Best Western Shootouts.

[Marine0846]

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."

[Diakon]

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

[archangel1]

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.

[bandit86]

The final shootout in Open range (sometimes you miss even at close range plus the sound effects were great)

[Leetje]

I have to agree I love the shootout at the end of Open Range.

[Darkoath]

Ditto for Open Range... one of the best western shootouts ever done in film in my opinion...

Darkoath

[Brian Smaller]

The Northfield, Minnesota shoot up of the James-Younger gang in The Long Riders.

[Lowtardog]

The Northfield, Minnesota shoot up of the James-Younger gang in The Long Riders.

Yup the slo mo is great

[Bugsda]

Another vote for the Wild Bunch. Pekinpah might not have been the greatest director ever but he did the best bullet riddled corpses. 

[Brian Smaller]

Yup the slo mo is great

Not just the slo mo - the sound editing and effects were so good.

[thebinmann]

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

[Malamute]

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.

[Shikari Sahib]

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

[Colonel Tubby]

...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!)

[Johnno]

I really enjoy "3:10 to Yuma" gunfight at the end between Dan the Rancher and Wade's gang.