Rocky vs Lang II in Rocky III.
Street Fight at the beginning of Big Trouble in Little China.
Frank Dux vs Chun Li in Bloodsport.
Final Battle in Army of Darkness.
Robin vs the Sheriff in the Erol Flynn version.
vs the Russian Migs in Top Gun.
Conan, Subotai and the wizard vs. Doom's hechmen in the Ruins.
- The Fellowship vs. the orcs of Moria, in Balin's tomb, in "Fellowship of the Ring." When I first saw this scene, the thought in the back of my head was, "this is what a D&D melee must look like!"
- Ripley, in the Caterpillar load-lifter gear, vs. the Alien Queen at the end of "Aliens". I haven't seen this one in a long time, but I remember it being a great climax to a tense movie.
Totally forgot about this one, but yes it is awesome, along with a few others in 13th Warrior. My VHS copy is getting grainier and grainier because it's been watched so much. I need to get a DVD of that someday.
The Four Musketeers is another one I forgot about.
Krieg, I like your taste in authentic sword fights!
Another great fight scene along these lines is Bryan Brown vs. the assassin in the move F/X. This fight pits a trained professional against an ordinary guy, Brown, just trying to survive. They struggle all over his apartment and Bryan Brown is desperately trying anything, including throwing anything he can get his hands on, books, pots, pans. This fight has real desperate-adrenaline energy and leaves Brown gasping for breath at the conclusion, eyes wide with terror and rolling crazily, trying to comprehend what just happened.
reddist said:
I saw one just last night I was very impressed with... there is a scene in the middle of the first Bourne movie..Bourne Identity.... when they get back to his apartment and that guy with the SMG busts in through the window. Once they get to the HtH, I think that fight has some awesome energy. Two men clearly intent on killing each other and nothing is going to stop them.
I can't quite consider it as a "best" because it actually seemed interminable to me. While otherwise seeming to be a good bit of pure, dumb, brute, brawling the pacing of it was HORRIFICALLY slow and a serious road bump in the pacing of the movie overall.
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.
No, but it does have a couple great quotes associated with it:
"You just shot an unarmed man!" "Well then he should have armed himself."
"I don't deserve this. I was building a house!"
Attack of the Clones: The battle in the colosseum, up to the Clone army coming to evacuate the remaining Jedi; that, in particular, is one of the most breathtaking scenes I've ever seen.
Matrix Reloaded: The whole sequence from the Merovingian's house to the Freeway. Neo toying with the Merovingian's henchmen ("Hrm...if I take all of you on at once, I might get some XP..."), to Morpheus killing the Ghost Twins, to Morpheus' fight with the Agent on the semi.
LotR: The Two Towers: The Warg ambush of the Rohanese refugee column. Not so much the fight itself, but the leadup to it is just wonderful in its intensity.
Inuyasha: Affections Touching Across Time: The (incredibly one-sided) opening fight between Sesshomaru and Manomaru's minions; they run and attack Sesshomaru, who, with a flick of his whip, rips them apart. Also, the minions' fights later with Miroku and Sango are nice and dynamic.
Actually, any time Sesshomaru fights, it's really cool; especialy Episode 77, where he
comes *this* close to flipping out and turning into his wolf-demon form, until the Tenseiga starts to pulse
.
Troy: Achilles and Hector. Hector's so outmatched it's not funny.
Most of the fights in any of the Discworld books are REALLY good, as previously mentioned.
Gust Front: The Battle of Fredericksburg. If it didn't add in half the book, I'd add in the retreat to the Potomac and First Washington.
The Short Victorious War: First Hancock. That remains the best space battle I've read, if only partially because it resembles the Battle of Jutland (as it should've been, had Beatty had a brain).
The fight in Saving Private Ryan with the Nazi and the one American up in the room...the one with the knife...the one that that jerkwad Upman listened to and then let the Nazi go...
