I watched HEAT last night: WOW! I still can't believe it's almost 3 hours long. It really moves.

Pacino's ivory-handled shooter looks like a compact .45 ACP. Anyone care to speculate on the make/model?

Colt Officer's according to MadOgre.

One day I was home sick...and bored. I watched the "final" fight scene...He reloaded after 24 shots mulitple times. I honestly went and found my book "The Gun Digest Book of The 1911." I read through to see if there was such a thing...at one time...that a 1911 had 12 round mags. I never found a spec that said anything more than 8.

Last Man Standing was a good movie, even with the reload problems
I want to mention one more movie that I found to be a shooter movie..."Enemy at The Gates" ,about the snipers in Stalingrad.....

Sounds interesting. The New Yorker gave it a bad review, so I must see it!

The book that it's based on --- The War of the Rats by David Robbins --- also looks good. Especially if you're a WWI trivia buff.

OK, so I own lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Last Man Standing, the Way of The Gun, Snatch (I think, and Desperado (and El Mariachi, the original version). Now, thanks to you gents I own Home on the range as well.

If anyone would like to borrow one or more of these, let me know.

How to ruin a movie. Take a perfectly good war movie. Make a half-hearted, token attempt to introduce a love story. Otherwise I liked it.

I am with you, Iron Bear, I wish they would have left it to just the duel between the snipers. Kind of the same deal with the movie "Shooter", they just could not keep politics out of it, had to put in jabs that meant nothing to the movie...

You know, I went in thinking I was going to be bothered by those jabs. In context with the movie they didn't feel so heavy handed. They are our modern day conspiracy theory. They are an update on the original motives and motifs in the book. YMMV.

Think about all the guy movies where they throw in the love interest to get you to bring the SO. Heck, Titanic was a ship wreck artfully staged as a timeless love story In that one they threw in the nude portrait to placate the bored men

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

The Shadow knows!

Probably only the most senior of us will remember the old radio shows and paperbacks of The Shadow. There was an 'ok' movie version a few years ago.

When The Shadow got into a tight spot, his gloved hands would briefly disappear under his black cloak and emerge with two huge .45s barking and spitting lead. Very quickly a whole lot of bad guys would be taking the dirt nap and on the rare occasion when there were more than 16, the .45s would drop and quickly the gloved hands would procure two more from somewhere under his cloak.

Then he would laugh.

I watched Open Range again last night. WOW. What a great movie from start to end.

A couple of old school westerns come to mind, which I haven't thought about in ages:

Two Mules for Sister Sara
with Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Mules_for_Sister_Sara

Rooster Cogburn
with John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn, for the nailbiting sequence in which they are floating down a river in a canyon on a raft with the gatling gun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster_Cogburn

totally
and i really want to see shooter
i guess i would add crank to mine but that is only b/c he carries a XD-9 and soooooo do I!
ohhhhhhhhhhhh and winchester '73
my number 1

Well, if you want a movie that has a particular gun as a plot point, I'm going to go with The Villain. Yes, the one with Ann-Margret and Governator in a lavender jumpsuit.

Handsome Stranger: This is a seven-shot six-shooter, and I had it especially made.
Charming Jones: Why?
Handsome Stranger: Why?
Charming Jones: Yeah...
Handsome Stranger: I dunno.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080097/[/url]

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