Bottom Ten Worst Gunfights

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I'm not a fan of movies that attempt to be seemingly realistic, and yet have obviously bogus scenes.

The club scene in Terminator (1)... this 1,000 pound or so terminator gets driven backwards by 12-guage slugs? Not really. (otherwise, great movie) Same thing with T2 near the molten metal. (again, great movie)

And then there's the whole "full-auto aimed perfectly while being held at arm's length with just one hand" thing in most movies...

I think one of the better scenes is in Patton... a GI is just running across a snowy field and kind of grabs his stomach and falls forward when hit.
 
So this is an elitist kind of place?
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No, just George is smart enough to know what is on topic. (i.e. GUN fights in GUN movies)

But if feeling picked on helps you get through the day, hey, go for it. :)
 
The remake of Romeo and Juliet, set in modern times. That was bad, a 9mm 'sword'. The duel was very anti-climatic both guys emptying their mags until they had just one, I guess they carried with empty chambers.
 
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The beach scene in Saving Private Ryan.


I'm perplexed by your statement. I thought the beach scene was one of the best depictions of battle ever shown on the big screen.
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yeah, i was also baffled by a vote for the beach invasion. IMO the best hollywood ever got it.
my vote ? i'm gonna go with that johnny depp/antonio banderas flick, was it "one night in mexico"? i forget ........
 
Forgive me John Wayne.

The Sons of Katie Elder At the end of the movie Wayne shoots his Colt Peacemaker at least twenty-three times and never reloads. To add insult to injury he never hits the bad guy. Wow! I'm a fan of many of his movies, but this one just bugs me. I also don't like it so that has something to do with it.

Silverado Now this one is a contradiction. I actually really enjoy the movie, but it's gunfight sequences are truly terrible. However they're also fun. Go figure.:confused:

Lethal Weapon I, II, III and IV The first movie was pretty good if unrealistic. The others are just pure dreck.:barf::barf::barf:

Bonnie and Clyde The 1967 version with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Finally saw this thing a few weeks ago and I wasn't impressed.

I sent a PM to the guy who said that the Omaha Beach sequence from Saving Private Ryan was one of the worst gunfights ever filmed. I didn't flame him, but did ask if he could return to this thread and clarify his position. I simply told him that alot of folks were puzzled. We'll see.
 
No, just George is smart enough to know what is on topic. (i.e. GUN fights in GUN movies)
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While threads of "what's the best gunfight in a movie EVAR!" get started about once every four hours around here, I have to say, this is probably the first time I've seen a thread about "What's the worst gunfight in a movie ever."

So the premise is somewhat original.

I find it quite funny, however, that everyone is pretty much listing all the same movies that keep getting listed in the "Best Gunfight" threads.
 
Surprised no one mentioned Resident Evil II.

When the Nemesis is walking towards those SF guys. All those gun toting guys and NOT ONE thought to shoot his HEAD? Really stupid. Here is the scene:

Yah but Milo Jivovich is in it so it is forgiven...
 
i watched "Blood Diamond" last night

there was a WHOLE bunch of AK-47 fire that didnt seem to penetrate people and car doors. Because if it did, the movie would have ended within 30 minutes because all the main characters would have been dead.
 
Each and every single Rambo movie.

Enough to make you puke. Like firing the LAW thru the windshield while inside a UH-1 and the rescued prisoners are huddled in the rear. Or shooting that M-60 from the hip all the time.
 
do not forget 'Escape from New York" and I believe it was a MAC 10 that never ran out of ammo
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Yeah, the scoped, suppressed MAC-10.
A scoped (3x9) open bolt machine pistol.
Priceless.

rambo

judge dread

cobra

demolition man

...basically anything with stallone
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Yes, thank you.
Judge Dread: "I am the law!!!!!!!" [in huge japanesy plastic "armor"]

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Chuck Norris in any Delta Force movie
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I loved it in Invasion USA when he uses 2 machine pistols. Never aims. Has no reloads. always fires full auto.

Then throws the guns away when the run dry.

but then he does this in every movie so he can go all Kung-Fu on em.

I think he actually hits the guys once or twice out of every burst, as he waves the guns back and forth.

Then the scene were he uses was I guess was supposed to be a mock up of a n M203 with a buck shot load or some thing. He pulls the trigger and waves the weapon across the room and takes out the whole wall. You know... cause he can "throw" the buck shot.

I can't watch Chuck. I cringe every time I see him touch a firearm.
 
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John Travolta and Nick Cage. Not too bad to start with; normally I rate movies as fun to watch (to include horrible gunplay), or not so much fun. Up until the final battle it was fun to watch.....

These two clowns must have slung over a hundred rounds at each other at distances your average 9 year old could hit you with a spitball, yet neither one gets hurt. This, after earlier in the movie having made some equally impossible to hit long distance shots.

To loosely quote Andrew Dice Clay, "Untruckingbelievable!"
 
These two clowns must have slung over a hundred rounds at each other at distances your average 9 year old could hit you with a spitball, yet neither one gets hurt. This, after earlier in the movie having made some equally impossible to hit long distance shots
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I find it really hard to watch movies where they fire thousands of rounds and don't hit @#$!.

How about The Matrix. Was it 3 where they had the shoot out on the freeway with the guys phasing in and out of the cars with sub-guns?
They kept shooting the doors with them and they never penetrated the car.
Like 30,000 rounds later...no hits on the passengers.
I kept saying "how about shoot at somebody ..? Through a window maybe ?"
and "geez, pull a .308 out of your a@@ and shoot them with that.."
"hell...with the way this movie is going...just pull a rocket out of your butt too !"
 
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Most of "Arnold the Gov's" movies fill this one up. But there are other ones who also were very bad. But to vote him into office is the worst thing that has happened in CA for a while. Yes even worse than the laws in San Fran. Hmmm
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"The Quick and the Dead" has to be one of the worst gunfighting movies ever... with the most ridiculous, stupid, comic book use of firearms I've ever seen.
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"Comic book use" is the key word there. Movie was directed by Sam Raimi of Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, and Spidey fame (not to mention Hercules and Xena). Just about everything he does is comic-book-ish.

But, speaking of Sam Raimi and Army of Darkness and bad gunfights, how 'bout the final scene in Army of Darkness with our hero, Ash, taking on some shopper-turned-demon with an endlessly loaded lever action?

Loved the movie, including the last scene, but since we're being picky on gunfights...

"This is my BOOMSTICK!"
 
The old Charles Bronson movies were stinkers.

The beach scene in Saving Private Ryan.
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I disagree. IMO SPR has no business in this thread. By most historians opinions, it was one of, if not the, most accurate depiction of combat ever to be brought to the screen.
 
I'm wondering if the Saving Private Ryan reference was due to a misunderstanding of the question asked.
 
+1 on Cobra

I didn't see anyone mention Lethal Weapon. Mel and the :) on the Paper target. lol

Jackie Chan + Gun = Bad Gun scene in any movie lol.
Replace Jackie with Jean Claude Van Dam in the statement above lol.
 
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My pick: the final gunfight in the first Bourne Identity movie.

What's his face plummets down 9, 10 stories of a stairwell, plugs the bad guy in passing, and walks away without even bouncing.
 
Anything in Year of the Dragon. It nearly destroyed Mickey Rourke's AND John Lone's careers. Of course Lone subsequently gave his career the coup de grace with M Butterfly...

You don't usually see scripts THAT bad unless Ron Jeremy's in the cast...
 
My pick: the final gunfight in the first Bourne Identity movie.

What's his face plummets down 9, 10 stories of a stairwell, plugs the bad guy in passing, and walks away without even bouncing.
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How could I forget that one.(?) He "rode" the dead guy on the trip down after kicking him thru the handrail.
 
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