I Love Movie Shootouts ... And Heres The Best Ones

Artie, I got a subwoofer that rattles my windows and a 64" TV. Its 10 yrs old but still awsome. The heat shootout is one of my favorites to watch on it and it feels like gunfire is there, I agree :). Those AR Commandos they have are so awesome.
 
Lots of iconic westerns were remakes of samurai movies. Yojimo(spelling?) has been remade as the last man standing and fistfull of dollars, the magnificent seven is basically a remake the seven samurai heck, even the deniro movie Ronin was essentially a remake. If you like the westerns and don't mind reading subtitles or in some cases pretty bad dubbing, you guys should watch the old samurai movies. Some of them have very good sword play scenes and a different kind of humor.

As for shootouts, heat is excellent, collateral, the town and many others are great. How about some of the firearms work in Blood Diamond, seems like Leonardo Dicaprio did his homework in that movie.
 
Collateral-- Imho, Tom Cruises best performace and he trained with live rounds in the same Var 1 USP 45ACP he uses in the film.

1) "Yo homie is that my briefcase" scene is awesome. He drops those guys so fast.

Best Scene--Club Fever
Vincent selecting his targets and taking them out 1 by 1 is awesome. I love when he immoblizes people with professional looking moves. When he gets overwhemled is cool too and he knifes the guy. Then he batons ones that falls on him as dead weight. His USP is off to the side and he slide to get it pumping rounds into the guy shooting at him, AWESOME scene with his shooting position and how he gets up. You can tell this was well put together. I love when he drops the guy then goes for the boss but only has one round left so he reloads, double taps again, and 1 to the head. Then turns and walks away calm, EPIC.

I recommend watching...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W85mbsD_5_U
 
Another vote for collateral just because to me it seemed so real and of course there is heat lol and it may just be me but I like the finale battle close to the end of saving private ryan where tom hanks shoot the tank with his 1911 :)
 
The shootout scene from "Heat" is the best by far.
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I was about to cry foul on that not being in the original list.

I mean...that some bank robbers tried copying it and almost pulled it off is both amusing and tragic all at once.

What rifle does Deniro have in the heat shootout? Galil or FAL maybe?
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He's using an M4 in the main shootout; Pacino has an FN rifle of some sort and Cherrito has an Galil in 5.56.
 
I have seen a lot of good one I would have mentioned so I will spare the repetitiveness.

A fave of mine is Assault on Precinct 13 with Ethan Hawke. Lots ammo expended in that one.
 
I just saw Captain America. There is a shootout between a G.I. friend of CA and some bad guys on a train. The G.I. has a 1911 .45. He apparently runs out of ammunition and gets a " click" but no bang. He clicks it again. I didn't know the 1911A1 was a double action pistol. In fact, all of the shoot outs are sort of ridiculous. Ray guns agains Thompsons and M1s. Guess which side wins??? NOT the ray gun.:confused:
 
^ The Hollywood wonks think that when a gun is out of ammo it goes "click" It's also used for dramatic affect to either surprise the intended victim or the wielder of the handgun.

The Hollywood wonks think that's how it is - and they make it so.

Very anti-climactic for a slide to lock open making it obvious to the shooter that it's time to put a fresh magazine in...
 
True Romance

True Romance - Clarence vs Drexyl - More of a shooting than a shoot out, but it's my favorite.

Unforgiven - The perfect Western with the perfect shoot out ending. Incredible, but somehow realistic. Little Bill's explaination of how real shoot outs go down seemed like very good real world advice.


Silence of The Lambs - Clarice vs Buffalo Bill


All of these were somewhat realistic and plausible. They also were very important to the movie plot.

I never liked Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as much as I would have, because the shooting was so rediculously unrealistic.
 
i thought the first shootout in street kings was pretty cool. for a new movie, i would say battle los angelos. that movie barely goes one whole minute with guns a blazing.
 
My picks

BlueTrain:
Hardly the best but I loved the dialogue and it was even on the radio. There was a radio drama in the late 1950s called "Yours truly, Johnny Dollar." (The man with the action packed expense account!). One episode ended with a short exchange of shots between a police detective who was with Dollar and the bad guy. After it was over, Dollar says, "Wow! I've never seen a faster shot except on television."

"That's where I learned it."
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Wow! I used to listen to that show (along with Gunsmoke, The Shadow and The Green Hornet)! Johnny Dollar was an insurance investigator. Each episode was structured around him ticking off each item on his expense account.

My nominees for favorite shooting scenes:

The Outlaw Josey Wales, of course!

McCabe and Mrs. Miller, in which Warren Beatty takes on 3 hired killers (one with a bear rifle) sequentially, and prevails, although he suffers a probably-fatal wound in the process. One of my favorite movies, directed by Robert Altman, also starring Julie Christie, and featuring the beauty of the Pacific NW.

El Topo. This has got to be the most esoteric, but if you ever run across it, watch it! A film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, it's a metaphysical, surrealistic western of a black-leather-clad gunfighter who must find and vanquish the four master pistoleros of the desert. It also has a great soundtrack of original music also by Jodorowsky. In Spanish with subtitles, but you won't mind; the dialogue is easy to follow.
 
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