WORST gunfights in movies

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I think Last Man Standing is the best movie Bruce Willis ever made, even if you can't actually levitate bad guys into the air with a pair of Colt Gubmints!

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The worst: Swordfish. John Travolta standing up in a moving car with some kind of cute toy, maybe Tec-9's, one in each hand blazing away. He must fire off 10,000 rounds without reloading, no recoil, never looses his balance. :p My favorite scene is Charlie Sheen in Hot Shots sinking his boat with spent caseings as he fires off a million rounds. That whole movie makes my laugh till I cry and I have seen it a dozen times...Pitiful life, ain't it?:D
 
"The Quick and the Dead" is dumb and entertaining. It's not supposed to be realistic in the first place. To put it in context, Director Sam Raimi is the guy who made live-action cartoons like "The Evil Dead II", "Army of Darkness", and "Xena". It's just supposed to be amusing mayhem, logic be damned.

BTW, "Evil Dead II" has the best fight scene ever filmed that only involves one combatant.
 
Yeah the ending of Heat was contrived. Very much so, though the rest of the movie was great.

Worst ever? I'm thinking King Solomon's Mines (with Sharon Stone and Richard Chamberlain) or just about every western where the guy shoots form the hip to hill the guy in the clocktower that invariably falls forward , through the inexplicably rickety railing to sawn dive into a horse trough.

There are so many that are bad, it's far easier to count the good ones.
 
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Two sides battling it out with guns, thousands of rounds a minute, and not one person hit! Same goes for the A-Team.
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Some years ago, I came across a newspaper article about a gunfight between a drug gang and Egyptian police/military. There were approximately 2500 "members of the service" against about 1000 druggies, and both sides had automatic weapons. The firefight lasted over 8 hours. Over ten thousand rounds of ammo were expended.

No one was hurt! :what:

(I don't know whether to laugh or cry.)
 
I must be very weird because I like The Quick and the Dead and Last Man Standing. Both are such over-the-top homages to their respective genre archetypes, done clearly with a wink and a nod, that I can't help but find enjoyment in them.
 
'The Trigger Effect.' Basically, there's a power outage, and the movie beats you over the head with the message that 'guns are bad' over and over and over again.
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Kind of funny. My wife and I saw that years ago and we both took from it that "guns are good".

I think it helped both her and I realize how quickly our society could break down. Just imagine loss of electricity, t.v., radio and phone lines for more than a few hours in a big city.

From what I recall, pretty stupid people doing some pretty stupid gun handling though.
 
Was it "Face Off" with Travolta and Cage? They are running parallel to each other blasting away at each other through a long glass wall or screen or something.
 
IMO, all of those Commando/Rambo/Braddock-type one man with a machinegun vs. 25/50/100/200 enemy solidiers and comes out on top gunfirghts.
 
I can't believe no one here has mentioned "COMMANDO" with Arnold Swartzinagger! Where he goes to an Island populated with 300-400 badguys and mows them all down single handedly using a combination of an M60, M16, Shotgun, 1911, and a variety of garden tools (when he enters the shed)!

It's a great popcorn movie but has no realism whatsoever.
 
How about Antonio Banderas in "Desperado"?

There must have been 3 or 4 gunfights in that movie that were totally Hollywood.

How about the two brothers with the full-auto guitar cases or the bar scene earlier in the movie where he keeps going back to his suitcase for reloads and more guns....
 
I can't believe no one here has mentioned "COMMANDO" with Arnold Swartzinagger!
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I beg your pardon! When that grittily realistic portayal of spec-ops type action came out, no less a professional journal of high speed/low drag operators than "Soldier of Fortune" did a cover article on it. Now, everybody knows that if SOF covers it, that it's no BS.
 
Gotta love Jesse and the minigun...

Then there's the Starship Troopers dealie - you've got an advanced military, but no big ol' crew served weapons to counter the waves of bugs?

In John Woo movies, I always gotta look for the flying pigeons/doves/whatever...
 
Quick & the Dead

The most ridiculous thing I think I saw was when Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone squared off at high noon, they both slapped leather and Sharon Stone was hit. Gene Hackman was looking rather smug until he looked down at the ground and saw a .45 caliber spot of sunlight in his shadow... at noon?
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I thought that scene occurred at dawn as the final gunfight was supposed to be Hackman vs. Crowe.

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3000 Miles to Graceland

both the casino shootout and the end battle between the elvis prodigy and the swat team. the guy hanging upside down (was that Ice-T?) with a full auto in each hand twirling around spraying everyone.
 
The A-Team certainly makes the list. Their gun fights featured hundreds of rounds being fired, and no one ever got hit during the entire series!

But they were using Mini-14's, so maybe its not that unrealistic....(jk!).

I always said that show had "non-violent violence".
 
Hey! I like Commando. And at least in Desperado Antoni B. is always running out of ammo and needing to reload. Not the guitar cases, that's another story. No one has mentioned Die Hard yet, so I guess I'll throw that in for pretty bad gunfights. And I've come to associate certain actors to bad gun handling/shootouts in movies: Russle Crowe (better with swords in hand), Mel Gibson (again better with swords in hand except for We Were Soldiers), and last Bruce Willis. Some would say that Arnold should be on that list too, but he's ARNOLD! Anyone care to add to that list?

But we all have to remember that if gunfights in movies were portrayed how they would really happen, then no one would go and see movies like that.
 
"The Gauntlet"...forgive me Clint. As Eastwood is driving the bus thru downtown Phoenix with SWAT- types all over firing from both sides of the street, I can't help but think there just may be some friendly fire casualties. Talk about a dangerous crossfire:uhoh:
 
I love it in Commando when Arnold is firing the M203 and bg's are flying through the air. You can actually see the spring boards the bg's are getting launched from!
 
Heck, even the great movies screw it up.

Was just watching the classic Western "Highnoon" starring Gary Cooper. Excellent story, actors, direction and action. But the big gun fight at end was sort of unrealistic because everybody who got shot (except Cooper) dies instantaneously.

Of course, the movie was made in 1952, and apparenlty directors were not much into realistic violence back then.

However, the movies was partially realistic because it showed Cooper and the bad guys actually reloading their six guns during the shootout.
 
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