Tell me, what was the best movie shoot out of all time?

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Battle Royale?? I loved the movie so much I put it on my site! :D

Gun Battles??

hmmmm to many to name!!! ..... in no order

Way of the Gun
Hardboiled (Venom's dude with the Mac in the Warehouse scene and the final 15 min shootout are priceless!!)
Battle Royale...a masterpiece!
The Killer...watching this will show ya how far John Woo has fallen!
Broken Arrow
Face Off
Wild Bunch
Heat
Dog Soldiers (initial gunfight at the house)
Last Man Standing
 
I like the scene in Blackhawk Down where the two guys volunteer to go protect the downed pilot, taking on the crowd of several hundred. Those guys had some big brass ones.

FWIW, I was watching Heat once with a bunch of SEALs. They kept pausing and rewinding and talking about how reallistic the fire and movement and use of cover was. To be honest, I always just thought it was a neat shooting scene, but to hear all the pros analyzing it from a technical perspective was pretty neat.

And I'm sure it doesn't count as a shootout scene, since no one is shooting back, but when the Ghostbusters zap Slimer that was a pretty good shootnig scene :D
 
Won't say best

I hardly ever watch movies, but back in my (distant) youth there was a scene in a Wyatt Earp series show where Doc Holliday killed a BG, hiding behind a rock by advancing to the rock and shooting, repeatedly, with his scattergun at a slanted overhang above the BG and killing him with the ricochets.
 
My vote goes to the final battle sequence in Saving Private Ryan.

Two scenes stand out:

Tom Sizemore's character and a German soldier have simultaneous weapons failures, so they throw their helmets at each other.

The aforementioned scene in which Tom Hanks empties his M1911 at a Tiger.
 
Yea 3000 miles from graceland, that was it. Total hollywood, but ok to see. Lots of bang bangs.

But Unforgiven has so much to it to like, it's not JUST about shooting, it's also about living between shootings! I like when he decides to practice with his pistol and can't hit the can, so he gets the shotgun:) Also where they shoot a man on the toilet is more realistic than most gunfights you see, and how they felt afterwards, it was really deep.

Come to think of it, it's kind of like the Iliad when they're going to kill the guy, and the Odessy afterwards.
 
???

i agree open range was good but nobody liked scare face were al pichino and his rivles shoot up the entry way to his mansion?
 
Did anyone see Man on Fire?I think the scene where the little girl was kidnapped was pretty good.

Id also have to nominate the Desparado/Once Upon a Time in Mexico movies as having some of the worst shoot outs in terms of realism(the market place shootout in OUATIM has him fire a double barrel shotgun 19 times w/o reloading, not to mention everyone of the shots sends people flying in the air.)
 
For prolonged shooting : Heat, of course.

For personal amusement? Firefly pilot episode. When the fed narc has a gun to the girl's head and Mal shoots the narc in the head. No fus, no drama, no prolonged threats/retorts, no witty comments. Shoot, shovel (well, toss out of the ship) and shuddup.

Not directly involving guns (but shortly after an impressive firefight), when Mal has a big evil guy on his knees and is offering the guy back his money.

"We're not thieves. Well, we are. Anyways, we don't want to take your money. Tell him we'll stay out of his way. It's best for everyone."
"Keep your money. Use it to buy a nice funeral. Wherever you go, I will follow. The last thing you see will be my blade..."
"Darn."

Punts the guy into the engine. I replayed it a dozen times, laughing hysterically.

Entertainment : Equilibrium
 
No fus, no drama, no prolonged threats/retorts, no witty comments. Shoot, shovel (well, toss out of the ship) and shuddup.
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Reminds me of the end of "Enemy at the Gates". You're expecting some banter, or any dialogue for that matter. Silence, then BANG.
 
the 80s TV show "Sledgehammer" (just kidding)

how bout _last of the mohicans_ ?



on a slightly different topic... how bout rephrasing the question to:

"What otherwise pretty cool movies would be upgraded to excellent if the shooting scenes were just a little more realistic?"

I'm thinking

_Ronin_
that bridget fonda remake of _la femme nakita_ that i can't remember the name of
 
I thought one of the best single shots ever fired in a movie was 'shot' by the character played by Slim Pickins in Dr. Strangelove. Actulally it wasn't a gun shot at all, but when he kicked that nuke out of the bomber and then rode it down - what a man, what a patriot!
 
I like the scene in Blackhawk Down where the two guys volunteer to go protect the downed pilot, taking on the crowd of several hundred. Those guys had some big brass ones.
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That wasn't a scene, that really happened. They got the Medal of Honor for that. (Just in case you didn't know, some don't know that that is a true story)

My vote still goes for Quigley, but watching 3000 Miles to Graceland, if you are into SBR MG's with Beta C mags, it is an awesome movie. Captures the muzzle flash well in slow-mo, as well as flames coming out the ejection port when brass is being spit out.

I'll throw in a vote too for the pistol failure in Saving Private Ryan. And the whole movie.

Suprised no one mentioned We Were Soldiers. Great gunfighting scenes in there.
 
Jefnvk beat me to the thing about Shughart and Gordon.

To put it in perspective (since alot of people don't realize what an honor it is to recieve the Medal of Honor), they were the first two to receive the medal in twenty years, and no one else has received the medal until last month (10 years) when Paul Smith received it. So in a thirty year period with countless conflicts going on (Grenada, Gulf War I, Afghanistan, Bosnia, etc.), three people got it.

All three of the last people to be awarded the MOH recieved it posthumously.
 
How about Bruce Willis in "Last Man Standing" for comedy relief. Fires about 150 rounds through 2 1911's and THEN drops the mags.
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I once watched this movie solely to count rounds fired between reloads. If you assume that they don't show every reload, the only possible error is near the end prior to Willis ascending the staircase, it sounded like he fired about 16 rounds. Two 1911s are capable of that, even back then, but it wasn't the first two mags he started with so it is dubious. (I am gonna go watch it again to see if he unloads 2 full mags prior to that.)

There is no "150 rounds before reloading" scene, and it shows him loading a dresser-top full of mags prior to one of the gunfights. So they weren't typically clueless to the issue of reloading.

Now the issue of knockdown was greatly exaggerated in that film.

I can't believe I forgot 3000 Miles to Graceland.

What did y'all think of Road to Perdition?

Point of No Return was the Nikita remake. Jean Reno from Leon and Ronin played the role of the cleaner, (Keitel's role in the remake.)

We could start a whole seperate category for "Best Stoic Last Stand." Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan is good, Queen Latifah in Set it Off isn't bad, Costner in 3000 Miles to Graceland is great, but Al Pacino takes the cake for that in Scarface. (The aforementioned Cagney "top of the world" scene is up there too.)
 
Haven't seen Heat, despite repeated glowing reviews from folks on this board. Guess I'd better get to it, huh?

Lots of good ones already mentioned. Let me add another for consideration: the final showdown in the saloon in "The Shootist" with John Wayne.
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I'll second that. Definitely on the list of nominees.
Let's see, the river scene in Tombstone, yep. Kurt Russell wading across, screaming, "NO!", while dropping bad guys. Great stuff.
For pure over the top mayhem, I'd have to say it's the final gunfight in True Romance.
 
Ya know, HEAT will be the best shootout scene. I do agree with many... the choreographing of the scene was very well done, great weapons tactics.

But for me, the main reason was it "felt real." You could HEAR the gunshots echoing through the buildings. that did it for me. It didn't sound like cap guns. It sounded REAL.



Black Hawk Down is my 2nd favorite movie. Again great one big ass long shootout with great weapons tactics, great choreography, and told a fantastic story. I was rootin' Shughart and Gordy as they were cappin' the skinny's! :D
 
I like my action portrayed as realistically as possible. So....
Heat
The Way of the Gun
Collateral
and one not mentioned here yet...To Live or Die in LA
*This movie featured some raw, quick and brutal action similar to Collateral.

EricO
 
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