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So what are the movies that any self-respecting gunny must have in his/her DVD library?

Tombstone?
Heat?
Quigley Down Under?
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly?
The Matrix?
Unforgiven?
Paul Blart, Mall Cop?

With Summer coming, I'm trying to expand my horizons, and if I don't get a head start, there's likely to be a plethora of Rom-Coms on the way.

Old Dogs with John Travolta & Robin Williams. If you are in the mood for laughing. If not try Kill Bill I and II.

If you're looking for "gun-related" movies, beyond the good choices you've already mentioned ....

Last Man Standing is a good old-fashioned mindless, plotless shoot-em-up staring Bruce Willis (about 15 - 20 years old?) If you love 1911s, you'll really like this movie (he double-fists a pair of 1911s in many of the shootout scenes). And good part of it is set in Texas.

Smokin' Aces is a more recent mindless shoot-em-up - bunch of assassins go after some Mafia screw up and use every conceavable weapon and tactic to try to take him down - including a lady in a room of a hotel on other side of town firing a .50-cal Barrett into the mark's hotel room

Dirty Harry - the original, and still the best

Enemy At the Gates - easily the best movie about snipers ever made, and a relatively true story to boot

All seven seasons of "The Shield" ... I never knew I wanted a Smith & Wesson 4506 until I became hooked on this show

Open Range - good cowboy movie with a superb classic western gun-battle at the end

The Hurt Locker - very good movie, maybe not great at least not Best Picture Academy Award great - but well worth seeing - extremely intense scene about halfway through the movie of soldiers taking incoming sniper fire and trying to return fire with a .50-cal Barrett

Saving Private Ryan - can't mention a war movie without including this one

Desperado and El Mariachi - the similar themed movies of a revenge-seeking musician with a guitar case full of guns, Desperado is the newer version with Antonio Banderas in the lead role and Salma Hayek as the love interest. El Mariachi is the original, sub-titled and shot on a very low budget

Bourne trilogy.


BH down.

Saving Pvt Ryan

Navy Seals - cheese but classic IMO

We Were Soldiers

Patriot - aim small miss small

Die Hard(s)

Green Beret's

Gran Torino

Rules of Engagement

Sniper

Patriot Games

Body of Lies

Shoot 'em up!!

When I finished that movie, I actually said WOW, that's the first action movie I've seen that actually had enough action!

I liked "Shooter" with Mark Wahlberg.

For those of you into zombie survival scenarios, Zombieland is a must see.

I second Open Range.

Hamburger Hill

The World At War

Victory At Sea

Apocalypse Now

Why We Fight

TEXAS by James A Michener

Saving Private Ryan

• The Band of Brothers series
• Quigley Down Under
• Tombstone
• Unforgiven
• Saving Private Ryan
• Tears of the Sun
• Fifth Element
• Shooter
• Road to Perdition
• Forest Gump
• Lonesome Dove
• Red Dawn

That's just a few off the top of my head...

gigag04 wrote:Bourne trilogy.


BH down.

Saving Pvt Ryan

Navy Seals - cheese but classic IMO

We Were Soldiers

Patriot - aim small miss small

Die Hard(s)

Green Beret's

Gran Torino

Rules of Engagement

Sniper

Patriot Games

Body of Lies

Great list. Can't believe I left off so many of those (but then I realized what time of night I was typing that and cut myself some slack )

But I'll add James Bond, really any of the movies as they're all good in their own way (except maybe some of the later Roger Moore duds). But the two newest installments with Daniel Craig playing Bond are excellent.

No Country for Old Men

The Departed

The Annoyed Man wrote:

• Red Dawn

That's just a few off the top of my head...

Wow, how did I forget that classic. EVERY TIME I flip the channels and find that movie playing randomly I'll stop what I'm doing and watch it.

A few more:

Sergeant York - Gary Cooper with an '03 Springfield and a Luger
True Grit - It's good to hear references to a Colt's Dragoon
The Outlaw Josey Wales - lots of cap-and-ball and cartridge conversion revolver scenes, as well as a couple with a 'scoped Sharps.
Big Jake - Cars, motorcycles, bolt action rifles and autoloading pistols vs horses, mules, Greener shotguns and single actions.

Not so good, but worth a buck at the dollar store:

Suddenly - Very young Frank Sinatra as a mob assassin with a semiauto rifle. Compare to the original "Manchurian Candidate". Don't miss the Nash police car!

Did y'all leave out "Little Big Man" with Dustin Hoffman and "Once Upon a Time in the West" with a whole lot of people on purpose?

Oldgringo wrote:Did y'all leave out "Little Big Man" with Dustin Hoffman and "Once Upon a Time in the West" with a whole lot of people on purpose?

Heh heh! I saw "Little Big Man" when it first came out in the theaters. I had forgotten about that one, but you made me smile.