gun to the law.
I'm going to hope for his sake that he's got the appropriate FFL licenses to allow him to make such things. It seems like they're really into the space, so it wouldn't surprise me. I don't think those licenses are crazy hard to get, but I could be wrong.
Not the referenced folk, but I have the licenses. They are not extremely difficult to get, but you need to be running a real firearms business, not just for yourself as a hobby or collection. ATF has cracked down on people using the licenses as a cheap way to avoid tax stamps and paperwork.
At least they don't give us grief, even in my anti-gun state, over making a bolt action rifle like K98. I'd love to make a few more modern pieces but ugh.
I think when I sold my 1911 it was more expensive than when I bought it, but even though I didn't use it much I had spent like at least 5 or 6 guns just on ammo and I still sucked with the thing.
I don't think it even needs to be high-quality or unusual, these days. A Mosin bolt-action rifle is not exactly rare, with 37 million made in total. It's also, with few exceptions (such as Finnish marksman variants) not exactly the finest gun in terms of build. 15 years ago, you could get one for $70. 5 years ago, they were going for $300 or so. These days, $600 would be a good find.
For the record, this is what get people on illegal (whole debate on the legality of the NFA aside) machine guns and silencers. Yes, your state may have a prohibition which is a criminal action, but the feds want you for tax evasion for not paying the $200.
Iirc, rapper Ti went to jail for tax evasion on his illegal guns. Another side topic how he spent 1 year in jail while the statute says it’s a 10 year crime. If you are going to break the law, be rich first.
I only recently recognized that a high number of movie posters contain an actor(s) with a gun(s). Studios have obviously done their studies and we humans are obviously drawn to such imagery. I find it genuinely interesting from a psychology perspective.
It would be interesting to process a dataset of movie posters to determine the % containing guns (or other objects of interest).
It's interesting that's true even for movies where the character barely touches a gun. In the movie Layer Cake the main character even states he hates guns and loathes having to use one at one point. Yet most of the poster art features him holding a pistol.
I love watching military-esque movies (e.g. SEAL Team, SWAT) and this site has for long helped me in identifying the numerous guns I see when watching.
Well it doesn't have Dune at all, AFAICT. 28k pages vs 595k movies on IMDB, it's going to miss some. And they seem to have quite restrictive policies on who can edit, what counts as a gun, etc.
It’s a 1960s replica of an 1880 Colt SAA (the Peacemaker).
Aside from what Baldwin is ridiculously claiming, that the gun went off without him pulling the trigger, Pietta built these in the 1960s with trigger bars. You very much can not get that gun to fire without pressing the trigger. So unless the gun was modified or somehow broken, he had to pull the trigger.
FWIW, I didn’t blame actor Alec Baldwin until he started lying about the incident, but still blame Producer Alec Baldwin who is ultimately responsible.
I heard somewhere--I think from claims in one of the lawsuits that was filed--that he might've been playing with the hammer. If he had the trigger already depressed, he might've fired it by releasing the hammer without technically pulling the trigger (because it was already pulled). Or at least that's one theory. We will have to see what goes on in court and hear what they say after examining the actual gun.
I'm surprised he didn't offer to settle before this was even filed. From everything I've heard from lawyers discussing this, there's almost no question that he's civilly liable for this.
Yeah, the only question is whether Alec knows that or not. He doesn't seem very clued in about gun safety and has said some very odd things to the press, which is also horribly inadvisable from a legal perspective.
I wonder what he'll do if he ends up having to take the stand in a civil trial.
Really though Baldwin is claiming the gun went off without him pressing the trigger. Which is a flat out lie he either believes or he is getting ahead of a lawsuit. The gun he used is a replica single action revolver, the replica was made in the 1960s and has a trigger bar. You can bash on that cocked hammer with… a hammer… and it won’t go off. That firing pin can not make contact with the primer until the bar is moved by pressing the trigger.
Historical note, if a Colt SAA (Single Action Army) was to be carried anywhere, it had 5 rounds of the 6 shot chamber filled. It was carried on an empty chamber in case you fell off your horse. I saw a western once where the actor knew while talking about “trouble coming” to silently load a 6th round, good detail.
Side note, there are still countries in Asia and South America that have their police carry with an empty chamber, mostly going back to this OLD advice.
I would say Baldwin should have kept his mouth shut, but his arrogance since the shooting has wiped away any sympathy I had for the Actor. Baldwin the Producer, had always been liable in my eyes.
Even with Badger and uBlock Origin they're particularly persistent. Also the subscribe nag on the lower left I gave up trying to lose. And decided I'd had enough and left the site.
Guns are cool. You should give them a try, I recommend at an outdoor range too. America is one of the last countries with a liberal mindset (in the true definition) that allows private ownership to exist. Like driving fast, flying or diving, there are few pleasures in life that match firing guns outdoors.
I went to the army and spent many days at an outdoor range shooting at targets with an automatic rifle. I was a pretty solid shooter and earned some medals. Yet I fail to see where is the "cool" part. Shooting is just another skill you practice in order to kill.
Thank you for your opinion and service. I too served and was privileged be trained during relative peace time but also had the liberal budget thanks to the GWOT. Our country doesn’t really give out medals for just shooting, but my competence and appreciation in marksmanship is owed to the wonderful cadre I had teaching me, and their passion in marksmanship in addition to the weapon system.
I’m not going to deny your point on killing. That is one application of firearms, also a powerful one, but I don’t feel that’s a reason to absolutely prohibit them for the common folk. As we’re both on HN I’m sure you also don’t “get” why folks just love some things like I do.
For me it’s the history, appreciation of the engineering, and my now civilian hobbies of hunting and competition shooting. They are one of many things that bring me joy that I would hate to lose in my healthy years.
Military training will suck the fun out of pretty much anything. I've been on both sides and can honestly say I enjoy shooting a .22 with my kids way more than an automatic weapon in the Army.
And it doesn't have to be about killing. We play shooting like people play darts. Hit the target for fun.
This is so true. Non-military friends talk about going to the gun ranges in Vegas where they can shoot M249s for absurd prices. All I can think about when I hear these stories is being on a broiling hot range in Oklahoma in the middle of July and having to go through cases of 5.56 because we sure as heck aren't going to go through the hassle of trying to turn unused ammo back in.
Classical liberals generally support equality, limited government power, civil liberties, democracy, and free markets. Today they're sometimes described as libertarians, whereas modern liberals have morphed into intolerant authoritarians.
Having movie guns (and other props) as a hobby isn't specifically American.
I live in a country with very strict gun control laws, and I collect and build replica movie guns (and other prop replicas).
I hate what guns are used for, but I love movies.
BTW. As a consequence of my hobby, I have begun finding the history of handguns interesting though. I have also started to appreciate the human-scale mechanical engineering and the design for usability and ergonomics.
Gun designers don't mess about with the user interface when it is literally a matter of life and death.
> Gun designers don't mess about with the user interface
Oh, there were plenty of gun designers who did mess up the ergonomics big time - it's just that these are the guns you learn in the history of "why we don't do things like that anymore" class.
For example, many early SMGs were prone to feeding failures if the magazine was disturbed. At the same time, the magazine well is basically a natural forward vertical grip - and this was even more true on designs like MP40, where it's so far from the pistol grip. MP40 was supposed to be held with supporting hand gripping the handguard behind the magazine, but malfunctions induced by magwell grip were extremely common in practice.
This is a simple political cycle. Guns and ammo fly off the shelves during Democratic administrations, then gun shops go out of business during Republican administrations. This is purely a psychological phenomenon (many aspects of American gun ownership are), since e.g. Trump would be perfectly happy to take everyone's guns if he benefited somehow, while even a hypothetical 70% Democratic Congress would decline to limit gun ownership since the electoral effects would be disastrous.
I don't have any prejudice against guns, but probably less fascination than seen ITT. I have fired a single shot in the last six months, and the result is in my deep freeze.
edit: especially for a show like Archer where they feature a ton of very obscure cars... https://www.imcdb.org/movie_1486217-Archer.html