Favorite type of gunfight?
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Favorite type of gunfight?
I'm watching For a Few Dollars More, and was just thinking how much I love Western style gunfights. That got me thinking, so please vote:
Over the top action movie: Commando, Rambo, and similar types of film;
Realistic-feel shooters: Heat, Miami Vice (2006), etc;
Western face-offs: Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, etc;
Wanked out acrobatics: John Woo movies of all sorts (Hardboiled, The Killer, etc), the Matrix, Equilibrium, etc
Miscellaneous cop movies: Lethal Weapon, etc similar
If you can think of any other types, let me know and I'll add them.
Over the top action movie: Commando, Rambo, and similar types of film;
Realistic-feel shooters: Heat, Miami Vice (2006), etc;
Western face-offs: Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, etc;
Wanked out acrobatics: John Woo movies of all sorts (Hardboiled, The Killer, etc), the Matrix, Equilibrium, etc
Miscellaneous cop movies: Lethal Weapon, etc similar
If you can think of any other types, let me know and I'll add them.
Last edited by Vympel on 2006-09-27 09:20am, edited 1 time in total.
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That's a tough one. Being a copy of Fistful of Dollars (and, obviously Yojimbo) it almost makes it a Western, but it hasn't got the finality of a lot of Western shootouts- the akimbo M1911A1s also tell against that interpretation. Difficult.
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Western gun fights easy. Sergio Leone fucking ruled and defined tension in his movies. Second comes realistic-feel shooters like 'Black Hawk Down' and any scene from 'Band of Brothers'.
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Crown wrote:Western gun fights easy. Sergio Leone fucking ruled and defined tension in his movies. Second comes realistic-feel shooters like 'Black Hawk Down' and any scene from 'Band of Brothers'.
Saving Private Ryan fits that as well
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True. My bad for initially skimping on it.theski wrote:Crown wrote:Western gun fights easy. Sergio Leone fucking ruled and defined tension in his movies. Second comes realistic-feel shooters like 'Black Hawk Down' and any scene from 'Band of Brothers'.
Saving Private Ryan fits that as well
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Vympel, does that poll choice specify a realism to the movie as a whole or simply the performers handling the guns appropriately (if their role specifies/implies that they would) and using appropriate tactics?
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The way the guns are handled, sound effects, bullet impacts, etc etc.Edward Yee wrote:Vympel, does that poll choice specify a realism to the movie as a whole or simply the performers handling the guns appropriately (if their role specifies/implies that they would) and using appropriate tactics?
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I find almost all westerns crushingly dull and without real justification for their fanbases. The only one I liked enough to buy was The Quick and the Dead with Russel Crowe, Leonardo Di Caprio and Sharon Stone.
I like the Die Hard/Predator/Terminator approach to shooting sequences, with John Woo style shooting the shit out of everything in slow motion secondarily. There's just so much to keep track of. I prefer it when it's a bit grittier, like Max Payne if they're going to go that route. I also like the way Rodriguez does the shooting sequences in Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn, and I'd probably put them above John Woo style acrobatics, it's just brutal, meaty action.
I like the Die Hard/Predator/Terminator approach to shooting sequences, with John Woo style shooting the shit out of everything in slow motion secondarily. There's just so much to keep track of. I prefer it when it's a bit grittier, like Max Payne if they're going to go that route. I also like the way Rodriguez does the shooting sequences in Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn, and I'd probably put them above John Woo style acrobatics, it's just brutal, meaty action.
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I'm a fan of John Woo. I loved Face/Off, and the like. I also like blackhawk down and Saving Private Ryan type of fight-scenes. So it's a toss-up between those two.
Edit: In the end, John Woo wins out for me.
Edit: In the end, John Woo wins out for me.
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Being someone who's had a fair amount of experience with all classes of non-fully-automatic firearms, and grasps the actual effects being shot with a bullet will have on somebody or something, I prefer my gunfights realistic, thank you very much. Otherwise I have to fight the urge to yell at my television screen (or make snide remarks to myself at the theatre. a'la: "Dear gods, that's a shotgun/pistol/rifle blast, not a fucking Force push!")
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When watching a historical film-- 'Saving Private Ryan', 'We Were Soldiers', 'Black Hawk Down', etc.-- I prefer realism to match the setting.
However, I'm more entertained by wanktastic gun action--'The Killer', 'Hard Boiled', 'Face/Off', 'The Matrix', etc.-- so I voted for that.
However, I'm more entertained by wanktastic gun action--'The Killer', 'Hard Boiled', 'Face/Off', 'The Matrix', etc.-- so I voted for that.
Please do not make Americans fight giant monsters.
Those gun nuts do not understand the meaning of "overkill," and will simply use weapon after weapon of mass destruction (WMD) until the monster is dead, or until they run out of weapons.
They have more WMD than there are monsters for us to fight. (More insanity here.)
Those gun nuts do not understand the meaning of "overkill," and will simply use weapon after weapon of mass destruction (WMD) until the monster is dead, or until they run out of weapons.
They have more WMD than there are monsters for us to fight. (More insanity here.)
I like a little of all of them, but my main preference is the realistic shooters. Depends on what mood I'm in at the time.
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I think "Way of the Gun" had a nice mix of realism with two skilled shooters taking on gangs of lesser skilled shooters. Showed how using covering and moving tactics can overcome a bunch of thugs with guns.
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How come there isn't an "All of the Above" option? I would gladly have picked that option had it been there, seeing as I like all types of gunfights equally.
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Over The Top and Akimbo Wank are my preferred methods. The Matrix really blew, but I love the style of gunplay. So much so I've adopted elements into my modern-fantasy writings, where it makes a touch more sense.
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I tend to prefer the over the top action of Schwarzenegger, or failing that, realism.
Stuff like The Matrix is usually not appealing to me.
I tend to prefer the over the top action of Schwarzenegger, or failing that, realism.
Stuff like The Matrix is usually not appealing to me.
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Mainly Between over The top and Realistic, followed by the John woo style, I just liked the storm of bullets coming out like rain for the Wankstatisc style.
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