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Any movie you'll watch just for the handguns?

Here's my top five:

Dirty Harry, Magnum Force (Smith 29 vs. Colt Python. 'nuff said)

The Way of the Gun (watch Benicio Del Toro's 1911 wounded arm reloads and James Caan's excellent handling of his snub 38 S&W)

Thief (great James Caan with custom 1911s, Michael Mann directing. Watch Caan conduct Gunsite perfect room clearing drills in the final shootout)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (a civil war film that actually used cap and ball revolvers)

Heat (Pacino press checks his ivory gripped Colt Commander before busting down the door of an informant, a little detail that director Michael Mann made a point of showing).

Joe Kidd which feature numerous classic firearms including a star role for the C-96 Mauser pistol/carbine.

Of more recent vintage, I'd recommend Open Range. If I remember correctly, it has some of the best sound associated with on-screen gunfights of just about any movie I've seen. The movie has lots of entertaining pistol and rifle play, but my favorite scene was Robert Duvall's character cutting loose on a bad guy through a thin wood wall with a double-barrel scattergun, complete with said bad guy's leg quivering as he lay in the dirt.

Now THAT'S entertainment.

For me Tombstone is awesome, my favorite!!

The Way of the Gun-----a weird damn movie (Juliette Lewis guarantees that), but lots of shooting.

Heat-----a Mann classic

Last Man Standing----if a table covered with 1911 mags doesn't do it for you then.....

SWAT (w/ Sam Jackson)----lots of Kimber 1911s to make up for the corniness.

The Jesse Stone movies. Tom Seleck still fighting bad guys with a 1911.

I have to agree with Heat being one of the greats. I personaly think it was one of Pacino's and Deniro's last great movies. The 1911 play in that movie was great but the final bank roberry followed by the attempted getaway shootout was probably one of the better scenes of the movie.

It has been WAY too many years since I have seen Last Man Standing but would definitely have to rank it pretty high.

I have to agree with all mentioned thus far, except the Jesse Stone movies and SWAT. I've never seen those.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is pretty historically correct, showing Schofields and the 1875 Remington. 3:10 to Yuma and the 2008 Apaloosa also deserve mention. For that matter, so does Marlon Brando's Apaloosa due to his use of an 1874 Sharps.

The Wild Bunch used a lot of interesting weapons. Josey Wales remains one of my favorite westerns, right up there with True Grit.

+1!

Yep...I like the Old School Python Stuff...we thought it was so cool back then...
Surprised no 6 in Model 19s showed up.....

Heat- Ya just gotta love the IA drills during the shoot in Heat...

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Completely forgot about 3:10 to Yuma. That one deserves a little mention, as well as Open Range as someone else has already mentioned.

Another of my all time favorites is The Professional with Jean Reno, Natalie Portman and Gary Oldman. Lots of great gun handling scenes with a great mix of revolver and semi auto action by Jean. If you can find it, the director's cut is greatly more encompassed including extra scenes of his training of Natalie.

Miller's Crossing hasn't been mentioned.

Dirty Harry, of course.

US Marshals.

When entering the USO club in Naples, Italy, during WWII, Humphrey Bogart was asked by a GI where he could get one of those pistols he used in the movies that held 16 shots. Bogie replied "Ain't Hollywood grand!"

If I may detour slightly from OP's topic. My favorite movie for the depiction of weaponry is "The Professionals" which is set in the post-Mexican Revolution era in the New Mexico-Mexico border region. The weaponry is interesting because it fairly accurately shows the evolution of firearms (and modes of transportation horse-horse drawn wagon-railroad-tin lizzy)from the Frontier era to the WW1 era.

Lee Marvin carries a 1911 Colt, an Colt Official Police .38 DA revolver, a Winchester '97 Trench Gun, and is seen at the start of the movie demonstrating the use of a 1917 Browning Machine Gun. Burt Lancaster carries a Colt SAA and a Springield '06 and also uses a Winchester 1887 shotgun. Robert Ryan carries a Colt New Service DA revolver and a Winchester '92 Carbine. The Revolutionaries have a mix of Colt SAA's and Springfields and Jack Palance also has a Colt New Service DA revolver. The Revolutionaries also "liberate" a Lewis machine gun from the Mexican Army which Lee Marvin then "liberates" and uses when they raid the Revolutionaries camp. Ralph Bellamy's men have the same mix of Colt SAA's and DA revolvers and Winchester rifles and shotguns.

To top it off Woody Strobe uses an Apache-style bow and arrows!

The Wild Bunch is an all time great gun movie in general. The final gunfight is probably the best of best.


DeathWish 3 is lame movie, but who can't love Charles Bronson dealing death in the Bronx with .475 Wildey Automatic, or Ernest Borgnine slaying punks on the fire escape with a .30 Browning Belt fed


Unforgiven is a great one as well.

Also liked The Last Hard Men where prisoners escape from jail after 30 years. When they went in the SAA was "state of the art", but when they got out things had changed.

Love the scene where one fires a 1911......then nearly kills his companions when it just kept firing without cocking the hammer.

Later in the book (can't remember if it was in the movie) one of the "bad guys" was in a shoot out and hiding behind a rock. He counted his opponents shots and when they reached 6 he charged.....thinking it would take a while to reload a SA revolver. He didn't figure on a 1911 holding 7 rounds....and his friends didn't think about the quick reloading with magazines.

"Ronin", how could anyone forget that one????? Another EXCELLENT DeNiro film.

"The Untouchables" ain't too bad, either, Nitty at the courthouse, Ness with the Official Police Colt. The train station scene, heck, all kinds of great gun scenes in that one.

A couple of famous scenes from two movies...

Collateral "Yo Homie..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCA2ZNDa-hQ

Miami Vice...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q2Il86-38A