Best Firearm Movies

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Sorry, folks, but nothing comes close to Open Range.
If you can overlook a 16 cylinder SAA! :D

Actually, I agree with you! Fantastic movie. And I have read that Costner caught the discrepancy and wasn't happy when producers told him it was too costly to repair.
 
Only 1-vote for Boondock saints ??
C'mon the old-man with the 6-pistol leather vest ?/? Those were great action and entertaining at the same time !!

Right at the top of my list ,
Pulp Fiction
No country for old men
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk down
 
Alright - a bunch of great movies. Which ones depict the firearms the most realistic though? Band of Brothers / Heat / ??

I love movies with guns and car chases, but Hollywood's depictions of them drives me insane!
 
21 great war movies.

All Quiet on the Western Front 1929
Paths of Glory 1957
Letters From Iwo Jima 2006
Platoon 1986
Glory 1989
Cross of Iron 1977
Apocalypse Now 1979
The Longest Day 1962
Full Metal Jacket 1987
Patton 1970
Sergeant York 1941
The Dirty Dozen 1967
Zulu 1964
Stalingrad 1993
Flags of Our Fathers 2006
Battleground 1949
Pork Chop Hill 1959
A Walk in the Sun 1945
The Manchurian Candidate 1962
The Train 1964
A Bridge Too Far 1977
All great but no "Sands of Iwo Jima" 1949? That movie inspired me to become a Marine at a very young age.
 
Someone else mentioned it, but "The Professional" was an outstanding shoot em up movie.
 
Check out the new "Total Recall" they add minimal mods to current guns to make them look futuristic, it's pretty cool.
 
Raiders of the Lost Ark has a lot of guns and shooting, especially in Marion's bar. There are some anachronisms, but a lot of shooting.
 
Not particularly noteworthy for the firearms....but one of my favorite westerns is The Big Country. Even has a fairly young Charlton Heston in it, along with Chuck Conners, Gregory Peck and Burl Ives. One of the best westerns ever made.

KCAce
 
I love the film. Both my much older brothers were Marines.One (1940-1946) fought at Guadalcanal in 1942. The other 1946-1951) fought in Korea in 1950-51. I was the Black Sheep in U.S.Army Armor.:D

I'm glad a Marine brought it to our attention. Semper Fi. :)

Required watching for my sons and me once every year.
 
HEAT has one of the best shootouts I've seen in any movie to date. You can tell the guys spent a lot of time training for it prior to getting it filmed (Pacino, DeNiro, Kilmer):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrioYLx-7Cs

Another is a foreign movie, probably not as well known, is "The Man From Nowhere". Great shoot out that ends in a knife fight to rival all others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY7Wxb09oGU

Here's the training they did to prep for the shootout in HEAT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW0yebyGk-8


The amazing part of the Heat production is that (as explained in the link) they realized that the blanks used in the city streets during the actual shooting (film) was better than anything the foley artists could overlay in post.

And one of my great guilty pleasures that hasn't been mentioned yet is Man On Fire.
 
We need more John Wayne!

Not all of the Duke's movies were realistic, but I love the gunfights at the end of both "Big Jake" and "The Shootist." This last one even has Wayne's aging gunfighter patiently waiting for -- and ambushing -- one of his opponents in the saloon. He also takes on two assassins (local bad boys) in the middle of the night. Great film overall with an all-star cast and plenty of closeups of guns and holsters. My favorite John Wayne movie.

Johnny Dollar: Our favorite movies seem to have A LOT of titles in common! :cool:

BTW: "The Man from Nowhere" is currently available for free viewing at IMDB.com.

All my best,
Dirty Bob
 
I really liked the 8 ga double barrel that Viggo Mortenson carried in "Appaloosa".
Also like the relationship between his character and Ed Harris' character.
 
Most would consider it a corny movie but Tremors is one I like. And the character Burt Gummer is pretty funny/interesting. I thought he was awesome the first time I saw the movie as a kid.
 
The Wild Bunch, listed by Johnny Dollar, deserves more attention.

You gotta love cowboys using 1911s and machine guns and Winchester '97 shotguns.

And they are still talking about the "battle of bloody porch"...anyone see Justified a few weeks ago??
 
Don't forget "The Wind and the Lion" perhaps the best sequence is when Capt Jerome, USMC takes over Morroco with a reinforced rifle company. Remember "hostiles to the left, present, fire"? And perhaps the shortest but the most telling. Sir Joseph as his revolver goes "click".."damn".
 
Cat Balleu = NOT,jane the turd fonda is not on ANY must see list for any patriotic American.

Sorry but even with Lee Marvin [ great actor & war hero ] its a no go for me.

OTHERWISE your on the mark with very few missing,and those were pointed out by all the rest here.

I love ANY western where they do not wear the 'hollywood version' of a "cowboy"/gunfighter holster.

The Good ,The Bad & The Ugly - loved it as well as The Outlaw Josey Wales !!!!!!!!!.
You might really like the Lonesome Dove movie then with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
 
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