What is Your Favorite Shootout in a Movie?

[springmom]

nah....

The shootout with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the end of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith". Come to think of it, the shootout when they're in their house trying to kill each other was pretty good, too.

Springmom

 

[Jeff Timm]

The Classic execution scene from "The Avengers."

Hero blindfolded, hands tied behind back, bravely ready to die under the guns of a firing squad.

The commands are given, "Ready." "AIM!" and a burst of automatic weapons fire from an MP-40 in the able hands of a lovely young woman, Emma Peel, played by Lady Diana Rigg, wipes out the firing squad and commander.

Best line of show, "Did your entire life flash before your eyes?"

"Yes...Infinitly enjoyable."

Geoff
Who loved automotive endings.

 

[bulltaco]

I'll Throw In A Few More

The climax in Taxi Driver. The shootout in Reservoir Dogs. The shootout in The Unforgiven.

 

[Drue]

I'm with Anthony. Zulu, The Wind and the Lion, Cross of Iron , the Dirty Harry movies, Josie Wales Beau Geste and Pvt Ryan all have great shoot outs. However, the finale in The Wild Bunch is pretty hard to beat.

Drue

 

[Biker]

The shootout in Northfield, Minn between the townspeople and the James/Younger Gang from The Longriders. One of my all time favorite movies.
Ry Cooder's soundtrack was pure genious if you listen closely during the gunfight.

Biker

 

[shark40sw]

Definitely Heat, Ronin, Way of The Gun, and Unforgiven. Although Open Range should get a mention as well.

 

[Nail Shooter]

#1 Heat, #2 Way of the Gun (if you can ignore everything previous to the shoot out), #3 Open Range.

NS

 

[deanf]

Well the scene where all the white Suburbans get ambushed in Clear and Present Danger will certainly elevated your heart rate a little . . . .

 

[Deanimator]

My personal fave is from Director Sam Peckinpah again, three years later, in 1972. The Getaway, with Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw. The shootout with McQueen coming down the stairs, floor by floor, of the flophouse hotel, is a classic. It's been a while since I've viewed the movie, but McQueen is ably utilizing a riot shotgun, an Ithaca 37, I believe.

Great scene, including the S&W M76. Actually the shotgun was a High Standard.

I'm partial to the final shootout in "Prime Cut" with Lee Marvin against Gene Hackman.

The shootouts in "Last Man Standing" are great too.

But for all time best and most shootouts (and one liners), it's got to be The Outlaw Josey Wales. "You boys gonna draw them pistols or are you just gonna stand there, whistlin' Dixie?"

 

[rangerruck]

come on you guys, your missing it. there is only two that count, ( i'll give hon mention to the good bad, and ugly) butch cassidy/sundance and the wild bunch.

 

[offthepaper]

I gotta vote for Zulu too.

 

[Don't Tread On Me]

For pure M16 muzzle flash ...hard to beat the end of Scarface.

 

[notbubba]

Jeff Timm!

You had me very worried until you wrote "Emma Peel, played by Lady Diana Rigg"

I thought " Oh God, someone like the remake":banghead:

Ms Rigg sure could wear leather.

 

[Mal H]

The shootout at the motel near the end of LA Confidential. Nearly perfect gun and gun effects (GSW's) realism.

 

[Zedicus]

Near the end of "We were Soldiers" NVA vs 2 Choppers each with twin Miniguns

 

[geekWithA.45]

Indiana Jones vs Huge Swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

[The Guy]

Add another vote for Open Range. I really like it in the end when you can see the townsfolk in the distance chasing down the cowardly bg and shooting the crap out of him in the feild. Or inside the jail with Boss at the end, or shooting the bg in the foot because thats all Charlie can see, then finishing 'em off.

But the first shot is the best.
"Are you the man that killed our freind?"
"Yeah, and I liked it...BOOM!"

Great movieeven for a Costner epic.

Lots of other good movies mentioned here. There should be a compiled THR gunfight movie list that we can print off to rent/buy.

P.S. I don't think anyone listed "The Professional" yet. That one had some tasty lil' bits in it.

 

[DesertShooter]

"Tombstone"! Johnny Ringo (Michael Biehn) going through his quick-draw and fancy gun-handling in the saloon, followed by Doc Holiday (Val Kilmer) mimicking him with a tin cup! CLASSIC!

Then, the ACTUAL shoot-out between Ringo and Holiday, when Holiday tells Ringo "I'm your huckleberry!", and "You're no daisy!"

 

[Biker]

Indeed, DesertShooter! "C'mon Johnny...c'mon..." A classic.

Biker

 

[Ezekiel]

I like Chow Yun Fat in Hardboiled. (Subtitled, from Hong Kong.)

 

[grampster]

A shootout on a ship in port in "What's Up, Tigerlilly." It's a 3rd rate Japanese film dubbed into English with a dialogue that doesn't have much to do with with the action in the film by What's His Name, the skinny little the guy with glasses who married his girlfriend's oriental daughter.

The hero is shooting at the bad guys and he says, "Watch me shoot 8 guys with 6 shots." That movie was hilarious. I think the dubbed dialogue had to do with trying to find a recipe for meatballs.

 

[Deanimator]

The hero is shooting at the bad guys and he says, "Watch me shoot 8 guys with 6 shots." That movie was hilarious. I think the dubbed dialogue had to do with trying to find a recipe for meatballs.

Actually, the hero Phil Moskowitz and the villain Wing Fat are looking for the recipe for the perfect egg salad (yechhh!).

That's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen even after all of these years.

I like the big Indonesian retard with the fake Thompson, "Pretty smoke, heh heh heh!"

 

[LiquidTension]

The briefcase scene from Collateral is my favorite. It was a wonderfully pleasant surprise.

 

[Bwana John]

Ohhhh... I forgot about Zulu, again it is the music sound track as much as the actual shootout.

Lt. Bromhead: Sixty! We dropped at least sixty, wouldn't you say?
Adendorff: That leaves only three thousand nine hundred and forty.

Lt. Bromhead: Reload! Independent - fire at will!
Pvt. Owen: That's very nice of him.

Colour Sgt. Bourne: Sir, sentries report the Zulus have gone. All of them. It's a miracle.
Lt. Chard: If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer-Henry point-four-five caliber miracle.
Sgt. Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind it


Men of Harlech stop your dreaming
Can't you see their spear points gleaming
See their warrior's pennants streaming
To this battle field

 

[Exmasonite]

Heat was incredible... Equilibrium had some cool scenes (although completely unrealistic. Lethal Weapon 1... rest kinda sucked.

speaking of unrealistic, I STILL love watching the lobby scene in the first Matrix movie. (plus the line "We'll need guns... lots of guns.")

On the TV side, "24" has had its high points (and low points). End of season 1 when jack is going after the drazens, season 2 when he and Nina are on the ground after the plane crash.

edit: forgot about "Last of the Mohicans", some sweet rifle shooting/reloading.