To start my first post here on my blog I thought I'd share with you lucky gits something cool.



I've seen many a list of greatest movie shootouts and quite frankly most of them are pretty terrible so I've set out to make my personal "top ten greatest shootouts in the history of film" list and you lucky sonofabitches get to see it.





1. The Wild Bunch final shootout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OLvEJ3kP1s&mode=related&search=

Not only the best in terms of style but also just the feel and emotion. This is heroic bloodshed before people gave it that name with a couple of losers finally taking a heroic last stand for once in their lives. Brutal, Violent as all hell, but also romantic in it's last hurrah.

2. The Killer shootout in the Church
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM5pGXCRPOM

If Peckinpah started the style then it's Woo that kicked it into overdrive. Douglas Sirk combines with pulp french gangsterism to create a shootout where the violence is almost more beautiful than grusome and where tears flow just as much as blood.

3. Hard-Boiled various hospital shootouts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SNmELMoOaQ

While not nearly as deep as the Killer Hard-Boiled stands as the single best buddy cop film ever made. There's more bullets in the hospital scenes alone than in most war movies. The whole film defines the action genre and is filled with the type of gunfights that most be seen to be believed. But the hospital shootouts are the best.

4.Heat bank robbery shootout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7exsa3zXI8

Michael Mann is one of the single greatest American directors working today. His characters much like those of director Jean-Pierre Melville speak little but who's actions define them and this shootout is a perfect example of this. Intense and almost doctumentary like in it's realism Heat's shootout is one of the best most powerful ones ever filmed.

5. Miami Vice Ending shootout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P_I2F4kAA0

Another Michael Mann film and one that people will either love or hate(I thought both it and the Fountain where the best films of '06) but the shootout can't be argued with. Unspooling like a bad episode of cops the shootout shot mostly handheld is frankly brillant.

6. Open Range ending shootout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq3zjTmVLbM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3agDSq2DJA&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00RfIVn8Yp8&mode=related&search=

A truly badass little ending shootout which makes me think back fondly on all those movies I watched with my dad as a kid only far more intense. Kevin Costner blowing the guy away at the beginning is a great little kickass moment.

7. Commando shootout at the mansion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1UIndKma-M&mode=related&search=

If there's ever a movie that defines 80's action to me then it's Commando. Gloriously stupid, Macho, and frankly pretty gay Commando is the movie Rambo part 2 should have been. And the ending shootout is the greatest scene in all of Arnold's movies no debate.


8. Joshua Tree(Army of One) Chop-Shop shootout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOe53JpWQpE

Some people claim that the Matrix has the best Hong-Kong style shootout in an American film but I'll argue this film has it beat. Directed by big time stuntman Vic Armstrong Joshua Tree's shootout is utterly over the top and insanely violent with some of the best squibs I've ever seen. A lost action classic.

9. Legacy of Rage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toWUj5L3DWQ (if somebody can find a better clip of this scene please let me know)

For Brandon Lee's only Hong Kong film he decided that rather than try and do martial arts battles like his father he's instead try and do a John Woo like scene. Far more goofy and over the top than any of Woo's stuff Legacy of Rage recalls a Robert Rodriguez action scene with billions of bullets flying every where and an insane amount of carnage. Awesome in everyway.

10. Extreme Prejudice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsbVtvx3PPw

Although pretty much a ripoff of The Wild Bunch ending it's still awesome to see Clancy Brown blowing people away with a shotgun while getting filled with lotsa lead. The whole movie is one of my personal favorites and is still my very favorite Walter Hill movie.(and considering how much I love Walter Hll that's alot)

Well this is my first post and my first of most likely many lists so any feed back would be great.

See you all for now suckas.