Your votes are in, and now the brackets for the Gun Movie Throwdown are set. Here are the four final brackets. The individual throwdowns will commence on Thursday, with the 1 seeds taking on the 8 seeds in each bracket. The way winners will be decided is simple: of the two movies, I’ll present my opinion for the strengths/weaknesses of each one, then we’ll let the commenters decide which they think should move forward. Here are the final brackets.
War/Military
- Saving Private Ryan
- Black Hawk Down
- The Dirty Dozen
- Enemy at the Gates
- Red Dawn (original)
- Act of Valor
- The Wild Geese
- Full Metal Jacket
Western/Period
- Zulu
- Last of the Mohicans
- Shane
- Open Range
- A Fistful of Dollars
- 3:10 to Yuma (Christian Bale)
- The Wild Bunch
- Quigley Down Under
Action/Sci-Fi
- Terminator 2
- The Expendables
- Bad Boys 2
- Die Hard
- The Matrix
- Tremors
- Lethal Weapon
- Last Man Standing
Note: Lethal Weapon was moved from the Drama/Thriller category into the action category. We’ve selected three films to fill out the Drama bracket as a result.
Thriller/Drama
- Heat
- Collateral
- The Kingdom
- Ronin
- Hard Boiled
- Way of the Gun
- The Professional
- Dirty Harry
There are your brackets for the 2013 Gun Nuts Movie Throwdown! And here are your matchups for Thursday, so prepare your arguing helmets:
- Saving Private Ryan vs. Full Metal Jacket
- Zulu vs. Quigley Down Under
- Terminator 2 vs. Last Man Standing
- Heat vs. Dirty Harry
How the F do you leave Leon: The Professional off this list???
I didn’t.
Not a bad list. Pretty sure I own all (if not, 95%) of those on DVD.
Funny thing that two movies that are almost the same movie made the list under different genres (Last Man Standing/A Fistful of Dollars):
http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A1161271
The War/Military category is going to be a tough one for me.
How did Tombstone get left out?