Best fight scene?

[Starman]

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.

That was actually at the end of book 4, The Shadow Rising.

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.

I love this scene. There are so many cool parts, Perrin summoning the wolves, the Asha'man making thousands of Aiel heads explode, the Aes Sedai swearing fealty to Rand. Definitely my favorite part in the series so far.

Starman

 

[Christopher Lambert]

Kosh vs Kosh Vader.

 

[reddist]

- 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).

I SAW this movie! I think it was called "The Challenge," and the American guy and the head of the "evil" ninja clan duke it out in a cube farm in some office complex? Yeah, ya know... there was enough cool stuff in that movie for me to remeber it. That final killing strike was pretty gruesome...

Spoiler

split clean from head to naval!

I think it starred the same guy from the "Kill Or Be Killed" and "Kill And Kill Again" series? Who ALSO was in the B-grade martial arts classic "The Iron Circle?"

Tell me I'm not the only one who remembers these....

-Reddist

 

[Grizpapa]

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.

 

[Thorntangle]

I remember it. If I remember correctly, he was extremely unmatched against the BBEG and ended up running around the cubefarm trying to get away. I thought that the BBEG met his end cutting through a power conduit(!) going into a copy machine. Zzzzzaapa. Maybe that was just a goon-level ninja.

I SAW this movie! I think it was called "The Challenge," and the American guy and the head of the "evil" ninja clan duke it out in a cube farm in some office complex? Yeah, ya know... there was enough cool stuff in that movie for me to remeber it. That final killing strike was pretty gruesome...

Spoiler

split clean from head to naval!

I think it starred the same guy from the "Kill Or Be Killed" and "Kill And Kill Again" series? Who ALSO was in the B-grade martial arts classic "The Iron Circle?"

Tell me I'm not the only one who remembers these....

-Reddist

 

[rbingham2000]

Throwing in my votes for:

FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
- The Fellowship vs. the Orcs and the CAVE TROLL in Moria.
- Boromir's final stand
- Aragorn vs. Lurtz

THE TWO TOWERS
- Gandalf vs. the Balrog
- Battle with Orcs and Wargs on the road to Helm's Deep
- The Battle of Helm's Deep

THE KILLER
- The restaurant shootout
- The beach house shootout
- The church shootout

THE WILD BUNCH
- The first shootout
- The Last Stand of the Wild Bunch

THE MATRIX
- Neo vs. Morpheus
- The Government Lobby Shootout
- Neo vs. Smith in the Subway

CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON
- Jen Yu vs the tavern thugs
- Yu Shu Lien with a roomful of weapons vs Jen Yu with Green Destiny

THE BOONDOCK SAINTS
- The hotel shootout
- The Saints and Rocco vs. IL DUCE

 

[Mark Chance]

If it hasn't already been mentioned: The final showdown between Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro in Hunted. Absolutely brutal.

Lam Ching Ying and Yuen Biao have some wonderful stuff in The Prodigal Son. Virtually anything with Donnie Yen and/or Jet Li is top shelf. In comparison, the so-called wonderful fight scenes in, for example, The Matrix movies are a mess of jerky close ups and green screen shenanigans.

For mass marital arts mayhem, can anything beat Big Trouble in Little China? I think not.

 

[Brakkart]

Okay my fave fight scenes:

Inigo Montoya vs Wesley in The Princess Bride
Babylon 5 and Renegade Ships vs Earthforce in B5 episode Severed Dreams
The Corridor Fight in Equilibrium (1 guy with pistols vs 40 guys with automatic rifles, nuff said!)
Achilles vs Hector in Troy
Hector vs Ajax in Troy
The Battle of Helm's Deep in LotR: The Two Towers
The Battle in Balin's Tomb in LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring
Wolverine vs Mystique in X-Men
Conan & Subotai vs Doom's Minions in Conan the Barbarian
Mina vs Dorian Grey in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ("We'll be at this all day!")
The Beach Landing in Saving Private Ryan
The Army of Light vs The Shadows in B5 episode Shadow Dancing ("Everyone else... Break and attack!")

 

[mmu1]

In no particular order:

1. The last shootout in LA Confidential

2. The final fight in Rob Roy.

3. The apartment fight in Bourne Identity.

4. The lobby gunfight in the Matrix.

 

[Thotas]

I still laugh when I watch the battle over the bean curd in "Wing Chun" with Michelle Yeoh. It's crazy, but it's fun.