Favorite "gun" scene in a movie?

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it left me speechless as it was such a different kind of Eastwood cowboy movie
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Everyone recognized that as a different kind of western. It was the third western to win the best picture Oscar (Cimarron and Dances With Wolves were the first two). It was almost an anti-western really showing just how evil the things are that many westerns almost celebrate. But that is how it should be IMO. Killing people isn't something that should be romantic. Unforgiven just showed the true nature of killers, not matter what era they live in, better than any movie I've ever seen.

Some other great shootouts I've remembered are the shootout between the two assassins (John Cusack and Dan Aykroyd) in Grosse Point Blank. That was so over the top with them loading so many mags in their guns and trying every trick ever used to get a shot at the other guy without getting it themselves. It was like how the Blues Brothers might have done a shootout.

Another great shootout that no one has mentioned that I've seen is at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They were doing ok until the army showed up. :)

BTW I love Quigley and Josey Wales and High Plains Drifter and a lot of other great shooter movies that have been mentioned here. I haven't seen anyone mention Gran Torino which I also think has a great shoot out scene even though Eastwood wasn't even armed at the time. And the scene where he runs the guy off his lawn was great too.

A lot of those old westerns were really good. Winchester 73 had a great shootout at the end of the movie. Sammy Davis Jr. had a really fast draw in real life and it showed up in his movies too. He could pull a pistol almost as fast as anyone living. He thought about going on the trick shooting circuit in fact.
 
Not a movie; an episode of miami vice, iirc called "the hit list" with an argentine assassin played by jim zubiena. jim was an actual idpa shooter. He does a speed draw double tap on a thug bodyguard holding a snub on him that is perfect in form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA-xIssgT-o

Movies, most of my favs have been said...but the scene in The Road Warrior where mad max steps out on to the running board of the Mack and dumps both barrels of buckshot from his lupara into the windshield and driver of one of lord humungous' cars is good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmf-HCCZYOg
(Sorry, clip is long, it's the last 15 seconds that matter.)
 
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The time Lennie Brisco in "Law and Order" grabbed the punk and slammed him into a brick
wall, pulled out his revolver and said: "how would you like your ear cleaned out with a magnum, dummy?" Hehehehehehe
 
  1. The opening scene of "The Letter" with Bette Davis. She uses a top break revolver (S&W or Webley) to repeatedly shoot the guy who tried to rape her... or did he? I remember when "Death Wish" came out, the ninnies whined about Charles Bronson's character shooting muggers multiple times, and while they were on the ground. Bette did the same thing almost forty years earlier.
  2. The "Yo homey, is that my briefcase?" scene from "Collateral". I use it to illustrate the fact that "Mozambique" can be a verb as well as a proper noun. :D
  3. The scene at the start of "The Wind and the Lion" when the Brit shoots down a bunch of Berbers with his Webley RIC... until he runs out of ammunition.
  4. The end of "Thief" with James Caan where he does expert work with an M1911.
  5. The gunfight between Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday in "Tombstone".
 
Everyone recognized that as a different kind of western. It was the third western to win the best picture Oscar (Cimarron and Dances With Wolves were the first two). It was almost an anti-western really showing just how evil the things are that many westerns almost celebrate. But that is how it should be IMO. Killing people isn't something that should be romantic. Unforgiven just showed the true nature of killers, not matter what era they live in, better than any movie I've ever seen.
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There's one movie that has done that at least as well.
http://movieclips.com/GihEj-mccabe-and-mrs-miller-movie-kid-kills-cowboy/
 
Yeah I know I already posted.....
The third Matrix movie at the end scene where the humans make their stand at Zion.
Has to be the single movie sequence with the most gunfire ever!
Yes they're in robotic machines but they're still pulling a trigger and it was just pretty damn awesome in my opinion.
 
I agree with our friend olderguns. Val Kilmer redefined the role of Doc Holiday.

"I'm your huckleberry!"

Trivia:

Margaret Mitchell patterned Ashley Wilkes the love of Scarlett O'Hara's life after her cousin Mattie Holiday's lover, who was her cousin John Henry Holliday. When Doc Holiday went west to seek his fortune, Mattie entered a convent, taking the name Sister Mary Melanie.

There is a reference to the cousin Doc loved in Tombstone.
 
A little-known film from around 1992 called Light Sleeper, starring Willem Dafoe, had one of the more realistic gunfights I had seen to that time, between Dafoe, Victor Garber, and a couple of Mooks. Dafoe takes the first shot at point-blank range into a Mook's gut when nobody was looking for it, and the other Mook grazes Dafoe twice after popping a round at him and missing widely at a range of about six feet. He winds up killing both Mooks and Garber with four shots, while only one Mook gets to fire, scoring two ineffectual hits and killing a perfectly innocent mirror.

Basically, a pretty good representation of a gunfight between people who barely know which end of the gun to hold.
 
1973...Walking Tall....Buford Pusser's young son brings his shotgun, .410 single I believe, to the hospital to protect his dad.
 
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee.”
Then 2- 45's open up, not a bad attention grabber.
My favorite scene, although, Jules 1911 is 9mm.
How about the cheesiest scene...
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
What you say about my mama?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y21r6jrNDJM
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my second post in this thread:

Just remembered one that hasn't been mentioned here. I am not a Val Kilmer fan, but he stars in a movie called "The Salton Sea," which is pretty dang awesome. Takes a little while for the viewer to grasp what is actually going on, but once you've seen it you get it, I don't want to spoil anything. Several good firearm scenes, but there's a bit of a gunfire exchange at the end which is just awesome!
 
RetiredUSNChief,

Thanks for the suggestion on the picture. Yours is great. I'll see what I can do with my DVD.
 
There's one movie that has done that at least as well.
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Not even close IMO. That kid was just mean. There's no depth of character at all. There's a reason Unforgiven won the best picture Oscar. Not that I care about Oscars but that movie is one of the best ever. McCabe And Mrs. Miller isn't. I know Altman and his penchant for bashing everything American and everything most people think is decent and I don't care for him one bit. MASH was about the worst movie I've ever seen to be honest or it had the worst attitude anyway. The way Altman bashes America is sickening. He was one of the first of the Hollywood America haters and I wouldn't pay a plug nickel to see one of his movies.

Eastwood was much different. I could spend an hour explaining that but this is a gun board.
 
Army of Darkness

"Good, bad... I'm the guy with the gun"

some versions replace it with "I'm not that good," but it's not nearly as funny.
 
thanks. now I have to watch all the Terence Hill/Bud Spencer flicks. There goes my weekend!
 
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