[Joe7cri]

Hey Everyone,

I'm looking for suggestions for good gun movies. I'm already a fan of Red Dawn, but I was a little disappointed in Heat. I think my expectations were a little high but I did enjoy the scene outside of the bank. Are there any other good gun fight movies?

Thanks!

[WhoKnowsWho]

Way of the Gun has some good scenes. I'm sure everyone else will chime in with plenty of others. I think I remember someone saying Last Man Standing was good too.

[Rock_Steady]

Do some searches. I'm sure some of the first replies will have Heat with Kilmer and DeNiro, and Ronin - another good one. Personal faves include Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, Serenity, the list goes on...........

[Biker]

Aside from the ones sure to pop up, I would highly recommend "Extreme Prejudice" with Nick Nolte, Powers Booth, Rip Torn and others you'll likely recognise. A modern western at its best.

Biker

[ATAShooter]

See " Dillenger" lots of shoot 'em up.

[Deanimator]

John Milius's "The Wind and the Lion" was on yesterday. Lots of great guns and gunfights, from Teddy Roosevelt's .405 Winchester Model '95 to the US Marine's .30-40 Krags. Lots of great dialog too, which sums up why losers like the French hate us so much.

[AJAX22]

gotta see mean guns, cascades of bullets and guns raining down on people.

[Phantom Warrior]

Another vote for "Heat"...

[Just Jim]

The Wild Buch is a turn of the century western that was the forerunner of good gun fights.

jj

[white_interpreter]

i like collateral. there is also a hindi movie called AB TAK CHHAPAN

[Joe7cri]

Any movies were the bad guys actually win, you know, rob a bank and get away with it?

[real_name]

I liked A History Of Violence. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399146/)

[Jack Burton]

If your looking for movies with good "gun play" in them try ones directed by John Woo...especially staring Chow Yun Fat...they seem to work really well together! The Replacement Killers and Hard Boiled are good places to start. :)

[baranjhn]

This movie has the best Tommy Gun scene ever! It's also filled with lots of other classic guns. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what Tom (Gabriel Byrne) has when he is supposed to shoot John Turturro's character at Miller's Crossing. I think it's an Astra but it also could be a Savage. Any clues?

[db_tanker]

Another vote for both Heat and Ronin...both excellent movies.

No one has mentioned Leon/The Professional.


Westerns...can't go wrong with Outlaw Josie Wales. Personal favorite is a bit off the beaten track, though... Death Hunt. Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin and Apollo Creed are in it.


Lastly, I must give a nod to Boondock Saints. :)

MTCW
D

[HankB]

Zulu.
Quigley, Down Under.
Commando (Note: Ah-Nold's contract specified the other guys were only allowed blanks.)
To Hell and Back
Sgt. York
"The Wind and the Lion" was on yesterday . . . Lots of great dialog too, which sums up why losers like the French hate us so much.I especially liked the part where Teddy was explaining why the rest of the world would never love us . . .

[dev_null]

"I am the Raisuli, you do not laugh at me!"

Hell, while we're at it, let's add Lawrence of Arabia. "So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are."

[1911JMB]

If John Milius was involved, its gonna be good. John is like you or me, he loves guns. He also loves good action in movies. If he was involved in a movie, count on it being good. He has also helped develop video games, but I don't play VG's, so I can't vouch for those. Also look into Sam Peckinpa. He directed the previously mentioned Wild Bunch, and he is the father of modern movie violence.

[Rugerlvr]

Well, if you're into balletic, surreal gun fights, Hard Boiled from Director John Woo is one of my all time classics. It's hard to find on DVD nowadays.

[nplant]

+1 on The Boondock Saints. Very entertaining.

Also, I liked Road to Perdition. It's nowhere near perfect, but it was a good story, and had some pretty good gun scenes.

[50caliber123]

Wild Bunch
Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heroes
Scarface
Heat
Four Brothers
Tombstone

[ajax]

The Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis.

[Texas9]

Another for Heat, and add a dozen or so thumbs (waaay up) for Boondock Saints. Also, Last Man Standing fits the bill to a tee. Bruce Willis, a pair of 1911's, and EVERYONE DIES. DISCLAIMER: it's okay, everyone's a bad guy.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this one, but count me way in for Tombstone as well. A few others, The Matrix (all three), Payback, Die Hard, and Die Hard with a Vengeance.

Guns are cool.:evil:

[nelson133]

John Woo's Hong Kong classics, "Hard Boiled" and "The Killer". For one of his American movies, try "Face Off" Any of the Eastwood Spaghetti westerns are good.

[Zen21Tao]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Enemy at the Gates yet. This movie made me run out and order a rearsenaled Mosin Nagant 91/30 sniper rifle. I am afraid that if I watch it again I will have to buy a German K98k. :D

Also, +1 on Serenity. What a great movie. And don't forget Firefly (the TV series), it has a great collection of firearms (including Vera).

[ABTOMAT]

Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale Rider
Dirty Harry series
Road to Perdition
Big Jake
Terminator 1 and 2
Aliens
Enemy at the Gates
Saving Private Ryan
Taxi Driver
Predator
Quigly Down Under
Death Wish 4
The Matrix
The Longest Day (sorta)

[Joe7cri]

Hey Abtomat you just beat me with Death Wish. I was thinking about it today and realized I haven't watched any of the death wishes lately. Unfortunately I went to the video store and they didn't have any of them, How could that be?:(

[zzzarkt]

On the Sci-fi side of things: Equilibrium

Great story and some of the best gun fight scenes ever.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/

[ABTOMAT]

Actually I think most of the Death Wish movies are pretty bad, but that one had the Wildy, 1919, MG42, and a zip gun that gets .5 MOA. :)

[dev_null]

Anyone notice how many of these are also listed in the "gun flub movie" thread? :evil:

[Zen21Tao]

How about the 80's TV series Sledge Hammer? You can't beat a show where the co-star is a 6" .44 Magnum.
http://www.sledgehammeronline.com/img-color/sledgehammer_5en.jpg

[evan price]

RONIN

(Also has about the third best ever car chase in it.)
The Guns Of Navarone
Dirty Harry et al including Gauntlet, tightrope. Or any of his westerns a la High Plains Drifter, Fistful of Dollars/Few dollars more etc.
Kelley's Heroes
Dirty Dozen
The French Connection
The Big Red One
The Eiger Sanction
The Longest Day
Where Eagles Dare
Damnation Alley
The Mechanic (And a lot of Bronson films like Death Wish series)
Mad Max movies especially, The Road Warrior
Cop Land
Saving Pvt Ryan
Scarface
Matrix trilogy
Terminator movies
Last Man Standing (And all of the Bruce Willis movies like Die hard et al)
Miller's Crossing
Goodfellas
Casino
Enemy at the Gates
RoboCop
Aliens
The Professional
Serenity
Full Metal Jacket
Quigley Down Under (Any movie with Tom Selleck and/or Sam Elliot)
Tombstone
Unforgiven
Heat
Hard Boiled (Or any John Wu film, including Hard Target with Jean Claude Grande Am)
Almost anything with John Wayne
Almost anything with Steven Seagal
Braveheart Payback Ransom (Or, almost anyhting with Mel Gibson including the Lethal Weapon series)

[Lennyjoe]

How beat up would I be if I mentioned "Face off"?;)

[Cosmoline]

I put "gun movies" into two different groups. There are realistic ones such as "Heat" where the firearms use the sounds they do in real life and perform more or less as they do in real life (ie cars don't stop a .223, good guys don't stride through lead to save the day). This first group is very very small, and only includes a tiny handful of movies or parts of movies. The first part of "Saving Private Ryan" is in, but the finale is out for example. Parts of "Ronin" and other spy thrillers are OK, but other parts are silly (ie Deniro quipping about teflon coated bullets, an old scattergun in "Bourne Identity" blowing up a large propane tank) It also includes some films most gun nuts *hate* such as the 1998 version of "The Thin Red Line." For all its brooding philosphy, the action sequences were point-for-point exactly what you could expect on a Pacific theater WWII battlefield. Raise your head and boldly charge? You die with the distant crack of an Arisaka, never seeing the man who killed you. Even the banzai charges were accurate. But as I said most war movie fans and gun nuts hate that film.

Then there are the shoot-em-ups. This is a much larger group. Among these films I'd rank "Hard Boiled" the greatest of all time. It is almost one long shootout, and includes stunts that no Hollywood studio could get away with. But it's pure fantasy.

[Jack Burton]

....and lets not forget Tremors....Burt Gummer...enough said!! :D

[wheelgunslinger]

The Magnificent Seven- a classic Kurazawa remake that partially inspired Steven King's Gunslinger series of books...
The Outlaw Josey Wales- one of Clint Eastwood's best, and another inspiration for King.
Road to Perdition- Tom Hanks does a great job, but it's hard to beat the unvarnished look at weapons as tools.
Ghost Dog- philosophy of guns in the perspective of a modern anachronistic samurai

[DunedinDragon]

I agree with Cosmo. There's lots of gun movies, but the only gun movies I truly respect as GREAT movies are "Heat" and "Unforgiven."

If you get the DVD of Heat and watch the extra stuff included in it, you can understand why Heat rises above the rest. The director recognized the gun work would be integral to the believability of the movie and required a considerable amount of range time with real guns by all of the key actors, and it shows.

As for myself, I'll watch a shoot-em-up action flick, but the story has to be something worth watching for me to classify it as great. Both Heat and Unforgiven had the same elements to make them great gun movies. Excellent writing, tremendous casting, realistic gun handling, and a theme or message that stays with you after the credits roll.

By the way, this just came to me the other day when talking about Heat. The consistent theme cited through the movie was "never have anything in your life that you're not willing to walk away from in 5 minutes flat if you feel the heat around the corner." Ever notice that the only two characters to survive (Val Kilmer and Al Pacino) were the only ones that actually followed that rule? Just an interesting thought after watching the movie for the 1,209,321st time.....

[dev_null]

Cosmo, excellently put.

Has anyone mentioned "Zulu" yet?

[Mizzle187]

Judge Dredd! HeHe! I watched that last night! Who doesnt like the voice activated LawMaster with dna embedded(sp) rounds so you know whos gun was used. It also has the ultimate gun lock(if thats your cup fo tea. With features like being able to switch from armore peircing rounds,flares,double shot, and of course bad mamma slamma(or some crap like that). Ok its pretty cheesy but entertaining.

[Carl N. Brown]

Serenity,

(warning: importnat plot point revealed)







The Alliance tested a drug on a planet of people to suppress their
aggressive tendancies; most became so passive they just sat down
and died; some had their aggression multiplied and became Reavers
subhuman cannibal rapist murderers.

Sounds like gun control and its unintended consequences to me.

[sm]

My favorites are listed already.

Some others to add:

Comedy:

Blazing Saddles ( all sorts of stuff to learn besides guns...:p )
Shakiest Gun in the West. ( Don Knotts RIP)

Then again more classics:

Bullitt
Silverado
The Sacketts
True Grit


Black & White fans:

Hondo
Casablanca
Maltese Falcon

[Boom-stick]

+1 Evans List,

But old favorites of mine include, Grosse Point Blank, Tango & Cash and Barbwire:)

[Maser]

Lord of War was pretty good too. Gotta love the golden Kalashnikov. :D

[Lebben-B]

"Snatch"

"On the side of your gun, it says 'Replica.' On the side of mine, it says 'Desert Eagle Calibre Five-Oh'..."

Everytime I watch that movie I find something new to laugh at. I'm surprised no one has mentioned either "Tears of the Sun" or "Mr and Mrs Smith."

Mike

[Big Bore]

I can't believe that no one has mentioned Mel Gibson's "Patriot."

An American runs into his burning house and the only thing he brings out are his guns. And he brings them out to fight. Hands down this should be number one here.

"Open Range" has the best gun fight on film. AND we get to hear Kevin Costner say these words: "We ain't given up our guns...the only chance we or him have are these guns."

And then there is "Ride with the Devil," a movie with men who are ready to fight for their convictions.

[Lou629]

Braveheart Payback Ransom (Or, almost anyhting with Mel Gibson including the Lethal Weapon series)

Braveheart? :confused:

I'll bet William Wallace probably would have wished he'd had at least a squad or two of his guys armed with SMG's or semi-auto rifles at the very least. Imagine the surprised look that would have been on Longshanks' face @ the battle of Falkirk then, eh laddie?

[zoom6zoom]

Any movies were the bad guys actually win, you know, rob a bank and get away with it?

"Think you used enough dynamite, Butch?"

OK, so it was a train, not a bank.

[LoneCoon]

I liked Punisher for it's gun work. It's also nice to show that He's wearing body armor at the end, taking hits and actually feeling them. A very nice selection of weapons to choose from.

[JasonMD85]

+1 for Serenity and Equilibrium.

Also check out Tears of the Sun, with Bruce Willis. Its a little sad, and can be a little slow gun fight wise in the beginning, but there is a very good, long gun fight at the end.

[Valkman]

but I was a little disappointed in Heat.

No one else seemed to notice that and keep recommending it. :)

I'm a little suspect of someone who didn't LOVE "Heat"! :D Man that's a great movie!

I have to find "Way of the Gun" - everytime I look for it in a store it's not there.

I like "The Replacement Killers" also. ;)

[yhtomit]

"Stander" is about a South African policeman turned bankrobber.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326208/

It's been lauded, but since I haven't yet seen it I can't say good or bad, but it *sounds* good.

timothy

[Pork Fat]

Stiff-upper-lip action with the Brits in Holland during Operation Market Garden. Makes you wonder if English and Canadian testicular fortitude isn't dead, just dormant.

I can't think of another movie that shows the use of a PIAT antitank weapon. Sort of a bazooka crossed with a catapult. Naturally, lots of Lee-Enfield, Sten, and Bren gun usage. I believe Sean Connery carried a Browning Hi-Power.

James Caan's epic jeep ride also not to be missed. He forces an Army surgeon to revive his dead captain at gunpoint, with a 1911. Naturally, the mystic powers of this John Moses Browning design perform another battlefield miracle, and the captain is saved. If the Brits had some .45's, the panzers would have never been able to cross the bridge.:rolleyes:

[hoji]

Can't believe no one mentioned "Underworld" or "underworld Evolution":what:

[Tman]

The Long Kiss Goodnight with Geena Davis and Samuel L Jackson

[ABTOMAT]

Just remembered another. "Attack Force Z" with Mel Gibson as a leader of Australian commandos trying to rescue a diplomat from the Japanese. Kind of a weird movie, but lots of silenced M3 action.

And "Pulp Fiction" of course.

[Trebor]

"The Shootist" John Wayne's last movie and one of his best.

"The Outlaw Josey Wales," "Unforgiven," and the original "Dirty Harry" are some of Eastwood's best gun films.

"Heat," "Ronin," and "The Way of the Gun," are three of the best of the modern thrillers in regards to guns and gunfights.

For war movies, I like, "A Bridge Too Far," "Platoon," and "Enemy at the Gates." For an older war movie, watch, "To Hell and Back, " with Audi Murphy playng himself. Notice how the 2nd Lt. Platoon Leaders keep getting killed.

Take a look at "Uncommon Valor" sometime. It's the only movie I've ever seen where they actually conduct a rehearsal before the mission. Gene Hackman really handles that Garand like he knows what he's doing.

[SAG0282]

"Heat"
"Ronin"
"Collateral"
"Man on Fire"
"Point Break"
"Pulp Fiction"

[S_O_Laban]

Many good ones listed, one I would add if you like lots of rounds fired, "Desperado." Not realistic...... but interesting.

[John-Melb]

For World War 1 weapons try "Anzacs" either the mini-series or the movie they made of bits of the mini-series.

Love the scene where Paul Hogan's character is returning to Aussie lines after a "ratting" trip, bottle of wine in one hand and a LP08 Luger in the other, herding along a group of German prisoners.

[BIGDADDYLONGSTROKE]

Boon Dock Saints was a good one some intersting sceens in it.

[shooter58]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned "The Rough Riders" (Turner Movies)..starred Tom Berenger (who, by the way, did an outstanding job of playing Teddy Roosevelt) Sam Elliott, Gary Busy. Great movie. Extremely authentic, great guns and gun play. Worth seeing again and again.

[armedcitizen]

+1 on Rough Riders. Great flick.

Also from TNT: Purgatory, Cross Fire Trail, Last Stand at Saber River,
Conagher, You Know My Name, The Virginian

[RustyShackelford]

Watch;

Commando
Raw Deal
LoneWolf Macquade
The Wild Geese
Street Justice(with Scott Glenn and Lou Diamond Philips)
The Professional


For details check: www.imdb.com

Rusty :D

[leadcounsel]

I'll chime in... nothing new to add just reinforce:

These are all pretty good and believable (albeit with some silly parts in each, but mostly very good)

Heat, Ronin, The Patriot, The Punisher, Unforgiven, Aliens, Leathal Weapon, Die Hard, The Professional, Terminator series....