Actor & Movie Picks - Weapons & Tactics Edition

[Chesten_Hesten]

Post up Great Gun Movies, or movies with Great Gun scenes, Or Actors who really sold it.

I'll Start:

Sicario, Benicio Del Toro Makes this film work. He does a great job being a bad motherfucker.

Some of his Handy Work from the Film:


Interview about the film



His performance here is on Par with his performance in Way of the Gun



Discuss.

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

Didn't think this would be such a hard sell. Sheesh, tough crowd!

 

[Sano]

Might have more success posting it in the Mayberry lounge.

 

[edco76]

 

[jlagman]

Might have more success posting it in the Mayberry lounge.

I remember there being a similar thread in Gheyberry a few years ago.

 

[Cmart]

Benicio's knife work in The Hunted was really nice. I was training Kali at the time and I appreciated the knife scenes he did with Tommy Lee Jones on a personal level. Really cool stuff.

 

[jlagman]

I think action movies become a little ruined once you actually start shooting and learn a bit more about it.

 

[Twelve75]

I think action movies become a little ruined once you actually start shooting and learn a bit more about it.

in what way ?...As someone who's never even seen a real gun,i'm curious to know why

 

[Cmart]

It was nice to see Keanu actually reload in John Wick. Looking forward to the sequel.

 

[Cmart]

Tom Cruise in Collateral. He trained hard to make that look real.
Arnold did a lot of shooting before Terminator to eliminate any flinching -- he figured a killer robot wouldn't flinch.
It's more fantasy, but I love the gun kata stuff from Equilibrium with Christian Bale.

 

[Protectandserve]

Benicio's knife work in The Hunted was really nice. I was training Kali at the time and I appreciated the knife scenes he did with Tommy Lee Jones on a personal level. Really cool stuff.

I actually despised that movie. No SF personnel focus on knife work like that. And the whole, forging knives to fight each other thing was bad. Not to mention no reason he just snaps and starts murking people.

 

[Cmart]

I actually despised that movie. No SF personnel focus on knife work like that. And the whole, forging knives to fight each other thing was bad. Not to mention no reason he just snaps and starts murking people.

I don't have special forces experience. I have Kali knifework experience, which may or may not have value but it's nice for me to see it on film. I've seen sillier knife fights in movies. Name me a few American-made movies with good, authentic knife work, I'd be happy to watch them.

 

[Protectandserve]

I don't have special forces experience. I have Kali knifework experience, which may or may not have value but it's nice for me to see it on film. I've seen sillier knife fights in movies. Name me a few American-made movies with good, authentic knife work, I'd be happy to watch them.

Yeah, I wish there was. I'd happily watch them too!

 

[Gregolian]

I don't have special forces experience. I have Kali knifework experience, which may or may not have value but it's nice for me to see it on film. I've seen sillier knife fights in movies. Name me a few American-made movies with good, authentic knife work, I'd be happy to watch them.

There's a short clip in the Thomas Jane version of Punisher when he assaults the compound towards the end where he wrecks a guy with a Karambit and then fucks up another dude with a simple straight knife.

 

[Protectandserve]

I would add Bernthals weapons work as Punisher in season two of Daredevil was awesome.

His weapons work in the prison is badass.

 

[Cmart]

If you want to talk foreign films, then go watch the knife scene from the Korean movie The Man from Nowhere. It is badass.

I guess I still like the silly unrealistic gun scenes like in Predator when Jesse opens up with the minigun and trees start toppling. They're fun just as spectacle.

Oh crap how did I forget Jean Reno in The Professional. And Barry Pepper in Saving Private Ryan.

 

[jlagman]

in what way ?...As someone who's never even seen a real gun,i'm curious to know why

Because shooting and hitting targets while running, diving through the air, rolling around on the ground, having a gun in each hand, etc. is extremely difficult in real life. Not to mention dudes casually walking away from fireball explosions, falling from several storeys in the air, virtually unlimited magazine capacities...you get the idea.

 

[Gregolian]

There's a short clip in the Thomas Jane version of Punisher when he assaults the compound towards the end where he wrecks a guy with a Karambit and then fucks up another dude with a simple straight knife.

His kill with that sword thing on the stairs oddly enough is the beginning to the 4th Kata in Kendo


This clip is pretty cool too though I have NO IDEA how he doesn't get shot in the scene:

I would add Bernthals weapons work as Punisher in season two of Daredevil was awesome.

His weapons work in the prison is badass.

Love that scene


I love how he does the exact opposite of what usually happens in a scene like that. The one being attacked in movies and shows usually waits, he charges them.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

I think action movies become a little ruined once you actually start shooting and learn a bit more about it.

I don't care how unrealistic, this is fun stuff and why I tune into movies. If I want reality I can look out my window.

 

[ironwolf]

Benicio's knife work in The Hunted was really nice. I was training Kali at the time and I appreciated the knife scenes he did with Tommy Lee Jones on a personal level. Really cool stuff.

That was cool. I still want that knife, I think tops make them.