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Cool, I was totally unaware of Michael Mann's latest project, Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale (Oh, good for you!), and that French chick who won best actress at last year's Oscars who tried to kill Amelie once. Just saw the trailer yesterday, and it looks like it'll be Heat set in the 30s or 40s or whenever the hell Dillinger was around. It being a Mann movie means it will most likely have loud, "realistic" (as opposed to HK-style) gunplay, as seen in the aforementioned Heat, Collateral or the Miami Vice movie.
I mean, Tommy guns abound in the trailer, and I also noticed someone doing an Epic Maneuver and firing a Winchester M1887, which of course is the 10 gauge lever action shotgun iconically used by Arnold in Terminator 2. Heh, it most likely being a movie with cool scenes with guns, I was hoping they'd feature the BAR, even though that's a weapon linked more famously to Bonnie and Clyde. But lo and behold, I was watching the trailer again, and the scene right after the guy talks about "America's first war on crime", there's someone firing a BAR!
I mean, while the Thompson SMG is the more iconic weapon of the gangsters of the era, I think the BAR is by far the cooler weapon. I mean, the former is merely a submachine gun, albeit chambered for .45 acp, which is a good pistol round. But the latter is practically a machine gun, chambered for the awesome .30-06. No one's gonna mess with you while you're carrying that around! While the ginormous cars of that era did provide protection from the .45, the .30-06 would saw through those cars like a hot knife through butter!
Heh, since God of War III is in development right now, GT had a trailer showing the evolution of Kratos from the first GoW to what we see in the new GoW III trailer. Man, I forgot how ridiculously brutal and violent those games are. Heh, remember back in the days of yore, when adults were pitching a fit over the violence in Mortal Kombat? Man, MK doesn't have anything on these games today. Immolation, decapitation, ripping out spines? That's kinda par for the course. Mebbe our society is a little desensitized to violence. (Ironic that I'm making such a statement, given the previous paragraph I was practically creaming on how cool some gun was).
Some more Lost commentary: ( under the cut )
I mean, Tommy guns abound in the trailer, and I also noticed someone doing an Epic Maneuver and firing a Winchester M1887, which of course is the 10 gauge lever action shotgun iconically used by Arnold in Terminator 2. Heh, it most likely being a movie with cool scenes with guns, I was hoping they'd feature the BAR, even though that's a weapon linked more famously to Bonnie and Clyde. But lo and behold, I was watching the trailer again, and the scene right after the guy talks about "America's first war on crime", there's someone firing a BAR!
I mean, while the Thompson SMG is the more iconic weapon of the gangsters of the era, I think the BAR is by far the cooler weapon. I mean, the former is merely a submachine gun, albeit chambered for .45 acp, which is a good pistol round. But the latter is practically a machine gun, chambered for the awesome .30-06. No one's gonna mess with you while you're carrying that around! While the ginormous cars of that era did provide protection from the .45, the .30-06 would saw through those cars like a hot knife through butter!
Heh, since God of War III is in development right now, GT had a trailer showing the evolution of Kratos from the first GoW to what we see in the new GoW III trailer. Man, I forgot how ridiculously brutal and violent those games are. Heh, remember back in the days of yore, when adults were pitching a fit over the violence in Mortal Kombat? Man, MK doesn't have anything on these games today. Immolation, decapitation, ripping out spines? That's kinda par for the course. Mebbe our society is a little desensitized to violence. (Ironic that I'm making such a statement, given the previous paragraph I was practically creaming on how cool some gun was).
Some more Lost commentary: ( under the cut )
