Best movie for shooting action/gunporn?

It's an oldy and I haven't watched it for some time but here you go; John Woo's "Hard Boiled":



 
Immortal said:
Hard Boiled
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The tea house scene is cool, but the hospital one is so much better imo.

None of us will ever look as cool as when he shoots the bullet to open the door ?

Try American Sniper or Act of Valor for operator movies just make sure to put American in front of Sniper or else you will find Sniper with Tom Berenger ( i liked the 1st one but i have an excuse, because i was a kid when i saw it ? )

 
heroshark said:
think my fav battle action sequence has to be the one in children of men
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I believe that was the first mainstream film to use those lonnnnng single-take (or single-faked) action scenes.  They did a great job with the script, direction and editing in them, escalating the tension in every scene.

Another thing I rather like it is that Clive Owen's character is a protector, but never uses a gun.  He picks one up at one point, but just drops it unused.

 
Mandatory Black Hawk Down praise.

Strike Back seasons 2-5.

SEAL Patrol. Pretty bad film but the weapon handling and general operatorness is probably the best I've seen in on screen.

 
Black Hawk Down (got two RIFs that were props in this, 2 XM177 E2's misc use)

Green Zone (Got 3 RIFs that were props in this; 1 sniper rifle and two Blackops rifles)

3 Kings (my brothers have 2 RIFs from this, M16's used by the 3 kings)

The Hurt Locker has some good scenes too (no rifs from this ...lol :lol: ).

 
MagpieAirsoft said:
I quite enjoyed Operation Red Sea. Think ita on Netflix
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Operation Red Sea legit blew me away.  I think it helped they had massive help from the Chinese military but the attention to detail was phenomenal  For instance the plate carriers holding actual ballistic plates that gradually got more and more fucked and puffy, disintegrating as they took more and more hits throughout the film.  The sheer amount of military hardware was impressive too.  It wasn't all just Chinese gear either.  A nice range that I'm sure everyone could appreciate.  MP5s, M249s, CZ BRENS, AUGs, SCARs, the list goes on.  It rivals and probably beats the average western military film in terms of the armoury.  It is also the first film I've seen that has shown the use of Scalable Offensive Hand Grenades which I hadn't even heard of until seeing them in this.  Very cool grenades.  It's a fairly long film but it's quite packed with action.  Just as you think something is resolved, something else kicks off.  It's awesome.  I'd describe it as Tears of the Sun mixed with Black Hawk down x100, in the desert. Some awesome brutal scenes with practical effects too which is nice.

Also, the actress Luxia Jiang is an absolute BEAST in this.  No strong female roles in films?  Yeah, not in this.  She's basically a one woman army.   Up there with Ripley and Sarah Conner imo.

In short, if you have any interest in action/military/war films, you need to watch Operation Red Sea.  It's 95% in Mandarin with a couple of dodgy English parts but I'm sure we're all capable of reading subtitles.  I mean we're not Americans ?.  I think I'm going to have to re-watch it today after typing all this heh.

 
hitmanNo2 said:
Operation Red Sea legit blew me away.  I think it helped they had massive help from the Chinese military but the attention to detail was phenomenal  For instance the plate carriers holding actual ballistic plates that gradually got more and more fucked and puffy, disintegrating as they took more and more hits throughout the film.  The sheer amount of military hardware was impressive too.  It wasn't all just Chinese gear either.  A nice range that I'm sure everyone could appreciate.  MP5s, M249s, CZ BRENS, AUGs, SCARs, the list goes on.  It rivals and probably beats the average western military film in terms of the armoury.  It is also the first film I've seen that has shown the use of Scalable Offensive Hand Grenades which I hadn't even heard of until seeing them in this.  Very cool grenades.  It's a fairly long film but it's quite packed with action.  Just as you think something is resolved, something else kicks off.  It's awesome.  I'd describe it as Tears of the Sun mixed with Black Hawk down x100, in the desert. Some awesome brutal scenes with practical effects too which is nice.

Also, the actress Luxia Jiang is an absolute BEAST in this.  No strong female roles in films?  Yeah, not in this.  She's basically a one woman army.   Up there with Ripley and Sarah Conner imo.

In short, if you have any interest in action/military/war films, you need to watch Operation Red Sea.  It's 95% in Mandarin with a couple of dodgy English parts but I'm sure we're all capable of reading subtitles.  I mean we're not Americans ?.  I think I'm going to have to re-watch it today after typing all this heh.
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Yeah, that's exactly my thoughts. If the action scenes had been in a film starring Hollywood a listers, it would have been raved about I think.

 
MagpieAirsoft said:
I quite enjoyed Operation Red Sea. Think ita on Netflix
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Good shout, thanks.  90% brilliant, 10% inadvertantly comical. Some of the Chinglish on display is cringe, especially when it's so pointless.  Why has a China-China-China ship got a sign saying "Female Crew'   sLiving Quarters" [sic] ?  And I love the rangefinder displaying "QUALITY LASER"... in English. :D

Can't fault the action and gun porn though, plenty of prosthetics and splat for your money.  Decent fx, I liked the visible mortar rounds. And those commie spec-ops have all the best totally real toys, don't they?  Death drones, squirrel suits, frikkin laser defusers, x-ray phones, the lot.

Interesting that they use NATO guns for "ammo compatibility", which lets them rip through the whole gamut of decadent Imperialist hardware.  Start with an UGG SCAR, end with MP5 master race. Even the Chinese know that MP5 gun is best gun.

 
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hitmanNo2 said:
Operation Red Sea legit blew me away.  I think it helped they had massive help from the Chinese military but the attention to detail was phenomenal  For instance the plate carriers holding actual ballistic plates that gradually got more and more fucked and puffy, disintegrating as they took more and more hits throughout the film.  The sheer amount of military hardware was impressive too.  It wasn't all just Chinese gear either.  A nice range that I'm sure everyone could appreciate.  MP5s, M249s, CZ BRENS, AUGs, SCARs, the list goes on.  It rivals and probably beats the average western military film in terms of the armoury.  It is also the first film I've seen that has shown the use of Scalable Offensive Hand Grenades which I hadn't even heard of until seeing them in this.  Very cool grenades.  It's a fairly long film but it's quite packed with action.  Just as you think something is resolved, something else kicks off.  It's awesome.  I'd describe it as Tears of the Sun mixed with Black Hawk down x100, in the desert. Some awesome brutal scenes with practical effects too which is nice.

Also, the actress Luxia Jiang is an absolute BEAST in this.  No strong female roles in films?  Yeah, not in this.  She's basically a one woman army.   Up there with Ripley and Sarah Conner imo.

In short, if you have any interest in action/military/war films, you need to watch Operation Red Sea.  It's 95% in Mandarin with a couple of dodgy English parts but I'm sure we're all capable of reading subtitles.  I mean we're not Americans ?.  I think I'm going to have to re-watch it today after typing all this heh.
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You might have just cost cost me 8 quid a month or however much netflix is. Thanks 

 
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