My top three choices (in order of preference):
* The Wild Bunch: The Director's Cut
* Heat
* The Matrix
My top three choices (in order of preference):
* The Wild Bunch: The Director's Cut
* Heat
* The Matrix
Follow ups:
Children of Men
Scarface
Terminator series (various)
Robocop
La Femme Nikita
L.A. Confidential
Tombstone
The Killer (original Woo (Taiwanese) version)
Hard Boiled
Haven't seen it, but I've heard it's another great Chinese-language contender.
tombstone was great when they were trapped at that river.
txRUNNERgirl wrote:
Boondock Saints:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5DlpZiMZ0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5W46NPGkhE
Absolute shit...
Not quite a shootout, but the final scene in 3:10 to Yuma.
Shoot 'Em Up
Not really a 'shootout', but I'd nominate the final battle sequence in "Saving Private Ryan" as one of the best of all time. The opening segment at Normandy is great, but the final battle is better (in my opinion) for being able to follow along with the strategy, etc.
There's a Charles Bronson western where the beginning scene is a bunch of cold gunslingers in the middle of nowhere waiting for a train. I think one of them is Yul Brynner. When the train finally shows up, Bronson gets off, looks around and realizes these guys are there to knock him off, and then just takes them all out like the Terminator. End of first scene.
There's no way I know the name of it, but I'd recognize it if I heard it again.
ill also vote: HEAT all the way babee
the matrix's scene with the SWAT team when they are trying to save morpheus is easily the greatest shootout scene in movie history.
agree...
Matrix - the save morpheus scene in the government building
Replacement Killers - the openning scene in the night club when Chow YF puts the marked bullet on the table before shooting the guy in the head.
Face off - "plan B, let s just kill each other" scene
The Killer various scene
John Woo 's scenes are generally great especially if you like pigeons flying in slo mo...
arroyo runner wrote:
There's a Charles Bronson western where the beginning scene is a bunch of cold gunslingers in the middle of nowhere waiting for a train. I think one of them is Yul Brynner. When the train finally shows up, Bronson gets off, looks around and realizes these guys are there to knock him off, and then just takes them all out like the Terminator. End of first scene.
There's no way I know the name of it, but I'd recognize it if I heard it again.
That was Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West"...Henry Fonda played a good villain.
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
Amazing that there could be humor in the abattoir...
The elavator shoot out scene in Smokin' Aces for sure
Heat, and only Heat
Rent the director's cut of Sam Peckinpaw's "The Wild Bunch" (1969) and enjoy the climatic gun battle. It's badass hardcore, and was really the first major motion picture to use slow motion and rapid cut editing for an extended action sequence. Probably one of the most innovative films of all time. William Holden and 3 of his men go at against 200 Mexican soldiers with a machine gun and some major cajones. You have to see it to believe it.
I wouldn't call it a "shootout" since it was totally one-sided but my favorite is the scene in The Godfather when Sonny gets shot up at the toll booth.
How about Desperado?
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