Ron,
Naw, it wasn't Air-Soft. There were two separate quick shots of the Luger and the first quick look was of the front of it and I saw the distinctive toogle action of the Luger working and shells being ejected. I screamed at my date, "Thats a Luger!". I had to look around to see if anybody turned to look at me. The second look see was a quick side view and I could see the long barrel. It all was during some action so my viewing was quick. I didn't notice the Luger any more during the rest of the move though. I just wanted to clue everyone here that our favorite toogle top was again featured in a big time movie.
The movie was a little preposterous at times. They had some guy, who presumatively never shot a Thompson submachine gun before, shooting huge bugs off of another actor. The actor with the bugs on him never was hit but a lot of bugs were destroyed. I would think that with all that shooting that the actor with all the bugs on him would also have been cut to pieces by the gun.
If this was an artillery Luger, as John says, then I wonder if this was the same artillery used in the movie "Lost Continent" by Dan Duriay (Spelling?) to kill a bunch of bad dinosaurs?
Unlike the original "Kong", the gerrilla in this movie looked very real. I though that the special effects were terrific. But I used to be a diver on the swimming team at Michigan State Univ and I know how scared I used to be climbing up the ladder to a ten meter diving tower. When I saw those people climping up the ladder to the top of those huge buildings, I didn't relate to how real people would feel.
Big Norm
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