Most realistic gun movie?

[winstonsmith]

I was thinking about this the other day. What is the most realistic usage of guns in a film.

The first thing that popped into my head was matrix, and then I realized that I really didn't know any movies that do guns justice.

I just got access to a great used movie collection so Im open for reccomendations here.

 

[dfariswheel]

Shane.

The first realistic movie shooting, a gunfighter that actually LOOKED and acted like a real gunfighter, and guns that sounded like real guns.

In a book about Charlie Russel the "Cowboy artist', is one of his pen and ink drawings of a Montana gunman shooting a man in a corral. Jack Palance is dressed exactly like the man in the drawing.

 

[Phantom Warrior]

I absolutely love The Matrix. Love it, love it, love it. I'm going to see The Matrix: Reloaded Thursday, Friday, and very possibly Saturday. But it's not quite realistic. Awesome gunplay, yes. But realistic things like reloading, no. Why reloaded when you are carrying a dozen guns?

The best gun movie that comes to my mind right away is "Way of the Gun." Wow. Spectecular. RELOADING, tactical reloads, room clearing, cover fire, sniping w/ a spotter, showing a .45 in the holster with the hammer back. The little things that only gun nuts notice but that really make it good.

"Heat" was also a good gun movie. I didn't enjoy the story as much. But from a technical point it was excellent.

 

[Mike Irwin]

My vote is still L.A. Confidential.

 

[BowStreetRunner]

LA Confidential AND The Way of the Gun are both awesome gun movies!
BSR

 

[Bruce H]

Austin Powers with the machine gun jubblies.

 

[srschick]

Hey,hey,hey,hey,hey (in my best Eddie Murphy voice).

What about Heat?
That has to be some of the best gun play, not to mention some of the best tactics (well, yea, it was by the bad guys though) I've ever seen in a movie.

One of my most favorite movies (out of the 350 DVD's that I own )

 

[Admiral Thrawn]

The Way Of The Gun
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
We Were Soldiers

 

[cool45auto]

Way of the Gun
Heat

Both excellent movies.

 

[Razor]

(out of the 350 DVD's that I own)

Say, that's a good start...

Heat
The Way of the Gun
Proof of Life (the rescue)
Black Hawk Down (3-disc Special Edition out 3June, BTW)

 

[megatronrules]

Another vote here for "The way of the gun" and "heat" are also good and realistic gun movies.

 

[Mike Irwin]

I liked heat a LOT, but some of the scenes had a bit of the "endless magazine" syndrom...

 

[cratz2]

I think pretty much anything other than Road To Perdition. The 1911 firing with the slide locked back was almost enough to make me stop the movie.

I guess I'm in the majority as the first two movies that came to mind were Heat and The Way of The Gun.

 

[agony]

Another vote for 'Heat.'

 

[Mastrogiacomo]

Well...here's a bit of a goof -- using "realistic" and "movies" in the same sentence. An honest reply would be -- there are none! But there are several really great gun movies. I loved "High Plains Drifter," "The Matrix," -- anything by John Woo and the "Lethal Weapon" series. Big fan of "Jackie Brown" and "Gloria" with Gena Rowlands. Also loved "Chungking Express" for the .38 action by Brigitte Lin.

 

[Mastrogiacomo]

Incidently, some great Hong Kong gun flicks such as "Full Contact" and others -- "Killer's Romance..." can be found rather cheaply at:

www.yesasia.com
www.half.com

Both great places to start building a good gun movie collection.

 

[themic]

LAST MAN STANDING!

ok, not realistic at all, but damned fun watching people fly back when hit with the mighty 45

 

[mothernatureson]

gun movie

lots of good gun movies out there, but for a great entertaining movie, wath the original "Tremors", with Kevin Bacon. But it has this husband/wife survivalist twosome. Lots of good firearms, and dialouge is exceptional. Peace
mothernatureson

 

[MLH]

Black Hawk Down

'nuff said

 

[Tamara]

Most realistic gun handling in a movie:

The Way Of The Gun and Heat, hands down.

Ronin wasn't too awful bad, either.

 

[themic]

tremors was great... that was reba mcintyre herself shootin all those guns

and ronin.... great flick
everyone is asking the gun supplier dude for all these fancy big and automatic guns for their next job... then deniro (the hero) says, hmm, 1911 will do for me.

 

[Schuey2002]

What Tamara said.

 

[BigG]

Way of Gun? Where did they keep all those extra .45 magazines in those dockers? 2) Can't fire a .45 as fast as they did and hit anything. 3) Maybe that's why Caan outgunned em wif a J-frame?

Outlaw Josey Wales pretty dang good with the Colts!

 

[Penforhire]

What, no war movies?!?! How about Full Metal Jacket or Platoon or Sniper or ...

 

[priv8ter]

for my money

I've got to go with a Clint Eastwood movie...Unforgiven...

Let's see...Morgan Freeman gut shoots the one guy, and then in the final scene, he has misfire in his shotgun...

to me, that is pretty realistic stuff....