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Dave: Good spot on that one, Dave, but I'd actually extend it to submachine guns, too...consider Jaimee Lee Curtis' dropped machine pistol in TRUE LIES that ends up taking out seven or eight terrorists, and stripper in UNDER SIEGE who does something equally improbable. Also the WILD BUNCH scene you mentioned is repeated ad nauseum is OPERATION CONDOR.
Ducks: Not just antique revolvers...it's virtually impossible to shoot a gun out of anyone's hand, especially when they're shooting at you or moving around. And it bugs me too that women must cower in the corner during The Big Fight instead of double-teaming the creep.
One more firearm cliche...in THE STING and other gangster movies, they would attach silencers to revolvers. Roger Ebert's book on film cliches debunked this, noting that there is a gap between the cylinder and the barrel where gas and noise escape. Only semi-automatic pistols (and some machine pistols) can be suppressed.
John Woo's fifty-shot pistols, and their owners' pinpoint accuracy when firing two pistols from the hip or diving through plate glass windows, are cliches when used by anyone else trying to rate a comparison to Woo.
--booga
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