Gun Movie Throwdown Final Brackets

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

  1. Saving Private Ryan
  2. Black Hawk Down
  3. The Dirty Dozen
  4. Enemy at the Gates
  5. Red Dawn (original)
  6. Act of Valor
  7. The Wild Geese
  8. Full Metal Jacket

Western/Period

  1. Zulu
  2. Last of the Mohicans
  3. Shane
  4. Open Range
  5. A Fistful of Dollars
  6. 3:10 to Yuma (Christian Bale)
  7. The Wild Bunch
  8. Quigley Down Under

Action/Sci-Fi

  1. Terminator 2
  2. The Expendables
  3. Bad Boys 2
  4. Die Hard
  5. The Matrix
  6. Tremors
  7. Lethal Weapon
  8. 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

  1. Heat
  2. Collateral
  3. The Kingdom
  4. Ronin
  5. Hard Boiled
  6. Way of the Gun
  7. The Professional
  8. 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

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