I was watching “The Gauntlet” (Clint Eastwood) last night and was amazed at the number of bullets fired (at the house, at the sheriff’s car, and, of course, at the bus). Has there any other non-war movie where more bullets have been fired? Al Pacino’s “Scarface” comes to mind.
I’m not looking for an exact count by any means! Just curious.
I didn’t get to watch all of The Gauntlet, but other movies I can think of (non-war) that may match it:
The Terminator
heh. that’s the only lots-o-shooting movie I can think of right now. Need sleep.
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Hard Boiled, with Chow Yun Fat, directed by John Woo. Far and away, the most gunplay I’ve seen in a film.
The Lethal Weapon movies always had a lot of gunfire. I’m drawing a blank on other possibilities.
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Didn’t see Hard Boiled, but The Killer (also Chow Yun Fat), had a trailer along the lines of “…10,000 bullets…”
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I would think The Wild Bunch would definitely be a contender.
MaxTorque, I never saw Hard Boiled, but if it’s anything like other John Woo films, one of the characters fires two guns simultaneously! 
Lemme dig around a bit, but I thought there was a definitive listing of most shots fired per film. Be right back…
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Aliens (the extended version) has something like four automated sentry guns that fire off 500 rounds each at the insectoid hordes. That has to raise the bullet count up some, not counting the human fired bullets
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Well, that bullshit handheld gatling gun used in Predator probably fired off at least 3,000 bullets…
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
The only Chow Yun Fat movie I have seen is “The Replacement Killers” and it seemed to have a lot of gun play in it. I was thinking one of the worst, in terms of how many rounds were fired, was probably Aliens or one the Rambo movies, although Predator also had an exorbitant amount of weaponry. Starship Troopers also was pretty violent, although those bugs were really cool looking too.
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IMHO, I think you’d have to disqualify Starship Troopers and Aliens, as they are pretty much war films, albeit with aliens.
For sheer numbers of bullets, obviously the films with extremely heavy machine guns are going to have the advantage. IIRC, cyclic rates on miniguns run roughly 1000 and 6000 rounds/min, depending on the platform and type. Unrealistic for anybody to be toting these things around along with that much ammo, that’s for sure. Regardless of reality, of the non-war movies I’ve seen, Terminator 2 and Predator are probably the top two in bullets fired. The Matrix had it’s fair share of machine guns as well, including the helicopter mounted minigun. Rambo and John Woo movies (maybe Tomorrow Never Dies? lots of machine gunfire in the opening sequence) might be competitors in the non-war, non-sci-fi department.
Oh, and Trumpy, if indeed that is your real name…
I don’t think Pod People qualifies in this particular category…
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You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
Dudes, really. Check out Hard Boiled. You’ll agree with me. If nothing else, Hard Boiled should win the award for Most On-Screen Shooting Deaths, with somewhere around 300. The final shoot-out takes around 45 minutes, and the shooting is virtually non-stop.
Perhaps there should be different categories for semi-auto and full-auto ‘most bullets fired’?
OK, OK, I’ll watch your movie the next time I get the opportunity. It’s hard to imagine a movie about eggs would be so violent.
But do note that the OP asked for number of bullets, not deaths…
Well, see, John Woo likes his films’ violence to be comic-book-ish; that is, no one ever pauses to reload, unless it’s important to the action. Guns just keep…on…firing! So, his gun battles tend to be huge and prolonged. Hard Boiled, even among his movies, is just above and beyond…
I know the OP was about bullets, but bullets is where them bodies came from. You can count the bullets in Hard Boiled if you want to; it’ll take a while.
Hard Boiled has much more gunplay than The Killer. Other than the finale in the church, there aren’t more than a hundred shots fired in The Killer.
Although it was only in a small part of the movie, wouldn’t the car-mounted minigun in The Jackal be a contender?
Addition:
if it’s anything like other John Woo films, one of the characters fires two guns simultaneously, while breakdancing.
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How many shots are fired in that scene in the kitchen? There were so many shots fired the gunpowder was starting to cloud up, and then just to break up the action, one guy was stabbed.
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Having most of these movies listed, I think I would leen toward “The Gaunlet”.
On a similar note:
How many police cars are wrecked in “The Blues Brothers” movie? I keep losing count at about 40-something on the freeway before they hit the city.
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