Best Movie Shootouts

[Auric]

Inspired by the Best Movie Car Chases topic...

I have not given it any thought but for starters: Heat, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and The Way of the Gun.

 

[pcslookout]

Face Off

 

[Chronoshock]

Hardboiled hospital scene, The Killer church scene, Matrix lobby scene

 

[RightIsWrong]

The scene in Heat is without equal IMO. I think that what made it so intense was the fact that they didn't add any background music and you just got to hear what would likely be the realistic effects of cars, people and guns.

I would also add the OK Corral shootout in Tombstone.

 

[KeithTalent]

The Killer

KT

 

[pcslookout]

Battle Royale

 

[MrWizzard]

The original Desperado bar scene was kinda cool.

 

[OdiN]

Heat
Tombstone
Open Range

There are tons of good ones.

 

[pontifex]

Shoot E'm Up - the entire movie?

 

[GasX]

Open Range had a really good gunfight.

The Wild Bunch makes the list purely for the fact that the directors of all gunfights since borrow from this movie

The Unforgiven - purely for its (for lack of a better term) baddassery

That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: pontifex
Shoot E'm Up - the entire movie?

QFT!

 

[CorCentral]

The Magnificent Seven (1960) ..... Awesome movie and cast.

James Coburn
Steve Mcqueen
Yul Brynner
Charles Bronson
Robert Vaughn
Brad Dexter
Horst Buchholz

Trailer for Magnificent Seven

 

[Lamont Burns]

Unforgiven for me as well.

 

[KeithTalent]

I seem to remember a good shootout in Last Man Standing. Also you could pick probably any Sergio Leone flick.

KT

 

[biggestmuff]

Heat and several scenes in Way of the Gun

 

[silverpig]

The long action scene in Children of Men? Would that count?

What about some of the scenes in Band of Brothers?

 

[Atomic Playboy]

3 of the first 4 replies were John Woo movies, which should tell you something... But yeah, Hard Boiled immediately lept to mind, along with The Killer and Face/Off. Heat is amazing, the Matrix lobby scene is great, but it's real short.

Ugh, I'm trying to think of movie shootouts and all I can think of are the totally retarded ones where the protagonist lands every shot with unerring accuracy (I just watched Shoot 'Em Up, so there you go).

 

[dainthomas]

in a talkie

Who says that? You have to be at least 90 right?

 

[TheChort]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the last scene

 

[Lamont Burns]

Originally posted by: silverpig
The long action scene in Children of Men? Would that count?

What about some of the scenes in Band of Brothers?

I don't think you can count war genre scenes... I think they are a category of their own separate from this. I could be wrong tho.

 

[Arkaign]

For originality; the gun/MA fight/shootout in Equilibrium.

 

[TheChort]

Originally posted by: Lamont Burns

Originally posted by: silverpig
The long action scene in Children of Men? Would that count?

What about some of the scenes in Band of Brothers?

I don't think you can count war genre scenes... I think they are a category of their own separate from this. I could be wrong tho.

While that CoM scene is AWESOME, I wouldn't consider it a shootout. Shootouts generally don't involve tanks and unknown characters on both sides. It should be following a select number of characters that are directly part of the story. Did I mention no tanks?

 

[BurnItDwn]

I'm gonna say the truel in The Good , The Bad, and The Ugly.
No other shootout in any other movie comes close to being as perfect IMO.

 

[purbeast0]

the Matrix lobby scene was completely badass the first time I saw it. to this day I enjoy watching that scene.

also the opening scene to Saving Private Ryan.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Equilibrium?