Best gun play in a movie?

[Dr. Fresh]

^^ It's not the accuracy so much as the intensity and amazing sound effects.

 

[unreal45]

1 Way of the gun.
2 Heat
3 Enemy at the gates

 

[loneviking]

Robert Duvall in Lonesome Dove. Indians after him, goes into a Buffalo wallow, slits his horses throat to use him for cover and then goes to work picking the Indians off.

Quigley Down Under and Cross-Fire Trail. Selleck knows what he's doing with a rifle.

Steve McQueen in Tom Horn. Steve was another guy who seemed to actually know how to shoot.

 

[cchurchi]

APPALOOSA! I didn't even know there was such a thing a an "8 guage" shot gun!

 

[mccook8]

Mugging scene from "Collateral".

 

[usmarine0352_2005]

Mugging scene from "Collateral".

"Is that my briefcase homie?"

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[alemonkey]

Zulu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWuaSww3JnA

 

[usmarine0352_2005]

APPALOOSA! I didn't even know there was such a thing a an "8 guage" shot gun!

Everett: "That happened quick."

Cole: "Everyone can shoot."


And.........

Everett: "Are they good?"

Cole: "Their excellent."

Everett: "As good as us?"

Cole: "Can't say they ain't."

.

 

[brhodes]

For me, the worst was Equilibrium. Hands down. Netflix mailed it to me recently and I watched it last night. Just... terrible. They go into this whole deal about "Gun Kata", where you can become highly trained and predict where the opponents are going to be, and so you can therefore shoot him before he can and dodge his bullets. Here's the quote from the movie:

"Through analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights, the Cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically-predictable element. The Gun Kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents, while keeping the defender clear of the statistically-traditional trajectories of return fire. By the rote mastery of this art, your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%. The difference of a 63% increased lethal proficiency makes the master of the Gun Katas an adversary not to be taken lightly."

Looks basically like a guy twirling around like a ballerina with pistols that never run out of ammo. It's really pretty stupid. I mean, you can just tell that that the guy who came up with that tripe doesn't shoot. And, turns out, the director invented the "martial art" in his backyard. Style over substance, and 100% lame. A dude behind some good cover a few yards away could easily take out the twirling nancy with like 3 rounds from even a reasonable carbine. How the hell could you hit anything within 5 feet, much less inflict "maximum damage", when you're doing cartwheels and handstands?

Best gun play in a movie might have to be We Were Soldiers. Toward the end, when they were being over run, Plumley just seems to have a way with the good, old 1991A1. Love the dialog, too:

"I think you oughta get yourself an M-16."

"Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground."

A close second would have to be (yes, I know....) The Big Lebowski. When John Goodman is in the bowling alley pointing the .45 at Smokey, he racks it, shows trigger discipline, and then ejects the mag and live round in a safe direction before putting it in the bowling bag. Totally extraneous, didn't need to do it, could have just shoved it in the bowling bag ready to shoot his leg off... but didn't. I don't know why, but I was howling in the movie theater when I saw that scene. It's amazing to see hollywood get it right. (The safety aspects, not the pointing a pistol at your fellow bowlers. After all, it's bowling, not 'Nam. There are rules.) I suspect Goodman has shot a gun a couple times.

 

[Kentucky-roughrider]

Crossfire Trail,

Chisum

We were soldiers

John wayne (City of Gold in Spanish) I can't reminder the name of the movie. Where the Duke is teaching Mississippi to shoot.

Hard Corp Van Danm is teaching a brunch of city to be body guards.

 

[Blue .45]

As a Ruger P90 owner, I enjoyed the bar scene in Desperado, with Antonio Banderas.

Some others already mentioned,

Heat
Ronin
Open Range
The Departed
The Kingdom

 

[lloydkristmas]

Im surprised nobody has mentioned "No Country for Old Men". That one had some pretty realistic gunplay. The silenced shotgun was wierd, but has and can be done. The way he clears his 1911 after it gets dunked in the river is also pretty cool.

Also, Blood Diamond had some pretty realistic shooting scenes in it.

 

[BHP FAN]

Broken Trail
Open Range
Ride With The Devil

 

[cat9x]

THE WILD BUNCH...expecially the final shootout scene. A Maxim, 1897 Winchesters, 1911's, and plenty others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VhYR15F5mE

 

[jtpickensj]

Street Kings had some good gunplay particularly the scene with the two hoodies with the S&W M76 and M3 grease gun smgs.

 

[mod700]

most realistic

Saving private ryan and shooter....love shooter, seems like they did their homework on that one.

open range is good but one part that bothered me is when the guy gets blown back like 8 feet from a shotgun blast that has already blown through the wall of a barn.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Obviously we have forgotten about Snake Pliskin in "Excape from New York"

Remember the scene where two thugs were going to outgun him, so he challenges them both to a duel, picks up a can, and says "When it hits the groud, shoot." He just tosses the can up in the air and as the goons watch for it to fall, he shoots them.

Brains... not bronze.

It was more like three or four guys, and it was Escape from L.A.

 

[acn001]

Im sure this was already mentioned, but Heat has the best, in my book, black rifle play I have seen yet.