Favorite type of gunfight?

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-09-27 08:56am

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.

theski · Post by **theski** » 2006-09-27 09:08am

Vemp.. Where would you put Last Man Standing??

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-09-27 09:21am

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.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2006-09-27 09:44am

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'.

theski · Post by **theski** » 2006-09-27 09:49am

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

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2006-09-27 09:51am

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

True. My bad for initially skimping on it.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2006-09-27 10:26am

Mann + McNab = win.

Edward Yee · Post by **Edward Yee** » 2006-09-27 11:12am

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?

Loner · Post by **Loner** » 2006-09-27 11:14am

It's a toss-up between Realistic and Western.

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-09-27 11:29am

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?

The way the guns are handled, sound effects, bullet impacts, etc etc.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2006-09-27 11:31am

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.

Davis 51 · Post by **Davis 51** » 2006-09-27 11:34am

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.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2006-09-27 11:46am

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!")

salm · Post by **salm** » 2006-09-27 12:16pm

John Woo wins.

Sidewinder · Post by **Sidewinder** » 2006-09-27 12:49pm

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.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-09-27 12:51pm

Hard tie between realistic movies such as BHD and wanktastic fights such as Matrix.

Balrog · Post by **Balrog** » 2006-09-27 02:44pm

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.

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2006-09-27 03:48pm

I prefer realistic with a little Woo and Arnie style in small doses.

Meest · Post by **Meest** » 2006-09-27 04:30pm

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.

Shinn Langley Soryu · Post by **Shinn Langley Soryu** » 2006-09-27 05:50pm

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.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-09-27 05:50pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Mann + McNab = win.

Mann is god.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2006-09-27 06:06pm

Realistic got my vote but I do indeed like the western. And mass attacks, like the opening to SPR when they landed at Normandy.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2006-09-27 07:55pm

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.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-09-27 08:13pm

this always gets a laugh out of 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.

starfury · Post by **starfury** » 2006-09-27 11:00pm

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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