Best Movie Shootout

[Axman]

[after shooting 2 criminals with a nail gun]
Roger Murtaugh: Nailed you both!

Does that count?

The final shootout in Young Guns was quite good!

 

[kahr404life]

"The Way of the Gun", shootout scene in the Mexican whore house is the bomb. They use cover and reload.

 

[slystad810]

Hard Boiled (Hospital shootout), because even though you see exploding fuse boxes, and curtains catch fire when hit by pistol rounds (not too realistic at all), it's just lots and lots of fun.

+1

 

[EdLaver]

Damn near all of Chow-Yun Fats olders movies had BAD ASS SHOOTOUTS. I loved em all. Cant recall the movie titles but any action buff in the forum knows Chow-Yun Fat shoot-outs ROCK. I also liked Desperado, Antonio used the hell out of those Ruger P90 .45acp'ers.

 

[StrikeEagle]

It's been too many years since I've seen it, but the big gunfight in Magnificent Seven really blew me away as a kid. Gotta rent that and rewatch.

 

[joneb]

The Unforgiven , is one of my favorites. but the shootout in Open Range was dang good, just getter done

 

[Action_Can_Do]

The last 20 minutes of Commando. Not very realistic but a lot of fun. All you have to do is fast-forward to the part where Arnold gets off the raft. Then you'll see a cool, long-running gunfight.

 

[Crosshair]

Actualy, anything that isn't CSI or any of those shows has me interested in some way.

 

[1 old 0311]

True Grit. ONLY the Duke could pull it off.

 

[jeepmor]

Heat, hands down for realism.

That Tombstone scene where Doc (val kilmer) winks and starts the OK corral shootout is pretty good too.

jeepmor

 

[Browns Fan]

Gotta love the scene in "Saving Private Ryan", where the sniper is in the church steeple, being the "force multiplier" with his Springfield 1903, while quoting scriptures! Shortly thereafter, though, the Germans blow up the tower with a tank.

 

[Clipper]

Silverado...the gunfight scene between Paden & Cobb, and when Kostner does the two-at-a-time from the corner of the saloon.

El Diablo...when Van Leek shoots up the posse surrounding Billy Ray.

Rough Riders...reciting the 'St. Chrispin's day' speech from 'Henry V' as they're machinegunning the Spanish on the San Juan heights.

Dr. Strangelove..."Get over here, Mandrake, and feed me this belt, boy".

 

[JaxNovice]

Shootout at the end of LA Confidential.

 

[MCgunner]

No one seems to have mentioned it, so I will, the final climax shootout in "Pale Rider". But, I prefer '58 remingtons to 1911s.
"You......YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

[louisdove]

+342397 for Heat

Also, a couple good little shootouts in the Ed Harris movie A History of Violence...1911's mostly IIRC

 

[JaxNovice]

good call on "a history of violence". Shows to the public that most shootouts are not 10 minute 1,000 round dramas, but very brief 1 or two 2 rounders.

 

[moewadle]

You have to give credit

to the gunfight at the OK corral in the film WYATT EARP because of the historical accuracy. That is one of my criteria for a favorite scene, film, gunfight, etc. Like someone said above about HISTORY OF VIOLENCE it shows that gunfights aren't an hour long and 1000 shots fired. I think the incident at Tombstone is recorded as being 30 seconds long and something like 17 or so shots fired with three men dead and at least one other wounded. The follow up scene to the fight showing one dead man with a big hole in his torso from a shotgun blast was, in my thinking, probably pretty authentic. I have read enough about the Earps and Tombstone in the history books to know that the screenplay was pretty darn accurate about the fight and what transpired as far as we can tell 125 years later.

 

[distortion9]

The whole movie

 

[JaxNovice]

Distortion... what type of gun is she holding?

 

[MIL-DOT]

just to name a couple favorites..."heat" ( really may be the best ever). "tombstone was good. "the boondock saints" where the brothers are hanging upside down tangled in the rope, slowly spinning around and blasting the mobsters. good stuff !! and i loved jesse "the body" ventura with the gattling gun in "predator".

 

[distortion9]

Distortion... what type of gun is she holding?

I think it's a silenced 92f. If it's not a can, I think it's supposed to be. Lots of nice hardware in that flick.

 

[Hitman]

JaxNovice,

I think it was a Beretta 92 Target with a longer comp at the end.

 

[distortion9]

JaxNovice,

I think it was a Beretta 92 Target with a longer comp at the end.

Leon? Is that you?

 

[Lucky 7]

"There's always free cheese in a mousetrap."

"What do you think?"
"I think a plan is just a list of things that dont happen."

"THE WAY OF THE GUN" WINS!!!

Honorable mentions:
Steve McQueen "The Getaway"
"The Outlaw Josie Wales" the fiirst and final shooutouts (found it in my dvd pile and rewatched it recently). Mr. Eastwood's finest western IMHO.
"Collateral" Alley and club
"Heat" Drive-In theater and bank
"Ronin" throughout
The fifth, the last two episodes and the movie of "Cowboy Bebop" (tell me that isnt cool)

gonna cut off the list there.

regards and semper fi!
-L7

 

[Panthera Tigris]

I too vote for the final gunfight in Open Range. Probably one of the most realistic movie shootouts ever produced.

Actually, since this response can be any type of weapon, shouldn't this be in 'general discussion'?