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Re:Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night by int_19h on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:30PM (#34514432)
It's not just silencers - movies and video games are generally bad at gunshots. For good reasons - if you make them as loud as they ought to be, even to the limits of the recording equipment (since you'd need to go well into the hearing-unsafe territory), they'll drown out everything else.

There are exceptions. The famous shootout scene from "Heat" does a surprisingly good job at conveying just how deafening gunfire really is close up, for a movie. Although even that is much milder than it would be IRL, due to use of blanks and the aforementioned equipment limitations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL9fnVtz_lc (shooting starts around 4:20)

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Re:Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night by JamesUtah07 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:49PM (#34514537)
That scene was pretty interesting but can’t help notice that all the automatic guns just fired endlessly. There were a few reloads but it’s astonishing how fast you go through 30 rounds and they were firing way longer uninterrupted. On another note that final shot was amazing cinematography.
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