Ok, what is the WORST movie shootout of all time?

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After seeing many threads about good movie shootouts (Heat and The Way of the Gun), what qualifies for the title of worst shootout. Technical issues and just plain crappiness are the determining factors here.
 
Ok :rolleyes: how about anything from an A-Team television episode. :p
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....sorry, had to do it!
 
It wasn't a shootout but how about Mel Gibson in the scene at the range in Lethal Weapon where he has a MAJOR eye blink/flinch on EVERY SHOT and pulls back a target with a bullet hole Smilie on it? :rolleyes:
 
Bruce Willis -- "Last Man Standing" -- in two scenes he shoots about 50+ rounds from two 1911's, and THEN drops the Mags. Pretty much the worst.

One I found interesting is "Man on Fire" -- Denzel Washington attempts suicide with a Glock 17, the primer fails, he ejects the cartridge, and there is a dimple in the primer, rather than the rectangular hit the Glock striker makes on a primer. I love the movie, BTW. There is one other silly Hollywood effect later, Glock slide locked open when one round is fired after the clip was ejected.
 
I forget the name of it the flick, but it was a mid 90's western of sorts. Had Emelio Estevez. Not Young Guns was it? Well, he had a couple'o six guns (SAA's?) and he must have fired 200 rounds out of them without reloading.
 
Clearly, none of you have seen, "I'm gonna get you, Sucka!" I especially liked the scene where the heros are loading up with an absurd number of guns, and one of them trips going out the door. He bounced around for a good 40 seconds as the guns discharged... :evil:
 
"Once Upon A Time in Mexico"..........with pukes Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp. This was basically "Desparado" part II (with Selma Hayek as well)

Yikes :what:

The entire movie was gun fight after gun fight, which would have been a very good movie.............but................the content of those gun fights pretty much had a Quentin Tarantino weird/unrealistic effect such as getting shot with a revolver and being blown 60 feet across the floor after sparks flew from the guy's chest.

Probably was all done on purpose for a certain feel, but it ended up being a pretty b rated, cheesy flick. Someone gave me the dvd to borrow (I would never spend hard earned money on either of those two dolts' movies) and I pretty much had to struggle to sit through the whole thing.

Also, I was APALLED last week to watch the Jack Bauer Power Hour and see that an agent appeared to be using a Glock and when threatening a bad guy, he COCKED THE HAMMER BACK ON THE GLOCK TO SCARE THE GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :what: It was very disappointing since I usually enjoy watching the show.
 
The special extra in "I'm gonna get you Sucka!" was the guy who tripped, fell, and had 18 guns go off on him, was every one of them was a revolver....
 
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two handguns (a 1911 and I think a Sig) with the sound effects of a full automatic, and no reloads. :cuss:
 
"Once Upon A Time in Mexico"..........with pukes Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp. This was basically "Desparado" part II
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Actually more like El Mariachi part 3, and Desperado was El Mariachi part 2.

And yes the overblown effects are purely intentional.

I don't get all the harping on Last Man Standing and Val kilmer in Heat. Do we need to be spoonfed our reloads? Any pause of more than a second or two could be considered a reload. Does the director really need to show us every reload? Both Heat and LMS showed the shooters in posession of a lot of magazines, so that tells me they were reloading, not shooting from a magical infinite mag.

For me the worst shoots would have to be Predator, Chuck Norris's Invasion USA, (Multi-use LAW rocket launcher?) or any number of forgetable Martial Arts movies. Seagal's films slide in and out of realism, and Van Damme's are a total circus.
 
Gotta agree about reloads, on semi's at least. Wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am and you're reloaded. I always just assign any gaps to reloading then I don't have to think about those "50 rnds". Now on wheel guns it's a little tougher. If it's an SAA it's real tough. That two second pause just don't cut it. :D
 
Hey, at least Top Secret had the best opening theme song and film clips! :neener:

I saw the worst movie shootout when I was on the road watching HBO or Showtime or something in the hotel. It was some sort of blackploitation movie, and it got my attention initially as I was channel surfing because as one guy was hiding around a corner, his opponent saw the toe of his shoe was still sticking out - so he shot it! :D

So I kept watching, and in a little while two black guys face off in some pretty big room, maybe 40 or 50 feet away from each other, and commence shooting at one another.

And shooting . . . and shooting.

Each one was dancing around and dodging bullets, and their dancing became more athletic, until they were doing somersaults and one-handed handstands, waving their legs in the air, while using the other hand to point and shoot.
 
I hate to say this, but go to your dvd/vcr and slow-mo the scene in the original Star Wars where Han is in a shootout with the stormtroopers in front of the Falcon right before they take off from Mos Eisely spaceport.

Watch Han's "rubber slinky" wrist- it has to be seen to be believed! :what:

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Not really a shootout, per se, but the horrible scene in "The Gauntlet" where ol' Clint is driving an armored Greyhound slowly down a street while several police departments are pumping everything they have into it.... about 300 officers facing each other across a street, and no one gets winged in the crossfire? :cool:
 
I was flipping through hbo yesterday and saw some movie w/ Jim Belushi...he fired 10 rounds from an old s/w mod.10......I just kept flipping...... :confused:
 
Good I saw some reference to "24".

That Jack Bauer...

Going in for an assault with only a handgun...
Dropping a BG from 150 yrds with a handgun...
etc,etc.

Has anyone thought that this Bauer dude is just bad luck? Assassinate him and the show. :barf: I watch it every week though, never miss it. :banghead:
 
Anything with Chuck Norris. I think it was Invasion USA where he had a M-16 A-2 with a mounted 203 on the bottom. He was pulling the trigger on the rifle and the 203 would go off. There was one scene where he fired 5 or 6 rounds in semi auto.
 
Oh! Oh! I just thought of another one. How about any of hte Rambo movies? ;) Oh wait, those go into the other thread about the best shoot outs :cool: LOL
 
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