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What is Your Favorite Shootout in a Movie?

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Another big shout out for the 10 min tea room shootout that opens Woo's seminal "Hardboiled", the 10 min gangs lair shootout in the middle and the 40 min hospital shootout at the end...and Woo again with his gentler, kinder "The Killer"...the shootout at Chow Yun Fat's apartment in the middle where his friend betrayed him, but a-ha !- he'd removed the bullets from the gun and the 30 min church shootout at the end, with the bad guys handily dressed in white for full blood spattered effect.....oh, and the bar shootout at the beginning was not too shabby....some clips from both

tea house fun: not a good place to be a waiter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3htuEtR_6Y

how not to behave in church: Blind girls, symbolic doves, falling off high stuff and, of course, minimal reloading
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGxvfvwUOrQ
more of same...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjrKA4YF7A

Oh, and the opening scene in "Running Scared" with the bad guys getting robbed by the badder cops, and the final shootout in "True Romance" in the hotel. Lovely stuff.....
 
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Axeman G, "I am a big fan of all battle scenes in, Private Ryan, Tripoli with a real young Mel Gibson in WWI and A Bridge to Far."

Close, but you're confusing your World War battles. A young Mel Gibson starred in Galipoli, depicting the WWI campaign. Still, I'm pleased you've reminded me of this excellent film. Tripoli was fought in WWII. Or perhaps you're talking about the first Barbary war, 1801-1805? ;)
 
I like in 16 Blocks when Bruce Willis shot one would be murderer in the back of the head, and then everything moved in slow motion (many people who are in shootouts say this happens to him, and they see everything in slow motion.) It's in the beginning of the movie. Hmm I also liked Collateral towards the end inside the club (Tom Cruise's mag change was awesome). Also one I really thought was funny and good was in the movie Maverick with Mel Gibson. It was funny, and he worked his old six shooters very well when he went after the guys who robbed the wagon train dressed up like indians. I wonder how much he had to work on twirling his pistols?
 
Heat

The Killer with Chow Yun Fat was directed by John Woo Had a tremendous body count
and Total Recall the subway fight
 
I forgot about Running Scared. The first shootout was excellent, you just have to ignore the "artsy" slowmo shot of the guy flying back 6 feet into a wall after taking a 12ga blast to the chest.

Another of my favorites is Han Solo's BlasTech DL-44 versus Darth Vader's palm, and pretty much anything involving blasters and lightsabers.
 
Running Scared

Speaking of Running Scared, I always loved Billy Crystal smiling his butt off with his face smashed against the bulletproof glass window of their bullet proof unmarked police car with the words "UNMARKED POLICE CAR" spray painted across the side in yellow as Jimmy Smitts (BG) blasts away with his Uzi.
 
does the enemy of the estate also counts?

the shootout between the crook NSA and the MOBSTER inside the latter's safehouse.
 
the wild bunch....nothing else comes close because pekinpah was the orginal
master of the art............
 
Bullets flying...

I like A) the shootout in Heat ) the final battle in Saving Private Ryan and C) the gun fight in Open Range.

One more I'd add that is overlooked is State of Grace with Sean Penn. The final gun fight in that film is pretty incredible. Finally, I'd add Black Hawk Down...pretty much the entire film is an intense battle.

What seems to be missing from this thread is any of the "Earnest" films; truly a man known for his weaponry :what:

Be safe and take care,
DFW1911
 
Blackhawk Down.

Simply beacause it was based on realiy, and by most accounts was essentially quite true to reality.

In fact, I read somewhere (from the producers) that they actually showed considerable LESS fire from the BGs, as they didn't think people would believe the volume of fire that our guys were taking.

Favourite scene: when they call in the "Little Birds" to clear the rooftop. Gotta love miniguns!
 
Speaking of Running Scared, I always loved Billy Crystal smiling his butt off with his face smashed against the bulletproof glass window of their bullet proof unmarked police car with the words "UNMARKED POLICE CAR" spray painted across the side in yellow as Jimmy Smitts (BG) blasts away with his Uzi.
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You merged two scenes together. At the start of the film they were driving a greenish colored car that some kids spray painted "unmarked police car" along the side. Later in the film when they came back from a vacation they had their car made up to look like a yellow taxi and had bullet resistant windows put in.

The scene where Jimmy Smitts is shooting at them during the car chase on the "L" in Chicago is funny because Billy Crystal is unable to roll down his window to shoot back. So one second his is thanking the guy who put the bullet resistant windows in the next he is calling him an idiot because they do not roll down so he is unable to shoot back. :)
 
Notbubba noted, "Jeff Timm! You had me very worried until you wrote "Emma Peel, played by Lady Diana Rigg" I thought " Oh God, someone liked the remake" Ms Rigg sure could wear leather.

Yes, but she was a bit thin back then. When A&E played all the Avengers available, including the ancient half hour eps I saw Honor Blackman wearing outfits almost as extream, but she was not malnourished.

Geoff
Who prefers a more well rounded beauty. :what:
 
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