[MOVIE] Bruce Willis in The Last Man Standing

[Jeff Bryant]

Just checked out the video The Last Man Standing from Hollywood Video
(sure as heck not Blockbuster). What a great movie for .45 ACP fans!
Willis gets in the middle of a prohibition gang war. Everyone totes a
Thompson submachine gun or a .38 revolver. Bruce carries twin 1911s.
Lots of flying lead and big holes!

[Devin Kellar]

# Just checked out the video The Last Man Standing from Hollywood Video
# (sure as heck not Blockbuster). What a great movie for .45 ACP fans!
# Willis gets in the middle of a prohibition gang war. Everyone totes a
# Thompson submachine gun or a .38 revolver. Bruce carries twin 1911s.
# Lots of flying lead and big holes!
#

it was decent, lot of action; maybe a little too much what with willis getting
about 25 rounds out of a pair of 1911's w/o a reload! loved the scene where
he is just sitting there loading his stack of about 20 mags :)

[J. Spencer]

I Agree, good for the 1911 group- a fine group and weapon indeed,...... but
the movie kind of sucked!

Jeff Bryant <jbr...@europa.com> wrote in article
<5gnh5i$p...@xring.cs.umd.edu>...

# Just checked out the video The Last Man Standing from Hollywood Video
# (sure as heck not Blockbuster). What a great movie for .45 ACP fans!
# Willis gets in the middle of a prohibition gang war. Everyone totes a
# Thompson submachine gun or a .38 revolver. Bruce carries twin 1911s.
# Lots of flying lead and big holes!
#

#

[Tdcut]

I saw the movie, too, (rented from Blockbuster), but I'm not sure that the
Last Man was toting .45s. One look at the barrell end made me think that
the character was carrying a 38 Super; when he was reloading all those
clips, the bullets didn't look like the fat .45 rounds. Guess we'd have to
hear from a prop master as to whether they were .45s or not. But the 38
Auto (Browning's original round for what became the 1911 design) was
popular during the time this moving was supposed to be set -- the days of
Prohibition.

[Mike Sumner]

Tdcut wrote:
#
# I saw the movie, too, (rented from Blockbuster), but I'm not sure that the
# Last Man was toting .45s. One look at the barrell end made me think that
# the character was carrying a 38 Super; when he was reloading all those
# clips, the bullets didn't look like the fat .45 rounds. Guess we'd have to
# hear from a prop master as to whether they were .45s or not. But the 38
# Auto (Browning's original round for what became the 1911 design) was
# popular during the time this moving was supposed to be set -- the days of
# Prohibition.

But remember, prop guns use special sized blanks. The end of the barrel
is always tapped and a plug with a small hole in it are installed to
build enough pressure to opperate the semi auto action. Of course the
table scene they probaly were using dummy rounds, but the caliber may or
may not have been proper for that gun. Depends on how carefull the prop
guys were.

[Photonfire]

I guess Bruce Willis is a much better shot than me since with only a
couple of 1911's he took out several Thompsons and BAR's. Also they did a
very good job with the Thompson sound, that is exactly what a'21AC sounds
like. Pure music to my hears.

The second amendment is about machineguns, may we keep ours forever.

[Kelly McMillan]

Devin Kellar wrote:
#
# # Just checked out the video The Last Man Standing from Hollywood Video
# # (sure as heck not Blockbuster). What a great movie for .45 ACP fans!
# # Willis gets in the middle of a prohibition gang war. Everyone totes a
# # Thompson submachine gun or a .38 revolver. Bruce carries twin 1911s.
# # Lots of flying lead and big holes!
# #
#

# it was decent, lot of action; maybe a little too much what with willis getting

# about 25 rounds out of a pair of 1911's w/o a reload! loved the scene where
# he is just sitting there loading his stack of about 20 mags :)

Actually theyshowed him dropping his empty mags more often than in most
movies. I couldn't figure out why he had to hold the gun out at arms
length and above his head to get the mag to drop. Must have been a
quirk of his particular 1911's.:-)
The only scene I had a problem with was when he was on the stairs
reloading. I was curious how he was going to accomplish the feat with
two guns but he put them both in one hand. After loading both mags he
grabs the guns one in each hand and drops the slide on both. Problem
was that the slide was already dropped on the one in his right hand even
though the sound effects made it sound like it was dropping. I watched
the scene about 5 times trying to figure out how he dropped the slide on
the gun in his left hand. I came to the conclusion that he did it with
his trigger finger. At least you couldn't see it in the trigger
bow.(the scene was shot from the port side of the gun).
All in all it was just too far fetched to be believable. The action was
okay though. Kelly
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[Tom McNaughton]

Kelly McMillan <ke...@mcmfamily.com> wrote:

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I watched
#the scene about 5 times trying to figure out how he dropped the slide on
#the gun in his left hand. I came to the conclusion that he did it with
#his trigger finger. At least you couldn't see it in the trigger
#bow.(the scene was shot from the port side of the gun).
#All in all it was just too far fetched to be believable. The action was
#okay though. Kelly
#--
C'mon Kelly, give me a break! I am left-handed. I shoot my 1911's
left-handed. Both the mag release and the slide stop are easily reached
with the trigger finger. In fact I've always wondered how right-handed
folks could reach those controls without having to twist their hands
around! The only control I have trouble with is the right-thumb only
safety :-)

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