[semf]

I need to step into the 21rst century. I have a large collection of videos but I am in need of DVDs. What are some of your favorite "Gun Movies" some people call them "Guy Movies" to help me form a shopping list. Most of my collection is older movies I don't know much about the newer stuff .

[4570Rick]

Start with the westerns. You'll find a few listed here.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42083

:D

[Keith]

Last Man Standing is the ultimate 1911 movie.

Anything by Robert Rodriguez has a lot of excellent guns and are screamingly funny at times. Desperado is the best known, but look for his trilogy of Dusk To Dawn flicks.

And of course, Reservior Dogs and Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino.

Keith

[eerw]

Not sure if they are all gun movies..but

"Way of the Gun"
"Black Hawk Down"
"We Were Soldiers"
"Band of Brothers"
"Saving Pvt. Ryan"

are must buys for me...

[Combat-wombat]

"Thin Red Line" is a great movie. The stuff about guns seems to be accurate, soldiers have Garands, the Carbines, and Thompsons. Very good movie.

[Black Snowman]

"Thin Red Line" layed it on a bit too thick for me. I felt like someone was beating me in the head with a flounder screeming "War sucks! It's bad!" with camieos thrown in of big name celebraties. I found "Saving Private Ryan" to be a much better flick. Maybe if I had seen "The Thin Red Line" before "SPR" I would have liked it better.

Weapons in "TRL" were portrayed accurately at least.

[keederdag]

If you didnt like the Movie "red line" stay away from the book; it has a lot more of the same, plus Homosexual acctivity between soldiers in pup tents AAAAHHHHHGGGGG. I slammed it closed:barf:

[cool45auto]

All the ones listed so far and "Boondock Saints".

[rayra]

Resevoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction

And if you don't mind Ludicrous Fantasy, 'Face Off'

(hey, you said 'guns', not just war movies :))

[semf]

(hey, you said 'guns', not just war movies )
Exactly, I said gun because if I said action it wouldn't be gun related

[winstonsmith]

Heat, Dirty Harry 1-4, Heat, the Proffesional, the Transporter, Heat, Snatch, Heat...


Hmm... yeah, and Heat.

[Penforhire]

Ronin (one of my absolute fav action movies)
La Femme Nikita (not the pitiful American remake)
The Long Kiss Goodnight (who knew she could do action?)
Die Hard

[wardog]

The Survivors. Robin Williams & Walter Matthau. Robin turns into a survivalist. Great gun shop scene. Great quotes, like my signature.

[Dave Markowitz]

I hated "Thin Red Line". It was too long and drawn out. I thought the best part was the end -- as in when I got up and walked out.

YMMV.

[Camel]

The Seven Samurai I know its a stretch, but there were some guns in there somewhere.

[tyme]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Dawn of the Dead
Full Metal Jacket
Hard Boiled
Heat
The Killer
L.A. Confidential
Way of the Gun

[Ed Brunner]

Extreme Prejudice. I am not a Nick Nolte fan so this must be his best. He had a lot of great help. It is good.
Boondock Saints is a sneaky thing. You have to watch it a couple times.
As mentioned, Ronin is great. Did somebody mention Heat?
And then there is The Outlaw Josie Wales.

[hansolo]

Star Wars trilogy(Well....the FIRST two)

Indiana Jones trilogy(Well...the FIRST two)

I watch "Pulp Fiction" 2-3 times a month, so I'd avoid "Kill Bill"...C'mon, Quentin! Forget the Bruce Lee crap! We want guns and blood!:banghead:

[nomadboi]

Yeah, Ronin is definitely a must have. Good guns, good action, smart characters... I love DeNiro's take on guns, when Sean Bean's character asks him what his favorite weapon is.

Rodruiguez makes swashbucklers with guns. Silly but fun.

Equilibrium is an interesting one to check out- also silly at times, but pretty, and some interesting concepts.

Versus- Japanese zombie movie with a number of guns. Funny stuff.

[Beetle Bailey]

I'll second everything on the list so far (except Thin Red Line ;) ). Let me add:

Enemy at the Gates
Leon (basically an extended Euro version of The Professional )

And some older ones (don't know if you have these on VHS)

The Usual Suspects
The Untouchables

All of which reminds me, I gotta get to the video store!

[Stevie-Ray]

I'd have to second Extreme Prejudice and also add Cobra for 1911 films.

I'd add Wanted Dead or Alive with Rutger Hauer, and Hard to Kill and Out for Justice with Steven Seagal.

[Rogelio]

I also have to vote for the professional...really great movie!

Also loved Matrix (tons of guns!) Lucky SOB neo..he just says "guns, lots of guns" and the guy gets an arsenal!! No licenses, permits or CCW!!

[Nightcrawler]

the Transporter,

UGH...that movie was AWFUL. Frickin' Euro-pansy action hero. Puh-leeze.

[Kamicosmos]

Not to break the thread here, but does anyone know if Deniro is Gun Friendly in Real Life?


It's so hard to tell now-a-days with these actors. They're too good at acting I tell ya!

[semf]

I can't find any pro or anti list that names Deniro

[BluesBear]

The ORIGINAL, black & white "Thin Red Line", starring Jack Warden & Kerr Dulane is a GREAT movie. But for some reason it is omitted by most of the big every-movie-ever-made-anywhere books out there.

The recently made, in color, "Thin Red Line" made me want to puke. I couldn't believe it was supposed to be the same story. When it was first released I couldn't understand why there was no mention of it being a remake. After I saw it I understood. The producers of the original didn't want the comparison.




Another vote here for "Last Man Standing". Sure it's just a 20th century retelling of the same story as "A Fistfull Of Dollars", but you gotta admit that Bruce Willis knows how to handle a Colt .45.

[Labinnac]

Predator - Cheesy but fun anyway.

Tombstone

[Penforhire]

"You talkin' to me?" Deniro's been is so many awesome gun movies (The Deer Hunter breaks a few of the four rules...), but I also have no idea which side he's on. Yeah, his "a gun is a tool" and 1911 response in Ronin is a classic.

How about Tom Berenger in Sniper? definitely NOT the sequel (ugh).

Deliverance. Or is that a bow movie?

[Cosmoline]

One thing about "Thin Red Line"--it's one of the very, very few Sillwood flicks that actually, honestly shows main characters getting killed in an accurate fashion. And it does so with very little blood and guts.

Compare with "Saving Private Ryan," where Tom Sizemore's character takes several 8x57 slugs in the back and says he "got the wind knocked out of him"!! Or, even more absurd, the scene in "Pearl Harbor" where a few crashed-landed airmen with handguns defeat a Japanese squad armed with Arisakas! In "TRL," a character gets up to do a heroic charge and "snap" he's cut down like a rag doll from a sniper hundreds of yards away. That's realistic. And it's not even an action film.

I also found the combat scenes in "TRL" better than those in "SPR," though of course I never fought in WWII so I can't say for sure which was more accurate as far as the soldier's POV. But I do know what those old rifles can do, and I know that almost no Sillywood action movie shows it.

[LiquidTension]

Some of my favorites, all in my collection:

Equilibrium - fantastic gunplay, cool guns (though some are not realistic)
Tears of the Sun - seems fairly realistic, but I've never been in combat so I don't know for sure
Matrix movies - "Guns, lots of guns."
BOONDOCK SAINTS - one of the best movies EVER
Snatch - very funny ("mine says Desert Eagle, point five oh")
Unforgiven - not a whole lot of gunplay, but a great movie anyway
Star Wars Ep I and II - no explanation required
Half Past Dead - awful movie, but lots of guns
Rush Hour 1 & 2 - the gun disarms are cool
Kiss of the Dragon - dual nickel plated Uzis with laser sights - too funny
Any Jet Li movie set in recent times
Any Steven Seagal movie - I know they're bad, but he uses 1911s...
The Patriot - Mel Gibson one, not Seagal one.
Dark Blue - just got this one. No fancy guns, but the movie is good.

[ocabj]

Gun-related movies currently in my personal collection (all retail DVDs, no bootlegs; I collect DVDs):

Band of Brothers DVD Set
Big Hit, The
Blackhawk Down (Collector's Edition)
Clear and Present Danger
Die Hard (Special Edition)
Face/Off
Full Metal Jacket
Jackie Brown (Collector's Edition)
Lethal Weapon (Director's Cut)
Matrix, The
Mission Impossible 2
Pulp Fiction (Collector's Edition)
Reservior Dogs (Collector's Edition)
Rock, The (Criterion Edition)
Saving Private Ryan
Speed (Special Edition)
Tears of the Sun
Terminator, The
Terminator 2 / T2: Judgement Day (Ultimate Edition)
True Lies
Usual Suspects, The
We Were Soldiers
Way of the Gun, The

This is all off the top of my head. I have to look at my DVD rack when I get home. Too many titles to remember. Probably stretching the "gun movie" theme a little with a couple of the titles...

[gunsmith]

Stood on stage with a bunch of other hollywood celebs,
(who like Deniro all have CCW's)
And campainged for Al Gore's GUN CONTROL!

[jason10mm]

You will have to get Costner's "Open Range" when it comes out on DVD. The final, lengthy gunbattle is AWESOME! About as gritty a gunfight as any I have seen on film.