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This is the greatest fight scene ever commited to film
Discuss!
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i was going to disagree and make my own suggestion
then i actually watched the video
"keep an eye"
"yeah, see yuh!"
:)
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I dunno if it's the "best" fight scene - but it's certainly the most homoerotic!
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HAAA!
RAAH!
HAA!
YAAH!
RAAAAH!!
Bwaahahaha. Oh that was good stuff.
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I saw that on another site... I really really want to know which movie it came from...
Also, here is number 2. (Warning, insanely brutal)
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=864
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Who has that many man-gasms in a fight?!?
Karl Vs. McClane in Die Hard takes some beating for the 'most brutal'.
"You squeal like your brother when I broke his fucking neck!"- and that's the hero's line! Harsh stuff.
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more like worst fight scene thread ever.
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I dunno if it was that great, unless you go off of the "Snakes on a Plane" style of thinking, being that since it was so bad that it was good. It sure seemed a little lame as soon as the guy licked the knife.
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Dude.....Snakes on a Plane isn't so bad it's good, it's so good it's awesome.
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I dunno if it was that great, unless you go off of the "Snakes on a Plane" style of thinking, being that since it was so bad that it was good. It sure seemed a little lame as soon as the guy licked the knife.
Well, the question is what are you expecting from a fight scene? I'm expecting to be entertained, and that was by far one of the most entertaining fight scenes I've seen in a long, long time.
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The final scene from Drunken Master 2 was pretty badass, along with Jackie Chan's fight on the rooftop in "Who Am I?" Brutality wise, to me that goes to Morpheus vs. Agent Smith. Just what comes to mind to me so far.
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Let's not forget the fight between Roddy Piper and Keith David in They Live...Seven minutes of non-stop asskicking.
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I saw that on another site... I really really want to know which movie it came from...
Also, here is number 2. (Warning, insanely brutal)
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=864
and i thought the first one was silly
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I can't believe that in a "best fight scene" thread nobody's yet mentioned Innigo Montoya's sword-fight with Westley in the Princess Bride.
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Preston vs. Brandt in Equilibrium was great in that it fit perfectly in the context of the movie, was unexpected, and avoided the "oh no, the hero's losing, oh wait he won" thing
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Totally agree there. I always hate it when that happens, because it's usually poorly done.
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Let's not forget the fight between Roddy Piper and Keith David in They Live...Seven minutes of non-stop asskicking.
agreed.
edit: just watched it. and it ruled as promised. although i dont know if it compares to bruce lee fighting kareem abdul jefar (sp?). that shit was epic.
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Wait, wasn't that the remake of Thunderball? "Never Say Never Again"?
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Because it has Connery. Duh.
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Whoa, whoa! I think we had a bond thread. If not, we'll MAKE ONE. MWahahaha! I actually watched this DVD called "10 best onscreen fights EVER" and there was some fight with Liam Neeson going all bareknuckled pit-fighter in Industrial Revolution America.
ANd I NEED to watch they live again. Seriously.
What makes a good fight? Depending on your tastes, I suppose it can go from high-flying martial artistry or out and out visceral destruction until neither combatant has anything left and just starts throwing haymakers. I thought the first Matrix was pretty good about that, and HOW HAVE NONE OF US MENTIONED THE ASSKICKERY IN ONG BAK?
One thing that pisses me off about some modern fight scenes is a lot of quick cutting (ref: The Musketeer. Good sword work but I would NEVER know with all the cuts/edits!)
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I'm not so sure about a ranking for live action, but I know them for anime (I'm gonna really try typing carefully this post, excuse any drunken ramblings).
I will try some categories:
INSANE SUPERHUMAN DUEL THAT GOT SHAMELESSLY RIPPED OFF BY DRAGONBALL Z
Film: Fist of the North Star
Fight: Ken vs Rao the Conqueror.
Highlights: Merely the act of summoning their powers near levels a city and destroys an entire army. Skyscrapers are sliced in half with a single punch. By the end of the fight, both fighters are heaving wrecks bleeding EXPLOSIVELY from hundreds of wounds fighting in the middle of a slick of blood. To top it all off, Julia, Ken's true love, is strapped to a cross for the entire duration of the scene
Notes: Fist of the North Star is, barring Violence Jack, the most insanely violent animated feature of all time. The lead characters martial arts ability causes peoples heads to explode when he punches them, and his companion can slice people into neat segments with his bare fingertips.
ONE AGAINST INSANE ODDS
Series: FLCL (Furi Kuri)
Fight: Haruhara Haruko vs Amarao and a legion of secret service goons
Highlights: I don't know where to begin. Haruko begins the fight against a gun-wielding Amarao armed only with a razorblade, and actually SLICE HIS BULLETS IN HALF. Then, when he calls for back up, she CASUALLY SIDESTEPS THROUGH A SOLID WALL OF MACHINE GUN FIRE AND STARTS BLASTING THE SHIT OUT OF SECRET SERVICE AGENTS WITH A GUITAR THAT SHE PUMPS LIKE A SHOTGUN AND FIRES BLASTS OF PURE ENERGY FROM THE HEAD.
I mean, fuck.
MECHA ACTION
Joint prize!
1: Film(s): Death & Rebirth/End of Evangelion.
Fight: Asukas last stand (Asuka + Eva-02 versus EVERYTHING)
Highlights: oh shit, just watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDImgHwt4U&search=asuka
2: Series: Gunbuster
Fight: Buster Machine 1 versus 3 BILLION 'Space Monsters'.
Highlightd: When the Buster Machine dispatches about 30,000 of the bastards with a SINGLE KICK, the tone of the fight is about set.
SHEER SUPERNATURAL WTF
Fight: Any fight in any medium involving Alucard
Highlight: He fights a hundred nazi vampires bare-handed, and they all die. HORRIBLY. This is partly to do with the fact that, after they expend all their bullets and grenades trying to kill him, the mutilated remains turns into about 60 extra claw-tipped hands.
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This is the greatest fight scene ever
Fight: Any fight in any medium involving Alucard.
Yes.
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Personally, I'm quite fond of the "brought a sword to a gunfight" scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
On a more serious note, the climactic swordfight (it was a bit too nasty to just be called a "duel") from Rob Roy kicked some serious ass. It really showed them sizing each other up, strategizing, and adapting, and it also brought home the fact that swinging a sword at someone is hard work.
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I'm planning on writing it. A scene in which two ULTIMATE beings have their ULTIMATE battle..which takes place in space..and they use their unbelievable telekinetic powers to throw stars at one another.
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Kill Bill
The Bride vs. the Crazy 88.
Best fight scene EVER.
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Kill Bill reminds me...
Azumi vs. a village and the Hammer Fight from Oldboy, both kickass fight scenes. Also, the fights in The Hunted
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Kill Bill
The Bride vs. the Crazy 88.
Best fight scene EVER.
I dislike all the fight scenes in Kill Bill. They're not impressive enough to be good that way, and they're not cheesy enough to be good that way.
Actually, I dislike most scenes in every Tarantino movie. Every once in a great while, he writes something that's really good, but the rest of it just seems like filler.
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Ya know, the fight between Mal and the Operative at the end of Serenity was pretty freaking cool. It wasn't too wire-y, and they beat the hell out of each other.
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HEAT.
The kind of fight scene where you feel slightly concussed while the shell casings settle and the gunsmoke drifts off. Best kind.
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ooh serenity! i loved the operative in that film, very evil. How about Major Kusanagi vs the tank at the end of ghost in the shell? when she rips her own arms off trying to get into the tank, thats pretty damn cool. Also Story of Ricky has some of the most comically violent and gory one on one combats ever. I may have posted this on another thread but seeing someone's jaw punched straight off the side of their face, now thats just innovative! Kaneda vs Tetsuo when he becomes the giant amorphous blob at the end of Akira kicks ass too.
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Zatoichi vs....it doesn't really matter. Any movie with a blind samurai destroying his opponents automatically wins.
On that note: Huey's fight with Oprah's bodyguard in this past season of The Boondocks was pretty stellar (it's all about the Black Power Glove).
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Kharbevnor! Fist of the North Star is indeed awesome, it's just insane!
ア！タ！タ！タ！タｔ！タ！タ！タｔ！タｔ！
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Actually, I dislike most scenes in every Tarantino movie. Every once in a great while, he writes something that's really good, but the rest of it just seems like filler.
What was the one set in the temple in Mexico with vampire things?
That was pretty damn cool.
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What was the one set in the temple in Mexico with vampire things?
I've never heard anyone refer to a bordello as a "temple", but I guess you mean From Dusk Till Dawn.
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That was From Dusk Till Dawn, I believe. Any movie where Salma Hayek dances with a python isn't a complete loss.
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Why hasnt anyone mentioned King Arthur v.s. The Black Knight! Bloodier than ever! More Heroic than anything else!
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It saddens me that none of you have watched a western.
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Now that you mention it, the fight scene between Charles Bronson and the three dudes in dusters at the begining of Once Upon a Time in the West is rediculously badass.
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Kharbevnor! Fist of the North Star is indeed awesome, it's just insane!
ア！タ！タ！タ！タｔ！タ！タ！タｔ！タｔ！
The thing I love about Fist of the North Star is it exemplifies perfectly that classic 80's anime bribe where you can't help but suspect the animators have been taking acid. The random psychedelic head explosions, the way people change size for no apparent reason, the sheer absurdity of the plot, etc. etc.
The original Vampire Hunter D movie has a very similiar feel.
Western fights tend to be kinda boring tbh. I mean, they're fun, but there's little to distinguish one from the other, at least in my memory.
@Jariku: The titty bar is, if you remember, actually built on top of an ancient aztec temple buried in the desert. And yes, that is an insane fight. Fucking pneumatic drill with a stake on the end ftw.
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Oh man, I finally looked at the clip. I find cynthia rothrock pretty attractive (go on, IMAGE search her!) but damn... that is one ass-bad fight. For further reference; china o'brien, china o'brien 2, etc.
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No fight scene can ever be better than the bit in Shogun Assasin where the female ninja jumps out of her ninja robes and runs away backwards for aaaaaages.
Also the film where Clint Eastwood shoots a hat along the ground many many times. Can't remember the name of the film or the actor whose hat is shot.
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So that's a fight scene between Clint Eastwood . . . and a hat?
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I remembered the film! It's "For a Few Dollars More". Eastwood shoots Lee Van Cleef's hat off his head, then shoots it further away along the ground everytime Van Cleef tries to pick it up. This goes on for about ten minutes till the hat is so far away it's out of range. Classic stuff.
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Guys, guys, you've mentioned Eastwood, and nobody has brought up "Every Which Way But Loose" yet?
Come on
Man, that was one hell of a pummelling. Admittedly, I haven't watched the first fight in the thread yet, because Firefox crashed for some reason.
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ahem.
You gonna pull those pistols, or are you gonna whistle Dixie?
Not his finest work, but still rather awesome.
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Kaneda vs Tetsuo when he becomes the giant amorphous blob at the end of Akira kicks ass too.
Kaneda vs Tetsuo throughout all of Akira's finale was pretty badass - Kaneda just using his bike and weapons to avoid being destroyed by an all-powerful opponent was definitely something.
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I agree with those who said Equilibrium.
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One of the greatest fight scenes I've ever read was in Raymond E. Feist's book A Darkness At Sethanon. The constant switching between Arutha versus Murmandamus and Tomas versus Draken-Korin was brilliant.
Also, any book by Matthew Reilly. Especially Contest, Scarecrow or Seven Ancient Wonders. That guy is the best action author I've ever read.
As for movies... The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen had a bunch of great fight scenes. Say what you will about the movie itself, but the fight scenes were good.
The massive scale of the battles in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy were stunning.
And as shitty as the final Matrix movie was, all the encounters of Neo vs Smith were just plain awesome.
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I have to admit, the sheer outright fatuous idiocy of Revolutions was downright hilarious. And that last fight scene was...ceaselessly amusing.
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I was helpless with laughter all the way through the Neo vs the Infinite Smith Gang fight in Reloaded. And the climax in Revolutions was brilliant - my brother was practically screaming at the hordes of watching Smiths, "HELP HIM, YOU IDIOTS! JUST KILL NEO AND GET IT OVER WITH!"
But hey, they were still cool. And the subway fight in the first Matrix... that, I am forced to admit, was genuinely badass.
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Yes it was. The first ten times.
The 'bully brawl' (for lack of a more depreciating nomenclature) was absolute silliness. I think the bowling-pin sound about 2/3rds of the way though did it for me. And the fact that it accomplished nothing was pretty impressive from a screenwriting standpoint.
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And don't forget the "Well? Now what?" expressions on the Smiths' faces after Neo flew off. Just looking around, shrugging, wondering what to do next. Seriously. All it needed was for one Smith to shout "After-Brawl party at my place!" and it would've been perfect.
I think the reason for it being in the film was to establish that Smith has gained new and frightening powers (and sound effects). I don't care about WHY it was there, though - it's hilarious enough that it was. I think Legendary Frog's Spoof (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/158218) says it best - the perfect parody.
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Oh please, when the Green Ranger kicks the other Rangers' asses on Power Rangers and I'm not hearing any different.
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In the first Indiana Jones when Jones is having a sword fight with this guy. And before they start fighting this guy is swinging his sword all over the place and doing these crazy moves and Indiana Jones pulls out his gun and casually shoots the guy.
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The really awesome Jason vs Tommy where Tommy nearly kills jason was cool.
And the one where Tommy nearly gets killed by Goldar. Dammit, Goldar had too few moments where he was truly badass. When he nearly killed Jason was awesome. If I could re-write the power rangers timeline, I'd take out all the silly voices and mindless optimism, remove the nice lessons on morality and keep the humour repressed and non-stupid, and make the bad guys genuinely scary. For kids at least...
Eh, that was always the option faced by Power Rangers. They could've gone the more serious road and made the baddies and goodies more badass, or they could've made it more slapstick and optimistic. They took the latter route, is all.
What confused me was that the baddies always knew who the Rangers were. So why didn't they just assassinate 'em? Send in Goldar, after making him grow, and have him step on 'em. Or maybe send more than one monster at once, which would have completely screwed the rangers. Likewise, if the Rangers had just used the big robot from the first encounter with whatever monster they had to face - PROBLEM SOLVED!
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Oh my god, that was so awesome. Stiff acting to the max
"yeah, SEE YA"
Can't stop loving this scene though :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8VbXvExaag
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Has anyone seen Tom Yum Goong? It stars Tony Jaa and has one of the shittest plots I've ever seen in a movie, and the acting is atrocious, but the fight scenes are friggin amazing!
No wires!
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first off, Fist of the North Star is so incredibly awesome (in both the good and the awful ways) that it trumps all else in anime. FTW.
Also:
Bodyguard from Beijing - not a great movie, but the final scene was awesome! When Jet Li kicks a man's ass with miniblinds, you know you're watching something sweeeet. :)
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When I think greatest fight scene ever, I think Casshern (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ThB1MKVPc)
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Edward Norton vs. Edward Norton! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=l2ENGnluouc&search=fight%20club)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon probably has the most incredible fight scenes I've ever seen in a movie.
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in the line of western fight scenes, I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned the climax of "Tombstone".
Doc Holiday is dying of tuberculosis, dripping with sweat and almost crippled, and he still manages to pull faster than the guy fighting him. that character is the definition of a hardass.
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What was the one set in the temple in Mexico with vampire things?
I've never heard anyone refer to a bordello as a "temple", but I guess you mean From Dusk Till Dawn.
At the end you see the bordello is inside a giant aztec temple/pyramid.
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Tifa vs. Loz in Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children. 'Nuff said.
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It saddens me that none of you have watched a western.
"Do you know anything about a guy going around playing the harmonica? He's someone you'd remember. Instead of talking, he plays. And when he better play, he talks."
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That's one of the worst - and funniest - fight scenes I've ever seen.
The best - definitely my favourite, but definitely one of the greatest, I feel - is the closing shopping mall fight scene from Jackie Chan's Police Story.