Greatest movie gunfights of all time.

Johnny To did a film I saw last year, "Breaking News" I believe it was called. The opening scene was the opening SHOT - what seemed like at least ten minutes, and involved a gun fight, explosions, etc. Again, don't know about the best of all time, but really top knotch stuff...
 
Just thought of another... How about the resturant scene in "Le Fem Nikita" (the original movie, not the one with Bridget Fonda or the TV show). The bullet pov shot was cool.
 
As much as I don't like Stallone, the shoot out at the motel in Cobra is still pretty cool. It's the highlight of a the film, and shows a classic western shoot out in modern (1986) times.

Rob
 
battle royale kicks ass. i'm looking forward to the sequel. the teahcer, btw, is takeshi kitano, to whom super trooper rightly gave mad props. dude's a genius. everyone should see "fireworks." not really a huge gunfighting movie, but awesome. kitano punctuates the pensive, lyrical style of traditional japanese cinema with these awesome explosions of violence.

replacement killers is a 2nd rate woo rip off. i mean, everybody rips off woo, tarantino probably does it the best- at least with reservoir dogs he sort of re-contextualizes woo into his own world. the hack who did replacement killers is so brazen as to rip off woo in a movie starring chow yun fat, woo's "deniro." i'm pretty sure that flick was directed by one of those ex commercial/music video-turned-feature guys, the overwhelming majority of whom couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the sole. i give props to gondry and jones, and i'm willing to take fincher into consideration, (though i think he's overrated.) but the rest of em, come on? i mean McG? McPuke.

one of the best new york gangster type movies, which i think is strangely underrated, is king of new york. chris walken, larry fishburne, wesley snipes and david caruso get involved in some very heavy gun action. and it delivers the satisfaction of showing caruso get his brain exploded by shotgun at close range. every time i watch that wooden, no-acting sucker awkwardly intone his way through another episode of csi miami, i just need to think of that scene and everything is ok.
 
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For realistic value, Saving Private Ryan has got to be the top choice in my book. Then HEAT, then I would have to think because they all kinda blend together. Those two reach a new level.
Believe it or not, that TV movie about the California Bank Robbery (can't remember the name) was actually not bad either. Most gunfights are short, these give the eye so much to see, you end up rewinding it just to see them again. If your gonna use weapons, then use them!
 
I have one question, when did movie heros become such shi**y shots. Seems since we got rid of six-shooters, nobody can hit sh*t. Look at movies today, that shot up a lot of scenary with their auto loaders, but don't hit anyting. What's up with that?
 
Rosestar said:
I have one question, when did movie heros become such shi**y shots. Seems since we got rid of six-shooters, nobody can hit sh*t. Look at movies today, that shot up a lot of scenary with their auto loaders, but don't hit anyting. What's up with that?
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Good point- I don't think Clint Eastwood ever missed a shot in any of his movies....
ok, maybe a couple here and there but not a whole clip like the current movies.
 
I swear, what about John Wayne with the "shot the gun outta the bad guys hand" move? Come on a hundred and two years of movie gunfire and we can't shoot straight anymore? Dang it!
 
A lot of great ones have been named, but I have to go old school with one of my sentimental favorites, "Shane".

The gun fight between Alan Ladd and Jack Palance at the end of the movie is great.

Chris
 
Ok, I'm prob going to be a little off in my picks (I'm just a little by nature), but here they are anyway:

Rapid Fire with Brandon Lee when the bad guys try to make the hit while he is in the safehouse. I love that mix of gunfire and hand to hand stuff!!

And the barroom brawl in Dusk Til Dawn. Even though the guns were supposed to be checked at the door, that one guy's guitar turned out to double as a shotgun. Again, its the mix of guns and hand to, erm, vamp in that one.

And The Matrix, any frame at all, of course. :)
 
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'The Magnificent Seven' when Eli Wallach first comes to town.

Equilibirium and Matrix I for sheer style.

La Femme Nikita's opening scene in the pharmacy, wow.

Predator, when they first think they see it, and tear up the jungle in amost gratuitous fashion.
 
80's Woo is the mold from which 90's Hollywood (and French) action movies are made. In the late eighties/early nineties the only place we could find Woo tapes was a Chinese grocery store (undubbed, but violence is a language all its own).

Many 90's directors (who will rename nameless, but you know who they are) got their fame by ripping off Woo and other Chinese gangster-film directors.
 
anybody mention long riders slow motion, horses thru windows,bullitt thru the jaw beautiful man
 
oh yes shane jack palance amazing watch how he gets up on his horse.one foot in the stir up and then stands straight up without hopping up another words put your foot up waist high as close as possible lets say a table, now one leg leg press up to a stand up position. the greatest bad guy. barabus(anthony quinn) and the bad boy himself, on that chariot. i met him while teaching his grandson. he watched me thru the whole hour. i was very nervous
 
kimko said:
anybody mention long riders slow motion, horses thru windows,bullitt thru the jaw beautiful man
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I remember seeing that in the theatre when it came out and the Northfield shootout blew me away. The sound that Hill used was so... "right".

Good call.
 
Taxi Driver,"Suck on this." - ending

I'm drawing a blank on the title- Gene Hackman, WillSmith, Tom Sizemore, Jack Black(couple of years ago) takes place in the back of an Italian restaurant, point blank range crazy.

You can't forget Peckinpah. You know the one.
 
High Noon (the much-imitated climax)

Rio Bravo (Duke & Dino...come on!)

Bandolero! (Jimmy Stewart's mouth might have stuttered...but his trigger finger most definitely did not.)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (It's been mentioned already...but the 3-way climactic shoot-out is classic stuff)

Tombstone (Val Kilmer vs. Michael Biehn"...YOU'RE NO DAISY!!..." - chilling performance.)
 
I saw Heat in the theater when it first came out.

The gunshot sounds were amazingly realistic, accurately reproduced and loud!

I've shot at the local gun club, so I know it's painful on the ears if you didn't wear ear protection. Wish I wore them in the theater. My ears were still ringing when I left.

Watched the DVD... but the sound wasn't the same. Maybe my hifi equiptment sucks.
 
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