Favorite "gun" scene in a movie?

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I've seen 'Ride with the Devil', probably almost a year ago, and I'm pretty sure thanks to one of the black powder threads here on THR. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, and I loved it! Great flick. Lotta cap n ball revolvers and whatnot. I think I'll watch it again sometime soon

I'm going to re-recommend 'The Salton Sea' again in this thread, you might be confused by the first 30 minutes, but it reveals what's really going on slowly and surely, and there are some really great gun scenes!

ALSO: I'm not a Kevin Bacon fan, but 'Death Sentence' is INTENSE! John Goodman is ridiculous in that movie!!! WHOOOooooole lotta guns! It's the kinda movie you have to be in a certain mood for though, because it's really dark and quite sad. But man oh man there are shootouts and guns and fights and it's worth a viewing.


Sin City is one of my all time favorite movies, tons o' guns, and some very pretty ladies wielding some of 'em too
Marv is the man

OK, here's one...
Beverly Hills Cop 2 (3?) when Billy opens his closet and the door is covered with hanging guns.
The older partner says "Billy, we need to talk..."

The movie Hot Fuzz, when Danny is asking Nicholas if he's ever fired 2 guns while flying through the air, and then a whole bunch of other cop movie tropes. By the end of the movie, he's done all of them....

I didn't read through the whole thread, so forgive if someone mentioned, but mine is an oddball...

In the second of the old Three Musketeers movies, the 1974 "The Four Musketeers"... AThos is threatening Milady DiWinter.... And he spans his wheel-lock pistol before pointing it at her.
Not many directors would even think to include a wheel-lock, much less have the actor accurately handle the weapon.

When Indy shoots the cocky swordsman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anEuw8F8cpE

Ah, there are so many, but one I like was in Magnum Force. Harry goes to the shooting range where he runs into the rogue cops there for practice.

One of them asks about the load in Harry's .44. He then proceeds to try Harry's gun, rapid-fire, DA and knocks the crap out of the ten-ring.


(Why is there never any Rum?)

Dang I thought of another one. There are just so many. In "The Patriot" where Gibson shoots down all the Brits that have taken his son captive. He does get help from his two younger boys. I don't know if this was mentioned before.

my favourite scene ... I can't remember the name of the movie , but in the movie a cowboy hands a sawed off shotgun to this accomplice and tells him that with it , he will be able blow anyone right out of his boots in under ten feet or so , anything further than that he would just be making them real angry and that is so true , no one wants to be shot with a shotgun , but if you do get shot and it doesn't seriously injure or kill you the shooter better be making the best of the distance between the both of you at that very moment

i liked in saving private ryan when jackson is in the bell tower sniping people while riciting parts of the bible. good stuff.

So many to choose from. But I have to go with a classic -- the bar scene from Shane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDDOd8kGBXo

"I heard that you're a lowdown, Yankee liar . . ."

johnboy711 said:

i liked in saving private ryan when jackson is in the bell tower sniping people while riciting parts of the bible. good stuff.

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forgot about that one , yes that was good , except for the last shot he never got off

I didn't see this one listed, but I may have missed it. An all time classic, the stairway scene at grand central station in "the untouchables". When Cosner asks Garcia "you got em?" "Yeah, I got em". "Take him". Instant bang, DRT.

I also like that scene in I, Robot where the Robot has Det. Spooner and the lady unloads with the smg/assault rifle taking down the robot. It's then revealed she was shooting with her eyes closed. Will Smith's reaction to that was classic.

when the aa12 And m60 came out, this soon become my favorite gunfight.

Here's another mention for Kick Ass. Hit Girl's hallway scene is good, as previously mentioned. I found the night vision scene even better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SbnqIIkXQc

There are so many, but the one I always think about is the "rescue Morpheous" scene in The Matrix.

I really like the basement tavern scene in Inglorious Basterds. The actual gun fight is only a few seconds long but the build up is great. That and the big kahuna burger scene with Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta are probably my favorites. And the bank robbery scene from Heat of course.

Can't decide

I have four favorite scenes and I cannot decide which I like best.

From "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", the scene of Tuco and the bathtub. Also has one of the best gunfighting quotes ever.

From "100 Rifles"; Rachael Welch taking a shower - with accompaniment of a Winchester '97.

Been mentioned, but I always like Indiana Jones and the Swordsman from "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

From "The Shootist", the whole cotton-pickin' ending.

Since I'm a John Wayne addict it has to be True Grit " Bold Talk for a One-Eyed Fat Man"

Heh!

Just thought of another great scene. I'm not a John Travolta fan, but he had a great line in Broken Arrow when they were chasing after the truck with the nuclear weapons. One of Travolta's guys was shooting at the truck they were pursuing and Travolta says, calm as could be:

"Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?"

http://www.hark.com/clips/zjxnyvmvst-not-shooting-the-thermonuclear-weapons

The opening scene of Robocop...j/k (totally glad I grew up watching That 70's Show before seeing the movie for the first time --makes for a far more disturbing villain ). Even funnier is Willem Dafoe's infamous "bullet dance" in Platoon (so much to hate in that movie ), in which he manages to outdo even the most brazen of overacting hams (in the same movie, no less )

My favorite would be any time from "whenever" to "whenever you get tired" in the John Woo flick Hard Boiled (who knew the Yakuza had enough invested smuggling several crates of guns to wage an all out war destroying several city blocks and leaving at least 300 of their mooks dead in the gutter? )

The mirror-shootout scene in Face/Off (also Woo) was cool just because the ham-fisted "deep metaphor-ing" matched the gun play perfectly (both Cage and Travolta have to be the worst "action genre" actors of all time, but somehow they pulled it off in this one)

Gun scenes are way down the list of "great cinema moments" for me though; they are just too often poorly done or wildly fantastic, usually in contrast to how the rest of the movie is put together. Occasionally it lines up like in The Matrix or True Grit, but most often it's Deuces Wild . The few realistic gun scenes don't stand out as well and aren't as memorable (I actually can't remember any notably/impressively "realistic" gun scenes off the top of my head ).

No one wants Robin Hood to have a realistic/brutal takedown of the Sheriff in a single thrust, after all --at least not without a "samurai delayed sword cut" followed by a "samurai delayed-blood-squirt-and/or-dismemberment

TCB

Original Indiana Jones movie. The big Persian pursuing Jones pulls a scimitar sword from his belt, goes through an elaborate set of threatening swordplay moves. Jones shrugs, pulls his pistol, and shoots the Persian. The perfect Harrispn Ford enactment of never bring a knife to a gunfight

Only lasted a second but the road agent spin in Josey Wales was pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YDet_RZVPo

I am Legend. Almost missed that line PJ77. Nice one