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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: ericire12 on April 03, 2008, 05:21:29 PM
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Ok..... Gonna have a movie weekend this Fri and Sat and I want some input on what to rent. What do you consider to the best of the best as far as shoot em up movies go?
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SMOKIN ACES . lots of guns big shoot outs best movie ive seen in a while , another great movie is 300 now theres some MEN .
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HEAT
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I'm a big fan of Enemy at the Gates. Then I like to take my Mosin Nagant M91/30 to the range afterwards.
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Open Range has an excellent running gunfight and on top of that it is a good movie , start to finish.
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I agree with LIMB on Open Range. I also like MOST of the gun fights in Young Guns and Young Guns II. All three of these movies do a good job of showing that all shooting is not perfect or on target, and all shots are not instant kills.
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"The professional" - almost classic.
"Shoot'em up" - to relax. Gun porn by ParaOrdnance
"In Bruges" - to enjoy. You have to look this one up in some indy theaters. Not on DVD yet.
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1) Thief with James Cahn, Actors were trained at Gunsite under uncle Jeff, Guns provided by Guy Hogue.
2) The Wild Bunch
3) Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia.
4) Quigley down under.
5) Red Dawn
6) Tombstone
7) Black Hawk down.
Cool Die hard 1.
9) We were soldiers.
10) Assault on Precinct 13 the original.
11) The final option.
12) Death hunt with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin. if you've never seen this, you'll be surprised.
13) Saving private Ryan.
14) Under siege #1
15) My name is nobody, ( comedy)
16) Marked for death.
17) The unforgiven.
18) The last kiss goodnight, another sleeper with Geena Davis.
19) Out for justice.
20) Above the law.
21) Army of darkness
22) Open range
23) Heat
WE had a thread on this before, just type in the word movie at the top of the page in the search bar.
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Quigley Down Under for big bore American Rifle. Or the last Dirty Harry Movie with the 44 Auto Mag.
Than again, the Magnificent 7, Saving Private Ryan for American Combat, OR any later John Wayne Movies,
Especially "The Shootist". High Plains Drifter, and of course The Good, The bad and the Ugly.
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Open Range has an excellent running gunfight and on top of that it is a good movie , start to finish.
+1!!
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Is this the second or third movie thread? The thing I always find is that I can name a couple, like I did, and then every post by someone else is a forehead slapper.
Soooooooo many good movies and so little time. At least with the memory fading it is a new adventure every time an old one comes on.
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Been awhile since I saw this one, one of my favorites. Some shoot em up in the beginning.
Tom Horn with Steve McQueen (http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTom-Horn-Steve-McQueen%2Fdp%2FB0008ENHUS&tag=drtv-reloading-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325)
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Been awhile since I saw this one, one of my favorites. Some shoot em up in the beginning.
Tom Horn with Steve McQueen (http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTom-Horn-Steve-McQueen%2Fdp%2FB0008ENHUS&tag=drtv-reloading-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325)
Yeah, I bet I haven't seen that in 15 years!
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Your Right Marshall, that's the V8 forehead smacker, Tom Horn was great! I also haven't seen it in years but if I recall it was sad due to McQueen;s signature Henry or Sharps ( memory escapes me ), being temporarily stolen to set him up for which he is hung for a murder he didn't commit.
Thank you for stimulating the "gray matter" I need more.
Also The Wind and the Lion, with Sean Connery, Candice Bergman, and Brian Keith who plays Teddy Roosevelt, who is constantly sending his Winchester back due to a disappointing action. Sighting in his rifle with his daughters in the West Lawn of the White House., AH the good ol' days.
Thanks
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Monte Walsh
Crossfire Trail
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Monte Walsh
Crossfire Trail
Also excellent!
How about some of the 'Sackett' movies that he has done.
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Your Right Marshall, that's the V8 forehead smacker, Tom Horn was great! I also haven't seen it in years but if I recall it was sad due to McQueen;s signature Henry or Sharps ( memory escapes me ), being temporarily stolen to set him up for which he is hung for a murder he didn't commit.
Thank you for stimulating the "gray matter" I need more.
Also The Wind and the Lion, with Sean Connery, Candice Bergman, and Brian Keith who plays Teddy Roosevelt, who is constantly sending his Winchester back due to a disappointing action. Sighting in his rifle with his daughters in the West Lawn of the White House., AH the good ol' days.
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First off, love Tom Horn, very good movie.
Not surprisingly, movie and facts are just a tad different. Horn was a 6+ foot tall "cattle detective" (McQueen, the ultimate Steve, was 5'7") in the employ of the big ranchers. His job was to drive off or otherwise eliminate rustlers and maverickers - usually homesteaders - people who took calves of branded cows where the calves had not yet been branded. There is strong evidence to suggest he was not set up, that Willie Nickel was his doing, albeit a mistake for his old man.
And Horn as I recall used a Winchester .44-40 or .45LC. His comment to US Marshall deputy LeFlor was that the bullet must have travelled an arc like a rainbow for a 300 yard hit.
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44-40
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Matrix and Matrix Reloaded.
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Tomb Raider
Heat
Open Range
The New version of 3:10 to Yuma (man I want a couple of Schofields)
Magnificent Seven
Lord of War
We were Soldiers
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The Antonia Banderas "Meriachi Trilogy" Sure the plots lame but Salma Hyeck against a flaming background :o
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The Antonia Banderas "Meriachi Trilogy" Sure the plots lame but Salma Hyeck against a flaming background :o
and the machinegun guitar case
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and the machinegun guitar case
Prefered his brothers with the multiple rocket launcher ! ;D
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there are many but this one does not get the credit it is due
Equilibrium
http://imdb.com/title/tt0238380/
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What no mention of The Gauntlet. Clint's performance is great and I truely love the Old Chopper.
Mike Mc
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umm.. first ones that come to mind are already mentioned.. umm.. S.W.A.T. maybe
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Anybody else seen The Kingdom? Shoot out at the end was something else.
Art
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Extreme Prejudice - with Nick Nolte, Rip Torn, and Maria Conchita Alonso
Wild Bunch - with William Holden etc.
Ron
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U.S. Marshals Movie Quote: "Get yourself a Glock and get rid of that nickel-plated sissy pistol"
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U.S. Marshals Movie Quote: "Get yourself a Glock and get rid of that nickel-plated sissy pistol"
I'm surprised Hawkfish didn't come up with this one ;D
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The Way Of The Gun
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Full Metal Jacket
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be sir. Do you maggots understand that?
Recruits: Sir, yes sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair.
Recruits: SIR, YES SIR!
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How about "The Outlaw Josey Wales"?
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I see Equillibrium and Heat and some other really great movies listed here, but what about the mini-gun scene in Predator? THAT'S a shoot 'em up. Shootin' trees up!
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Full Metal Jacket
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be sir. Do you maggots understand that?
Recruits: Sir, yes sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair.
Recruits: SIR, YES SIR!
Don't know if your aware but R. Lee wasn't acting, he spent time on the drill feild.
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I see Equillibrium and Heat and some other really great movies listed here, but what about the mini-gun scene in Predator? THAT'S a shoot 'em up. Shootin' trees up!
Wasn't that Gov. Ventura ?
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Ventura was using it for a while but when he got offed the other guy picked it up until he ran out of ammo.
Glad to see someone mentioned Equilibrium, great movie.
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Don't know if your aware but R. Lee wasn't acting, he spent time on the drill feild.
What I think was cool is that he wasn't cast for the role, but was hired as a consultant for the film. After He performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for 15 minutes without stopping, repeating himself or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges...they replaced the originally cast actor with him.
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How could I forget the Tremors movies! Lots of fun toys in those movies.
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What I think was cool is that he wasn't cast for the role, but was hired as a consultant for the film. After He performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for 15 minutes without stopping, repeating himself or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges...they replaced the originally cast actor with him.
To get it right thats not a role you can "act" when I first saw the movie I damned near went to attention and I was watching a DVD ;D The set was perfect as well, Exactly like my sqaudbay 1st Bn. PI in 77, right down to the red painted floor.
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The Antonia Banderas "Meriachi Trilogy" Sure the plots lame but Salma Hyeck against a flaming background :o
. . . in a tight dress ;D
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AMC has Magnificent 7 on tonight. Haven't seen it in years,
"We're outnumbered and outgunned, what do we do?"
Yul Brenner: "We Fight." Steve McQueen and of course James Coburn, Charles Bronson. Not quite the metro sexual "sensitive" movies out today.
Thanks for the post
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AMC has Magnificent 7 on tonight. Haven't seen it in years,
"We're outnumbered and outgunned, what do we do?"
Yul Brenner: "We Fight." Steve McQueen and of course James Coburn, Charles Bronson. Not quite the metro sexual "sensitive" movies out today.
Thanks for the post
Broken Trail was on earlier, followed by Open Range. BT is excellent, great story and Tom Church was amazing, still remember him as the dopey mechanic in Wings. Accurate portrayal of gun usage - and the near final scenes with the gunfight as Church saves Duvall. Someone already mentioned Open Range and the culminating gunfight with Baxter's men.
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Full Metal Jacket
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be sir. Do you maggots understand that?
Recruits: Sir, yes sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bullshit I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair.
Recruits: SIR, YES SIR!
Joker: Is that you John Wayne... this is me?
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open range!!!
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The Punisher. For a comic book movie it was pretty go with tatics and I drool every time I see the Colts (In spite of my three own 1911s)
The Shootist with the Duke
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Adding a big +1 to Broken Trail.
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I didn't read all five pages before this but (The Seige of Firebase Gloria), Nam movie. They musta blown away 100,000 rnds in that movie. ;D
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I didn't read all five pages before this but (The Seige of Firebase Gloria), Nam movie. They musta blown away 100,000 rnds in that movie. ;D
R Lee at his 2nd best, Awesome shoot'em up but I think he was better in Full Metal Jacket.
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned...
The Kingdom
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My Fav thus far for realism.
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Yes, The Kingdom was very good.
Open Range is probably the best cowboy shootout ever filmed.
But, for the best gun battle ever filmed, you need to go back to Northwest Passage, with Spencer Tracy. The Rangers attack on the Abenaki village is a classic! It was filmed in real time, starting just at dawn, and finishing up a few hours later. Lots of shooting and hand-to-hand, plus a great shot, looking over a Rangers shoulder as he tracks a running Indian and shoots him. And the best part of it is, it's a true story!
Grizzle Bear
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The Way Of The Gun
Yes Sir! I recommend this one to everyone. Lots of guns, gun fights and great dialogue. If you haven't seen this one please rent immediately. The opening with Sara Silverman is worth the price of admission. Then you have quality exchanges like these:
Interviewer:Heterosexual?
Parker: Can I ask you something? Are you a faggot? See, you asked me if I was heterosexual; I asked you the same question, only I was clear about the answer I was looking for.