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Here's a production still of lovable gun nut Burt Gummer (Michael Gross), from the Tremors film series. I have only watched the first four, and they're all quite fun, but apparently they're still making these movies, no idea if they're as good.
The first movie is extremely competent and well made, strong characters, strong acting, strong script, strong effects, strong pacing, strong jokes, lots of attention to detail. I find it hilarious that Kevin Bacon originally freaked out and thought he had ruined his career on "some stupid worm movie!" when it's such an excellent film, but I guess that's what allowed Gross to become the star of the series.
Maybe it's less obvious during the actual shooting, after all, many good films were actually saved in editing, but Tremors is so very well made from top to bottom.
Burt here is posing with an M240G machinegun (7.62x51mm NATO), also known as the FN MAG-58. It's a pretty heavy gun, but it's also borderline indestructible and runs like a sewing machine, and when down on its bipod, the weight makes it keep pretty steady. Initially the MAG-58 was adopted by the US as the M240, to be mounted on tanks, because they found the M60 wasn't entirely suited for that role, then eventually the US Marine Core would adopt it because they weren't entirely happy with the M60 either, the M240 working better as a vehicle gun, and still being well usable for infantry on foot. Eventually the M240B (Bravo) comes to replace the M60E3 in US Army service as a GPMG, and it's a heavier gun, but it doesn't beat itself up like M60 was still doing by the E3 iteration.
These days, they're up to the M240L (Lima) iteration, which uses things like a titanium receiver, shaving as many as 5.5lbs(!) off of the beast, down to 22lbs, without affecting durability and longevity. The plan is that the M240L will replace the M240B, but considering the cost of titanium, and the fact that the M240B still works excellently, I don't see that happening any time soon.
