Best fight scene?

[Acid_crash]

my favorites...

Darth Maul vs. Obi/Qui Gon in Episode I (too short, but so awesome).

Any Gun Fu scene in Equilibrium (blows my mind away, and to me, puts the Matrix to shame)... Especially his first against the other soldiers when the lighting lets us see him in action, and at the end while outnumbered 40 to 1, and then against the pretender person (his leader). Talk about amazing.

Jet Li vs. anybody in Fist of Legend (especially when he faught Blind, and against the general).

Jet Li vs. former friend in Twin Warriors (the one he uses Tai Chi, omg that was just awesome).

Jacki Chan in Who Am I? against the two at the end on the rooftop. The one on one fights are just too good to miss.

Matrix Reload Lobby Fight...really good.

Matrix Reloaded Traffic scene...I really like it.

in books:
The Last Command by Timothy Zahn, where Luke Skywalker fights his clone. That was so unexpected.

Drizzt vs. Artemis in any FR novel in which they fight...he does an awesome job in their rivalry.

 

[RichCsigs]

Elektra vs. Bullseye from Daredevil #181.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Pretty much any scene from Trigun, especially when Vash is panicking.

 

[ohGr]

I'll third the fight from They Live; just pure street brawlin' at its finest.

I'll also third the bank heist shoot-out from Heat and submit the final shoot-out between DeNiro and Pacino at the very end as well; both were very dramatic and intense.

The mother of all shoot-outs for my money, however, is the saloon gunfight at the end of Unforgiven.

 

[Felix]

I'm going to go literary here...

Intensity: Dune
Knife fight between Paul Atredies and the irritable fremen when Paul and Lady Jessica first meet them.

Cleverness: Reaper Man
Fight between DEATH and Death's replacement.

Scared Shootless: It
The two young boys fight the werewolf in the basement of the evil house.

Heartbreaking: "Romeo and Juliet"
Mercutio dies, with a curse for Romeo on his lips.

Fighting Inevitability: The Scottish Play
MacBeth still fights MacDuff, even after Brinam Wood to Dunsinane(sp?) has come.

Hell Breaking Loose: Shogun
Osaka castle, when the ninja crawl out of the woodwork to kill Toranaga's people.

Understanding of Tactical Thinking: Fall of Hyperion
Fedman Kassad vs the Shrike in the Valley of the Tombs.

Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Storm of Swords
"The Red Viper" vs "The Mountain" Clegane.

The Author Must Feel Very Strongly About This Subject: Les Miserables
Victor Hugo's 54-page treatment of the battle of Waterloo.

Historicaltude: The Killer Angels
The assualt on Little Roundtop.

David v Goliath: Ender's Game
Bonzo Madrid and his gang corner Ender in the shower.

 

[Mad Hatter]

All the fight scenes in the Incredibles

Any fight between Sabretooth and Wolverine.

I liked the sword play and mass battles in Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon.

Anytime Apocalypse goes at the X-Men

Proteus vs Wolverine (I love Wolvie's breakdown, it warmed my cockles)

Spiderman vs Doc Ock in Spiderman 2

Superman vs Lobo

Darkseid Vs Superman in The Adventures of Superman

When Leto II fights the Fremen guards and his subsequent fight against Alia

Paul Atreides vs Feyd-Rautha

Anytime in graphic novels when Warmachine wails on groups of baddies

Any Jet Li fight scene, they are just awesome

The one Superman movie where Lex Luthor made that super powered guy who fed off of solar energy (can't recall what he was called) those fight scenes between the two were pretty cool

Those are just a few that my reaction was: "Man, that was so totally cool!."

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Cleverness: Reaper Man
Fight between DEATH and Death's replacement.

NO CROWN...
ONLY THE HARVEST

Ooooooh, that was cool.

 

[Thanee]

The Matrix - when they raid the police station in bullet time. That was pretty cool!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Lady Mer]

Reaper Man
Fight between DEATH and Death's replacement.

Well, if we want to bring Discworld into it, I've always liked Granny vs. the vampyres and Mort vs. Death.

I'll mention Miles Vokorsogian's courtship of Ekaterina. While not technically a fight scene, it certainly was... martial.

 

[shilsen]

Well, if we want to bring Discworld into it, I've always liked Granny vs. the vampyres and Mort vs. Death.

Few more from Discworld (which has incredible fight scenes even if they're usually very short), in completely random order:

The battle against the king golem in Feet of Clay

Vimes vs. Wolf(gang) in The Fifth Elephant

Susan (and then Death) vs. the Auditors in Hogfather

The Apocralypse in Thief of Time