I really like movies. And fight scenes make me giddy (side note: while in Italy, before going into the a museum, the Vatican Museum I believe, they listed the gallery’s prohibitions and criteria that would get you kicked out, which included the usual food, drink, destruction, carrying weapons, but also excessive giddiness). This time I’m sticking to gun fights. Couldn’t really tell you why. I like kung-fu and samurai movies too. Maybe I’ll save that for another time.

This list, like all similar ones, means absolutely nothing. It’s only my inexpert opinion and only includes movies that I’ve seen and can remember. But I made it anyway.

These aren’t ordered in any particular way, but that’s not to say they are in a random order. They are just in the order I put them in, for whatever reason I did so.

LA Confidential – The final gun-fight in the Victory Motel. It’s good, but what makes it incredible is when Russel Crow jumps up from the floor boards. I watched thishttp://transcendentalisttelevision.com/wp-admin/edit-pages.php recently and knew exactly when it was going to come and still jumped out of my chair and got chills while sitting alone in my room. This is so good that a professor in a film theory course I took said the pleasure derived from that singular action was the same as having an orgasm (now insert post-modern french theoretical terms like jouissance and Lacanian psychoanalysis)

Bad Boys II – The shoot-out against the Rastas in that old house. Lots of spinning camera stuff and cool shots and one-liners. What would have made it better? If it had been directed by Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential) rather than Michael Bay.

The Matrix – That scene in the office building when they blow the crap out of all the guards and do flips off walls and shit with that bad ass techno playing. I believe it was The Prodigy, but correct me if I’m wrong, it’s been a while.

Untouchables – Train Station Scene

The Boondock Saints – The Six on Two Scene; a flashback while gay Willem Dafoe figures it all out and gets on his knees and there’s that matching shot and all those guns strapped to them and it takes place in Boston and they kill all those dudes and someone loses a finger and… Man, it’s good. Also that other scene when they come in from the ceiling and spin around. That was cool too.

Scarface – The end. The world was his!

Shoot em Up – He delivers a baby in the middle of a warehouse melee! Then he cuts the umbilical cord by shooting it!

Terminator 2 – All of it

Leon (The Professional) – Just see the movie