For the people who are miscounting the shots fired: Murtaugh shot the first hole. Riggs used the same target and fired 7 shots. 8 shots, 8 holes. Riggs turned Murtaugh's shot into the nose of his smiley face. 🎯🙂 Have a Nice Day!
Of course, real shooters don’t act surprised when the gun goes bang. Of course my group would be about the size of a soccer ball at that range and speed but I don’t blink quite as much. And slow fire two or three tries at 5 yards I may be able to come close to duplicating his character’s accuracy.
I just realized the true significance of this scene .. It's not just about displaying their shooting skills ... But it also signifies the moment they realized they had just became partners as they are discussing the case.
I didn’t think of that, but I better understood what they were talking about. Sometimes I wait too long to watch movies I originally saw when I was young.
@@aviatorgamer3057 right. But we are noticing it because of competence in firearms, all the information and training available to us. But this is the 80s/90s I don't think many people back then noticed it as most of us do these days. But yes it would have been much more better if he didn't flinch. He's ex special forces, an excellent marksman and a badass cop. So he mustn't flinch
When I was a kid I thought this scene was so awesome and still do, but as an adult that has to qualify regularly I noticed how he is flinching during every shot which is not so good...but still love the movie.
It's called suspension of disbelief. I find it's something I have to use when enjoying 80's cop movies. Watching Riggs flinch while shooting in Lethal Weapon, Watching Jack Cates shoot more than 6 shots out of his revolver in the movie 48 Hours. I just set my disbelief aside so I can enjoy the movie 😅
@@picallo1 I don't think that it's so much he's flinching it's because he's probably shooting blanks and The recoil is more in the front from blanks so it throws you off
ROGER: "That's pretty fucking thin. " ROGER: "What the hell, thins my middle name." RIGGS: " Your wife's cooking I'm not surprised." ROGER: "Remarks like that will not get you invited to Christmas dinner." RIGGS: "My lucks changing for the better everyday!" 😂😂😂
when we were doing our yearly qualification day in the military my motor sergeant came out with his zero target complaining they had kicked him off the range. he had shot a + in the center circle and was currently drawing the circle around it. i'm a good shot, but holy shit. and yes i saw the target, he was halfway through the circle. he got removed because it was supposed to be zero and leave and he was essentially wasting the range's time.
@@Iggybart05the dipstick range instructor needed a Panama in his ass. Any time you see a soldier having fun with a skill, you see if that guy wants to make a sideways move to a more clandestine part of the job. Nice way to tell those that were aspiring for something greater to just fuck off. Any wonder why nobody wants to enlist?
spit'n Image + Spot on , the best TV cop duo has to be David Soul / Paul michael Glaser in "Starsky and Hutch" just Like Mel Gibson / Danny Glover they made A Great Duo to Watch , A Casting Agents Dream Pairing.......
Roger: Hell thins my middle name. Riggs: Yeah with you're Wife's cooking I'm not surprised. 🔫🔫🔫🔫 Roger: What!? Riggs: Nothing. Roger: Remarks like that will not get you invited to Christmas dinner. Riggs: My luck's change for the better every day.
They made several Lethal weapon movies together, and they had a brief scene in Maverick, like Lucki said... But yes, I wished they'd made more together...
It might be a reflex, since I've personally seen people who do the same, even when they're completely and 100% right on target... I even saw a young lady, in my "delayed entry program" for the navy, who had never shot a gun before, who kept both eyes open until the actual shot happened, and yet was the best shooter of the group... It defied most explanations and observations, but it proved that you can't define a book by the cover. I still wonder, to this day, where she, and her career, went from that day...
@@Arcturus572 I'm confused. When I was in delayed entry for 6 months waiting to ship to great lakes, we didn't do anything. We were just in our regular daily lives waiting to go to basic. We definitely didn't go shooting. Even in basic we didn't shoot for quite a few weeks in.
@@AccountInactive, I grew up around the army, and my dad was working at Fort Chaffee at the time I entered DEP, and he worked at the training aid service center, so I had access to all kinds of fun stuff, including a M-16 trainer... So my dad offered time on the weekends to the recruiters, to give the DEP kids some immersion into the military... I also had the privilege of being on board ship, and telling my dad that I'd like some of the aircraft recognition cards that the army had, and he loaded up a big box with all kinds of stuff and had it shipped to me, for free... I did have to explain to the CO and my division officer why I was getting such a big box, from an army base, and I was glad to give the ship training aids for all kinds of stuff like CBR aids, plenty of playing cards (I think I had enough for at least 5-6 decks per division), and all kinds of GTA's for a variety of things.
Like a lot of creative people Gibson clearly is bipolar. A man living on the edge of sanity is pretty much who Gibson is. Much more than anybody realized at the time.
@@iamverita I say that anybody who claims not to wrestle with bigotry, that is to say unfounded prejudices is a liar. And most certainly, somebody on a downward spiral is going to say and do things the he or she regrets. I expect the same is true for you, even if you are not bipolar.
I carried an M9 for 2 years (Base Security Norfolk) immediately following 9/11. My favorite day was qualifying with it (expert ribbon). I wanted a range gun so last Memorial Day weekend I got one on sale. That is one sweet firing firearm and buttery smooth.
They got this from Magnum Force from the Dirty Harry series. The Dirty Harry series probably borrowed it from someone else!! Nothing in the movies is truly new, anymore!!
Man... its been how may years since this came out and we still haven't gotten a buddy cop action series as good as this? So happy that i grew up with the full vhs set of L1-4.
Justin Time+ At first I Did'nt Like the Leo Getz character , But over the Years (And Many Times Watching the Lethal Weapon films) I Have Now Come To Like The Little Guy.........
This scene is great. These two guys describe the entire crime exactly right and then immediately shrug it off like there's no possible way it could be that simple. HAHA!
Years ago there was a tv show that had this bad Chinese guy who was fucking great at Kung fu...except he closed his eyes whenever he was striking. The cop who was chasing him found out about his nervous tick. The guy had the cop down but he blinked and the cop shot him right in the face. I wish I could remember the name of that show
He is such a good shot that he closes his eyes every time he pulls the trigger. Shit… he doesn’t even have to look… he just encourages to bullets to find their mark and they listen obediently.
Because its a cop movie in the 80s with actors. They didn't put as much effort into realism back then. Back then they'd be shown how to hold the gun properly and how to shoot a few rounds, that's about it. Now they would train for months to become as convincing as possible. Just look at Keanu Reeves training for John Wick 3, its nuts.
It is reflex and he can shoot blind, he memorizes where it is as it is a static target. This is just for fun, it is the moving targets that are impressive.
"LOVE THAT-"COME TO RODGER",- & "NOT BAD FOR AN OLD MAN"!!!.."LOVE The LOOK on MURTAGH 'S Face when he sees the 'Smiley Face', That was made from so FAR AWAY,- I bet he REALLY could do That, Is There 'ANYTHING ' he CAN'T Do, - WELL!!!..LOVE THAT SCENE!!!...💯💯💯👍👍👍❤❤❤💋💋💋🔥🔥🔥
Watching Mel shoot I can see by the look in his eyes and his reaction that he hadn't fired a gun very often in his real life. I watch match shooters fire at ranges often and the reaction is nothing like that. The "flinching" I see is almost like he's surprised at how much recoil there is. His movements should be almost fluid and his face almost somber when the gun goes off. No blinking or physical reaction whatsoever. And that group (the smiley face) at that range would be olympic class shooting. Not likely.
In real life, that Beretta 92 when clamped onto a pistol rest - completely Motionless, and test fired at that distance all the way back shown here in the video, which is 25 yards, the shot pattern will look like how Riggs shot that 1st target at 7 yards which looks to me to be around 4 to 5 inches group. Even if you're an Olympic shooter, there's no way you can make that happy face at 25 yards because the gun is not even pinhole accurate in the first place at that distance. Only bolt-action rifles are that pinhole accurate at 25 yards. FWIW, love the movie and the scene nevertheless. This movie was shot at my home training range in Monrovia California AKA Santa Anita firing range. Too bad the operators decided to call it quits back in early 2000. I miss that place dearly; it was my home away from home.
I know everybody loves Rigg's Beretta 92, it is a great Pistol, but Murtaugh's Smith and Wesson Model 19 is the Cat's Meow. Great, Great Revolver. 6 Rounds of .357 are nothing to sneeze at.
except for the fact that situations like that are EXTREMELY rare unless you are on the battlefield, in which a sidearm would be your LAST weapon of choice. not to mention that on the civilian side, the vast majority of times where someone with a carry license drew and fired their weapon, only 2-3 shots were fired. don't scoff at a revolver. so please don't throw obscure, unrealistic scenario's into the conversation.
Like Eric said, cops are going to be in areas that are far darker than that. I'm sure that most shooting ranges like that have lighting that can be made bright to near darkness.
💡🙏🤩 And that’s the movie and scene that made me carry a Berreta in the beginning of my career as a Police Officer 😂 .... Slowing transitioned to a 1911 45cal ... then to a 1911 double stack .. then ended up with a Glock 34 9mm until retirement... However if I was on the job today ... I would absolutely carry a Staccato 2011 9mm ... which is what my Son carries on the job .... 🤔 Pricey but well worth the investment 🇺🇸
I dunno about back then, but the muffs I wore at the shooting range were specially built to hear talking but cancel out noises above a certain decibel. Meaning, I could hear the person next to me talking while the shots fired from my mosin were very quiet.
I looked through the comments and I keep hearing two things: "Riggs fires seven shots and there's 8 holes" and "Riggs and Murtaugh keep blinking when they fire." Murtaugh made the middle hole which was the nose. Now notice he doesn't change the target, he used the same one Murtaugh used and put 7 more holes to make a smiley face. Now for the blinking. If you complained about the blinking then here's a question for you; Have you even fired a weapon before? People keep saying shooting a gun us like using a camera but trust me, it's nothing like a camera. Firearms are really loud. Your brain will make you blink instinctively when in contact with a loud noise. Trying to avoid blinking while firing an unsuppressed firearm is like trying to avoid blinking while sneezing. It's really hard and not much can be done about it. Even professionals do this.
I've been shooting pistols for a while and you do not have to flinch like that. You teach yourself to stare at the front sight and squeeze the trigger slowly so you can't anticipate the recoil, until eventually you get used to it - especially if you always shoot with the same pistol. To be fair to the actors, though, they might have been blinking because of back pressure from those impressively bright '80s blanks. NOBODY can keep their eyes open when their own gun is blowing hot gas in their face!
I think you're not telling the truth. Even professional soldiers flinch from their weapons. The only time where not flinching becomes easy is when the firearm is supressed. Either way, it's not something you can control. Sudden loud noises, bright flashes and incoming objects will make you flinch no matter how much you practice. Sure it will die down eventually but the flinching will come back after a while. It's your brain reacting to these things that make you blink.
The blinking and flinching can be trained out of a person, even actors who do a lot of practical training lose it, if you look at films like John Wick or Heat, where there were months of physical and tactical training beforehand, the actors don't blink when firing. Granted the blanks they use won't be the same as a real bullet, but they're still loud and bright. Can't fault Lethal Weapon for not training up their actors though, there was no need for realistic tactics or weapon handling when all they had to do was cut to a different angle and just produce the desired results via editing and whatnot
nogaynamesallowed. Yeah, the brain can be taught not to blink from firing a weapon but I don't think you know how the brain works. The brain naturally reacts to bright lights, sudden loud noises and incoming objects by blinking or flinching. It's not something that can be controlled, it's just an instinct. Yes, the brain can get used to these things but after a moment the habit will just kick in again no matter how long it's been trained.
Oh guys. What guns do you shoot? You are wrong. Listen, if everybody would blink while shooting what is the sense of fullauto guns? The shooters would close their eyes after the first shot. So you can not be right. And yes, i keep both eyes open when shooting. I earn my money with it ;-)
It was this film that convinced me to buy a Beretta 92FS, smartest purchase I've ever made! I have fired thousands of rounds thru it and it has never jammed on me!! I still carry it every day!!!! 🤟
I got one 10 years ago myself (the M9. Commercial variation). My favorite 9mm pistol and only one I own. I consider it the quintessential American 9mm. Traded a Sig 226 for it (a great gun in it’s own right) and never looked back. Carry classic Federal 9PBLE (9mm+p+ 115 gr JHP) in it clocking 1340 fps through the chrono
I know how they made those perfectly round holes in real life. Adele, the lady who worked behind the gun range counter (also a bookkeeper) decided to use a heated 38 caliber bronze brush to poke holes through the target. Worked like magic. She had that happy face target signed by both Mel and Danny and they hung that target on their wall from that day on when they filmed the scene until their last day of operation when the range was shut down once and for all, back in 2004 or so. Sad day it was. Wished I get to keep that target, would've made a nice collectible movie prop. In real life though, you can't make perfectly round holes like you see here with round tipped FMJ rounds that supposedly Riggs and Murtaugh were using in their guns. Only wadcutter or semi-wad bullets we bullseye 🎯 shooters use for scoring purposes could cut perfectly round holes like these.
Funny because the ppl bitching about that must not know that when you pull the trigger it should scare you a bit. Slow steady pull to the rear. But hey this is youtube comments so.
One of my pet peeves in movies is when actors close their eyes when firing a gun, which no trained and experienced shooter would ever do. Mel Gibson closed his eyes with every shot, but credit to Danny Glover who kept both eyes open.
As an old U.S. Recon Marine vet I picked up on that in the first movie...but they were using the most recent shooting war to build the characters credentials...didn't bother me at all...it is after all a movie...and I think had Mel been an American he just may have made a hell of a U.S Marine.
When the Vietnam was ended with the Fall of Saigon in April of '75 Mel would have been 19. Had he joined at 17 places him in 1973. So he's right on the edge of the right G.I. age.
