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Nobody mentioned "Blazing Saddles"



Sorry...........its late .......... :-)

Both of those were great movies. I though Ronin was under rated. I thought it was one of his better movies.

I loved Nitty's hand-written business card from the Mayor allowing him to carry...and the cop was prefectly fine with it. The operation at the border with the Canadian mounties, that might be the train station scene you're talking about, was also great.

Has anyone ever checked out this sight. Internet Movie Firearms Database

You beat me to it!

Or "The Quick and The Dead"

If only it had been quickly dead............

Gus was shootin an 1860 Henry when he dropped one in the "chickens" guts.. Not a "73"..

I appreciate a movie/ tv program which portrays the main character as being as comfortable carrying their firearm as they are with their cell phones. A tool that is carried daily.

The actors on the "CSI" type shows etc. are not firearms folks....and it shows.

Thumbs up for Tom Selleck and his characters.... very easy to see he is a "natural" with a 1911. I understand the 1911 he carries in the Jesse Stone series is one of his own.

Another nod to Last Man Standing...Lots of 1911 mags are a good thing!

Wild Bunch and also, of course, Dirty Harry

Agreed. I can't stand seeing when they unholster a weapon and then keep their arm stiff as a board as if they are trying to keep a wild animal from attacking them.

The Getaway (1972 version) by Peckinpah, with McQueen. The move by McQueen with the left hand, to shield himself from back splatter as he's deciding whether to put a bullet from his 1911 into Al Lettieri's head from about 8 inches away, is classic Peckinpah.

--Bob

Clint Eastwood in Magnum Force. Smith Model 29 and Colt Python

I need to go back and check , now that it's out on DVD..
but it bugged me for the whole movie in the theater..
Public Enemy
one of the first scenes is the prison break set in ?
Late 20's or very early 30's
And it has the guard in the tower armed with an M1 Garand.

The rest of the guns seemed correct. But that one mistake bugged me
( Civilian Service rifle competitor and Garand fan )

In the film"Silverado",Kevin Costner seemed to be practiced up with his six gun twirling.Scott Glenn seemed pretty comfortable with his guns too.

Loved that scene in Collateral where Tom Cruise draws from holster at close range to grease two dudes. TC may be a weirdo, but unless what they displayed was fast motion (could be), he had a practiced draw and presentation. Same could be said for Sly Stallones' scene on the boat in the last Rambo flick.

Expat

Was "Thief" mentioned with James Caan.

Nothing surpasses Clinton Taratino's "Deperado" with Antonio Banderas. This is the baseline by which all flying pistol shooting movies are based.

John Wayne in "True Grit". When he is on the hill overlooking the cabin, waiting for Lucky Ned Pepper to come into his trap, he pulls out his colt SAA and puts one more round in the cylinder. Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), asks him why he always keeps the one chamber empty, and he says "so I won't shoot myself".

This is a safe carry only an accomplished gun person would know, I assume John Wayne had that part put into the film.

John Wayne also showed more gun handling knowledge in "The Shootist" when he was giving shooting lessons to Ron Howard. These nuances are rarely seen in film making.

John Wayne was, however involved with a bunch of post Civil War films that had the characters using model 92 Winchesters....oops.

and shows handguns in their proper context...

Kick Ass

I don't know who did the shooting work in Collateral, but it was the very best I've ever seen on the silver screen. There's only a small pool of guys that fast, and I keep hoping somebody will tell me who it was. I happen to like Tom's acting, but that's not something he could just train a couple months for.

The best actor I've ever seen was Steven Segal in Hard to Kill. He did his own work there and he was pretty good.

Everything else, with few exceptions, has been doo-doo.