Bottom Ten Worst Gunfights

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+1 on Desperado
Although I have to say I love this movie for what it is, but the shootout in the bar had to be one of the most ridiculous gun handling scenes I've ever witnessed, but still fun.

+1 on the Matrix
Still enjoyed it, but as far as realistic gun handling......:scrutiny:

I Think the all time worst in my mind is Arnold Schwarzenegger's classic 80's action flick.....Commando

Oh and speaking of Arnold lets not forget how realistically protrayed firearms were in True Lies. Especially the scene where his wife drops the Mac10 down the steps and takes out a dozen bad guys.:D
 
Oh and speaking of Arnold lets not forget how realistically protrayed firearms were in True Lies. Especially the scene where his wife drops the Mac10 down the steps and takes out a dozen bad guys.
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That can happen.:neener:
 
Rockford Files - Did Jim Barner ever fire the snubbie he kept in his
cookie jar?

Godzilla and the FX with plastic toy tanks

James Caan with the sawed off shotgun in Rio Bravo
you don't shoot John Wayne in the ass !

Magnificent Seven where, hmm I think it
was Charles Bronson shoots one of three
bandits getting away on horses just
cresting a hill - about a 200 yard + shot
with a 44-40 and he drops a rider. The
youngest of the Mag 7 sez great shot -
and cb SEZ I WAS AIMING at his horse
in disgust We need a prisoner to question.
 
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Good threads like these usually get locked before I get to respond!

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.
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If Justin did not close it it may be open in eternity ,:neener:

How about the flame thrower scene from an HBO movie called
"When Trumpets Fade". I almost bet no one here has ever heard of it.
Issued in 1998, I have it on DVD. There is a scene where the FNG has to carry a flame thrower and is forced to use it against the Krauts. The thing throws flame about 5 feet, pretty ridiculous as is most of this WW2 movie.
Might have been Dwight Yoakams movie debut.
 
Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing.
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Yeah, but it's a lot of fun.

"Harley Davidson and Marlborough Man" included some *REALLY* stupid shootouts. It's a genuinely bizarre action movie, featuring bank security guys in heavy trenchcoats who chase Don Johnson around. It seems to be turning a corner when a custom Casull appears, but then they load the thing with .38 Special blanks and ruin everything.

Equilibrium
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I agree completely. A terrible gun movie. The whole notion of "gun fu" is absurd, and the fight scenes are consequently unwatchable. The stupidity reaches a climax with a katana fight that has the whole "I win--oh wait there's blood on YOUR sword? I must have been sliced in half. I'm going to go make lunch, do some work then suddenly jerk up and fall to bits."

"Blind Justice" with Amand Asante deserves a mention here.

"The Quick and the Dead" with LEo Decrapio is just a long line of stupid shootouts.

Most of the Bond films have amazingly unrealistic shootouts, though some are redeemed by other factors.
 
"What's Up, Tiger Lilly". The gunfight on the tramp steamer. One of the heroes says to his partner, "Watch me shoot 6 times and kill 10 guys." (or words to that effect, I saw that movie in 1966, I think.) One of Woody Allen's first movies where he took a grade D Japanese shoot em up movie and redubbed the audio around a plot to steal a recipe for egg salad iirc. Funny movie. Bad gun fights.
 
80's Stalone movie... Cobra.

After a police operation gone awry, the on-scene commander makes the decision to "call in the Cobra". Stallone, aka "The Cobra", arrives in a chopped and lowered Mercury and shoots the h** out of everyone. A car chase ensues with the Cobra as the prey... but not for long. The Cobra, at high speed, smoothly spins the Merc a full 180 degrees and (now driving in reverse at high speed) unloads a lethal burst through his own windshield into his pursuer.

Alas, no Oscar.
 
I forgot to mention ANYTHING where Will Smith is holding a gun.

I can't puke enough.
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+100000!

I'd rather watch a few episodes of fresh prince than Bad boys one or two.
 
Anything with the "rock" or Vin Deisel in it.

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Also the movie Delta Force. I love that movie but gawd was it horrible. Motorbike Rockets anyone?

Oh also Tango and Cash. bleeech
 
Yall think Desperado was bad... oh man you obviously havn't seen the sequel Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Now that one had some bad gunplay scenes. First of all the sawed off double barrel shotgun pistol is fired with ease while disintigrating both knees of the BG. Second off... oh *&$% every single bit of it was just completely rediculous.
 
The scene from Shooter dropping 3 or 4 BG's standing in a row boat with a coke bottle silenced .22 from a ways off.

A big +1 for Equilibrium. Ancient art of Gun-Fu
 
rambo

judge dread

cobra

demolition man

...basically anything with stallone
 
Lots of the older Westerns had oddities in gun fights, but for bad gun fights you can't go wrong with any time Jean Claude Van Dummy picks up a gun in his movies.
 
Chuck Norris in any Delta Force movie. For that matter, those Missing in Action flics are pretty bad too.
 
Any Miami Vice shootout and TV in general. You can stand around the corner in any house and bullets don't even make a mark on the sheetrock walls much less penetrate.

Worst is not equal to unrealistic. I really liked Last Man Standing. Just like a western but instead of colts and horses you have 1911s and fedoras.
 
George Hill is not just a Moderator.
He is the "go-to-guy on movies, movies reviews, firearms in movies, historically correct guns in movies, scripts, writing, plots, acting , politics and whatever else movies with guns portray to the public.

Basically he tells it like it is, and this information busts a lot of myths that those against us might choose to further their cause.

Oh, he is also bigger than most folks in staff and membership. :D
 
"The Quick and the Dead" has to be one of the worst gunfighting movies ever. The whole movie is built around gunfighting. It has Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, and Leonardo DiCaprio - you would think it might have some kind of chance; but it is a horrible movie with the most ridiculous, stupid, comic book use of firearms I've ever seen.
 
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