Best shootout scene in a movie ever? I’ll start:
@RealEmirHan This underrated gem ... Open Range youtube.com/watch?v=1E4BQm…
@RealEmirHan Boondocks Saints “ THERE WAS A FIRE FIGHT!!!”
@RealEmirHan You always start with the best ones...Ruins the game...
@RealEmirHan John wick. There is no other answer.
@RealEmirHan Heat is definitely one of my favorite films. I heard a rumor that they showed this clip to Marines in boot camp because of how realistic it is in an actual firefight and how to move on the enemy targets.
Actually, no... "HEAT" is close, but its only one of several great shootouts. The precedent was established by Sam Peckinpah's 1969 Mega Classic, "The Wild Bunch." While Peckinpah may have relied on more film maker's tricks than HEAT, besides thousand of squibs, The Wild Bunch horrified viewers with its bloody ending. Bonnie & Clyde (1968), also set graphical precedents that were so over the top Warren Beatty couldn't get it released, and went to Europe first. Making its U.S. debut protracted by 1 year. But Michael Mann's 1995 "HEAT", does most accurately convey a firefight of M16s in modern L.A., and ironically, was copied in reality a couple years later by two L.A. bank robbers. While Michael Mann was the pioneer of synchronized music soundtracks choreographed to match the scene's tempo and visuals, he first debuted in his 1980 James Caan cult classic, "Thief," using Tangerine Dream; it was the 1984 TV Series "Miami Vice," where he perfected this vidro/music style, while continuing to reveal his anal obsession with firearms technical detail in combat shooting, sweep & clear, and an overall insider's POV to criminal behavior and pro techniques they use. HEAT has all this. Unfortunately, Mann dropped the ball on the character arcs for Pacino and DeNiro. Their mutual admiration went clear off the deep end for Pacino's character, an ex-Marine, life long Cop, who shows empathy for a strange black mother's loss of her hooker child; but looks past the four dead Armored Car crew's families, to find respect in DeNiro's cold blooded machine like murders of them?... give me a break. Then holds DeNiro's hand as he dies. Complete fraud of Pacino's character. This is one of the worst character backstory marriages ever mated to such a technically explosive crime action drama. Too bad Mann didn't make the character conflicts more real to what their life's backstories portrayed. Mann, totally fucked the character arcs up, and missed several opportunites to make the personal competition between Pacino and DeNiro's characters far more real, and much climatic; than the whimped out Cop who admires a psycho killing machine (DeNiro) as if they're old high school chums. Total joke. But I digress.🐍