Best fight scene?


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As far as just making me cringe, the one scene in Fight Club when Edward Norton is beating the crap out of that angel face guy (do they mention his name at all?) that scene is brutal.
As far as just plain awsome, anything from the "lost footage" of Bruce Lee's Game of Death is really good. Not the theatrical release, but the stuff they shot but never used, because Bruce Lee died and nobody else knew what to do...
 

The scene in "Black Magic M-66" where the two combat androids tear through a Special forces unit. The end of the OVA as well as the over heating android persues the reporter and prof's daughter through the skyscraper. In a race to see if it will shut down or kill them first.

The end of "The Dirty Pair Movie". The little musical riff leading to the storm breaking as the Dirty Pair are fully loaded and armed just as all hell breaks out with monsters crawling all over the place. Mayhem at it's best.

Project A-ko - The dual between A-ko and B-ko as Captain "Her"lock's ship and forces shows up to rescue the princess. One of the few really jaw dropping scenes I've ever seen involving A-ko and a really heavy missile bombardment.

Max Vs Miriya in either the TV show or the '84 movie, one of the all time great mecha battles.

Babylon 5 - The Earthforces attack B5 in Season 3. Very intense battle. When the crippled Starfury is spiralling in towards the bridge of B5, I was about ready to dive behind the couch.

The Psychic battle at the end of "Dark City". Gives me great hope for the inevitable Akira movie.
 

Lots of good fights mentioned here. I'll add:

Any of the Enterprise vs. Reliant battles in Star Trek II
Mat Cauthon vs. Gawyn Trakand and Galad Damodred in The Dragon Reborn
Hector vs. Achilles in Troy
The church shootout at the end of The Killer

Starman (knows he's forgetting some other really cool fights)
 

I must second the X2 fight scene, I wouldn't have called it a fight though....

I really liked the fight at the end of TPB, "My name is Inigo Montano, you killed my father; Prepare to die.". But that might come under best line, or best then scene then a real fight....

There are some fight scenes I really enjoyed, but I can't rememberr the name of any of then. Both are from martial arts movies, the first is a fight scene in a circus (I think) on stilts. It was amazing, flips, kicks the lot, but on stilts! The other is in a towl lined with shadows and white sheets, the enevitable happens andthey play the hiding game. One in white the other in black.


Samurai jack has loads of brilliant scenes, I can't mention just the one though.
 


Deckard vs. Pris and Deckard vs. Roy Batty in Blade Runner.

RotJ: Luke is hiding in the throne room from Vader, and Vader starts taunting him and telling him how he'll turn Leia. From the shot when Luke ignites his lightsaber and screams, that's about the most emotionally resonant fight scene ever.

Spike vs. Vincent on the faux-Eiffel Tower at the end of Cowboy Bebop: Knockin on Heaven's Door.

On the small screen: Buffy vs. Faith at the end of Season Three, and then the battle with the mayor in the season finale.
 

What do you mean by "best"? Best in what way?

I'll second the bank heist in "Heat"

Some that haven't been mentioned yet:
Gratuitous automatic weapons fire - "Predator" when Mac empties the minigun and then everyone joins in.
McCloud vs. the Kurgon in "Highlander"
Fisticuffs - Indy vs. the big German mechanic in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
The Magus vs. Vermithrax in "Dragonslayer".
"Blackhawk Down" - pretty much the whole friggin' movie.
Luke vs. Vader in "Return of the Jedi". When he's got Vader down Luke is virtually in a berserk rage, just BEATING on his lightsaber. Then when he cuts off his hand and has him at his mercy that LOOK on Luke's face is perfect. Right there, for that brief moment Luke is ON THE EDGE of giving in to the dark side and simply killing Vader as he has wanted to do for so long now... The music is perfect too.
 

I second the scene in They Live.

Spike beating the pulp out of Angel over the Mt. Dew.

I wouldn't really call it a fight, but in B5, when the Narns killed the Centauri lord to a hymn. Several space battle scenes were also quite good.

The end of Wrath of Kahn.
 

Blade vs Nomak at the end of Blade 2 holds a special place for me, because it was the first fight scene I saw where I could plausibly believe that these were two people with superhuman strength and endurance, going all-out to destroy each other and destroying most of the room in the process.

The fight sequence in and around on the hospital in Hard Boiled, especially the moment where the combatants are pointing weapons at each other, but neither shoots because of the huddle of civilians in the middle....and then they both, very slowly put their weapons down.

The Parr family and Frozone verses the giant battle robot at the end of The Incredibles.
 

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