Bottom Ten Worst Gunfights
- Thread starter George Hill
- Start date
- Status
Hatchett
Member
I know George specified movies and not TV, but I caught a few minutes of some of my wife's favorite soaps, and the gunfights there were ATROCIOUS! Not only were they cheesy and unrealistic, but after shooting the bad guy, the actors/actresses (and I hate whenever I see this in Hollyweird) would look at their guns in disgust and drop them on the ground. As if the guns possessed them and made them do the unthinkable. :banghead:
matt87
Member
Can't believe the only mention of Rambo so far has been the parody in Hot Shots... I'd have thought in Rambo III where he blows up that chopper with a bow and arrow was bad. Oh wait it's not a gun... Wasn't he using some Soviet heavy MG to destroy a tank at some point near the end of that film?
Bazooka Joe71
Member
Top 10 Worst Gunfights
I forgot to mention ANYTHING where Will Smith is holding a gun.
I can't puke enough.
Oh yeah, and I am also perplexed as to why someone would say saving private ryan was bad...Unless they just misunderstood the question, because the bottom ten worst are really the top ten best as weedwhacker previously mentioned.
I forgot to mention ANYTHING where Will Smith is holding a gun.
I can't puke enough.
Oh yeah, and I am also perplexed as to why someone would say saving private ryan was bad...Unless they just misunderstood the question, because the bottom ten worst are really the top ten best as weedwhacker previously mentioned.
Cannonball888
Member
Ditto on the perplexation. The beach battle scene was considered very realistic even by Omaha Beach veterans.
Houston Tom
Member
The one thing I have heard a couple of D Day vets mention that is missing from the saving Pvt Ryan scene was the smell
Hoffy
Member
Good threads like these usually get locked before I get to respond! (Edited: Sorry...I thought I was in the legal and political catagory, my bad)
Smokin' Aces...but the scene in the parking lot where the good (? ) guy makes the 30-40 yard, no-look, down sloping, single shot, with what looks like a 1911...and the bad (?) guy falls down dead.
Now that was really some shootin'!
Smokin' Aces...but the scene in the parking lot where the good (? ) guy makes the 30-40 yard, no-look, down sloping, single shot, with what looks like a 1911...and the bad (?) guy falls down dead.
Now that was really some shootin'!
Cannonball888
Member
Wow. 20 guys with AKs at 50 yds can't hit Arnold. It must be his camaflouge
Did you ever wonder how Arnold can be so anti-gun when movies like this made him famous?
Justin
Moderator Emeritus
Honestly, I'm so perplexed by Giant Skunk's post to this thread that I'm leaving it open hoping he'll actually clarify his post.
!!?!?!?! Blaming TV for "swaying" the youth is ridiculous. Be an adult and actually instill morals, values, and ethics in your children. It's not Hollywood's job to do so.
As for The Matrix... awesome gun fights. No they're not realistic because they didn't live in the real world. It was a world run by software that allowed "the rules" to be bent. The Lobby Scene from the first Matrix is one of my all-time favorite movie scenes. Tons of cool evil black rifles, pistols, and shotguns.
Wake up, Neo.
RobMoore
Member
I can't count the number of times I've movie discussions where I mention how much I hate extremely unrealistic action scenes, like when the move the hero is performing can't even be done by a stuntman, so they have to use wires for everything (which always makes for unnatural movement). This always seems to be followed by some mention of the Matrix.
The Matrix wasn't "unrealistic" because its chacters did all the crazy stuff they did. They were living in an electronic world with rules they could manipulate. If they were shown to jump off a 50 foot building and dodge bullets in the "real-world" scenes, then you could better call it unrealistic.
Its a sci-fi, it gets more slack than Jet-Li movies.
+1 for any scene involving Will Smith, double it for Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. I am interested to see how "I am Legend" turns out though.
One unmentioned movie is Equilibrium.
Although I really enjoyed this movie for its story, it had god aweful gunfights.
I know it was explained away by their "scientific gun kata" study, but it was still painful to watch.
The Matrix wasn't "unrealistic" because its chacters did all the crazy stuff they did. They were living in an electronic world with rules they could manipulate. If they were shown to jump off a 50 foot building and dodge bullets in the "real-world" scenes, then you could better call it unrealistic.
Its a sci-fi, it gets more slack than Jet-Li movies.
+1 for any scene involving Will Smith, double it for Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. I am interested to see how "I am Legend" turns out though.
One unmentioned movie is Equilibrium.
Although I really enjoyed this movie for its story, it had god aweful gunfights.
I know it was explained away by their "scientific gun kata" study, but it was still painful to watch.
sm
member
The old Billy Jack Movies.
[Drive-in Picture shows are NOT always about the Picture Show being shown]
Billy Jack, with no gun, no knife, just "martial arts" always won out over the BGs pulling guns and knives.
[Drive-in Picture shows are NOT always about the Picture Show being shown
] Billy Jack, with no gun, no knife, just "martial arts" always won out over the BGs pulling guns and knives.
Bazooka Joe71
Member
Oh yeah?
sm
member
Elvis Movies. Don't care what folks think of Elvis, but them "gunfights" were pathetic.
I mean worse than Billy Jack
I mean worse than Billy Jack
Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing.
Stock Colt Govt. 1911s that never go empty. Kinda makes you wonder why there's even a scene in the middle when Bruce Willis' charachter is loading dozens of mags -I wonder where he kept them.
Any of the Hong Kong genre gangster movies, the hero never gets shot while being able to drop every BG, never opts for the dropped SMG/assault rifle but keeps his 9mm. There's usually a 'Mexican Standoff' where Good & BG put pistols to each other's head afraid to shoot; if it were me, I'd go ahead and shoot in order to shut down his CNS.
Any movie with "Rambo" in the title (First Blood was good though). Special Forces training and Rambo stands in the open to shoot his M60/RPK at the hordes of oncoming BGs.
Stock Colt Govt. 1911s that never go empty. Kinda makes you wonder why there's even a scene in the middle when Bruce Willis' charachter is loading dozens of mags -I wonder where he kept them.
Any of the Hong Kong genre gangster movies, the hero never gets shot while being able to drop every BG, never opts for the dropped SMG/assault rifle but keeps his 9mm. There's usually a 'Mexican Standoff' where Good & BG put pistols to each other's head afraid to shoot; if it were me, I'd go ahead and shoot in order to shut down his CNS.
Any movie with "Rambo" in the title (First Blood was good though). Special Forces training and Rambo stands in the open to shoot his M60/RPK at the hordes of oncoming BGs.
Arnold is the man!!! If he doesn't want to be hit by the bullets from the AK, then he won't get hit.
And Predator is a great movie, and before someone says it, I say Ventura "could" shoot a chopper mini gun; he was a SEAL after all.
Worst gun fight...I got it. Equilibrium gets my vote. A lot of folks liked this Fahrenheit 451 meets the Matrix rip-off, but I couldn't stand it.
And Predator is a great movie, and before someone says it, I say Ventura "could" shoot a chopper mini gun; he was a SEAL after all.
Worst gun fight...I got it. Equilibrium gets my vote. A lot of folks liked this Fahrenheit 451 meets the Matrix rip-off, but I couldn't stand it.
modifiedbrowning
Member
Desperado.
Houston Tom
Member
do not forget 'Escape from New York" and I believe it was a MAC 10 that never ran out of ammo
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
