Best Firearm Movies

[JRH6856]

Thief (James Caan)

This was one of the first movies I where saw someone using "modern technique" with a pistol when clearing rooms rather than just walk in with the gun in one hand at waist level.

 

[geim druth]

Great movies, there's not a lot left I would add.

Hardboiled
Drums Along the Mohawk
The Patriot
The Four Musketeers

The Professional has been mentioned, but not The Professionals, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Robert Ryan, Burt Lancaster, a real classic.

 

[blaisenguns]

Wait just one minute! No one has mentioned "Unforgiven"!!

 

[SouthSeaPirate]

I have to admit, EAtG got me interested in the Mosin. So happy I now have one

 

[Derry 1946]

Wait just one minute! No one has mentioned "Unforgiven"!!

Post #16.

 

[SabbathWolf]

Marvin the Martian.....

"At last, after two thousand years of research, the illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator."

 

[sabre452]

Zulu 1964 with Michael Caine and Stanley Baker - The "Martini-Henry .577 miracle"

 

[Ignition Override]

Having not yet seen Tavisota, HEAT, for what is often described as the first realistic gun street battle in a movie.

As for Tavisota, do some of you guys (who don't) now wish that you owned a Finnish M-39 etc Mosin Nagant?

 

[Sambo82]

It wasn't big budget, but Sinners and Saints had some great gunplay. Watching the main character actually perform a speed reload on a Kalashnikov that would do a 3 gun guy proud is a first I've seen from Hollywood.

Also Children of Men has towards the end of the film what is probably the most visceral, surreal war scene I've seen in a film.

 

[muncherndn]

Feel free to berate me

Please feel free to berate me, but I like "Sucker Punch". The story is fantasy, but the weapons used are factual, and they even have to reload them. The actual weapon manipulation scenes are few and far between, but the scenes showing tactics (as far as I have been taught) are sound.

I especially like the fact that the movie didn't zoom in on the character's movement cues (tapping on shoulders to signify movement when clearing "dragon scene"), as can be seen in most action movies. It's just part of the background as it should be instead of magnified on the big-screen for mall-ninja's to emulate. I am a dirty, nasty, POG, so my word is not to be trusted.

 

[stonecutter2]

The Bourne Identity
Boondock Saints
The Matrix
Glory
The Patriot
Mr and Mrs Smith <--- LOTS of gun goodness in this

 

[Averageman]

Cross of Iron.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye9J4nQrz5s