Favorite "gun" scene in a movie?

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Blazing Saddles was a great movie. The shootout / chase scene at the end of that is about as crazy as it gets. Wilder made a lot of good movies.
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Definitely!

And I'm going to go a little geek here - the Blaster battle on the Death Star in the original "Star Wars"...
 
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Not to mention... Han shot first!

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So, Han Solo made The Empire strike back and deserved to be frozen in carbonite!? Well, Washington DID start The Seven Years War so maybe you are right.
 
everything Clint ever did, and John Wayne too. but there's a GREAT movie, that it seems I'm the only one who ever saw it called Ride With the Devil, that has a LOT of great scenes. All through the movie one of Bloody Bill Anderson's crew keeps takeing potshots at another Confederate, [''Dutchy''] who he suspects of Union leanings because of his German roots. While they are burning and looting Dutchy and a freed slave are eating breakfast in a resteraunt, when the crazy guy comes in talking about how he's gonna tear off Dutchy's head, etc, etc. ''Dutchy'' has a Spiller and Burr [under the table] already cocked and aimed at the wildman's midsection. ''And when were you planning on doing these terrible things to me? Because I am right here, right now, and if you're not gonna do it, I'm going to finish my breakfast, and you can just get the hell outta here'', or something to that effect. just great stuff, IMHO.
 
Armedok,

That is hands down my favorite movie of all times and that scene is great. It's such a good movie, you can watch it with no sound
 
Silverado, danny glover shooting the hat of john cleese at long range: "today, my jurisdiction ends right here"
close second: the gun-scenes in pulp fiction
 
The Shootist" has long been one of my favorite movies of all time. The opening scene with those great clips from "Hondo", "Red River", "Stagecoach" and several other of John Wayne's pictures serves to show an insight into J.B. Books character that an hour of dialog could not convey. These clips are some of the best all time shootout sequences in the movies and grouped together with Ron Howard and John Wayne's voice over narrative makes this my pick for a favorite Gun Scene in the movies.
It still amazes me that this entire movie has not received the acclaim as one of the best western films of all time.
 
My favorite gun scene in a movie is when Arnold Swarzenegger and Jesse Ventura were walking around firing a GE Mini Gun that they were carrying in Predator.
 
Thirty years ago, an unremarkable little movie was filmed in Florida: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086011/?ref_=nm_knf_t3 where I happen to live.
Sort of a "chick flick" I suppose.
Nothing special, until the end, when a huge .44 magnum appears and ushers in one of the most unforgettable scenes I've ever seen in a movie. :eek:
There was another movie I once saw many years ago, starring, I think, Tom Sellick (although I might be wrong about that).
This one took place during World War I, and in the climactic scene, the hero and his girlfriend are dived upon and twice strafed with long bursts from twin machine guns, fired by the villain in a German biplane.
Although dozens, if not hundreds of bullets kick up dust all around the stationary couple, the only apparent casualty was the girl, who fell down with a small smudge on her forehead during the first pass.
A nun suddenly appeared and cradled the fallen girl in her arms, exchanging worried looks with our protaganist while the plane circled around for a second pass.
Now he's gonna shoot at a nun too? Boo Hiss!!!
During the second burst of fire which struck no one on the ground, our hero produces a hand grenade and hurls it at the oncoming plane. This grenade somehow cleared the prop and upper wing and landed in the small aft cockpit hole that would have been occupied by a co-pilot, had he been present. Pulling up from his dive, the bad guy rose up and frantically plunged his arm into the second cockpit, trying to retrieve the grenade, but, being a bad guy who couldn't hit anything with two attempts with two machine guns, he also wasn't quick enough to pull this off.
The girl quickly recovered from her smudge and she and the hero lived happily ever after.
I wish I could remember the name of this movie because I'd like to see that outlandish scene again.
 
So many good ones! But, the one that I saw most recently that sticks out in my mind is Gran Torino when Clint Eastwood's character pulls up to those guys picking on the neighbor girl. He "pretends" to grab a gun from under his jacket to freak them out. Then as they are about to attack him, he REALLY pulls out his 1911 and REALLY freaks them out. LOL
 
Just thought of another one. In "The Big Red One" the scene where they go into a monastery that's really a lunatic asylum but there's a German radio transmitter there so they have to take it out. The room is full of nut jobs that don't even notice there's a battle going on around them until one picks up a machine gun saying he's one of the soldiers too and that he isn't insane. That was funny as heck. The nuts were sitting at the dinner table eating and stuff kept getting shot off the table in front of them and they didn't even notice it. Other nuts were being shot too and they didn't notice that either.

The movie (and the book) were written by an actual soldier from the Big Red One. The story line is very true to what actually happened in WWII so I've always wondered if they really did go through a lunatic asylum while they were there in Germany. Nothing in the movie credits say anything about the story being true but there's an awful lot of truth there.
 
Okiemax51 said:
The Shootist" has long been one of my favorite movies of all time. The opening scene with those great clips from "Hondo", "Red River", "Stagecoach" and several other of John Wayne's pictures serves to show an insight into J.B. Books character that an hour of dialog could not convey. These clips are some of the best all time shootout sequences in the movies and grouped together with Ron Howard and John Wayne's voice over narrative makes this my pick for a favorite Gun Scene in the movies.
It still amazes me that this entire movie has not received the acclaim as one of the best western films of all time.
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I completely forgot about that opening scene and I was also going to choose this one as one of the best. Some shootout scenes are as much about the buildup and dialog as the action.
 
Not one mention of the ambush scene in Ronin?...

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