Knives in Movies/TV Shows

Presumed_Lost said:
Nah, a lot of us feisty old geezers left around... there's just some incentive for us to keep our heads down these days.

Actually, if I remember correctly (and I may not, it HAS been a while), Thomas Hewitt Edward had a habit of throwing what looked like F-S daggers, which was a pretty bad idea, what with the thinner-than-pencil round tang with stress risers.. but the series was before its time.

Looks like we've got more than that and years in common- you're all of about 12 miles away, and I've been a HUGE Donald Hamilton fan since the '70s. Read/own the entire MH series, and treasure my lone surviving copy of The Mona Intercept... and yeah, we're thinking of bailing out of this area too (a lot of that going around), although right now the Texas gulf coast looks more likely than Fla.
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Yeah, the knife that " T. Hewit Edward" as the police captain McAlaster called him, did look like a WW2 F-S, but it seemed shorter. Maybe something some Hollywood prop guy came up with. No matter, T. Hewit was a bad ass in a low key quiet way with it.

Helm, is there an equal? He loved his cutlery, from slitting a Russian agents throat with a boy scout knife to making a last stand with a couple of chefs knives even though he doesn't remember who he is. Great character.

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Carl.
 
Maya( the hot, dark haired girl) from Ice Road Truckers went shopping for a knife in Alaska and picked out a Kershaw Blur. She liked the assisted opening.
 
jackknife said:
Helm, is there an equal? ...

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Not so far.

I'm still introducing young folks to the books who can't believe there was ever a "thriller"/spy fiction series where bad guys don't make speeches justifying themselves, nobody explains the situation to people that they're going to kill anyway, handguns are not magic wands that make people do what you want them to, and a hundred other silly screen conventions that have spilled over into our literature and are pretty much taken for granted now. A lot of later writers could do worse than emulate Hamilton. And do.
 
Varg Lobos said:
Maya( the hot, dark haired girl) from Ice Road Truckers went shopping for a knife in Alaska and picked out a Kershaw Blur. She liked the assisted opening.
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I saw that one!

Also noticed a Buck 119 being used by the bad guy in The Tourist.
 
i watched Red last night, wasnt very good, but there were a few knives in it. There was a CQC 8 as has been mentioned already, and the russian guy used what i think was a Microtech OTF. Looked bigger than an Ultratech but smaller than a Halo V. The crazy guy also had a kukri. (I know, im great with remembering characters names...thats how good the movie was)
 
In Phantasm, the character Mike used a Buck 124. If I remember right, Jon Voight carried a USMC Ka-Bar in Anaconda and Linda Hamilton carried a SOG S1 bowie.
 
If I remember well, Adrien Brody in Predators was sporting a knife from Tops, which one I am not sure.

I also saw a few days ago the movie "Needful Things" (based on a Stephen King book) and in it, a guy that looked like in his 50s used what looked like a Spyderco (I would bet a Police) to kill another person's dog (a rottweiler, to be precise).
 
I cant believe no one has mentioned "Seraphim Falls", Pierce Brosnan uses a massive bowie quite a bit...he even does some non killing things with it! It's actually portrayed as a tool at times! :D Dont get me wrong, it's still used as a weapon...but seeing the other stuff just makes me smile :)
 
in quantium of solice during a knife fight the bad guy busts out a mod harkins triton:D!! and in spikes acution hunters ton has a cold steel spartan or vaquaro(don't know if I spelled the names right).
 
Weird that no one has mentioned Benicio Del Toro's use of the Tom Brown Tracker knife in the movie The Hunted yet....
 
a few years back when the silence of the lambs sequel came out. not sure of the name, hannibal lechtor used a spyderco hook blade. may have been a harpy, when i first saw it i thought it was a civilian. I also heard somewhere that spyderco got mad that they didn't ask them first or something to that effect.
 
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On american horror story on fx the one girl had a dkw sand shark in the 2 or 3 episode, was really surprised to see that.
 
Peter Coyote made a movie in '91 called Exposure (aka High Art). Lots of goodies in that one.

Scully uses a Buck 110 to cut open a cocoon-looking thing in an X-Files episode called Darkness Falls.

~Chris
 
Esee have been in two movies, one of the transformer movies and another, cant remember what is was.

Resident evil has a few good ones also
 
In "The Walking Dead", Daryl is carrying a Busse Team Gemini.
 
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Flexxx said:
Esee have been in two movies, one of the transformer movies and another, cant remember what is was.

Resident evil has a few good ones also
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ESEE was in Battle: Los Angeles. Hard to see, but you could see a Izula on the vest on a couple of the soldiers.
 
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