Best fight scene?

[Zulithe]

Oh boy ... I'll jump in though all the major stuff has already been mentioned multiple times.

Dramatic:
Anything from Star Wars, esp. the original trilogy saber battles and Obi Wan & Qui Gon vs. Darth Maul in Ep I. Yoda vs. Dooku, while I think it was about as good as it possibly could have been done (all considered) and I don't think it was comical, I still don't feel it carries the emotional weight the other fights did which is where it suffers.

The Matrix films ... any fight which takes place within the Matrix itself. +5 coolness points of Morpheus uses his katana

Brotherhood of the Wolf, esp. the beginning sequence & the final confrontation (that whip-sword was pretty neat)

Spidey vs. Doc Ock

Coolness factor alone:
Bruce Campbell playing ANYONE fighting ANYTHING. +5 coolness points if it involves a chainsaw


I could go on and on :/ I get too wrapped up in these queries so I'll just end here

 

[tec-9-7]

"These Sing-Dings..."
"Chang-Sings"
"They got enemies?"
"Wing-Kong..."
"Who wear red turbans?!?!?!"

I thoroughly enjoyed all the fight scenes in Big Trouble in Little China, but especially the first involving the gangs and the appearance of the Three Storms.

 

[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.

I do love several of hte Conan fights in both films. The fight where he wrestles the evil god is one of my favorites (man defeats deity).

I loved them as a kid, but the boxing fights in all the Rocky films are rediculous. Better to watch Ali vs. Foreman in the Jungle. In film, I think the recent 'Ali' is pretty good.

 

[Krieg]

No love of Errol Flynn on this thread? Ignorance of youth I suppose.

It's far more fun to watch Basil Rathbone work so very hard trying NOT to skewer poor frenetic Flynn.

 

[Aesmael]

Not a physical battle, but I enjoyed Cnaiur vs. Kellhus in The Darkness that Comes Before.

Edit to add, I intend to use this thread as a movie resource for a long time to come. Certainly everything mentioned here I know personally I agree with (e.g. the hundred man battle, and Balance of Terror is one of my favourite episodes of any show)

 

[kolvar]

Wow, there are realy a lot good ones mentioned already
There are a few, I do not remember the names from:
- One is a fight in a burning bell-tower, where the hero and the villain swing along the bell-ropes to fight it out.
- some realy great ones in the Three Musketeers with Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed etc. (e.g. on the frozen lake)
- The space battle between the enterprise and an romulan war bird in the original series.
- Mad Madigan vs. Kael in Willow (there is one villain who refuses to fall)
- There is a movie about an american forced to steal a japanese sword from a ninja clan. As live (or movies go), he can not do it and trains with the ninja. At the end of the movie, he defends the honor of "his" clan vs. the enemy in a fight, where he is clearly the less skilled swordsman but fights with everything at hand (e.g. a common stapler).
- Nearly a fight: Rebells of Liang Chang Po (Spelling?): The hero and a great Swordfighter are evenly matched, and they know it. Therefore they stand on the fields for days, because the one attacking will lose. Impressed me much.
- Robin and Marian: Robin vs. the Sherif. Two old man, who fight for what they believe, who respect each other but still have to kill the other.
- The last of the Mohecans (with Daniel Day Lewis). Nearly every fight scene but especially the last one: quick and final.

(but for best: Rob Roy, Duell in Episode I, Princess Bride: Inigo-Wesley, Chateau-Fight Matrix II)

 

[mojo1701]

The fight between Wayne and Cassandra's father, Mr. Wong in Wayne's World 2.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Most emotionally gripping fight I remember reading? It has to be the defence of two rivers by the blacksmith and the villagers against the hordes of nasty things in Wheel of Time book 5 (I think it was book 5?) The whitecloak soldiers stood to one side and did nothing, but it brought a lump to my throat when the womenfolk of the village surged forward to fight alongside their husbands in the desperate defence of the village.

One of the least satisfying fights for me was Neo vs the merovingians henchmen. Why didn't he kill any of them? There was one that he stapled the arm to a wall with a sai, but he seemed too coy about finishing off any of them. It looked like he had plenty of time, but he just didn't do it.

Cheers

 

[ajanders]

I'm seeing a few things missed that ought not to be...
Best Martial arts: Iron Monkey (the one presented by Quentin Tarantino).
First they do wuxia. Then they do wuxia on top of telephone poles. Then they do wuxia on top of telephone poles over a lake of burning oil.
Best Tactical thinking: Enemy at the Gates. All of it.
Sniping in Stalingrad: it just doesn't get better.
Best "What would happen if we gave a war and EVERYBODY came" The Battle of Dumai's Wells, from Jordan's Wheel of Time.
All the poor Red Ajah did was kidnap Rand al Thor. Now they're getting attacked by Aiel. And other Aes Sedai. And wolves. And some other Aiel. And Ashaman, and now Rand's got loose. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
Best Combat Fatigue: Also from the Wheel of Time: the battle on the Almoth Plain.
Seanchan, Whitecloaks, heroic ghosts, Rand al Thor, and the Dark One.
Min is trying to get an unconscious Rand into cover. Suddenly a woman rides her horse across the water, shoots a fireball arrow into an enemy ship, and watches as the ship sinks. Min shrugs and keeps on trying to get Rand into bed.
I've known players with that capacity for focus. At least, that's what they called it.

 

[BadMojo]

One of the least satisfying fights for me was Neo vs the merovingians henchmen. Why didn't he kill any of them? There was one that he stapled the arm to a wall with a sai, but he seemed too coy about finishing off any of them. It looked like he had plenty of time, but he just didn't do it.

I could be remembering this wrong, but I believe he *at least* skewered two of them with swords (looked fatal) and then finish off the last guy with something that looked like a giant spikey iron pineapple on a stick. That made a satisfying squish. That's three I can remember (I think).