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Miniatures Adventure => Old West => Topic started by: Marine0846 on 03 October 2011, 02:36:50 AM
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OK leadfool, I will start the shooting.
The first and last shootout in ' "the Wild Bunch."
Both are a ballet in blood.
To quote a line in the movie, they're "better than a hog killing."
Could you guess this my favorite Western.
Also the last gunfight in "the Magnifient Seven."
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It's 3:40am and I'm half asleep but heres a couple that spring instantly to mind.
There are some beautiful gun battles in Red Dead Redemption. Especially the Gang hideout clearing missions and when yr on a raft drifting down river and there's loads of mexicans shooting at you from the river bank. Stunning stuff indeed.
When they're shooting up the house at the end of Young Guns
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I'm going to disagree slightly with your term 'shootout'. When I think of the word, I usually think of it in the context of a one-on-one battle. It may not be a simple one shot affair but it's still basically face-to-face. You're describing a gun battle, which isn't the same thing at all. In that sense, I like the one in Rio Bravo and also Silverado, which does end up as well with a nice showdown between Kevin Kline and Brian Dennehy.
To stretch the definition even farther, I'd like to mention the final confrontation in Kurosawa's Sanjuro, which is a western in all but name. No guns but, man, is it fast! Don't blink or you'll miss it. It's over in less than a second and involves our hero (Toshiro Mifune, of course!) drawing his sword left-handed for a reverse right to left push-cut. Brilliant! Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYbi7gKKvOo
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The final shootout in Open range (sometimes you miss even at close range plus the sound effects were great)
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I have to agree I love the shootout at the end of Open Range.
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Ditto for Open Range... one of the best western shootouts ever done in film in my opinion...
Darkoath
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The Northfield, Minnesota shoot up of the James-Younger gang in The Long Riders.
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The Northfield, Minnesota shoot up of the James-Younger gang in The Long Riders.
Yup the slo mo is great
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Another vote for the Wild Bunch. Pekinpah might not have been the greatest director ever but he did the best bullet riddled corpses. 8)
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Yup the slo mo is great
Not just the slo mo - the sound editing and effects were so good.
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I have to agree I love the shootout at the end of Open Range.
Me too, from the moment KC kills the main "bad killer" (you expcet it to be longer and harder to kill him) through when the old guys twists his knee via the shotgun through the wall it seems to be as real as it could be...
For non gun shootouts see Deadwood Capt Vs Dan
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Yep I agree with the carnage at the end of the Wild Bunch and Open Range, but for the ultimate showdown it has to the three way gunfight at the climax of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
The build up via the close ups of their eyes, twitchy hands etc along with the quickening pace of the music and the quickening visual pace, it's perfect.
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The shootout at the end of Open Range is the most realistic and most historical,
Read some books and you will agree with me.
The most impressive the long sequence of the Wild Bunch.
Piero
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...the ultimate showdown it has to the three way gunfight at the climax of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
The build up via the close ups of their eyes, twitchy hands etc along with the quickening pace of the music and the quickening visual pace, it's perfect.
I have to agree with The Good et. al. - but I've also always been a bit partial to a bit of the Duke so the ending of True Grit is always worth a watching because its different (new version was good as well!)
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I really enjoy "3:10 to Yuma" gunfight at the end between Dan the Rancher and Wade's gang.
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I think the surprise revealed during the shootout at the end of "Quigley Down Under" is pretty great: won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it! ;)
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"'s finale is classic, but it's hard to beat "The Wild Bunch"'s carnage.
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I think the surprise revealed during the shootout at the end of "Quigley Down Under" is pretty great: won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it! ;)
Now there's a good film, Rickman is very good a being bad (if I remember right)
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The final shootout in Open range (sometimes you miss even at close range plus the sound effects were great)
All the other ones mentioned are great, but I've got to agree with you guys about the final shootout in Open Range - superbly done.
www.gallopingmajorwargames.com
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No there's a good film, Rickman is very good a being bad (if I remember right)
You do, and he is.
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I have to give my vote to Open Range as well.
One of the most realistic western movies I have ever seen.
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Another vote here for Open Range. :)
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Yea. Open range.
Or the last gunfight in Rio Bravo.
Or the fist fight/mud hole scene in McClintock!
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The end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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Open Range. I like the first shot the best.
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The end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
I second that. It ended however your imagination wanted it to end.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi9ID0I41Wk :D
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juwwCTBZOCQ&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mnFsrmsA94
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..and not forgetting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEm-6lYMgCI
:D
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Pale Rider
High Plains Drifter and one of my top 10 films,ever ;)
Fistful of Dollars et al
Last Man Standing (I know,I know) lol
Wild Bunch
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For sheer iconic Western, I have to go with John Wayne in True Grit. Four on one, reins in his teeth, Colt in one hand, spin-cocking a Remington drop-lever carbine at a full gallop...
I once played in a Western RPG campaign in which one of the characters got to play "Horatius at the Bridge" just like that. I have never seen such a run of perfect attack rolls, and rolls to persevere after taking damage. It was the sort of episode that we game for... Good times.
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Appaloossa (an under-rated Western, in my book. I love it).
A great two-line exchange after it as well.
"That was fast."
"That's because everybody could shoot."
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Old and forgotten: the end of Shane.
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Old and forgotten: the end of Shane.
Good one, Jack Palance at his sneering best. If I recall the sound of the pistols firing is really booming. A great western.
Hawkeye is spot on with Appaloossa too.
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I would also cast a vote for High Noon.
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Pale Rider.
The shootout in Open Range everyone loves "borrowed" very heavily from it. If scene for scene copies can be called borrowing.
Didn't do it justice IMO.
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Start to finish: the final shootout in Open Range. Holy crap, what excitement! Borrowed or not, my all-time favorite!
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Yup, Open Range here, too. And though technically not a Western, the shootout in "Ride With The Devil" where the Bushwhackers are trapped in the Widow's house by Union Cavalry is probably my second favorite.