Favorite "gun" scene in a movie?

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Gene "The Waco Kid" Wilder in Blazing Saddles, as he's about to set off the dynamite from half a mile away with a sixgun, and the preacher gets loud...
 
Last Man Standing (Bruce Willis) had some nice over the top action.

4 Brothers, the shoot out at their mom's house.

The Outlaw Josey Wales, last seen with the red haired red-leg. The anticipation as we waited for the shot that ends him as he pulls gun after gun, click after click.
 
A couple of favorites:

From "I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka!", the "never enough guns" scene with Isaac Hayes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhe58xORWG0

There's also a good scene (less than realistic gore, thank goodness) toward the end of "The Born Losers", where Billy Jack, armed with a Springfield, threatens a biker gang at close range.
 
Scene in Taps where Tom Cruise gets it.
Not because of the guns but because Tom Cruise gets it.
Does involve guns though
 
I can't remember which movie, but there was this mob flick where there is this huge bar fight and almost everyone dies...any idea?
 
Clint Eastwood as Preacher in Pale Rider, the final scene. Great cap and ball revolver shooting.

The last scene in "The Wild Bunch".

The first five minutes of Saving Private Ryan



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My favorite scene of all time is at the end of A Few Dollars More when Col. Douglas Mortimer finally gets his chance to avenge his sister's murder by facing off against El Indio. The location, the music, the lighting, the look on Col. Mortimer's face, the years of waiting to avenge his sister ...

Monco: Very careless of you old man ... try this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-rFT-uHm4w

The movie ends with the following exchange ...

Col. Douglas Mortimer: My boy, you've become rich.
Monco: You mean we've become rich, old man.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: No, it's all yours. I think you deserve it.
Monco: What about our partnership?
Col. Douglas Mortimer: [smiles] Maybe next time.

There are just so many amazing scenes in Clint Eastwood's westerns ... far too many to list. The Outlaw Josey Wales is my all time favorite movie so just about any gunfight in that movie is among my favorites.
 
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Rolling Thunder; 1976 (I think) with William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones. The final minutes they take apart a Mexican brothel with shotguns and a 357 magnum.... very cool shootout.
 
I have two:

1. The shotgun scene in Army of Darkness with Good Ash and Bad Ash
2. The final shootout in Way of the Gun.

I also like in the Way of the Gun when Sarah Silverman gets punched in the mouth.
 
Ray Leota pistol whiping the hell out of that guy they messes with his girl in Good Fellas.
 
When the worm busted through the wall in Tremors and the dude and his wife unloaded on it.
 
William Munny "Clint Eastwood" in "Unforgiven" going into the saloon at Big Whiskey to kill the people who hung a sign on his friend, Ned (Morgan Freeman). When the conversation comes to this dialogue betweeen Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman) and Munny I think we see the whole of the ugly nature of killing and murder in just a few sentences. The best part is where they say:

"Little Bill Daggett: You'd be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children.

Will Munny: That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned."

The thing that really clinches the whole deal is that after the murderous Munny kills half the bar and threatens the entire town the one prostitute who was responsible for hiring them to kill looks at Eastwood riding out of town on his big white horse and she's thinking he's her knight in shining armor. It's freaking brilliant stuff. It's the best movie of all time IMO. It explores the nature of man in ways most movies never even dream of. It shows how it takes a cold blooded, heartless monster of a human to kill the way some do but at the same time it shows that even a man like that can be transformed even if he does fall back into his old ways. But he plays the role of hero in that moment.

That movie is true art IMO. It fully explores the nature of humans that kill without compunction. It is just a brilliant movie IMO. The best ever. It shows how being cool under fire will win out over being a fast draw with a gun but that being fast certainly helps if you're cool too. The people that panic are often the ones that die. It's the people that can control their fear that live. Some just don't care if they live or die. Some just think that no one will ever get them. The best movie ever made IMO.
I like this movie a lot though when I saw it at the theater it left me speechless as it was such a different kind of Eastwood cowboy movie. The scene me tinned below is really good. I especially like the misfire of the shotgun.
 
This thread should be stickied for great gun fu suggestions.

I was waiting for the "Last Man Standing" to appear (no. 53) and I had forgotten about the bank scene in "They Live" (no. 63). I really like the gravel pit scene in "Raw Deal" where Schwarzenegger shoots up the place from inside a convertible while "Satisfaction" is on the cassette player.
 
My favorites have been listed by others, but a recent one worthy of note was in "Justified", the TV series, when 3 bad guys were holding guns on US Marshal Raylan Givens and his pregnant wife. Raylan helps one BG to shoot himself, and then shoots BG #2 in the head. BG #2 drops like a rock and Winona, seated in a chair picks up his gun from the floor, unseen by BG #3. She takes a blind shot behind her while she is sitting, shoots BG #3 in the badoobies, doubles him over, and Raylan triple taps BG #3 in the chest.

Remarkable!

Love this show.
 
When the worm busted through the wall in Tremors and the dude and his wife unloaded on it.

Mousegun beat me to it.

Of course I also really liked the final shootout in "Open Range" though it would have been better if Costner's character had reloaded once in a while.

The Cairo Swordsman Scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (someone else already posted it but I can't seem to find the post now).

Some folks have mentioned the "Outlaw Josey Wales" I'd say that whole movie but it is my favorite western.
 
Oh come now! Is everyone so young they didn't see the final shoot out between Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) and Lucky Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall) and his gang in "True Grit"?

"Fill your hand you" church going ladies or something like that (after all this is THR).
 
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I always liked the final shootout in John Wayne's " The Shootist "
Also the fight between Ringo and Doc Holliday in " Tombstone " val kilmer made a great Doc.
 
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