Gun Movies You Wish They'd Make

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Here's my big one: a historically accurate, "We Were Soldiers"-esque movie about Sergeant York. There hasn't been a good Great War movie in awhile, and the man DID win a Medal of Honor (good movie material, if you ask me).

Aside from generally better gun handling in general (I'd like to see more movie gunfights like those in Way of the Gun; realistic, but still very exciting) I'd like to see some more varieties of guns.

PISTOLS:

CZ-97B
CZ-52
Kahr 9mm or .40
Springfield XD
S&W 25-5
Taurus Tracker
Anything in .41 Magnum
More Revolvers in General

RIFLES:

Marlin .30-30 (our action hero could use one quite effectively)
FAL/L1A1
M14/M1A
M1 Garand (but NOT in a WWII movie; used in a modern context!)
VEPR


SHOTGUNS:

Benelli Nova
Neostead
Mossberg with Sidewinder Drum Conversion


Just some thoughts.
 
i wish they'd make a documentary based around the Knob Creek gatherings of TFL/THRers.

and maybe another predator movie, but set back in time during WWII, and the allied and axis could have a mutual enemy to fight against. but the predator should have lesser tech-weapons (no lasers or guided anything), and do more hand-to-hand combat. they could use the introduction of the Stg44 and Kalishnakovs as better ways to combat the predator.
 
UC would be better done as a TV miniseries rather than a theatrical release. It's just too damn long.

F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack series is going to be seen on the big screen before too long. It has a few guns (and an anarchist hero... :D) I'm very hopeful.

I'd love to see Kings of the High Frontier as a movie. I'm afraid, though, that it would have the same problem as UC. Still, the scene where Lawrence Pourbelle is taking off in the Nomad, with a couple of hundred private private planes circling the runway to keep the Air Force F-16s off his back... That would be pretty powerful.

- Chris
 
Skunkabilly's blonde using her Minigun on Al Qaeda. Death from Above - and from a female. :evil:
 
A modern Unforgiven.

"You shot an unarmed man!"

"He shoulda moved to a state with shall-issue CCW."
 
Rainbox Six is an excellent book. I loved every bit of it!

All I want to see is a good gun movie with a couple of things..

1. Characters actually run out of ammunition. If your battle load is 210 rounds, it's kinda silly that you can keep fighting after you've burned up at least twice as much without bumming ammo or breaking open your pack for more.

2. They actually take weapons, food and ammunition from the dead freindlies and enemies. I never understood when the guys were crying about low ammo but there were scores of loaded enemy weapons scattered around them.


And my personal pet peeve...Ok, remember in XXX the movie? Well, he has this rifle and starts pulling the trigger but all you hear are click, click, click. Then the lady shoots the BG and tells him he has his safety still on. If his safety was on then why was his weapon clicking like a double action revolver?

Good SHooting
RED
 
oooo oooo oooo! stephen kings "Dark Tower: The Gunslinger". Roland would whoop boo-tay all over midworld.
 
I've started reading Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy...seems like it would be a pretty cool movie.
Click to expand...

By the time you get to the end of it you'll see why Hollyweird won't ever make a Rainbow Six movie (unless they replace the radical environmentalist badguys with Neo-Nazis like they did the Islamists in "Sum of all Fears" :rolleyes: )
 
A cool gun movie would be a modern "saving private ryan" realistic portrayal of Simo Häyhä, the most prolific sniper in history.

It'll have to be foreign made, because hollywood is incapable of a foreign tale without ****ing it up (U-571 comes to mind), but still it would be kewl!

http://my_gunsite.tripod.com/mygunsite/id25.html
 
I'd like to see Starship Troopers made to Heinlein's book. Not that Hollyweird perversion of the novel. MI guys flying in their armor dropping nukes and blasting bugs. Jeez, I hope I don't start a bash thread on the ST movie, there's so much to bash about it.
 
"taking rations&ammo from dead soldiers"

"Battleground!" Oscar for Original Screenplay, 1949....
Written by my Dad, Robert Pirosh(he fought in Battle of the Bulge):rolleyes:
 
The Gunslinger series by Stephen King (but I don't think a 24 hour moive would go over well)

and a decent version of Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger...........one that actually follows the book, instead of Indiana Jones joins the CIA





btw- you have seen and enjoied more Stephen King Movies than you know
 
Sactown...
Did you see the movie that the SciFi channel made for Dune. I relly like this one way better than the original movie. They are supposed to be coming out with another instalment soon. I can't remember the title, maybe its Sons of Dune?
 
NewShooter78 -- I agree that the SciFi version of Dune was excellent. The new one is "Children of Dune" -- coming out this Spring.

I'd like to see a movie made of a Stephen Hunter book. Preferably "Time to Hunt". Or a movie about Carlos Hathcock, the US Marine upon whom Hunter modeled Bob Lee Swagger.

"Time to Hunt" captures a lot of the feelings of the 60s from both military and protester points of view -- which got really muddled together late in the war. This book captures this better than any I've read. It even has evil CIA types -- which Hollywood loves -- and a lot of action.
 
Supposedly they were going to make Stephen Hunter's "Point of Impact" with Tommy Lee Jones but decided a sniper protagonist was too touchy, so they canned it.
 
My wife and I have always thought Tom Clancy's "Without Remorse" would make a great movie.

Who do you all think would be a good actor for the young John Clark? I always pictued Ed Harris when reading the book -- regular-looking guy who can quickly turn into a steely-eyed bad-*** (a-la Enemy at the Gates), but he's too old for a 20-something John Clark.
 
I'd have to give a nod to No Remorse also. That's a book just screaming for a movie.

I'd also nominate any of the Elvis Cole detective novells by Robert Crais. All of them are excellent reading. I just hope they'd come up with a decent actor for Joe Pike.
 
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