20 Best Bullet Ballets
When done right, a cinematic shootout can be a thing of beauty — a violent, bloody thing of beauty, sure …
By Paul Semel
In honor of the new movie Shoot 'Em Up, which stars Clive Owen and promises to take the concept of the "bullet ballet" to mind-blowing extremes, Premiere has assembled a quick gallery of some of our favorite acts of wanton violence, destruction, and gunplay. Pacifists need not go any further. The rest of you? Lock and load.
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Now that you've seen our list, tell us which gun battles we missed.
Posted: 5/31/2008 4:29:08 PM
Name: Skell
Message: I agree with the other posters, how could you possibly omit "The Wild Bunch"?
Posted: 2/18/2008 2:35:15 PM
Name: Tyler
Message: The Wild Bunch, Desperado.
Posted: 1/11/2008 8:31:46 PM
Name: tiogeo
Message: You honored "Hard-boiled," an automatic, but Woo's "The Killer" is the standard for all bullet ballets...
Posted: 1/7/2008 7:29:25 PM
Name: Ray_B
Message: Sam Peckinpah's Wild Bunch (1969) contains the best shootouts ever filmed. The others have just tried to copy his work, sometimes very poorly.
Posted: 12/30/2007 5:18:48 AM
Name: stephen
Message: The list of what you missed is too long. However, at the top of that list is "The Wild Bunch"
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