Korvar Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Okay, so it's a Top-N list, but I'm pretty sure there's a lot of inspiration here... http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/top-50-movie-gunfights.php?page=5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austenandrews Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights Interesting. I don't understand the fanboy worship of Heat, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korvar Posted September 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights Interesting. I don't understand the fanboy worship of Heat' date=' though.[/quote'] I agree. "LA Takedown", the earlier made for TV movie which Heat was based on, was actually better, despite the lower budget and lesser star power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights The scene in HEAT is well shot, street level, highly kinetic (but not in a John Woo bullets-cause-knockback kind of way) and makes DeNiro and company look badass as they combat an entire police force. Love The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. One of my all-time favorites. And most of the gunfights are extended pauses for tension followed by one shot from each guy. So different from modern film making. I was the first in my family to buy a DVD player. When family came over to see the difference, the first thing I did was cue up the scene in The Matrix where they enter the lobby and all hell breaks loose. That scene in The Crow is good even though the hero doesn't even use a gun. Too bad the subsequent 'crows' couldn't muster up an ounce of Brandon Lee's charisma. The Way of the Gun is a classic that few people whom I know have seen. There are two great scenes in this; The big gun battle at the end (the "broken glass" getting the whince from the audience I saw it with), and the slow-speed chase as people jump out and into unattended moving vehicles. By no means a perfect movie; I just like both those scenes a lot. Leon ("The professional" here in the U.S.) was a great movie top-to-bottom. Amazing how good Portman is at that age. Tombstone is actually the most-quoted movie at my games, narrowly beating Aliens. In that list, I didn't see Jules & Vincent Vega somehow avoiding a hail of unexpected gunfire then unleashing hell. I might also include the stand-off in Reservoir Dogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights Does Indiana Jones shooting the sword fighter in Raiders count as a gun fight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights Probably not. Nor does Han shooting Greedo in Star Wars. The thing about a gunfight is that both sides have guns and are actively trying to kill each other. And I might draw flack for this, but what about the finale gun fight in Miami Vice 2006? Good to see the police house slaughter from The Terminator in there. That is still one scary movie, even if you've seen it n times. And if you want good gunfights from a TV series, check out SAS drama Ultimate Force - especially series 1 and 2 when they're really going for accuracy and have Chris Ryan as technical advisor. The bank takedown in the pilot episode is probably one of the best gun fights ever filmed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teflon Billy Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights Rambo 4's final scene definitely deserves to be in the top ten. An infantry officer I know captured my feelings best: "After seeing that movie I just wanted to go out and kill something." TB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights for spoofs... near the end of Kellys Heroes, where Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, and Donald Sutherland do the long slow walk down the street to face down the Tiger in the town square... complete with spaghetti western theme music in the backround Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt_Pedro Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights The scene in HEAT is well shot' date=' street level, highly kinetic (but not in a John Woo bullets-cause-knockback kind of way) and makes DeNiro and company look badass as they combat an entire police force.[/quote'] I agree on all points about Heat. Michael Mann is probably my favorite filmmaker. When I saw the title of this thread my brain went straight to Open Range, by Costner. It stands out mostly because I saw it recently, but the gunfight at the end of that movie is absolutely worth the slow pace of the rest of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princedarkstorm Posted September 29, 2008 Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights All of the movie of "SHOOT EM UP ". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrain Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights What nothing from Equalibrium? One of the greatest examples of the rule "Never mess with the hero's dog" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights Gross Point Blank when John Cusack and Dan Aykroyd duel till they are both out of bullets and John kills Dan with a Television. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThothAmon Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights IMO missing out the tour-de-force ending from Pale Rider makes this list suspect Also lacking the nifty gunfights from the Trinity westerns. And I'd have included the chucklesome finale from Quigley Down Under. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix3 Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights I was the first in my family to buy a DVD player. When family came over to see the difference, the first thing I did was cue up the scene in The Matrix where they enter the lobby and all hell breaks loose. The Matrix was the first DVD I bought after I got a DVD-ROM drive in a new computer. It was another few years before I had a DVD player to hook up to the TV... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NestorDRod Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Re: Top 50 movie gunfights What nothing from Equalibrium? One of the greatest examples of the rule "Never mess with the hero's dog" It's in there. If we're including TV movies and spoof-ish takes, I humbly submit Dollar For the Dead, with Emilio Estevez trying to channel Clint Eastwood. It riffs not just Westerns, but recognizable scenes from HK classics like The Killer and Hardboiled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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