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Gun Fu - Reaction Shots Discussion Prompt (Patreon)

Published:
2023-04-07 17:00:03
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2023-04

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This month were talking about movies with good gunplay like John wick, dredd, equilibrium, the raid etc. The only guns I like are pretend movie guns, which movies have the best gun kata?

Filming the 11th.

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Anonymous

John wick looks so good because the actors put so much time in to train. After all his time training, Keanu would do well in competition shooting and it absolutely translates to the screen. // Also have to mention Collateral for its alleyway scene. People study that scene for its realistic quick draw technique. // Additionally the show Barry really took the time to get the technique right. And it's important for the narrative. It would be less easy to believe that the character Barry is a natural killer if Bill Hader looked uncomfortable holding a gun

Anonymous

It's obviously not a film, but the Corridor Digital "TactiCOOL Reloads" videos are a lot of fun. I remember liking the gunplay in El Mariachi and Way of the Gun, but it's been a LONG time. Shout-out to everything Sicario, just because.

Anonymous

Sicario: Day of the Soldado is pretty great for gunplay.

Anonymous

Magic Mike

Anonymous

The Bourne movies have some great shootouts. I still remember him dual-wielding pistols and shooting one of them with his pinky.

Anonymous

I know it's a stretch but Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. When I was a kid archery was amazing to me so I loved this movie and Men in Tights, the Disney cartoon etc. Yeah it's not a gun but crazy trick shots and overcoming the odds feels similar to me

Anonymous

Seeing the lobby shootout scene in the Matrix as a 90’s kid absolutely blew my mind.

Evan

I appreciate the safety measures that are taken on the John Wick films. The director of those movies was the stunt double for Brandon Lee on the Crow so it was a personal mission of his to make sure his sets are perfectly safe.

Anonymous

Equilibrium was the first movie that came to mind, with the special sleeve reload devices and the spikes on the gunbutts for extra ouchy power. Most of the Gun-Foo fighting is against non-gun-fooers so it's just about these maniacs in trenchcoats absolutely shredding normal goons with, I'll say, excessive style. The one encounter with another foo fighter is interesting tho because it becomes about batting the other guy's barrel away from you while you line up your own shot at point blank. It's a neat idea on paper but it looks ridiculous because the optimal strategy is obviously to just grab the other guy's wrist so he can't shoot you rather than swat at it with kung foo moves.

Anonymous

The Matrix! Guns.. lots of guns. Neo and Trinity raiding the office building to free Morpheus, with the exploding walls, triple kicking, gun flipping madness, blasting up an elevator shaft and culminating in the bullet time shot that defined the next 20 years of cinema. And curiously, 20 years later in The Matrix Resurrections- Neo never picks up a single gun. He's grown out of it. Moved on. He wants peace. His special power is a defensive shield, protecting rather than destroying... but still kicking ass.

Anonymous

Two great films with excellent gun use/knowledge are Heat and Collateral. Michael Man placed microphones around the set to capture the real sounds of the shoot out rather than dubbing in the sound after. The film contains several accurate manoeuvres like quick reloading and retreating under fire. In Collateral there is fantastic scene where Tom Cruise's character takes down two thugs. It takes Cruise just 1.3 seconds to draw and kill the briefcase thiefs. This scene is apparently showing as an example of a proper tactical draw and fire. You don't get that kinda stuff without serious attention to detail. Ps. I hope I'm not late 🤞

Anonymous
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10/10 movies! And don’t skip Miami Vice, which has similar dedication to tactics and firearm appreciation.

Anonymous

No discussion on this subject would be complete without mentioning The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors. He’s a cowboy on the frontier trying to raise his son as a single dad. He doesn’t carry a sidearm, but is a master with his lever-action Winchester. The show was created by Sam Peckinpah, and it’s way more violent than other shows of the era. It’s available online to stream here and there, so I strongly recommend it. The Expendables introduced audiences to the AA-12, the fully automatic shotgun that made Terry Crews a star! It’s so cool, Arnold basically steals it from him in the sequel. Rambo 2008 (the fourth one) is one of the greatest war movies ever made, and its big final battle has some of the most graphic gun violence you’ll ever see, with .50 cal ammo turning bad guys into exploding flesh balloons. Also, Punisher: War Zone, which feels like a love letter to the Cannon films of the 1980s… Speaking of which, Death Wish 3. While the first movie and its sequel are vigilante dramas with a dash of exploitation, part 3 is just 90 minutes of Charles Bronson (best in the biz!) blowing away bad guys with bigger and bigger guns! Also, Billy Jack has one of the best headshots in cinema history. You’ll see.

Anonymous

Not peak cinema by any means, but Wanted (2008) had some really cool Gun Fu, particularly the bullet bending. Hard Target and Hard Boiled have a lot of great Woo stuff

Anonymous

The Matrix, Equilibrium, The Raid 1+2 are of course the first movies I think of when Gun Fu is mentioned. That and the movies of John Woo have to be mentioned. One movie that never seems to get enough love is Shoot em up with Clive owen. Awesome action, funny as hell, Monica Bellucci being insanely hot and Clive Owen murdering a man with a carrot. Add Paul Giamatti and you have an absolute classic Desperado also an action epic with amazing shoot outs and helped introduce the world to Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek Honourable mention to Heat which isn't really Gun Fu but does have the most epic gun battles in cinema history and is probably responsible for the start of my hearing loss.

Anonymous

Hope I am not too late Raid is a funny example because in the commentary the director said the incredible gunfight in the beginning was just a way to get them to exhaust all of their ammunition so they'd have no choice but to use hand-to-hand combat. God I love those two movies so much. The Wild Bunch has two of the best shootouts thanks to the lightning fast editing that's just a mirage of people soaking bullets. Funny story, I saw that movie in a park in Kyiv, so I wonder how many unsuspecting families were walking by and had their children get a glimpse of the carnage.

Anonymous

We cannot talk about Gun Fu without mentioning the master of the genre, Chow Yun-fat. John Woo may have been the visionary behind the camera, but Chow Yun-fat gave that vision shape and made it poetry. Just take the restaurant scene in A Better Tomorrow from 1986, where he walzes in smiling, with a woman on his arm, as a cover to place guns in the potted plants lining the hallway leading to his targets. Upon reaching the room his smile fades as he pulls out his signature two Beretta 9mm and proceeds to wreak havoc. As he backs out and flees the scene, instead of changing mags he just throws away the guns as they run out of bullets and picks up fresh ones where he planted them. Really, any movie of his from this era is SSS rank Gun Fu: The church scene in The Killer and him sliding down a guard rail while shooting in Hard Boiled are two other personal favourites. Five hundred years from now he will still be the Gold Standard for looking badass sporting a trenchcoat and two pistols while chewing on a toothpick. While we are on the subjec of old school badassery, I had this question prepared in case Huber would be adamant about not answering any non Yellowjackets related questions as a dare: Where does the knife in the 1986 Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra rank on the Greatest Movie Knives of all time? Correct answer is number three, right after the knives in Crocodile Dundee and Rambo. Finally, classic anime of the month: Cyber City Oedo 808, a three part OAV from Yoshiaki Kawajiri (who also directed Ninja Scroll). It's basically what the Cyberpunk 2077 anime would have been if it was made in 1990 and comes highly recommended. Love and respect and extra shout out to Bloodworth who informed me that this episode was delayed when I lamented having missed the prompt on Discord. Hope you enjoyed London, Huber, and please don't be shy to visit Stockholm in the future.

Anonymous

I don't have much to contribute about Gun Fu, as I'm not too knowledgeable about the genre. I do though have an update from a recent talking point: In just one week the Mario movie surpassed Ant-Man 3's total box office gross. The Mario movie had an estimated budget of half of Ant Man 3, making it an even bigger success. Both movies had a "Rotten" score on Rotten Tomatoes, however their Cinemascore was substantially different (A for Mario and B for Ant-Man). So I just wanted to let you know the general audience is really into the Mario movie, despite the critics reception