Favorite Gun Movie of all time...

[17RTF2]

Tears Of the Sun

[FairWarning]

The Dirty Dozen.
Commando.

Extremely macho, politically incorrect, over the top movies.

[indykappa]

The entire Matrix series, Unforgiven, Heat, Tears of the Sun, Way of the Gun, Smokin Aces

And for sheer fun, I would recommend Shoot Em Up!

[BCeagle]

Collateral with Tom Cruise, he knew what he was doing with his USP.

[Edward429451]

Apparently not as he should've been shooting but chose to talk until he gets shot!

Anyway...Shane! The movie opens with the 6 yr old kid out in the yard drawin a bead on a deer. Oh dang, not old enough for bullets yet
How refreshingly politically incorrect!

and Jack Palance was a great badguy.

[jeepstrapped]

Not my favorite gun movie, but

I really really really want a pair of the Desert Eagles, with the barrel weights, used in the movie.

[Jimmy10mm]

Since this thread has been revived .... I also immediately think of Winchester 73 if someone says, "great gun movie." A couple that weren't mentioned, Once Upon A Time In The West, Henry Fonda with that long nickel plated colt SAA in a real surprise role AFAIC. Steve McQueen in The Getaway uses a 1911 quite well and the other bad guy with that 6" blue python was truly evil.

[therealdeal]

I guess asking if dirty harry counts since he assisted the model 29 .44.magnum so much would be poinless

"Dirty Harry"(the original) was a very good movie I watched as a child(ps- the 2nd best one was the last in the series: dirt harry in the dead pool)

referring to lukes post below, that movie had a bunch of awesome gun scenes including the one you listed, the yankee soldiers in town getting blasted, the two ruffians when josey waqs looking for horses and saved the indian from being raped, etc,etc

LukeA
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Josey Wales: Well, that one in the center: he had a flap holster and he was in no itchin' hurry. And the one second from the left: he had scared eyes, he wasn't gonna do nothin'. But that one on the far left: he had crazy eyes. Figured him to make the first move.

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[Rangefinder]

Whoa... No one has said "Boondock Saints" yet? It's in my top go-to movies when I have nothing to do and there's nothing to watch.

Others would be:
Quigley Down Under
Tomestone
Young Guns
Heat
Chronicles of Riddick
The Recruit

[Howdy Doody]

1 Quigley Down Under
2 Winchester 73
3 The Rifleman (TV series)

[Jo6pak]

Heat
The vank robbery scene is the best action sequence of any movie I have seen

Ronin
Known mainly for it's car cases, there is very realistic gunplay in the movie also.

[cannonfire]

Personally, I was always a sucker for when Arnold goes down into the underground armory in Terminator 2.

We walks down those steps, and pulls the sheet off of the mini gun and then a tear came to my eye.

[bikerbill]

Last Man Standing
Ronin
Smokin' Aces (.50 sniper rifle shooting between hotels and the huge hallway shootout!)
Shooter
Dirty Harry
Hitman

[woodguru]

Heat was just a great movie

Ronin, appeals because I have an Audi S8, you have to love seeing the car you have being driven hard like that.

But in more recent movies Open Range where Kevin Costner asks who broke the kids arm, when the bad guy said, "I did and he squealed like a little girl", and Costner shot him in the forehead.

[GNLaFrance]

Originally Posted by j_frame

After all these years, and countless internet discussions on the subject, why do people continue to insist that Eastwood carried a .41 Magnum instead of a .44?

Because at first the S&W factory had no Model 29 available for the studio, so the armorer used a Model 57 in .41 Magnum until a Model 29 became available. The two revolvers are similar enough to get by on screen.

[Bud Helms]

I second Extreme Prejudice.

[los]

- SHANE
- Open Range
- Collateral

[SainthoodDenied]

Desperado, I did see one other vote for it.
The Terminator movies, first 2 were the best
To many westerns to list but the recent new 3:10 to Yuma did a great job with the firearms.

[EricReynolds]

I can't believe nobody said Face Off. Nicholas Cage's twin golden 1911s? Eh? Yeah? Am I right? Class? Anybody?

[cannonfire]

^^^^ Forgot about those... You win^^^

It is ok to make fun of my manhood for this one, but one of the pistols in Romeo and Juliet (yes the one with Leonardo DiCaprio). Clear grip with clear magazines, able to see the bullets from the outside.. Always wondered if there really was a gun like that out there, I have yet to find it

[spodwo]

"Equilibrium" Hands down...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tINWl0gzQWI

"Open Range" - Most realistic Western Gunfight scene...

More Sci Fi... "Chronicles of Riddick" and "The 5th Element". Funky and Clunky...

Favorite Pistols:

Mal's Pistol from "Fireflly" and Decker's Pistol from "Blade Runner"

[44 AMP]

I say your category is too broad!

Any good war movie = lots of guns
It can be the Longest Day or the Patriot....or anything in between

Most (nearly all) westerns have guns, often alot.

Scifi often has lots of neat guns, but seldom real ones.

And, then there's the "action" flicks. I think you need to consider the difference between a movie that has lots of guns & gunplay and movies where the guns are real, or more realistically portrayed.

Look at classic movies like the Wild Bunch, Josey Wales, the Dirty Harry movies, Zulu, etc....movies where the gun play is actually possible and (fairly)realistic. Then compare with the John Woo movies, or JC Van Dame riding a motorcycle "bareback" (look ma, no hands!) blazing away with a 9mm.

My favorite "gun" movies are the ones where not only is there action, but the guns are treated with a degree of cinema verite'

[44 AMP]

Quote from J frame "After all these years, and countless internet discussions on the subject, why do people continue to insist that Eastwood carried a .41 Magnum instead of a .44? "

I think it's because Harry said he shot .44 specials and not magnums in his Smith 29 .

No, its not because he shot .44 specials.

Its because it was reported (possibly by Millius, the director, I can't remember who anymore) that some, but not all, of the guns used as Harry's props, both in the actual movie, and in the publicity shots were S&W .41 mags, because they couldn't get their hands on actual .44s at the different times of the shooting schedule.

Remember that while Dirty Harry used the 6.5" in the film, there were some publicity shots with the 8 3/8" barrel guns, for their more dramatic effect.
Different sources give different accounts, but it seems that there were both .41s and .44s used at different times, for different shots. They do look identical, at a glance, especially if you can't see the bore, or the markings.

[FreedomFighter1969]

I can't sum this up with just one movie, but to make it simple I'll say any movie with Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, or Charles Bronson.
Well, maybe one movie. The Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, ect. Lots of nice single actions in that film from Colt and S&W. Calibers ranging from 32LC, 38-40, 44 Schofield, 44-40, 45LC, and so on.

[therealdeal]

"Deserves got nothin to do with it." -William Muny talking to little bill(hackman) right before he blows his head off