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While not necessarily gunporn, theres a shitload of non English films worth seeing (if you don't mind subtitles), Brotherhood, Days of Glory, 9th Company etc.

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6 hours ago, Prisce said:

You totally missed out Hacksaw ridge. That’s an awesome film.

No doubt Hacksaw Ridge is a brilliant film, highly recommend it to anyone who likes war films, but personally I think it's not really a shoot em up "gunporn" film though.

 

Speaking of which, Clive Owen in Shoot 'em Up!

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John Wicke any one ? But all time favourite gun scene, final battle in Zulu , lined up in front of the redoubt as the Zulus charge in for the kill and Stanley Bakers screams

“1st rank fire !”

“2nd rank fire !”

“3rd rank fire !”   

And then silence ! 

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Loving the wick films, roll on #3, Keanu is a cool mofo, check out street kings, he's very good in that.

16 minutes ago, Druid799 said:

John Wicke any one ? But all time favourite gun scene, final battle in Zulu , lined up in front of the redoubt as the Zulus charge in for the kill and Stanley Bakers screams

“1st rank fire !”

“2nd rank fire !”

“3rd rank fire !”   

And then silence ! 

 

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On 08/06/2018 at 06:51, ibo7 said:

I recently watched 12 Strong and thought it was a pretty damn good film, good action and the guns I Love!

 

Tactical bump, I guess, since I've just watched it.  I thought it was fair to middling execrable.

 

The characterisation, such as it was, felt obvious and hackneyed.  They even had a Sand Short Round in there just to give the Fremen one face that you could actually recognise and supposedly care about (but sod the rest of them, they're just natives after all).

 

The four or five action scenes all looked to be filmed in the same dusty valley, with the Cadian Rough Riders wiping out the same mob of anonymous sand ninjas led by that evil wizard from Aladdin over and over again in much the same way.  Oh, look, there's that same MG Technical again.  The Friendly Fremen also seem to lose as many men in each engagement as they started out with, but they obviously have a respawn point close by, because they're all back in action for the next game.  I mean, scene.

 

Technically, it was the usual Hollywood tosh.  Shaped charges used as artillery, every shot an instakill on the mooks, Captain Thor puts a mag in (no hicap winder at least) then for some reason slaps the optic on his gun, and probably loads more that I've instantly forgotten, much like the rest of the film.

 

So no, not a fan.

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A good gun film has the main person raid an arms cash,  fill up a bag that's too heavy for real life and never uses any of the contents for the rest of the film.

 

It's a magic formula....

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this ! 

For the sound if nothing else !

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1 minute ago, Druid799 said:

this ! 

its an absolute classic, so good in fact that after watching it I went out & bought a star fnc, same as Pacino's character uses, one of the few guns I massively regret later selling, id buy another tomorrow 😭

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A class shoot out indeed. Something a bit more obscure and silly glassy eyed emo indie movie I like is "Dear Wendy" . 

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another classic shootout, especially for AR fans, nice patriot in use, is:

 

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And as an extra titbit about H.E.A.T 

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29 minutes ago, Immortal said:

Hard Boiled

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 🙂 )

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15 hours ago, heroshark said:

think my fav battle action sequence has to be the one in children of men

 

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.

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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:).

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20 hours ago, MagpieAirsoft said:

I quite enjoyed Operation Red Sea. Think ita on Netflix

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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3 minutes ago, 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.

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.

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On 17/05/2019 at 19:38, MagpieAirsoft said:

I quite enjoyed Operation Red Sea. Think ita on Netflix

 

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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