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psijac wrote:John Woo was the director that began making people fly off their feet when being shot

Way of the gun was pretty interesting in the final gun battle.

Sam Peckinpah was at the slow-mo, squib spraying, send em flying stage before Woo IIRC.

George Plimpton got yanked off his feet in Rio Lobo in 1970. Hearing him tell of it was side splitting.

Added in Edit: +1 on "Heat". The sound, the hits, pipe checks, etc. I have always hated a truck being blown 20' in the air on a column of fire and not so much as a scorch on vehicles next to it. In heat the used a shape charge and it took out car windows for half a block. I've used them before and you get a prtty good thump from 100' away. Another pet peeve is sparks whenever a bullet hits anything, even brick. Heat did not do this. And did I mention the sound?

Added in Edit Edit: "Proof of Life" was excellent from an intel and tactics realism aspect.

psijac wrote:John Woo was the director that began making people fly off their feet when being shot

Way of the gun was pretty interesting in the final gun battle.

A point of order Mr. chairman. It was Sam Pekinpah. He was showing ultra slow exploding squibs and people flying backwards before Woo was out of middle school.

I second "Heat". Won an Academy Award for sound I believe. I was always tired of sparks denoting every bullet hit and huge fiery explosions that affected nothing 10' away. Heat showed guys crumpling when shot as opposed to flying backwards and a shape charge used on an armored car blew windows out of cars for half a block.

"Proof of Life" was excellent in its portrayal of tactics as well.