Best fight scene?

[johnsemlak]

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Originally Posted by johnsemlak
No love of Errol Flynn on this thread? Ignorance of youth I suppose.

There are many classic Flynn swordfights but the Final between Him and Guy of Guisbourne at the end of Robin Hood is not only a classic but has been inspirational for many later duals.

Check out post #61, I mentioned that exact fight, a pure classic.Check out post #61, I mentioned that exact fight, a pure classic.

Ooops, sorry.

Definitely a pure classic. Actors in those days were better fencers.

 

[Hypersmurf]

The horse chase in The Mask of Zorro.

And to a lesser extent, the fight in the map room and the fight in the barracks.

-Hyp.

 

[WmRAllen67]

For the Kaiju fans in the crowd

Gamera v. Gaos in the beginning of Gamera: Revenge of Iris

 

[talinthas]

definately the first fight in Hero, in the rain at the go building. It was a perfect meld of music and skill and mysticism.

But now that i think of it, certainly those battles in Wheel of Time are awesome. Pretty much all of them. The battle at Dumai's Well, the battles in Fires of Heaven, the battles against the Seanchan in book2, and on and on.

Jordan may have transparent characters and hack writing, but the man tells a fight better than anyone else.

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

Lessee.

The duel between Optimus Prime and Megatron in the Transformers Movie.

The final encounter between Depth Charge and Rampage in Beast Wars.

Here's 3 from Deadly China Hero aka Last Hero in China (with Jet Li)
Wong Fei Hong (Jet Li) vs. the High Priest
Wong's disciples vs. the High Priest
Chicken Fu vs. Centipede Fu, which leads up to Wong Fei Hong's final battle (with his No Shadow Kick being neutralized).

Lupin and Jigan vs the armor clad 'ninjas' in Castle of Cagliostro (which ended up in a video game)

A few from Kiss of the Dragon:
Jet Li vs the martial arts class
Jet Li vs the twins in the cube farm

For some Chan-tastic fights, how about:
the warehouse brawl in Violence in Vancouver, er, Rumble in the Bronx
the fight with the 'chicks in leather' in Armor of God
the Street Fighter (yup, Jackie as Chun Li) and 'dance fu' fights from City Hunter
the ladder fight in First Strike
the mall scene in Police Story

Indiana vs the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark

The 3 gunfights in Hard Boiled (teahouse, chop shop and hospital)

Ash vs Deadite Ash and the Deadites in Army of Darkness

 

[Hypersmurf]

Jet Li vs the martial arts class
Jet Li vs the twins in the cube farm

the ladder fight in First Strike

Indiana vs the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark

Hell, yes

But I can't believe you included the Street Fighter sequence in City Hunter

-Hyp.

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

Hell, yes

But I can't believe you included the Street Fighter sequence in City Hunter

-Hyp.

Jackie was closer to the source material than the Street Fighter movie tho it had Cammy (Can't get her out of my head but I ain't doing the loco-motion).

*ahem* Speaking of fighting games:

Mortal Kombat had a few good ones like Johnny, Lui and Sonya vs the mooks, Lui Kang vs Reptile (the Subzero one was good too) and Johnny Cage vs Scorpion, mainly because they're all over the place.

Now if they made a (faithful) live action version of the Tekken series...

 

[Richards]

Ralphie vs. Scott Farkus in "A Christmas Story."

Johnathan

 

[R-Hero]

For pure, straight, beating the crap out of each other, no fight is better then the alley brawl from John Carpenter's They Live.
No fancy martial arts moves, no super heroic recoveries, no highly skilled combat trained veterans. Just two guys doing the best with whatever is on hand and trying to put as much hurt as possible on the other guy.

Make that two votes for 'They Live'
Just about the time a standard hollywood fight scene would be over, Roddy Piper or David Keith would start up again. (I love the fight scenes when the 'hero' gets as good as he gives.) All over a pair of sunglasses..

Men in Black when Will Smith confronts the 'bug' with the fire while Tommy Lee Jones is trying to retreive his weapon. Big talk, Bug throws punch, Smith flies several feet..

Vampires vs Blade. Sever allergic reaction to silver, very cool effects.

 

[feydras]

My personal favorite fight of all time is the big gunfight in the begining of Desperado. Mixed with the narration of Steve Buscemi's character the scene is priceless. The scene, a little later when they kill the knife thrower is pretty cool as well. From there the movie sputters off.

I also liked the shoot outs in Tombstone.

- feydras