Thread premise LIVE AS FUKK, good work OP. To add on unmentioned contributions, Sergio Leone westerns fathered a lot of this shyt...
Apparently italian movie audiences were talking all through movies when Leone saw them growing up but only shut up for the action sequences, hence why he put so many stand offs in his films.
Any of the Val Kilmer gun fights in
Tombstone I recall being good fun too. The first couple of
Dirty Harry films had some great spots as well
Reactionary as fukk, but good movies (If I recall Irwin Kershner the
Empire Strikes Back director shot
Magnum Force ).
Sam Peckinpah shot crazy action sequences for the time too. I wonder how his career would've went if he wasn't such a deranged alcoholic
Contemporary wise, along with
John Wick, some of the gunplay in Gareth Evans'
Raid movies felt like the closest thing we've got to a successor to John Woo's imaginative choreography I guess. As in someone trying to do something different with each individual shot, a la
Hard Boiled.
Let's be honest tho those movies were all about the hand-to-hand