Most realistic gun movie?

[TheMariner]

Hmmm... I too am surprised by the lack of war movies...

I'd say Saving Private Ryan...
Also, Quigley Down Under, Road to Pedition, Matrix, and a few others I can't recall right now..

Also, I know it ain't a movie, but there is an awesome series a friend showed me called Noir. Some of the shots would have been alittle on the "difficult" side but atleast they got the ammo loads for the guns right... plus it features guns like the Walther P99 and the 1934 Beretta

 

[Hugo]

Anime is sometimes quite accurate

Noir is very good both plotwise and gun use realism. Hellsing is a little bit except for Alucards Foot-long 454 casull automatic and 13 mm, but they look so cool you just dont care. And Victoria's 30mm rifle just makes you drool with envy. Trigun is ........... interesting though mostly eye candy. (Look for a cross heavily inspired by the movie Desperado)

Live action movies I would definitely agree with Quigley Down under. (ahhh Magnum PI, good times) AirWolf was cool too, the few times I remember Hawke outside the copter, he used a 1911 pretty accurately. Unfortunately all movies have at least one minor mistake since they are on a budget of time and money so don't be too picky folks. Movies are hard to make.

 

[Flashpoint]

I think the most realistic thing I've seen

is how the bullet makes, in Gene Hackman, such a clean hole that the sun shine through it. That awsome scene can be found in the Quick and the Dead.

 

[moa]

I was really impressed with the combat scenes from Band of Brothers. As good if not better than Saving Private Ryan of Blackhawk Down.

High Noon, the western was not bad realistically for a 1950s movie. Actually had one bad guy reloading his six-gun. Only problem is that I do not remember him first removing the spent cartridge cases one-by-one.

 

[BerettaNut92]

Hard Boiled
The Killer
A Better Tomorrow

 

[Captain Scarlet]

TAXI DRIVER w/Roberto Deniro!

HEAT, DIRTY HARRY, THE ENFORCER, MAGNUM FORCE!!!!!!

 

[Matthew_Q]

Ronin was pretty good... I cheered when DeNiro said "a 1911 will do for me"

I haven't seen Way of the Gun, but now it's on my list of TO SEE movies.

Saving Private Ryan was pretty good.... Ryan asking for a bandoleer, Melloche in the house with the other guy and the .30 suggesting they check the headspace. The only part I didn't like is the M1s total lack of kick, and the put put put put sound when they fired it.

 

[Ledbetter]

I always say the same thing.

Something different: Ghost Dog, with Forrest Whittaker, directed by Jim Jarmusch. A hit man who actually cleans his suppressor.

 

[Nightcrawler]

Pulp Fiction. The gun HANDLING was terrible (and the expected results of this happened when John Travolta had an ND and shot that dude in the face; shouldn't have been waving his gun around with the finger on the trigger). But the guns were portrayed rather realistically in terms of function and sound.

Heck, that movie that the most realistic sounding suppressor (on a MAC 10) that I've ever heard. I've heard that Quentin Terantino is a big gun geek, too.

 

[Russ]

Phantom Warrier,

I too love the Matrix. Can't wait for Reloaded to get here. Been a long long wait. I have probably seen the Matrix 30 times. Great flick. Hope the sequels are half as good.

Russ

 

[twoblink]

Equilibrium!!

Oh wait.. realisitc..

Heat gets my vote..

 

[Admiral Thrawn]

That guy, Quentin Terantino, is sooo eccentric.

Ahh well, he makes good movies, so what the hell... lol

 

[John G]

Dead Man, directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Cool western, with lots of realistic gunplay. People miss, or freeze during a shoot-out. Gunshot wounds bleed, and the fights are ugly. Very cool.

 

[Art Eatman]

Dunno 'bout "best", but "Thief" with James Caan had some of the most realistic pistol-handling I've seen.

This was back in the earlier days of IPSC, before race guns and "gaminess". The movie credited some IPSC/Steel Challenge guys as advisors. (International Shootists, Inc.? Can't pull the names from the Steel Challenge. ) I disremember who made the custom 1911s for the flick.

Stuff like low-Weaver in search mode, straight out of Gunsite. None of the "Harsky and Stutch" nonsense.

Art

 

[Frohickey]

Unforgiven, Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) didn't shoot anyone. It was Mr. William Munny, killer of women and children, that gutshot that cowboy.

 

[Hardtarget]

My three favorites: Josey Wales, Unforgiven (ever notice there seems to be no good guys in this one?), and The wind and the Lion ( great start up). I've seen some great movies listed, so I'm making plans to re-watch several over the next few weeks.
Mark.

 

[priv8ter]

Unforgiven

No...I'm pretty sure Morgan Freeman's charecter gut shot him, then couldn't pull the trigger again...and then Clint's charecter, whose killed one of everything that every walked or crawled, couldn't hit him either...

I could be wrong, but I'm willing to bet a soda!

Greg

 

[John G]

I think Freeman couldn't pull the trigger, so Clint had to take the rifle, and did the gut-shooting.

 

[Dean Speir]

Always a good subject matter…

 

Best gun flicks? As good as The Way of the Gun and Heat were, you gotta go back to an earlier Michael Mann film, 1981's Thief with James Caan and a Hoag longslide with S&W K-frame sights (that was the hot IPSC set-up of the day)… Caan executes the all-time best (and probably very first) press-check ever seen on the big screen, and only makes one flub, an extraneous wrist flip while making a reload during the final firefight as Dennis Farina is charging across the brains heavy's lawn, firing a High Standard Model 10 (bullpup) shotgun at him.

I agree that the gun stuff in LA Confidential was top notch, but then the gun wrangler/armorer was the great Thell Reed, one of the original, along with Jeff Cooper, Jack Weaver, John Plein, Eldon Carl and Ray Chapman, Big Bear "Leather-slappers." (Check out Reed's film credits sometime!)

Caan's instructor for Thief was one Galen D. "Chuck" Taylor during the time he was Jeff's D.Ops at API. Despite several mentions of Cooper on the DVD edition's SAP, Caan never attended Gunsite; Taylor did it as a private commission since Jeff declined to participate in the movie project, reasoning that an ex-con/career criminal like "Frank" would have had no exposure to the Modern Technique.

I must concur with priv8ter that Unforgiven was excellent in this respect:

1. A very strong Second Amendment statment is made when Sheriff Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman) demands that English Bob (Richard Harris) disarm in order to comply with a municipal ordnance, right down to "that little hide-out gun you keep." Bob does so reluctantly, saying "Would you disarm me in the face of my enemies?" As soon as he gives up that last little gun, Bill Daggett, with his deputies by him, administers a vicious beating to the unarmed visitor.
   
2. In the final saloon shoot-out, Eastwood's William Munny faces a superior force of numbers who lose their individual and collective composures the minute the first shot is fired. They are diving and scrambling and throwing lead all over the place, while our protagonist calmly stands there, takes his time and makes every one of his revolver's shots count.

A great movie!

 

 

[one-shot-one]

BEST EASTWOOD, (CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME) HE IS WALKING DOWN THE STREET SHOOTING GUYS, STOPS REMOVES THE CYLINDER FROM HIS SA. AND REPLACES IT WITH A PRELOADED SECOND CYL. AND CONTINUES KILLING.
BEST MODERN (NOT REALISTIC BUT GREAT TO WATCH) TRUE LIES.

 

[Ledbetter]

Thank you guys

for giving me an excuse to rent Unforgiven.

I'm gonna see that other Jim Jarmusch film too.

 

[JJohnston015]

"Ronin" may have had realistic gunplay, except for the "teflon-coated bullet" scene, but for pure Hollywood fantasy, the car chase scenes should have won an Oscar.

90 mph through narrow European streets, no cars pulling out in front of them, no car doors opening, etc.? Please.

 

[Penforhire]

That Audi's perfect four wheel drift around the traffic circle still gives me goosebumps.

 

[Thumper]

Ronin, heat, Way of the Gun...I agree on all.

Just jumped into the thread to give Red Dawn a little love.

 

[adobewalls]

One-shot-one, I think the movie title you refer to is Eastwood's "Pale Rider".

One more vote for "Unforgiven", at least in the westen genre - it has the story, characters (William Muny, Little Bill and English Bob) and the hardware.

I also liked the original spagetti western, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."