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In the past week I've watched two movies where the entire cartridge comes out of the gun. Very cartoon-ish. I think one of them was during the opening for "Skyfall" the latest Bond movie.

Rather than just the projectile, perhaps movie makers think having the entire cartridge fly through the air looks more cinematic. Dumb, but cinematic. Maybe?

Or, being movie makers they think we're dumb or they're hopeless when it comes to guns and ammo.

Anyone else notice this odd cartridge oddity in movies?

In the movie "Paycheck," with Ben Affleck that was one of the many physics defying events.
This happened about the time an alarm watch went off just as a guy fired the gun telling him to duck the bullet. The watch was one he gave himself after he looked through a machine that allowed him to see the future, and before he had his memory wiped.
He also used a cartridge to destroy the same machine by taping it to a part that would strike the back of the cartridge, causing it to fire the bullet.

And here I've been dragging all those heavy guns around with me.