What are the best 'Shooter' movies

obieone
obieone Posts: 5,077
edited March 2010 in Music & Movies
These are flicks that are primarily about guns, not so much pyrotechnics.
Here's my short list:

The Professional
Boondock Saint's*
Hitman

*I haven't seen 'All Saint's day' yet, so that may get added to the list.

Any others???:confused:
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited February 2010
    Shoot 'em Up :D
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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    edited February 2010
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited February 2010
    I liked Tom Sellick in "Quiggley Down Under" - a bit campy at times, but some scenes are nicely set up for some cool shots.

    I also like Clint Eastwood in "Joe Kidd" - love the scene set up for the LOOONG rifle shot at the bad buy.

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    greg2350 Posts: 544
    edited February 2010
    Heat
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    nguyendot Posts: 3,594
    edited February 2010
    greg2350 wrote: »
    Heat

    Agreed. Love the downtown scene
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited February 2010
    There are some good sniper scenes in Enemy At the Gates, very underrated movie IMO
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited February 2010
    concealer404 wrote: »
    Shoot 'em Up :D

    I loved that movie, especially the "carrot in the eye" scene.
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    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited February 2010
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited February 2010
    Postal
    Band of Brothers (from the 2nd disc on)
    Smokin' Aces
    Commando

    Lots of others, those are just the first few off the top of my head.
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    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited February 2010
    ryanjoachim wrote: »
    Postal
    Band of Brothers (from the 2nd disc on)
    Smokin' Aces
    Commando

    Lots of others, those are just the first few off the top of my head.

    You would make my day if you told me that "Postal" was based off the video game...
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  • Ron Temple
    Ron Temple Posts: 3,212
    edited February 2010
    concealer404 wrote: »
    You would make my day if you told me that "Postal" was based off the video game...
    It was...Uwe Boll the German master of shlock made it. I'm sure it was awful.

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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited February 2010
    Ron Temple wrote: »
    It was...Uwe Boll the German master of shlock made it. I'm sure it was awful.

    Well, the game was pretty awful, too, in a hilariously sick sort of way.

    Added to my queue!
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited February 2010
    Just remembered 'Lock, Stock, and 2 Smokin Barrels'. There was another British shootemup flick, but I can't remember the name???
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  • hockeyboy
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    edited February 2010
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    HHStuart Posts: 263
    edited February 2010
    How about "Shooter"?
    +1 on Enemy at the Gates
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited February 2010
    Collateral.

    collateral.jpg

    I am not a big fan of Tom Cruise, but as a guy who follows and participates in competitive and recreational shooting, there was great shooting and gun handling skills displayed in that movie.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited February 2010
    Shooter was great, too. The book that Shooter was based on was written by Stephen Hunter, a huge gun enthusiast who goes to painstaking lengths to be accurate about firearms in his books. He said in a recent article that the people who turned his book into a movie got some things wrong, but that they too went through great lengths to be accurate about firearms and the shooting scenes.

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited February 2010
    Predator was pretty good too! "Time to give them a taste of ole painless!"
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited February 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Predator was pretty good too! "Time to give them a taste of ole painless!"

    Yeah when they do some weed whacking with the gattling - that was pretty awesome! I could use that in my backyard! :D

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    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited February 2010
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited February 2010
    mikeyb wrote: »
    ...also a movie called sniper. Its old and I barely remember it.

    Sniper, 1993, with Tom Berenger. Here are some other flicks to consider although I wouldn't argue they're the best but I sure had fun watching them.

    The Killer
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097202/

    Hard Boiled
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104684/

    Bangkok Dangerous (1999)
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263101/

    Quigley Down Under
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102744/

    For a Few Dollars More
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059578/

    The Bourne Trilogy
    http://www.amazon.com/Trilogy-Identity-Supremacy-Ultimatum-Blu-ray/dp/B001LPWGE6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1266683318&sr=8-1

    Running Scared
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404390/

    Assassins
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112401/

    Wanted
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493464/
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  • danz1906
    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited February 2010
    The movie Open Range was pretty good.
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  • chiptouz
    chiptouz Posts: 152
    edited February 2010
    +1 to Boondock Saints
    +1 Heat

    The Bourne Series, the new bond, shooter, The Italian Job...
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  • POIDOG
    POIDOG Posts: 391
    edited March 2010
    Check out the "The Guns of Yuma" short on the remake of "3:10 to Yuma"
    very instructive & :cool:
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  • Slinger182
    Slinger182 Posts: 512
    edited March 2010
    fatchowmein wrote: »
    Running Scared
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404390/

    How about the Running Scared from the mid to late 80s with Billy Crystal??:cool:
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited March 2010
    Demiurge wrote: »
    Shooter was great, too. The book that Shooter was based on was written by Stephen Hunter, a huge gun enthusiast who goes to painstaking lengths to be accurate about firearms in his books. He said in a recent article that the people who turned his book into a movie got some things wrong, but that they too went through great lengths to be accurate about firearms and the shooting scenes.

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    +1. I've got a majority of his books, taking up an enitre shelf.
    Earl Swagger is a bad-****:D


    Btw, I just remembered 'To Live and Die in L.A.' Damn good flick.
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  • thuffman03
    thuffman03 Posts: 1,325
    edited March 2010
    concealer404 wrote: »
    Shoot 'em Up :D

    By far one of the best!
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited March 2010
    "True Romance!" Classic Tarantino stuff. Great dialog, great shoot 'em up.

    Plus it doesn't get better than this;

    Christian Slater

    Patricia Arquette

    Dennis Hopper

    Val Kilmer

    Gary Oldman

    Brad Pitt

    Christopher Walken

    Bronson Pinchot

    Samuel L. Jackson

    Michael Rapaport

    Saul Rubinek

    James Gandolfini

    Chris Penn

    Tom Sizemore

    Ed Lauter

    . . .and more!

    Favorite Scene, when Dennis Hopper's character is being tortured by Chistopher Walken's character and his goons and Hopper's character goes into his "Sicilan" ancestry diatribe. Being half Sicilian, I've heard that many times by "pure" Italians.

    Next favorite scene ANYTHING Gary Oldman was in.

    The ending was definitely classic Tarantino extended, all faction shoot out!
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  • hockeyboy
    hockeyboy Posts: 1,428
    edited March 2010
    That makes you half eggplant.
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    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited March 2010
    hockeyboy wrote: »
    That makes you half eggplant.

    Yep! LOL!
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