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The beach scene in SPR changed war movies forever.  No more crude, overly-dramatic stuff like the 50's-70's.  No more cheesy, overly-dramatic stuff like the 80's-90's.  Just pure, raw, technical battle that all the subsequent good war movies emulate.  

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9 hours ago, tantric superman said:

Recent one's

 

Couldn't find clips of Slow West's final shootout or probably my favorite recent shootout -- the Indian attack scene in Buster Scrugg's Gal Who Got Rattled:

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Slow west was good, and I hope the director gets to make more westerns, but it was pretty obviously made on a shoestring budget. I'm pretty sure I saw one of the characters wearing redwings or some other modern work boots in it. I hope he gets a chance to make something with a decent production value and a bit better historical accuracy.

And, yeah, the Wind River shootout was good. I'd forgotten about that one. 

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I like Open Range a lot, but a couple aspects of the shootout at the end have always bugged me.  At one point, Costner fans his pistol.  Nobody ever did that in frontier gunfights.  And he loosed off well over 6 shots during the course of fanning.  I mean, he literally shoots about a dozen rounds out of the same gun in that scene.  

Best shootout scenes off the top of my head for me are Heat (yeah, OP, I know you said not to list any Mann films, but it's such a great one), Sicario, and Wind River.  I was working in downtown LA the day they filmed the Heat shootout, and I'll never forget hearing the barrage of gunfire.

I like how Unforgiven depicted a lot of misses (many frontier shootouts involved shitty marksmanship) and that the shootout occurred at very close range, which was the norm. 

SPR was a sea change in terms of depiction of combat in war movies.  The realism in comparison to what had come before it was just remarkable.  

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23 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Glory

The insanity of standing in a long line and walking towards your enemy and firing, and waiting for them to fire, just boggles the mind.

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1 hour ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

The the fight at the end of Last of the Mohicans count?

One of the first ones I thought of but then thought bullet to battle axe/knife ratio was too low.

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Maybe the battle in the clearing where the English are walking home and get ambushed.

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51 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Someone brought up The Patriot earlier, the bouncing cannon ball / beheading always cracks me up.  

One of the great negged gifs ever.  Can’t find that version, but the original 

 

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Not sure if this really qualifies as a "shootout", but Normandy beach invasion at the beginning to Saving Private Ryan was very well done.

I don't really enjoy most hollywood "shootout" scenes because they are so unrealistic.

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18 hours ago, tantric superman said:

Children of Men

 

A lot of folks will miss the greatness of this scene.  It was done in one continuous take...  that's a masterpiece

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10 hours ago, HornsOverIthaca said:

Yeah the Charging Fort Wagner scene from Glory  is both incredible and kind of scary.

If we are going to include charges, I submit Thursday's Charge.

 

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