the 10 best movie gunfights of all time

LOTS OF CUSSING

A Gunfight Johnny Cash vs Kirk Douglas
If you don't remember who won, put a bet on one of these gunfighters and go to 3:30 if you're in a hurry.

actually, I think this is the best movie shootout

Not a movie but nobody mentioned Justified?! The opening scene of the first episode. The scene with Wynn Duffie where Raylan pulls a bullet from his gun, throws it at Wynn and says, "Next one's coming faster." The scene with the line, "A lot can go wrong with the draw." The scene where Raylan and Winona each pull and shoot the gangsters. Art's gunfight with an unseen shooter. Geez, there were so many good ones in that whole series.

For a movie, how about the final gunfight in the Shootist? Or the final shootout in Big Jake. Or the final shootout in The Cowboys?

While real life is completely serious, Seal Team 6 taking Bin Laden. Several of Carlos Hathcock's missions, like taking the general by crawling basically into his camp and crawling out, the stalk between him and The Cobra. Scary, very scary and hopefully something none of us ever have to be in.

Back to a humorous note, Carol in The Walking Dead shooting the big propane tank at Terminus and igniting it with fireworks or Daryl's using the grenade launcher on the first group of Saviors that he encountered.

Squire Western said:

This has always been #1 for me. Shane, 1953

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That one always gets me. I like it when the dog gets up and slinks out.

The best-executed western gunfight scene I ever saw was in "The Culpepper Cattle Company". A half-dozen guys on each side, and in a small saloon. The whole shootout took about five seconds, with none of that back-and-forth with the cameras. Just a lot of movement and smoke, then the survivors were still standing. The movie was good enough, with a tired story line, but that shootout made watching it well worth it.

Personally, I liked the climactic scene in Grosse Pointe Blank. Not very (ok at all) realistic, but the discussion of why he's not been able to be in a relationship, mixed in with shooting people, whacking one baddie in the head with a frying pan, dropping a TV on the main baddie's head, all while professing love for his HS girlfriend and asking her to marry him (after what is in the scene here) made for a curiously satisfying sequence.

Her: "Make this gun work"
Him: "Sure" (racks slide and gently guides it away from pointing at him)

Be advised that the video I found (and I could find no other) stops at the point where the TV hits Dan Aykroyd's head (about 3:50). After that the video stops but the sound continues.



Have a great day all...

Have to be Tombstone with Doc Hollliday and Johnny Ringo.

Anything in The Good, Bad, and the Ugly series. Outlaw Josie Wales. One of the very best ever is Boondocks Saints

Heat should have been number one

Not a movie but nobody mentioned Justified?

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Love justified.

Also, the bank robbery shootout in Heat is pretty darned epic. Too bad DiNiro's recent Hillary love really leaves a bad taste in my mouth regarding some of my favorite movies (Heat, Ronin)

The final scene of Charles Bronson vs Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West. The setting, music, and build up to the scene are terrific.

What about Jessie Ventura and the XM214 minigun in the movie Predator. Mr. Ventura is a tool but that scene is pretty cool.

The Way Of The Gun....Ryan Phillipe,Benicio Del Toro,James Caan.

I always liked the Movie Leon The Professional. That movie show cased some very beautiful pistols, with epic gun fights


And yes I am one of those guys that just because I saw it in a movie I had to have it

jmorris said:

The 12+ shot "six shooter" in the open range clip around 25 seconds in was pretty funny.

They don't even make those mistakes is dumb movies.

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In the extra stuff included with the Open Range DVD, Costner said he had two revolvers, one holstered and one stuck in his pants in the small of his back. When the final cut was edited, drawing the backup revolver was not shown. He said he regretted that editing mistake.

J-Bar said:

In the extra stuff included with the Open Range DVD, Costner said he had two revolvers, one holstered and one stuck in his pants in the small of his back. When the final cut was edited, drawing the backup revolver was not shown. He said he regretted that editing mistake.

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Interesting, the version I saw showed him checking both guns before the fight, I never quite got why it was criticized as much as it is, but perhaps they cut the part where he swapped guns? Its been a while since I watched it.

I’m going to go with the gunfight that destroys their house in Mr. & Mrs Smith.

I can't abide any movie using computer-generated imagery ... or ridiculous stuff like bullet-curving or dodging in "Wanted" or the "Matrix" series. Although great stunt-work in Bruce Willis' "Die Hard with a Vengeance," taking down the helicopter with a Ford Crown Vic was almost a shoot-out ...

"Heat" was great. "Way of the Gun" excellent (1911 -- pretty Colts -- action, realistic IWB carry, James Caan rockin' a J-frame most effectively). Don't care about the bullet-count controversy re "Open Range," that final gunfight sequence was superb. Loved "Silverado," a good modern attempt at the old-timey Westerns.

"Quigley Down Under" -- "Never said I didn't know how to use 'em, just said I didn't need 'em." A favorite.

For modern flicks, pretty much any Michael Mann movie (starting with Caan in "Thief") contains realistic gun-play. Tom Cruise in "Collateral" -- "Yo homey, is that my briefcase?"

TonyInFla said:

The final fight in "Quigley Down Under".

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"I said I never had much use for a pistol. I never said I couldn't use one."

Mountain firefight in Lone Survivor
Prison rescue and escape in Act of Valor
Every action scene in John Wick

95XL883 said:

Not a movie but nobody mentioned Justified?!

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That series has too many good ones to list. Only thing I'd have done different is allude to Raylan visiting the range a lot more often, to keep his improbable quick draw/aiming skills so sharp.

When the final cut was edited, drawing the backup revolver was not shown. He said he regretted that editing mistake.

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Then there is the reload that gave every bad guy fan 10 seconds to yell "shoot him now!"

The final showdown in the movie "Open Range" with Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner. They shared a chocolate bar and then all He!! broke lose.