Gun movies

[BluesBear]

The ORIGINAL, black & white "Thin Red Line", starring Jack Warden & Kerr Dulane is a GREAT movie. But for some reason it is omitted by most of the big every-movie-ever-made-anywhere books out there.

The recently made, in color, "Thin Red Line" made me want to puke. I couldn't believe it was supposed to be the same story. When it was first released I couldn't understand why there was no mention of it being a remake. After I saw it I understood. The producers of the original didn't want the comparison.




Another vote here for "Last Man Standing". Sure it's just a 20th century retelling of the same story as "A Fistfull Of Dollars", but you gotta admit that Bruce Willis knows how to handle a Colt .45.

 

[Labinnac]

Predator - Cheesy but fun anyway.

Tombstone

 

[Penforhire]

"You talkin' to me?" Deniro's been is so many awesome gun movies (The Deer Hunter breaks a few of the four rules...), but I also have no idea which side he's on. Yeah, his "a gun is a tool" and 1911 response in Ronin is a classic.

How about Tom Berenger in Sniper? definitely NOT the sequel (ugh).

Deliverance. Or is that a bow movie?

 

[Cosmoline]

One thing about "Thin Red Line"--it's one of the very, very few Sillwood flicks that actually, honestly shows main characters getting killed in an accurate fashion. And it does so with very little blood and guts.

Compare with "Saving Private Ryan," where Tom Sizemore's character takes several 8x57 slugs in the back and says he "got the wind knocked out of him"!! Or, even more absurd, the scene in "Pearl Harbor" where a few crashed-landed airmen with handguns defeat a Japanese squad armed with Arisakas! In "TRL," a character gets up to do a heroic charge and "snap" he's cut down like a rag doll from a sniper hundreds of yards away. That's realistic. And it's not even an action film.

I also found the combat scenes in "TRL" better than those in "SPR," though of course I never fought in WWII so I can't say for sure which was more accurate as far as the soldier's POV. But I do know what those old rifles can do, and I know that almost no Sillywood action movie shows it.

 

[LiquidTension]

Some of my favorites, all in my collection:

Equilibrium - fantastic gunplay, cool guns (though some are not realistic)
Tears of the Sun - seems fairly realistic, but I've never been in combat so I don't know for sure
Matrix movies - "Guns, lots of guns."
BOONDOCK SAINTS - one of the best movies EVER
Snatch - very funny ("mine says Desert Eagle, point five oh")
Unforgiven - not a whole lot of gunplay, but a great movie anyway
Star Wars Ep I and II - no explanation required
Half Past Dead - awful movie, but lots of guns
Rush Hour 1 & 2 - the gun disarms are cool
Kiss of the Dragon - dual nickel plated Uzis with laser sights - too funny
Any Jet Li movie set in recent times
Any Steven Seagal movie - I know they're bad, but he uses 1911s...
The Patriot - Mel Gibson one, not Seagal one.
Dark Blue - just got this one. No fancy guns, but the movie is good.

 

[ocabj]

Gun-related movies currently in my personal collection (all retail DVDs, no bootlegs; I collect DVDs):

Band of Brothers DVD Set
Big Hit, The
Blackhawk Down (Collector's Edition)
Clear and Present Danger
Die Hard (Special Edition)
Face/Off
Full Metal Jacket
Jackie Brown (Collector's Edition)
Lethal Weapon (Director's Cut)
Matrix, The
Mission Impossible 2
Pulp Fiction (Collector's Edition)
Reservior Dogs (Collector's Edition)
Rock, The (Criterion Edition)
Saving Private Ryan
Speed (Special Edition)
Tears of the Sun
Terminator, The
Terminator 2 / T2: Judgement Day (Ultimate Edition)
True Lies
Usual Suspects, The
We Were Soldiers
Way of the Gun, The

This is all off the top of my head. I have to look at my DVD rack when I get home. Too many titles to remember. Probably stretching the "gun movie" theme a little with a couple of the titles...

 

[gunsmith]

Robert Deniro

Stood on stage with a bunch of other hollywood celebs,
(who like Deniro all have CCW's)
And campainged for Al Gore's GUN CONTROL!

 

[jason10mm]

You will have to get Costner's "Open Range" when it comes out on DVD. The final, lengthy gunbattle is AWESOME! About as gritty a gunfight as any I have seen on film.