After finding the skinned corpses of the Green Berets, Blain breaks out Old Painless to avenge them.
There’s a good reason it’s is so popular onscreen: it looks cool.
The action genre is not meant to be realistic.
If that were true, John McClane would be dead several times over in the firstDie Hard.
Sometimes, realism has to be sacrificed for the sake of aesthetics and story.
Old Painless looks cool, and it’s fun to watch in action.
Audiences aren’t going to see an action sci-fimovie for realism and weapon accuracy.
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