10 Most Cliche Ways Guns Are Used in Movies

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From my blog BehindFilm.com:

  1. One of your characters presses a gun to their head while breathing heavily.
  2. No one ever needs to reload their gun. It has unlimited ammo.
  3. Even though all of your characters never have to reload and fire off hundreds of shots they always seem to miss by an inch. Even when firing from a few feet away.
  4. If by chance your character gets a clear shot their gun finally runs out of bullets- or jams.
  5. One of your characters fires using only one hand….tilted to the side “gangsta style”.
  6. A car door or upturned table is a sufficient shield from a hail of bullets.
  7. Shooting a car or any kind of pressurized tank makes it suddenly explode.
  8. Adding to a silencer to a gun will magically give it the ability to make soft “pew! pew!” noises that no one hears.
  9. One of your characters gets shot and everyone believes he’s been killed only for that character to get up and, with a wry smile, open his shirt to showcase a bullet proof vest protecting him.
  10. A bullet proof vest will shield your characters from every kind gun including military caliber weapons.

Are there any I missed?
 
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An inconsistent BDQ (bullet deadliness quotient). The bad guys will fire of thousands of rounds from sub-machine guns and no-one will get hurt - the hero will kill someone every time he fires. Or the BDQ will start off low, allowing lots of dramatic shootouts, increasing rapidly at the climax.

Also, the good guy always gets shot in the shoulder.
 
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As an avid gun supporter.. I do have to say that movies are about fantasy, not reality. If your
taking ANY information contained in movies as "truth" you'd better seek professional help!

Movies can show us Capital T truth, but not very good at little t truth.. if you know what I mean..
 
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I agree whole-heartedly with Wheatgrinder.

But I my own opinion is the OP missed that most films I have seen/worked on the gun doesn't recoil or make any jerking movements.

Like how some people in movies can hold a double-barrel sawed-off shotgun with one hand without it breaking their collar-bone - tell me one person besides Arnold who is strong enough to do that?
 
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