Favorite "gun" scene in a movie?

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48 Hours stands out, as do Zulu and Reservoir Dogs - ENJOY!

Nick Nolte as Cates, Eddie Murphy as Reggie Hammond, and James Remar as the evil Ganz.

In the uncut final action scene, after the fed-up Cates wounds Ganz (who had been holding Cates' own .44 Mag to hostage Hammond's head) in the shoulder with a borrowed 1911, he empties the rest of the mag into Ganz (who cocks his revolver twice) who seems less than interested in surrendering. The obviously necessary and righteous, repeated, shooting is almost always cut out of broadcasts of the movie and so when Hammond is next standing there in shock and awe you really have no idea why...

http://movieclips.com/EBT8p-48-hrs-movie-end-of-story/


There's the final battle scene of the beleagured Welsh regiment left to defend the supply line of Chelmsford's army at Rork's Drift during the Zulu War. Tenacity, superior firepower, honor and luck rule the day. It is inspiring to a man but reminds us that, as R.E. Lee said (though he was actually speaking favorably about slaughtering so many men), it is good war is so terrible else we should grow too fond of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDjDL-tIc_Y


Though the Mexcian Standoff at the end is the stuff of popular culture, nor will the tune "Stuck In The Middle With You" ever be the same, there's the scene in Reservoir Dogs where Mr. White, a complex character played by the great Harvey Keitel, who isn't going back to jail "tags some cops but no real people"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp94AFms0V0

These are my three favorite movies...
 
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Haha, Mars Attacks!... a totally under-appreciated movie. It's hilarious. I like it when the martian zaps the dove too.

Glad to see the Terence Hill/Trinity scenes mentioned. Always classic.

I've always been partial to the final shootout in Big Jake. Great flick, John Wayne and Richard Boone. Boone plays an excellent bad guy.
 
MattShlock said:
There's the final battle scene of the beleagured Welsh regiment left to defend the supply line of Chelmsford's army at Rork's Drift during the Zulu War. Tenacity, superior firepower, honor and luck rule the day. It is inspiring to a man but reminds us that, as R.E. Lee said (though he was actually speaking favorably about slaughtering so many men), it is good war is so terrible else we should grow too fond of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDjDL-tIc_Y
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ZULU! has always been one of my favorite movies.

During the 22nd and 23rd of January 1879, 153 soldiers fought against 4000 African Zulu warriors, under the command of Lieutenant Chard of the Corps of Royal Engineers and Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead of the 24th Regiment, aided by eight men of the Natal Native Contingent; three troopers of the Natal Mounted Police; five personnel of the Medical Staff; three men of the Army Commissariat; four Royal Artillerymen; a Sergeant of the General's Staff; Chard's Driver, a Royal Engineer; one member of the 3rd Regiment; one Corporal of the 90th L.I.; a Corporal from the Army Service Corps. and a Chaplain and two helpers.
These 156 men, by doing their allotted tasks, held the Zulus at bay throughout the battle that raged unceasingly over the two days..
Miraculously, only seventeen men were killed and twelve wounded against around 350 of the Zulus killed. (This was Chard's original estimate) Other claims have been of much greater numbers
 
It is hard to pick just one. Josey Wales is,of course in the upper tier. The shootouts in the Cross of Iron and the Kingdom are great. In the end, the finale from the Wild Bunch is pretty hard to beat.

Drue
 
Not sure if it has been mentioned yet but the scene in Predator when they chop down the forest with all their guns and still miss the Predator.
 
gym said:
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee.”
Then 2- 45's open up, not a bad attention grabber.
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Jules gun is a 9mm, he says it later in the movie when he and Ringo (Tim Roth) are in the booth at the diner at the end of the movie.

I would have to agree that the bank/street scene in "Heat" is hands down the winner. No music, just lead flying.

-Robb
 
I think you guys covered them all but I think you forgot a few.
Gary Copper: high noon the plains men( with Walter Brennan as judge Roy bean), vera cruz, man of the west.
Burt Lancaster: Valdez is coming. Ulzanas raid.
Joel McCrea ride the high country
Jimmy Stewart Winchester 73 ( Dan duryay plays a great rat in this flick) .
Henry Fonda.
These guys made so many great westerns you can't list them all.
Also as a side line I've heard Glenn Ford was truly the fastest quick draw artist of all the movie stars.
and lets not forget Ben Johnson and Warren Oates.
 
Favorite gun scene in a movie?

:confused: Let's see....mmmm? There's a lot of them, but off hand I'd say, all the last (or latter) scenes of "all" the "Gunfight at the OK Coral" movies , and "tossup" with the last one in "The Wild Bunch".
 
Since I was a kid I've wanted a Webley revolver because of that scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where he runs out of ammo - I thought watching him open the cylinder and check the chambers was the coolest thing ever.

Also, the sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark where he shoots the swordsman and then blows up the Nazi truck with a M1917 - epic.
 
Indy vs. the swordsman in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

Good Ash vs. Bad Ash in "Army of Darkness." (plus the end scene; "Ma'am, I'm afraid you'll have to leave the store.")

Various scenes from "Quigley Down Under."

Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, demonstrating his new supergun in "The Fifth Element."
 
Good Ash vs. Bad Ash in "Army of Darkness." (plus the end scene; "Ma'am, I'm afraid you'll have to leave the store.")
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"Hail to the king, Baby.":cool:

Was that ending scene a Rifleman tribute, by the way?
 
Cant say it's the favorite because there are so many, but I always get a laugh out of the scene in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang when Perry shoots the kidnapper with "a little revolver I keep near my balls"
 
It's kind of a comical scene but my favorite scene is in The Boondock Saints- when they're at the table drunk they guy gets worked up during his rant - hits the table gun goes off - cat gets FUBAR! Can't help but chuckle every time I think about it.
 
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It's kind of a comical scene but my favorite scene is in The Boondock Saints- when they're at the table drunk they guy gets worked up during his rant - hits the table gun goes off - cat gets FUBAR! Can't help but chuckle every time I think about it.
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The final battle@ The Alamo most any one of the movies. I like the John Wayne version. Have Gun will Travel. The Shooter.

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The Siege, the show down at the end between Bruce Willis and Denzel. Takers the guard room. The Tears of the sun, the jungle shootout.

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Pretty much any Samuel L Jackson scene in Pulp Fiction...especially the cafe scenes..
 
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