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

[berettashotgun]

Clint Eastwood owns this category

Where have you guys been? The Good,bad,& ugly scene where they were in the graveyard was pretty cool, and the bar scene in the "Unforgiven" when Clint said" Well, he shoulda' armed himself if he's gonna decorate the front of his store with my friend."

 

[22luvr]

Predator....

For sheer firepower, the first Predator movie was hard to beat, especially the scene where all of them simply clear a gaping hole in the jungle and Jesse Ventura is blazing away with that hand-held gatling gun. Far-fetched for sure but impressive.

 

[db_tanker]

Only one person...ONE person....mentioned Road to Perdition.....


Who can deny the classic sound and effect of a true Chicago Typewriter mixed with 1911's?

Paul Newman...Tom Hanks...Jude Law...three generations of damn good actors right there....plus a heckuva lot of good support.


Most of the John Woo/Chou Yun Fat combos are worth the price of admission.

No one mentioned any Death Wish movies? lol
No mention of Dusk till Dawn...hee hee...

Darrell

 

[Feanaro]

I have not, sadly, seen Heat. I'll look into it sometime. I liked the "that my briefcase?" scene in Collateral. The only good(hell, great) CC fight I've seen in a movie. Ronin deserves mentioning, mostly for the car ambush. Decent fight from a realism POV. I really liked the kidnapping scene in Man on Fire. The whole movie was great, especially the guns. For once it felt like the "mysterious ex SF dude" might actually have been one. It missed a beat here and there(The primer on the "dead" round looked FIRED to me. I've seen dimples before, it looked too deep) but it made up for it.

 

[DigMe]

The new Assault on Prec 13. It was a cheasy though how everytime a gun got handed to someone they racked the slide.

That's pretty much keeping in character with the original Assault on Prec. 13, which had some hilariously wacky gun play. Like guys shooting multiple shots from pumps and bolt-actions without working the action. Awesome...

Only one person...ONE person....mentioned Road to Perdition.....

Because it was FULL of technical flubs. Such as shooting a 1911 with the slide locked back.

brad cook

 

[Tinker]

Best "Hollywood" shoot-em-up scene? John Wayne, reigns in his mouth and guns a'blazing at the bad guys. How cool is that?

Best "probably realistic Hollywood" fire fight scenes? That's a toss-up with me. It would be "Band of Brothers", "Saving Private Ryan" or a low budget Viet Nam film I saw called "84 Charlie Mo-Pic".

One of my most favorite is called "Miller's Crossing". There's a scene where a rival mob gang tries to get the drop on an old mobster at his house. The old man "breaks bad" on them, killing them all. After it's over, he's standing there in the street in his pajamas, sporting a smoking Tommy gun and a slight grin. That scene might rival Rooster Cogburn's.

 

[Mongo the Mutterer]

DB Tanker -- Absolutely correct. Road to Perdition is one of my favorite movies, and one I think HWood completely overlooked.

Tom Hanks and Jude Law are superb.

 

[kjaniak]

I thought some of the scenes in The Wild Geese were fairly good.

 

[akanotken]

I too like the Predator scene ...

How many goveners does it take to make a good movie anyway?

Wife watched that one the other night with me. She does not see the need for the mini gun as a lawnmowing impliment.

Haven't seen Heat for years, but I think I'll have to go out and get a copy to see again, (and again, and again).

Saving Pvt Ryan REALLY needs to be seen in surround sound, I remember ducking in the theater as bullets whized back and forth.

There's lots of good stuff here, I'll go and try a few of the ones I hadn't seen.

 

[DigMe]

DB Tanker -- Absolutely correct. Road to Perdition is one of my favorite movies, and one I think HWood completely overlooked.

I liked it too but again, we're not talking quality of movie, we're talking quality of gunfights and Road to Perdition had some silly gun moments.

brad cook

 

[thereisnospoon]

Hmmmmm....

WOW

I agree with most of the picks, but two very awesome movies have been opverlooked IM(NS)HO:

Patriot - Any movie where a man arms his male children in defense of family and property gts my vote, but this was VWEY WELL DONE!

Tears of the Sun - Opening scene shows real footage of a man being gunned down by a trooper w/ an FAL. Turned my stomach the first time I saw it, it was soooooo real. In addition, most of the scenes are well done including the raid into the village being massacred and the jungle counter attack where the SEAL Team charges to protect their "refugees". AWESOME

As previously stated:
HEAT-Run and Gun
COLLATERAL-Best IDPA/CCW scene ever in a movie
HARD BOILED- or anything directed by John Woo starring Chow Yun Fat

Just my $0.02

 

[CAS700850]

Okay folks, I cannot believe that no one has mentioned The Untouchables yet. Come on, the scene in the starcase? The gunfight at the Canadian border? Yeah, it's got Kevin Costner, but we can overlook that.

And who among us wouldn't love top have that sweet little sawed off that Sean Connery has in his hands when he gets cut down by the Thompson.

 

[TonyB]

EricO..to live and die in LA....was that with William Peterson??If it was..it's actually the movie that coined the phrase"make my day" before Clint ever said it....Peterson says it while holding a small snubby to some guys head...pretty sure it was that movie..is it a Michael Mann too??need to rent it again...
best movie shoot outs IMO....
Outlaw Josie Whales...at the end when he runs out of ammo....
Pale Rider....switching cylinders in his SA
The Way of the gun....Caan's snubby work and the reloads
Deer hunter...the Russian Rhoulette scene gives me chills to this day.....
there are many more too......

 

[Johnpl]

"Pale Rider" starring Clint Eastwood.
"The Sand Pebbles" starring Steve McQueen...every time I watch it I think Jake is going to make it home this time...

 

[Texshooter]

Blockbusters sure is gonna be happy someone started this thread

And oh yeah, Sam Elliott in We Were Soldiers.

Looks like Heat is gonna run away with it.

 

[db_tanker]

Okay...everyone is picking my movie choice apart.....


So I come up with this one...because NO ONE said it yet....


Dogs of War....

Christopher Walken....nuff said....

Even had Ed O'Neill in it. When you have Al Bundy in the movie...its going to be good.


Darrell

 

[Missourigunner]

Best Movie shootout of all times

"Heat"
44 Minutes
We were Soldiers
S.W.A.T
Lethal Weapon Series

 

[Rickstir]

True Grit has another neat scene. In the old line shack before Lucky Ned Pepper shows up. The bad guy cuts off the others fingers and stabs him. Rooster shoots the first guy and tells the second guy "You partner has killed you and I have him." Don't think they ever ate that turkey!

 

[TonkinTwentyMil]

HEAT, by a mile

HEAT wins it for me.

It's pretty technically authentic (for Hollywood) and represents director Michael Mann's best work (although COLLATERAL and THIEF -- along with some of his old MIAMI VICE TV shows -- had some well-done scenes to go with those movies' gritty, anti-BlissNinny tone).

I think the thing that elevates HEAT is that it's a real running gun-battle, not just a static shoot-out... with both good-guys and bad-guys going down. Additionally, the whole bank-robbery sequence is "organic" in that it just flows naturally from story elements that build-up to this eruption of action. It's not a contrived excuse for an "action whammy" as so many action flicks are filled with.

Beyond that, HEAT's big bank-robbery shoot-out rang my bell because I spent 5 years working in office buildings right there... at the intersection of 6th and Flower in L.A... and walked that concrete/tarmac daily.

SCARFACE (the one with Al Pacino) has its moments (the finale), and THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS and THE PROFESSIONAL are pretty slick, too.

A SUGGESTION: Anyone interested in starting a similar thread for THE WORST movie gun-play? There's so much gun-dumb cinematic material to cover here, it's hard to know where to start -- but I'd point out the scene in THELMA & LOUISE... where the girls blow-up a tanker rig with a few shots from their .38 and .45 ACP. (Right. Hey, guess what: it IS a ChickFlick. Maybe that's why, as per other threads here, so many women hate/fear guns. Indoctrination...)

 

[ALASKACAJUN]

SCARFACE

" Say Hello to my Little Friend..."

 

[Silver Bullet]

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the "Yo homie!" scene from Collateral

Well, I was going to mention it !

The club shootout scene from that movie is cool too.

It is !

They weren’t prolonged (especially homie), but I thought the shooting technique looked extremely well done. And, that club scene (not the one where the jazz player gets shot) had a terrific ferocity to it.

Strangely, the ending was unsatisfactory even though the good guy kills the bad guy. I think the bad guy could have lost in a more convincing fashion, not being gunned down by an amateur.

 

[Feanaro]

Strangely, the ending was unsatisfactory even though the good guy kills the bad guy. I think the bad guy could have lost in a more convincing fashion, not being gunned down by an amateur.

That was the only thing that bugged me. I sat there wondering how, exactly, a guy like Vincent was beaten by someone who has seemingly never touched a gun before. Vinc was injured, sure, but he seemed to function just fine. And one might assume that he has been so injured before. I think the script writer could have been far more creative.

 

[Faithless]

Off the top of my head right now...

Heat - For all the reasons mentioned
Desperado - For cartoony gunplay. Rocket launching guitar cases anyone?
Battle Royale - Because sometimes you need the Japanese to go further for you
The Matrix - The Lobby scene
Lock, Stock and Two smoking barrels - Slo-mo Bren gun action

 

[unclestu]

In no particular order:
Heat
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Quigley
Wild Bunch(my personal favorite)
The Long Riders(Cole Younger really did ride back for his brother in Northfield, MN, got him out, & picked up 10 or 12 bullet wounds. Keep that in mind next time you see it. )
True Grit
The Shootist
The Professionals(the old one w/Lee Marvin)

Most of the others mentioned on this thread, there are several I haven't seen. Gotta rent Open Range!

And I can't believe no one's mentioned this one:
(*drum roll*):
L. A. Confidential: especially near the end w/Russell Crowe & whats-his name("Shotgun Ed")holed up in the abandoned shack.

 

[CAPTAIN MIKE]

My Choices

# 1 - Heat
# 2 - Terminator 2
# 3 - Triple X - State of the Union