Top Ten Hollywood Gunfights

Kingo Gondo

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Dec 31, 2009, 11:26:57 AM12/31/09

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This was a poll they ran on afr15.com and reported (weekly for 10 weeks) on
one of the shooting shoes on the Outdoor Channel (Sighting In With Shooting
USA, to be specific). Arf.com is one of the bigger gun forums on the
internet (I think glocktalk.com is probably the biggest). The list suffers
from recency (only one pre-90s shootout, the 3 way near the end of The Good,
The Bad and The Ugly, which clocked in at #10), and has no true foreign
films (such as Hard Boiled). And several of the films suck otherwise. But
they got the winner right (I predicted it right off), since it is almost
universally acclaimed by every gun nut I know (and that is quite a few)--the
bank robbery into the streets shoot-out in Heat.

Here's the complete list, somewhat awkwardly presented via Amazon:

http://astore.amazon.com/httpwwwshootc-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=1

tomcervo

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Dec 31, 2009, 2:47:37 PM12/31/09

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On Dec 31, 11:26 am, "Kingo Gondo" <kingo_nospam_go...@gmail.com>
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I think they were looking for noise, or something since 1970, which
explains the absence of anything by Sam Peckinpah on the list, which
makes it largely irrelevant.

Kingo Gondo

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Dec 31, 2009, 3:32:11 PM12/31/09

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The host of the show, Jim Scouton, specifically mentioned the absence of The
Wild Bunch as surprising. But he is old school. Most people don't watch 40
year old movies, tom. There was only one film before *1990* on the list, for
Christ's sake. But, as I said, the winner was most deserving.

PS: You make fun of noise, but that is perhaps the most unrealistic aspect
of screen gunplay--it should be FUCKING LOUD, and characters should respond
according. I've seen indoor shootouts depicted that (in the real world)
would leave all the participants virtually deaf. Try to Dirty Harry a .44
magnum indoors, with no hearing protection. You'll be lucky if your ears
don't bleed. They will ring for days, at a minimum. And an AR--forget it,
man.

Kingo Gondo

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Dec 31, 2009, 3:33:50 PM12/31/09

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Scoutten, sorry--brain fart.

Dude talks like he has gonads the size of bowling balls.

tomcervo

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Dec 31, 2009, 11:41:33 PM12/31/09

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On Dec 31, 3:32 pm, "Kingo Gondo" <kingo_nospam_go...@gmail.com>
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So do those self-loaders really display plumes of muzzle flame in
daylight, the way they do at night? Or was that movie people wanting
to look cool? The buffs on IMDB say that the armorers had to add
propane jets to get the effect, and more rounds of ammo than a squad
carries into battle.

See, I'm not sure how much of that list is fantasy based. I know some
guys who swear by the OK Corral fight in "Tombstone", but the one in
"Wyatt Earp" has the virtue of being as long as the real thing--and
not a second, or gunshot, longer.

moviePig

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Jan 1, 2010, 10:00:53 AM1/1/10

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On Dec 31 2009, 3:32 pm, "Kingo Gondo" <kingo_nospam_go...@gmail.com>
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Yet (and though not exactly a candidate) a memorable aspect of
Carpenter's ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 was the *silence* of the continual
fusillades zipping into the jail, like supersonic deadly bees.

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