Internet Movie Firearms Database

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page

by rishabhd • 5 years ago

220 82 5 years ago

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stickfigure• 5 years ago

Warning: Autoplays loud advertising videos on every page transition.

polartx• 5 years ago

Do you even adblock?

teh_klev• 5 years ago

Even with Badger and uBlock Origin they're particularly persistent. Also the subscribe nag on the lower left I gave up trying to lose. And decided I'd had enough and left the site.

ggambetta2• 5 years ago

Can't take this seriously because it's missing the ubiquitous ZF-1.

https://fifth-element.fandom.com/wiki/Zorg_ZF-1_Pod_Weapon

zepto• 5 years ago

Why not add it yourself?

haunter• 5 years ago

It's there?

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Fifth_Element,_The#AKS-74U_.28as_t...

ggambetta2• 5 years ago

Strange, my many searches didn't find it. I stand corrected.

cgriswald• 5 years ago

On the other hand, I fully support the exclusion of the weirding module[0] from David Lynch's Dune.

[0] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Weirding_Module

Mathnerd314• 5 years ago

Well it doesn't have Dune at all, AFAICT. 28k pages vs 595k movies on IMDB, it's going to miss some. And they seem to have quite restrictive policies on who can edit, what counts as a gun, etc.

Andrew_nenakhov• 5 years ago

... These sardaukars are still salty after the freemen defeated them using weirding modules.

SergeAx• 5 years ago

TIL: "Each function of the ZF-1 demonstrated by Zorg was a separate prop which only had that one function".

This is entirely obvious after thinking a bit, but still great example of movie editing for fooling audience.

Natsu3• 5 years ago

Does it only have released movies? I was trying to find Alec Baldwin's infamous gun from Rust.

SV_BubbleTime5• 5 years ago

F.LLI Pietta Long Colt 45 Revolver

It’s a 1960s replica of an 1880 Colt SAA (the Peacemaker).

Aside from what Baldwin is ridiculously claiming, that the gun went off without him pulling the trigger, Pietta built these in the 1960s with trigger bars. You very much can not get that gun to fire without pressing the trigger. So unless the gun was modified or somehow broken, he had to pull the trigger.

FWIW, I didn’t blame actor Alec Baldwin until he started lying about the incident, but still blame Producer Alec Baldwin who is ultimately responsible.

eatYourFood• 5 years ago

Don't forget rust....

SV_BubbleTime5• 5 years ago

Yea, can wait for that one.

Really though Baldwin is claiming the gun went off without him pressing the trigger. Which is a flat out lie he either believes or he is getting ahead of a lawsuit. The gun he used is a replica single action revolver, the replica was made in the 1960s and has a trigger bar. You can bash on that cocked hammer with… a hammer… and it won’t go off. That firing pin can not make contact with the primer until the bar is moved by pressing the trigger.

Historical note, if a Colt SAA (Single Action Army) was to be carried anywhere, it had 5 rounds of the 6 shot chamber filled. It was carried on an empty chamber in case you fell off your horse. I saw a western once where the actor knew while talking about “trouble coming” to silently load a 6th round, good detail.

Side note, there are still countries in Asia and South America that have their police carry with an empty chamber, mostly going back to this OLD advice.

I would say Baldwin should have kept his mouth shut, but his arrogance since the shooting has wiped away any sympathy I had for the Actor. Baldwin the Producer, had always been liable in my eyes.

rpmisms7• 5 years ago

I love this site! I often use it to find the cool gun a main character is using and get one for myself.

cdot2• 5 years ago

Your poor bank account

jcims2• 5 years ago

Eh, think of it as diversification.

(until you start buying ammo anyway)

rpmisms7• 5 years ago

Guns depreciate very slowly, and if high-quality or unusual, they often appreciate. Not really a net worth hit.

throwaway81523• 5 years ago

Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.

sidpatil• 5 years ago

Hey, just what you see pal.

Blackthorn2• 5 years ago

I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I bought a modern Mauser replica action to build a clone of the k98 used by Riza in Fullmetal Alchemist.

rpmisms7• 5 years ago

Dude, that rocks! The gun-building community is going crazy these days. There's some very cool sci-fi guns being printed: https://twitter.com/p80ralph/status/1473091500225572866/phot...

yawnxyz• 5 years ago

There's also the Internet Movie Cars Database which I'm a huge fan of: https://www.imcdb.org/

edit: especially for a show like Archer where they feature a ton of very obscure cars... https://www.imcdb.org/movie_1486217-Archer.html

dividuum• 5 years ago

Or if you’re into aviation: https://www.impdb.org/

soheil• 5 years ago

Great resource, but I wish it'd let you filter by movie/song and movie rating.

ipsin• 5 years ago

Glad to see that IMDB hasn't tried to hit every IM*DB with a Trademark claim?

Mountain_Skies• 5 years ago

They might be worried a court will find that 'Internet Movie Database' is a generic name, which would lead to losing their trademark.

WalterBright2• 5 years ago

The car database seems to have some egregious accuracy problems:

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_579212-Volkswagen-Rabbit-Typ-1...

tylermac1• 5 years ago

There's a VW Rabbit crossing the street in the background.

mgdlbp2• 5 years ago

Some more specialized movie databases:

the defunct Internet Movie Radio Database: https://web.archive.org/web/20181201121627/https://www.imrdb...

https://www.moviemistakes.com/

and the Bechdel Test Movie List: https://bechdeltest.com/

mgdlbp2• 5 years ago

Now this is a rabbit hole! There are far more of these than I'd thought, ranging in structure from blog-like to database-like, with some updated by the host and some allowing user contributions (with some of the latter using wiki software). Many also include television, games, comics, or other media; and databases for those forms of media in particular also exist. More mundane subjects, like locations and songs used, are each covered by several sites. To keep the scope narrow, here are some more interesting ones that include films:

Camera equipment used: https://shotonwhat.com/

Instances of censorship: https://www.movie-censorship.com/ and in Australia in particular: https://refused-classification.com/default.html

Keeping with the theme of transportation from the other comments:

- The Boat Database is small and Fandom-hosted: https://imbd.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Movies

- There's one for trains, but only for the UK: http://railwaymoviedatabase.com/

Ultimately, it seems that we are devoid of an Internet Internet Database Database. Wikipedia comes close with some of its lists and categories, but only includes those it considers notable. Some of the databases do link to each other; e.g., the Cars Database has a directory page featuring smaller databases such as those for busses; LEGO and similar brick systems; and Microsoft and Nokia: https://www.imcdb.org/links.php

myself248• 5 years ago

We really need an "internet movie meta- attribute database" with a way to represent all this stuff. Cuz as far as I know, nobody's set up a whole website for the Internet Movie Household Appliance Database, it's not THAT big an interest.

But if I could just log onto the IMMADB and open the Household Appliance tab, it'd be cool to find out what that cool-looking vacuum cleaner was...

laurent92• 5 years ago

Isn’t that just a subset of IMPPDB? The Internet Movie Product Placement Database, with company.type=‘hoover’ enabled? Which would be very convenient to know who paid what for advertising.

rzzzt• 5 years ago

Taking this a step further, we could have an everything (including movies) meta-attribute database that allows you to query that one radio interview where the actor co-starring Kevin Bacon in 3 movies talked about a brand of lawn mover that they really liked. (It had the color blue in its logo.)

Dracophoenix2• 5 years ago

There's also Starring the Computer ( http://www.starringthecomputer.com/ ): A list dedicated to naming the computers used in movies and TV shows, including perennial favorites like Hackers and Jurassic Park.

fortylove• 5 years ago

Ah, this is so cool! I was wondering about the Toyota SUV that Bond drives in No Time To Die. Found it easily with this site!

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1326115-Toyota-Land-Cruiser-J9...

aasasd2• 5 years ago

These days you can also feed an image of a car to Google's image search, or to Yandex image search—the latter is more head-on about recognizing stuff in general, while Google still tends to suggest handwavy and useless descriptions like ‘sports utility vehicle’.

racl101• 5 years ago

Not secure. Ooof

major505• 5 years ago

I love this site. It's a great resource to find weird guns in 80's movies.

joan_kode• 5 years ago

OK, I didn't realize how much detail was put into guns in Ghost in the Shell SAC: http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_Stand_Alone_Com...

I didn't even feel like it had much of a focus on gun fights, but apparently it's like a detailed firearms museum. They also have airsoft product placements... I'm not that surprised, some people probably bought the featured airsoft guns purely for display.

Dracophoenix2• 5 years ago

The "POKER FACE" episode from 2nd GIG is one that focuses quite a bit on guns, though not exclusively.

jldugger• 5 years ago

Masamune Shiro is somewhat of a gun nerd, it turns out.

AtlasBarfed• 5 years ago

What was the SAAAIIITTOOOOO HAND OVER THAT WEAPON! ?

Well, that was probably some fantastical hand held railgun.

muzani• 5 years ago

I'm impressed how much detail they put in the animation and how much work they put into documenting this too.

frittata• 5 years ago

Wow, Bruce Willis in Die Hard and Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon used the exact same gun, "The live-firing handgun that was used in both films has since been 'retired' to a glass museum case."

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Lethal_Weapon_(1987)

mikotodomo• 5 years ago

Is there something like this for shoes?

neetrain• 5 years ago

I hope there was an Internet Movie Video Games Database.

thelittleone• 5 years ago

I only recently recognized that a high number of movie posters contain an actor(s) with a gun(s). Studios have obviously done their studies and we humans are obviously drawn to such imagery. I find it genuinely interesting from a psychology perspective.

It would be interesting to process a dataset of movie posters to determine the % containing guns (or other objects of interest).

bootlooped• 5 years ago

It's interesting that's true even for movies where the character barely touches a gun. In the movie Layer Cake the main character even states he hates guns and loathes having to use one at one point. Yet most of the poster art features him holding a pistol.

Wohlf• 5 years ago

It's also easy shorthand to signal "this is an action movie".

pangolinplayer• 5 years ago

Does anyone know a dayabase of movie frames so you can make something like Shazam for movies. Ideally obscure movies.

opan• 5 years ago

There's trace.moe for anime. I haven't seen one for movies. (I assume trace.moe works on anime movies, though)

wheresmycraisin• 5 years ago

Wow, the level of detail on even not-so-well-known animes like http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Jormungand is amazing.

mshockwave• 5 years ago

despite being less known, Jormungand is one of the go-to animes for firearms/military enthusiasts.

boeingUH60• 5 years ago

I love watching military-esque movies (e.g. SEAL Team, SWAT) and this site has for long helped me in identifying the numerous guns I see when watching.

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