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

How could I forget The Quick And The Dead. The whole movie is a shootout. A quick draw competition. Besides that, how could you not love seeing a smoking hot chick twirl six shooters for a couple hours. :D. Whadda Gal!!!
 
Glade duel scene in Tombstone:

Doc Holiday: I'm your huckleberry... Why Johhny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave...
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Oh yeah, I forgot about Tombstone. That was a good scene. Not a shootout, but I also really liked the scene where he "one-ups" Ringo's pistol twirling exhibition in the saloon by twirling the pewter cup. Val Kilmer made that movie.

How could I forget The Quick And The Dead.
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I accidentally bought the one with Sam Elliott, and it sucked. I've yet to see the one with Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman.

Jason
 
I don't see anyone's mentioned Heist, with Gene Hackman and Delroy Lindo with a .45 and a shotgun shooting against Danny Devito and his thugs with Mini 14's on a pier.

Good crime movie, written by David Mamet, and a great exchange after the gunfight:

Bergman: Don't you want to hear my last words?
Joe Moore: I just did. (boom)

And one more:

Joe Moore: Why doesn't he shoot me?
Fran Moore: That's the deal.
Joe Moore: He ain't gonna shoot me?
Fran Moore: No.
Joe Moore: Then he hadn't ought to point a gun at me. It's insincere.
 
Open Range

Kevin Costner & Robert Duvall taking on the bad guys at the end of "Open Range" always stands out in my mind as a great western shootout. Even if you don't like Kevin Costner, this movie is well worth seeing.
 
Tombstone....shootout at the OK corral....mainly because it really happened.
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there was a really good recreation done on a documentary years ago by leonard nimoy(AKA: Spock), and it was the show he was the host of, some kind of unsolved mystery show. I liked that show, but it was pretty much before my time. I have never once seen a repeat of that OK Corral episode and I would like the opportunity to see that one again. They broke down the fight slow motion so-to-speak with all available evidence
 
I saw that episode too. I'm sure if you do a search for it on Google, you could find it. Thing about the OK corral shootout in the movie Tombstone is that it probably is the closest as to what happened, even though Hollywood put its spin on it. The shooter were actually only about 6 feet apart and shot about 30 rounds in 30 seconds. Makes you wonder how you could miss at that range. Noone is sure who shot first but most accounts say that Wyatt Earp and Billy Clanton shot almost at the same time. Wyatt Earp shot Frank McLaury first because he was the best shot of them all(smart man).
 
My 5 best:

1 Heat - looks, feels real.....would not want to be called into that gunfight...

2 Wild Bunch - Colt 45 SAA, shotgun, Colt 1911, Maxim MG, and a host of Federales with Mausers...

3 Hombre - another Western, and a tough one with a good showdown...

4 In the Line Of Duty - the 1986 Miami Shootout, lessons learned here are still being taught...

5 Scarface - Al Pacino goes out blasting with a Colt AR-15 + grenade launcher vs a very large hit team, a little silly, but entertaining...don't know how Pacino managed to keep his acting face on thru it all.
 
The gunfight at the end of Open Range ... when Costner sneaks up on the guy holding his GF and shoots him three times, you just have to start cheering ...
 
The 2nd, "I'm your Huckleberry" in tombstone, the end of Scarface, and the bucket scene in Quigley.
 
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The Long Riders

I haven't seen The Long Riders posted yet. Awesome movie with one of the great casting events of all time. Stacey and James Keach play Frank and Jesse James. The Carradine brothers play the Younger brothers. And the Guest brothers (Chris made Spinal Tap a year later) play Bob and Charlie Ford.The shoot-out at the end when Jesse James and Co. shoot it out in Northfield, Minn. is nothing short of spectacular, with the sound making your skin crawl.
 
Heat beats all others, hands down.

But great shootouts:

Way of the Gun, 3:10 to Yuma, Tears of the Sun, Blackhawk down, Saving Private Ryan, The Pacific, Band of Brothers.

The ending of The Kingdom.

And the WW1 Trench warfare scene from Sucker Punch was actually pretty good. The young ladies in that movie impressed me with the sheer physical nature of the gunfight.

Also Road to Perdition. When Tom Hanks fights Jude Law in the hotel room. This is one of the very few movies that shows that a shotgun WILL shoot through walls.

Honorable Mention: The last of the Mohicans even though its set during the French and Indian war the last scene was a masterpiece of film makeing.
 
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in more recent films (using the term recent very loosely) I really liked the shootout(s) in the boondock saints movie. The one in particular is the the Duke has the saints pinned down at the front of the house.

so many awesome shootout scenes though, hard to pick one
 
Father Time- totally forgot about saving private ryan. it hit me in a way no others have. Maybe it was because of the sense of realism and the historical significance but either way it was one of my favorite
 
The Untouchables

I find it hard to believe that this thread has gone on for six pages without a single mention of the train station shootout in "The Untouchables."

Also, the shootout during the liquor bust on the bridge in the same film deserves an honorable mention. "ENOUGH OF THIS RUNNING BULL****!!" Sean Connery made that film.:D
 
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