Thursday, July 12, 2007

Great Movie Gunfights part 1.

To be blunt, action movies suck nowadays. Just look at what they did with the new Die Hard movie for example. No movie featuring Bruce Willis blowing shit up should ever be PG-13. At any rate, there was a time in cinematic history when action movies weren't made with "the family" in mind and it is my aim to focus on cinema that presents blood and carnage in the manner it was supposed to be shown in.
Asian cinema is always way more over the top because, well, people in America are pansys. The first clip I have decided to link is the final battle scene from John Woo's The Killer. It is in no way a cinematic masterpiece, but John Woo's style for filming gun battles has yet to be matched. He was definitely ahead of his time, Chow Yun Fat is great in this film as well, and it's pretty much one of the greatest action movies ever. Those of you who are into people getting blasted into oblivion might want to check this out, otherwise there is always that copy of Finding Nemo floating around. This scene is fifteen minutes of Chow Yun Fat being badass and what is even more amazing is the fact that John Woo and Chow Yun Fat actually manage to top this scene in their final Hong Kong collaboration Hard Boiled. I suggest watching this in full screen mode, with the volume cranked up.


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