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

For realism: Josey Wales, Last Man Standing, and (of course) Quigley. The latter is one of only two 'westerns' that meets the authenticity standards of the National Congress of Old West Shootists (according to my boss) and has a rifle competition named for it. For sheer check-your-disbelief-at-the-door fun: Commando, Shoot 'Em Up, El Mariachi and Desperadoes.
 
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."
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I'm with ya Brasscatcher84 - definitely a classic: "You got him? Yeah, I got him. Take him!"

One of my favorites has always been the bar fight in Nepal in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana mysteriously pulls out a Browning Hi-Power and has at it. It's where I first fell in love with that pistol.

The Firefly Series and Serenity has some fun scenes with a bevy of western (Zoe's 92 Mare's Leg) and futuristic sci-fi guns.

And Zombieland is sure to bring a smile to your face - Tallahassee resurrects Zoe's Mare's Leg and then takes on the carnival with a pair of nickle 1911's
 
My two favorites:

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

Both movies are more realistic and show that good guys die, which is a real possibility in any shootout.

Biker
 
I saw a movie about a irishman in the mob, his son saw a shooting. The guy played the new bond was teh bad guy he killed the kid and mom but the wrong kid. Lots of moving shootouts and when he shot up paul newman and his crwew with that thomson....

Lots of 1911 wortk and a early semi auto maybe a savage?
 
"The Missing", because of the movement, the desperation, the absolute badness of the bad guys, the Henry's and it's a western.
 
This one wasn't in a movie. Anybody see the recent episode of The Closer (think it was the show before the current one) where Brenda and her gang crash a gang house and just blow everybody away ... we had it recorded and even my wife wanted to see it again; lots of action, over quickly, no cops hit, lotsa dead baddies ...
 
Always take a gun to a knife fight.
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It's actually relative to the skills and motivation behind the weapons being used. I don't think a fellow named Meredith Hunter would agree with "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight". :eek::)
 
Not a gunfight per se,,,

But a scene from the "Last of the Mohicans" still sets my hair on end,,,
It's the scene where the runner is leaving the Fort Edward,,,
Hawkeye and Uncas are covering his getaway.

The combination of the music, editing, and gray smoke just hurts me.

Also the last ten minutes of "The Kingdom" is the best protracted gunfight I've ever seen in a movie.

Aarond
 
But a scene from the "Last of the Mohicans" still sets my hair on end,,,
It's the scene where the runner is leaving the Fort Edward,,,
Hawkeye and Uncas are covering his getaway.

The combination of the music, editing, and gray smoke just hurts me.
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Trevor Jones' finest score, bar none. One of the few I had to purchase.
 
Die Hard

Nobody mentioned Die Hard. The scene where Hans Gruber and the boys shooting out the glass and John McClane having to run across the broken glass. Or Die Hard II when McClane kills all the fake cops in the elevator. Not really a shootout, more like one-sided. Or Die Hard III when McClane goes to get the hacker at his apartment and the bad guys show up.


"Tombstone" is the reason I named my son Wyatt though.
 
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I liked the poar in tghe movie mel did with kris kristofferson. They go into the room, mel calls the phone kris picks up the phone goes oh crap and the building blows up :) a good movie that is unbelivable, the taxi scene where he takes the gun away and the other suv pulls up and full autos the taxi.....
 
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