Looks like I’m gonna have to go the video place. But ‘Face-off’ and ‘Last man standing’ had an awful lot of gunfire.
Oh, forgot about that scene. I still maintain that the hospital and opening scenes in Hard Boiled have more shooting than all of The Killer.
I’d compare the two, but my copy of Hard Boiled has been loaned, permanently.
I’m going to have to side with Hard Boiled. Scene after scene of huge gun battles, and unlike American movies, these guys actually tend to hit what they are shooting at. The Killer has been mentioned a few times, but don’t overlook the finale of A Better Tomorrow or A Bullet In The Head.
Gee, I don’t think any of us expected him to say that.
“The Crow” had quite a bit of gunplay in it. I think that Brandon Lee would agree with me that it had one bullet too many, though.
“It’s only common sense,
There are no accidents 'round here.”
What about the Antonio Bandaras movie “Desparado”. I have not seen several of the other movies mentioned, but this movie has a whole bunch of shooting.
He has guns stashed all over his body and then he uses the guns of the guys he has killed. In one of the early bar scenes he ends up shooting eveybody in the bar and using a whole bunch of ammo. Then the later shootouts are pretty big too. They also use a rocket launcher and machine guns in the guitar cases of his buddies.
Jeffery
I think Heat might be a contender as well. Especially the face-off scene with the cops.
Max and Guy…
Definitely agree with you on your choices as far as shear number of rounds expended, but if I may, I submit Ah-nuld’s lame (but great for fictating) Commando, and the lamer PredatorII, with Danny Glover. And who can forget the immortal line from ‘the Body’, “I ain’t got time to bleed”, just before he lights off “Painless” the mini-gun, in PredatorI??
When things get really weird, the weird turn pro. H.S. Thompson
John Woo is definitely a great film-maker. His influence can clearly be seen in all of Robert Rodriguez’s films as well as The Matrix.
The most notable trademark is the scene where the hero who is firing actually runs out of bullets, and does not pause to reload, but instead drops his weapons and pulls out another two, often from behind his back.
The fact that the guns fire way more rounds than is conceivably possible adds a certain… a certain… I don’t know what to the movie.
Again, I think John Woo is a genius in his field, for reasons such as this.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.