TV program makers and firearms

[geoshot]

Film directors rarely care much for accuracy, it's effect/drama/cinematography they want - something to wow the audience, critics, awards committees
Their audiences are mostly ignorant on any subject so why would they try for accuracy when they don't need it?
This is the reason why, if you have time to indulge in watching such things, that you have the YouTube clips of expert (insert subject) reacts to (subject) in movies
Whether it's firearms, fishing, mountaineering, military, history, sport - the movie industry almost invariably gets things cringeworthily wrong, and seemingly doesn't give a flying eff about so doing

As for other consequences of lack of understanding of firearms in movies, a clip came up in my feed on YouTube (yes, now that I'm retired I spend WAY too much time watching crap) about untimely deaths of famous actors
Among the sorry list of demises due to predictable causes; drug abuse, alcoholism & suicide there were at least three due to people being shot "accidentally" (in reality it's always negligence on someone's part) on set - and that list didn't include the infamous "Baldwin incident"
So, perhaps for their actors' sake at least, directors etc should actually brush up a lot on the realities of firearms use before any more of that happens

 

[Leec6.5]

I do wish these people would carry out at least basic research when it comes to firearms.

Series I'm watching (Coldwater) has just shown a red stag being shot with no backstop, no clear shot, and then dumped at the local pub ungralloched. Don't even let me start on firearm safety.

This garbage does nothing to promote shooting to the general public

There is a very simple solution to that problem, don’t watch it at all!

TV is not worth watching and hasn’t been the donkeys years

 

[long_range_rob]

Or the miracle 50 round handgun magazines. That allow the hero to immediately know how many rounds he has left by looking at the top one

And the recoilless nature of almost every firearm they use.

And don’t forget the click, click, click of an empty automatic

 

[User00056]

And don’t forget the click, click, click of an empty automatic

Oh yes! That's a beauty, that one