User talk:Ben41

Earlier discussions: User Talk:Ben41/Archive 1 or User Talk:Ben41/Archive 2 or User talk:Ben41/Archive 3

Re: Heroes

Hey, thanks for the correction and identification.--Alienqueen11 (talk) 22:40, 31 December 2013 (EST)

Hey Ben, I just want to let you Heroes - Season 2 is completed, feel free to look over it and correct anything if need be. Thanks for all the help and advice. I'll be moving on to Seasons 3 & 4 soon.

Hey Ben, I just started on Season 3, and I need help with identification on a revolver I added, it's cataloged as a Smith & Wesson Model 637 Airweight because that's the one that best matched it when I looked, if you can take a look at it and confirm it, I will be grateful.--Alienqueen11 (talk) 23:48, 6 January 2014 (EST)

Hey again Ben, thanks for the correction last time. Hate to have to ask for your help again, but I'm having a dilemma with some AK rifles in Episode 11, I can't tell for sure if some of them are AKMs or Type 56s, some of them have hooded sights while most of them seem to have slant muzzle brakes, I put the images on Talk:Heroes - Season 3. If you can confirm them, I will once again be grateful. Thanks in advance.--Alienqueen11 (talk) 23:37, 9 January 2014 (EST)

Many thanks--Alienqueen11 (talk) 01:49, 10 January 2014 (EST)

Hey Ben41, I need another identification, I have this rifle I spotted in episode 23, I think it cold be an M14 rifle, but need a little help to make sure, it's at the bottom of Talk:Heroes - Season 3. Thanks in advance for any help.--Alienqueen11 (talk) 23:30, 19 January 2014 (EST)

Hey Ben, thanks for all the help you've given me so far. I have yet another unknown I found in Season 4, do you mind taking a look at it on Talk:Heroes - Season 4 if you're not too busy?--Alienqueen11 (talk) 23:28, 26 January 2014 (EST)

Thanks.--Alienqueen11 (talk) 18:03, 27 January 2014 (EST)

Hey Ben, Thanks so much for helping me build the Heroes page. I have one last identification I need for Season 4, if you can identify this rifle for me, I can complete the page.--Alienqueen11 (talk) 00:08, 29 January 2014 (EST)

Solomon Kane

I want to create article Solomon Kane. This is France, Czech and Great Britain film. You wrote me, that I shouldn't create articles to samurai films. It's not samurai films, but it contain only a few flintlock pistols. May I create this page or not? Pyramid Silent (talk) 13:30, 2 January 2014 (EST)

Milla Jovovich

Milla has the power of pictures .. is fussy and yet it is the same character from one series. --Pandolfini (talk) 19:34, 4 January 2014 (EST) It was said, that they need less foto. Why is there so much Milly from one series?--Pandolfini (talk) 19:37, 4 January 2014 (EST) Now it's the best! (I mean the three last selected.) In the additional gallery I removed the one that is on the main page in order to avoid repetition. Thx!--Pandolfini (talk) 19:39, 4 January 2014 (EST) I see. I had no idea, sorry. I did not want the same image was in discussion and on the site :)--Pandolfini (talk) 04:46, 5 January 2014 (EST)

My Name is Nobody

Thanks for the edit to my synopsis. I actually rewrote it a couple of times, but it just seemed clunky. It's amazing what a fresh eye can do. Good editors are all too often unappreciated, but not by me. --Jcordell (talk) 18:14, 10 January 2014 (EST)

Sure thing. It's a great movie and should have had a page here in imfdb years ago. Got it for Christmas so I knew it was a sign. LOL.--Jcordell (talk) 18:19, 10 January 2014 (EST)

Watermark

Hey buddy! Love your screencaps! BTW. As per your question, it's not like I'm slowwitted and haven't thought about it. LOL! :D It takes a bunch of time to go back and REDO all of the many images that don't have it. I will make the time (which I don't have BTW) to do that. I DO, however, put a watermark on all the new pics. or at least the LOGO which they have to intentionally remove before reposting, thus eliminating their excuse that they 'didn't know'. :) MoviePropMaster2008 (talk) 21:02, 12 January 2014 (EST)

breaking bad

Why is the Talk page for Breaking Bad looking like the actual page itself? And the actual page for Breaking bad is less populated? MoviePropMaster2008 (talk) 22:33, 12 January 2014 (EST)

you've done it with several entries. BUT, the reason I asked about it is that the "TALK" pages are there on the directory listing of shows along with the actual show pages. That isn't right. The TALK pages should not be listed with the actual pages on the directory. It looks bizarre and makes the entry look incomplete and confusing. I may not be explaining this well, so let me know if you know what I mean. :) MoviePropMaster2008 (talk) 02:36, 14 January 2014 (EST)

April Rain

I've been trying to dig up info on this film, and from what I can tell, it hasn't gotten a DVD release yet, so I'm not sure it's fair to mark is incomplete just yet. --Funkychinaman (talk) 18:56, 15 January 2014 (EST)

It looks like that's just the theatrical release. According to a post from 11/6/13 on its Facebook page, there's not DVD release yet. "Thank you all for your support of "April Rain." The DGA screening was a huge success. Keep an eye out for the release of "April Rain" coming soon. In the mean time, my latest feature film "Fatal Instinct" is currently in post production." (And this is why I hate it when people do pages based just on trailers. Ugh.) --Funkychinaman (talk) 19:13, 15 January 2014 (EST)

Soldier

The reason that I reverted your screenshot of the HK91 back to mine is because your screenshot does not show that the weapon has a non-pushpin lower receiver, the distinguishing feature of the HK91 compared to the G3. Do you mind re-taking it so that it does a better job proving the identity of the weapon? -MT2008 (talk) 13:32, 20 January 2014 (EST)

BHD Miniguns

Just curious, why did you change the ID on the Black Hawk Down miniguns from GAU-17/A's? In all the screenshots they appear to have the slotted flash hider of the GAU-17/A (not sure about on the Little Bird as they are spinning, but as they appear to have a transparent band in the middle this would also suggest they have the slots). Also, as the Black Hawks were provided by the Air Force I would assume that they were fitted with the actual GAU-17/A miniguns that are fitted IRL. Note that the stock image for the GAU-17/A is of one fitted to an HH-60 Pave Hawk and it is identical to this, including the accessories such as the sight rail, mounting bracket and stuff like that. --commando552 (talk) 18:06, 4 February 2014 (EST)

I thought it was the army that supplied the choppers. --Funkychinaman (talk) 18:58, 4 February 2014 (EST)

Been a long time since I saw the making of documentary so you are probably right. However, surely we should still call it a GAU-17/A though as it is that specific variant, rather than the generic M134. If they are Army then I know that a GAU designation may be technically wrong for what they would call them, but I don't think the Army have a designation for this variant so I think it is better to use the GAU one to differentiate the two. Otherwise we would have to call it "the special updated M134 flexible variant that the USAF calls the GAU-17/A but the Army still just call the M134". --commando552 (talk) 19:42, 4 February 2014 (EST)

The thing is though, it is the exact same gun as the GAU-17/A. It isn't the case that the GAU-17/A is just what the USAF call the M134, it is a different variant with a number of modifications (must notable for ID purposes is the flash hider) to allow it to be more effective in the flexible role. It was developed by the USAF and then the Army starting using it but haven't given it a destination over and above the general "M134" which is horrifically vague and applies to all weapons regardless of manufacturer or configuration. To me it makes much more sense that we should call it the GAU-17/A as this is an identifiable, separate variant and this is the designation it was invented with. Granted this is a slightly grey area as these specific guns in the film have the official designation of an M134 as it is actually a genuine Army helicopter, however if it was mounted on a mecha in an anime we would not debate whether it was an Army or Air force robot, we would just call it a GAU-17/A as that is what it is. Furthermore, if a GAU-17/A is mounted on a pintle mount on a boat we wouldn't call it a Mk 44 which is the technically correct Navy designation, as once again it would be confusing to call the exact some gun a different name depending on what it was sitting on.

If nothing else, as it stands the current picture of the Garwood is wrong as all of the miniguns in the film have the slotted GAU-17/A flash hider. The correct picture would undeniably be the GAU-17/A one, and then at this point you are back to saying that that if it was mounted on a USAF helicopter would be a GAU-17/A, but on an Army Black Hawk it is just an M134 because the Army never bothered to come up with a name for it (probably because they are too proud to use a USAF GAU designation). We should put a disclaimer in the GAU-17/A section that it is not actually called that in US Army service though like we have done similar things on several other pages, like the Barrett M82A1/M107 difference, or that we call later P226s P226Rs even though that is not the actual name. --commando552 (talk) 22:00, 4 February 2014 (EST)

Re: The colony

Thanks, I was going to. I just had that copied in a text doc before I lost everything else.--Davken1102 (talk) 15:19, 8 February 2014 (EST)

Ok, thanks for the info. I wasn't sure if it was ok to save an unfinished page but I'll do that from now on. This is my first time contributing anything so I'm trying to learn asap. If i cannot identify some of the guns how would I ask for assistance?--Davken1102 (talk) 19:03, 8 February 2014 (EST)

Thanks for the help so far, I didn't think I should save that much, doesn't that use up server space to save often? or no big deal? --Davken1102 (talk) 02:10, 9 February 2014 (EST)

I'm using vlc player w/ hd source. Could you check the ones I've reuploaded and see if they look better? I redid the double barrel shotgun and it looks good on the page but the others look kind of squished for some reason even though I took them the same way. --Davken1102 (talk) 03:50, 9 February 2014 (EST)

Ok, I guess VLC isn't good at doing the discrete cosine transform, I'll do the conversion with another program. You were right about the size too, they look better after refresh! Thanks! Sorry for all the mistakes, starting to think I'm not very good at this.. :/ --Davken1102 (talk) 04:02, 9 February 2014 (EST)

Assault on Wall Street

Is Assault on Wall Street done? All the screencaps were from before the official release date. --Funkychinaman (talk) 08:25, 11 February 2014 (EST)

I'll take your word for it. I'm hoping to avoid all Uwe Boll films. --Funkychinaman (talk) 17:40, 11 February 2014 (EST)

Strike Back Season 4

I had cross referenced with other website about the US DVD cover for Strike Back Season 4 and they all showed that poster that I had put on the page as the official DVD Cover for the US. Also seeing as the picture below is the cover for the UK Release of the DVD I do believe that the season 4 poster on the page is the official DVD cover.

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Strike Back Shadow Warfare UK DVD Cover.

--Gunfan2818 (talk) 14 February 2014 (EST)

Law & Order SVU

I see you're in the process of setting up individual season pages. If you want, I can help by making a basic set up of the other season pages with preliminary formatting and at least a couple of entries with the proper characters/actors for that season along with the available screencaps from the main page. More-or-less the same thing I had did with the Criminal Minds pages before. Like then I don't have caps of my own for this show, but again, I can get the pages setup on a basic level as placeholders until you get additional caps to finish them off. If you want, of course. StanTheMan (talk) 19:56, 5 March 2014 (EST)

Ah, ok, nice one, dude. Over the next day or two I'll look through the pages and add/change anything missing and all that. Meantime I'll just leave you at it. Best of luck to ya, man. StanTheMan (talk) 21:06, 5 March 2014 (EST)

Couple of spots to hit if you can get 'em - S2E5 - Don't remember the exact gun but it's some kind of small auto, I believe it was shown by a woman in the episode, it's the episode where the detectives investigate a shooting committed by a little boy (It's not his gun I don't think but one belonging to another parent that she shows Munch/Belzer and Fin/Ice-T). Also a former rape victim Harper Anderson in S2E3 is seen shooting a polished chrome/stainless Desert Eagle at a firing range. EDIT - Also S3E12, a mother and protected witness wields a gun near the end of the episode, also I think there are some police impersonators who are seen with Glocks, not sure though. There's a few other ones, I've made entries as best I can remember on the respective season pages. StanTheMan (talk) 16:25, 6 March 2014 (EST)

Cool. I also trimmed down the remaining copy-and-pasted season pages (7,8,9) and put up the proper production pics on those. I can't really speak to anything much on the show past Season 9, as that was about when I stopped following the show really. But otherwise, I got some more spots, forgive the all-caps on this list here -

• S4E07 DOLLS - POSSIBLE REM 700 RIFLES SHOWN FROM ESU SNIPERS
• S4E20 DOMINANCE - SMALL SEMIAUTO USED BY SUSPECT
• S5E21 CRIMINAL - NICKEL REVOLVER USED IN ENDING STANDOFF, MP5 FIRED IN STANDOFF
• S6E06 CONSCIENCE - VICTIM'S FATHER OPEN FIRES WITH OFFICER'S WEAPON, GLOCK?
• S6E10 HAUNTED - MAC-10 AND SEMIAUTO USED IN OPENING ROBBERY
• S6E13 QUARRY - POSSIBLE PISTOL USED?
• S6E16 GHOST - CSU PICTURES OF WEAPONS, HANDGUN USED BY FLEEING SUSPECT?
• S7E12 INFECTED - SEMIAUTO USED, EP REGARDS GUN CONTROL

Hope this all helps. Again, be sure to check the pages themselves as I made a couple other entries/notations that may not be on this list. StanTheMan (talk) 18:20, 6 March 2014 (EST)

"Dolls" - I screwed up there, The episode I meant was S2E15 "Countdown", this was near the end but I'm not certain if they showed the ESU sharpshooters at all (they did reference them in the episode though, that I remember). Same might go for "Quarry", not certain of the weapon being shown there either, hence why I have the question mark there. A couple of the other pistols I listed I'm not sure if they're shown well enough for ID either. This was just all stuff from memory, so forgive me it not being too accurate. StanTheMan (talk) 15:42, 7 March 2014 (EST)

Exiled

I'm glad you were able to find a copy of Exiled. I came *this* close to just breaking down and buying a used copy from Amazon. --Funkychinaman (talk) 22:40, 5 March 2014 (EST)

That's just it, I don't, otherwise I would've already done it. It's out of print, like the Homicide: Life on the Street movie. --Funkychinaman (talk) 11:45, 6 March 2014 (EST)

External links

I don't believe that Wikipedia is a blacklisted site. Do the admins over there not like it when we link to there or something?--Mazryonh (talk) 20:54, 11 March 2014 (EDT)

Inland Empire

I'm sorry, but I bought this DVD in the shop, and pay $10. This images are good resolution (688 × 368) and a good quality, so I don't understand, what I did wrong. Please answer me. Pyramid Silent (talk) 10:30, 22 March 2014 (EDT)

And about bad quality of the two last images - it's moving effect. Pistol moving at the moment, so images be blurred Pyramid Silent (talk) 10:42, 22 March 2014 (EDT)

Re: Quality of screenshots

I am aware that my screenshots of Trailer Park Boys are of low quality and need updates, and I am working on them. For the pepper spray, I was unaware. Thanks a lot. slum_5050 (talk) 11:56, 30 March 2014 (NDT)

Exit Wounds

No they aren't but I will redo them because it would be easier and I have already started doing that. --Gunfan2818 (talk) 24 April 2014 (EDT)

I will just add addition screenshots for now but I wasn't going to redo the whole page just get rid of some blurry pics. Plus I just noticed that my version is a digitally remastered copy. --Gunfan2818 (talk) 24 April 2014 (EDT)

Plus I did have a Blu-Ray copy of Exit Wounds which I had used to get previous screenshots from the movie but it got damaged. But the digitally remastered copy screenshots are coming out the same as may Blu-Ray shots. --Gunfan2818 (talk) 24 April 2014 (EDT)

I would suggest that you try VLC with your video source and save them like I have pointed out on my user page or in the IMFDB Screencapping Guide. Your dimensions on your screenshots should come up to be like 1920x544px or something like that. --Ben41 (talk) 21:35, 24 April 2014 (EDT)

I would think real BD caps would bigger filesize-wise. --Funkychinaman (talk) 22:04, 24 April 2014 (EDT)

Gun images

Some of the new images are not that bad. I think the MK 22 image is certainly an improvement. Others, like the Orita, were downgrades. --Funkychinaman (talk) 18:34, 25 April 2014 (EDT)

I don't know if you've been following the Richard III changes. I'm tempted to rollback everything. What do you think? --Funkychinaman (talk) 15:22, 4 May 2014 (EDT)

RE: More work on Chicago PD

Not sure if this is how I message back but totally! I'm a video editor and I also use my capture card to record most of my favorite TV shows so I can get straight from broadcast screen shots easy. I also enjoy identifying various firearms in TV shows so yeah. The Chicago PD page is sort of lacking which is kind of surprising, just need to get the hang of editing wiki pages but thats easy. --Nateo200 (talk) 16:57, 11 May 2014 (EDT)

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RE: Screenshots: Alright, I've been uploading 720p caps but I can certainly upload 1080p captures...I saw you went in and did that...only reason I prefer 720p is because 1080 is almost always interlaced which is kind of a mess but I can always work with that. I use VLC to screen cap once I capture the entire episode and occasionally screen grabs right from the card. For other content like movies I try and get direct grabs from Blu-ray or first/second gen Blu-ray rips....Network logo is near impossible to avoid as its constant....Ill try and keep the file size down to under 200KB as well if thats a concern, I like to minimize re-compression so I'll read the screen cap guide over again and if you have anything else to add just let me know. Ill add the episode and season markers on them all, I believe I did it for every upload just need to add it into the page. - Nateo200 - 20:57, 11 May 2014

New Images

I've uploaded 4 new images, can you check their quality please? The first two are from Breakthrough and the second two from Brass target. Neither has officially been released on dvd and they are quite rare! They are from VCR rips so quality won't get better than this I'm afraid. --Maskedweasel (talk) 09:19, 5 June 2014 (EDT)

WWII Featured

If you're featuring WWII titles to commemorate D-Day, there are plenty of D-Day or at least European theater titles you can include in place of the Pacific theater titles you have. The Dirty Dozen (the mission ends on D-Day), My Way, The Bridge at Remagen, Red Tails, etc. --Funkychinaman (talk) 16:27, 5 June 2014 (EDT)

I had always assumed The Dirty Dozen had HD caps. After it's The Dirty Dozen! If you want to set a schedule of days to commemorate, we can start compiling films for those holidays. Just off the top of my head, VE Day, D-Day, VJ Day, Pearl Harbor, maybe Fourth of July? I know you already have a Christmas compilation. --Funkychinaman (talk) 21:12, 5 June 2014 (EDT)

Non-Stop

I'm sorry, but I'm from Central Europe and here was June 10. I did not expect a delay in USA.--Pandolfini (talk) 02:08, 10 June 2014 (EDT)

24 Season 5 terrorist pic

Hey, I'm an editor on the 24 wikia and that character was confirmed in an email as being played by stunt performer Thom Williams.

Defiance Season 2 page

Hi I am trying to create the season 2 page of defiance but cant seem to get it running correctly any tips on how to create the page?--Balin21 (talk) 16:25, 22 June 2014 (EDT)

WWI Featured

The 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand is saturday. What do you think about World War I featured pages? --Funkychinaman (talk) 18:26, 26 June 2014 (EDT)

War Horse (in HD), Sergeant York, both All Quiet on the Western Front. I'll have to pore through the war movie category. --Funkychinaman (talk) 18:47, 26 June 2014 (EDT)

If it counts, Deathwatch is a horror film set in the WWI trenches. Not a film, but you also have Blackadder Goes Forth. --commando552 (talk) 19:07, 26 June 2014 (EDT)

I've got The Trench, My Boy Jack, Lawrence of Arabia (a must-have), and it's a bit of a stretch, Doctor Zhivago (but in HD.) I'd include Joyeux Noel and A Very Long Engagement as well, but the former is a day-one incomplete and I'm almost certain the latter is incomplete as well. (And I just realized that David Lean directed three films, Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, and Ryan's Daughter all set within two or three years of each other.) --Funkychinaman (talk) 22:03, 26 June 2014 (EDT)

I can't believe I forgot Gallipoli. --Funkychinaman (talk) 18:28, 27 June 2014 (EDT)

If you wouldn't mind to represent Eastern Front also, I can suggest Crimson Colour of the Snowfall (Bagrovy Tsvet Snegopada) where are good images of Russian infantry in attack in 1916 (especially the first one in Nagant M1895 entry and the second one in Mosin Nagant M1891/30 entry). Greg-Z (talk) 12:19, 1 July 2014 (EDT)

Sarah Shahi

O. K. Sorry, the image is dark, and I first time no noticed that, she holds a gun. I thought that there is only a face and this seemed to me superfluous. Now I see that her gun in hand :)--Pandolfini (talk) 03:30, 3 July 2014 (EDT)

RE: F/X

Thanks for that. Those images were a big help - Got a solid ID off of 'em. StanTheMan (talk) 22:35, 8 July 2014 (EDT)

Opinion on image

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:Vlcsnap-206608.jpg I'm undertaking work on the X-Files and just got into serious messing around with Fast Stone. That said, I just uploaded a new version of that image, I wanted your opinion of it, if it's too big or looks really wonky or anything. I plan to try my own hand at tweaking some images as I go, but I think it looks alright at present, at least as good if not better than what I overwrote. So anyway, what say you? StanTheMan (talk) 18:48, 11 July 2014 (EDT)

Thanks about the image. As for the HD re-release, I had heard about that, but it seems unlikely, or at best, unclear, that it'll be released as such on Netflix, and since that's where I'm doing it all from, well, kinda stuck for the time being anyway. They may still release here in the US and/or on something else, such as Amazon Plus, but again, not sure. The last couple/few seasons are done in a decent widescreen format as it is, it's mainly the earlier seasons that won't be so good. Either way, it would be waiting longer and putting off work on a page/series long overdue for some kind of overhaul, and the wait may amount to nothing. I really wanted to get the series more to standard on the site, and in fact would have started on it earlier if other things didn't come about - The page is kinda hodge-poged with the screencaps, some sections have none at all while on others, even standard definition caps (proper ones) would be considerably better than some of the existing ones on the page anyway. I will leave some of the images as-is, as the ones I'd get wouldn't really be any better. All-told, since I already have to go back through the series to really get it set-up for individual season pages anyway, may as well get those caps now for the sake of completeness. If we do get a better source for caps later on, that can be dealt with then. I'm saving a log of where most of these guns appear in the show, so that'll make things easier for myself or whoever decides to go for the HD stuff down the road. StanTheMan (talk) 23:23, 11 July 2014 (EDT)

The Wolf Among Us

Hey, I was wondering if I could get your help with creating this page. I have a bunch of screencaps of guns in the video game The Wolf Among Us, but I am not the best at identifying them. If I create the page but leave the weapons with generic names (along the lines of "Mary's Revolver"), would you or someone else be able to go through and identify them? Or do I need to get them identified beforehand? Corkeyandpals (talk) 18:25, 26 July 2014 (EDT)

Re: Screen Used Firearms

Glad to help, Ben. MPM2008 took pictures of quite a few screen used guns on a few occasions. There is one thing though, there were two screen used pages one that included the pictures Jimmy uploaded and didn't show the ones I added the category to and one the displays all pictures added which could be reached through the link at the top of the former. I can't see to find it right now.--Alienqueen11 (talk) 22:38, 1 August 2014 (EDT)