Best Sword (Or any weapon type) Fights ever?

[ShinHakkaider]

There are plenty of others I'll give honorary mention to.

Just for Misc: Favorite unarmed fight scene, Jackie Chan v. Benny Urquidez in Dragons Forever.

That was a good one but I liked the fight between them in Wheels on Meals better.

 

[jester47]

Idigo vs. Wesley
The fight with Hafdan the Black in Erik the Viking
The Battle of Pellanor Fields

 

[Templetroll]

This is in a more comedic vein, but I love the swordfight near the end of Court Jester, where Danny Kaye's character is under the Suggestion that he is the greatest swordsman in the world, but comes out of it every time he (or someone else) snaps his/their fingers! Hilarious! DK is quite an actor, and can make you believe that his character is an expert swordsman AND a bumbling Bard, switching from one roll to the other at the snap of a finger!

And who could forget the attack of the midgets, from the same movie?!? Now THAT was a skirmish!

From the IMDB

Basil Rathbone was a world-class fencer and it was due to his efforts that the hilarious fencing scene was filmed without injury. He later admitted that several times he was almost skewered by Danny Kaye's sword.


But then again... In the famous "snapping" swordfight between Kaye and Rathbone, Kaye's sword movements were too fast for Rathbone, as he was 63 at the time of filming. The film's fight choreographer dressed up as Rathbone's character and was filmed from behind for the fast sections. If you look, you can see that most of the fight consists of "Rathbone" from the back, then shots of the real Rathbone standing "en garde".

Alos, that movie has Alan Napier (Alfred, Batman tv show) John Carradine, Angela Lansbury when she was a babe!

 

[Henry]

"Scaramouche" -- any relationship at all between this movie title and the strange word Queen sings in Bohemian Rhapsody?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaramouche - This covers it pretty well.

Star Wars Ep3 (Obi-Wan and Anakin) was the best in recent memory. Inigo and Wesley come a close second, though Episode 1's three-way fight with Obi-wan, Darth Maul, and Gui-gon deserves an honorable mention.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

This may sound like I'm kidding, but I love this scene:

Indiana Jones vs. the black-clad, tulwar-wielding thug.

[look of impatience, draw pistol] BLAM! [holster pistol, continue looking for Miriam]

It's a pretty well known story by now, but originally this was supposed to be a drawn out sword battle. It got cut short because that day Harrison Ford had the runs really bad, and didn't want to be shooting a lot, so someone suggested to Spielberg that "Indy's got a gun, why doesn't he just shoot the guy?" The rest is history.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

One-on-one: Inigo and Wesley, the aforementioned Court Jester fight, the dojo fight between the girls in CTHD.

Skirmish: Benjamin Martin and his young sons rescuing his oldest son from the Redcoats (in The Patriot); the younger girl vs. the teahouse in CTHD is a distant second.

Battle: Can't decide

 

[Greylock]

My second favorite sword fight of all time is Inigo vs. Wesley.

Probably third on my list is Tyrone Power vs. Basil Rathbone in The Mark of Zorro.

But top of the list can't be beat, IMHO: Errol Flynn vs. David Niven in Captain Blood.

 

[Warmaster_Horus]

One on One Fight: Hmm... One on one fights are tricky since there are so many good ones out there.... I guess my favorite has to be the lightsaber fight with Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader from Return of the Jedi. I dont really like acrobatics in swordfights and the saber figts from the original trilogy were better than the ones in the prequels just because of that reason.

Skirmish: Favorite one has to be the Battle of the Mound from Conan the Barbarian. (best Fantasy movie ever IMO)

Battle Scene: Hmm... Can't really decide... Don't have many that pop to my mind. But I guess it has to be the Omaha Beach landing from Saving Private Ryan.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

A few that I like that have been missed:

Dark City, John Murdoch vs. the Stranger leader.

Bram Stroker's Dracula, the chase into the castle at the very end.

Gettysburg, Little Round Top.

Star Trek: Nemesis, the Enterprise vs. the (whatever that ship was named). That's one of the best space combat scenes I've seen, ever. The other being Enterprise vs. the Reliant in Wrath of Khan.

I do agree that the duel between Achilles and Hector in Troy was very good, and was the high point of the movie. Hector was so outmatched, it wasn't funny.

Brad

 

[Welverin]

1. Favourite One-on-one Fight.

Tough, something from a SW or Matrix movie.

2. Favourite Skirmish.

The Chateau fight in the Matrix Reloaded.

3. Favourite Battle Scene.

THis is a hard one, but I'll mention the Battle of Geonosis for now and maybe come back to it.

- The defenders of Zion vs. the Squiddies (The Matrix: Revolutions)

Oddly, my least favorite part of the entire series, well other than the dance scene in Reloaded.

Spoeaking of which, have you gotten around to watching all three movies yet?

- The combined Starfleet/Klingon Fleet vs. The Cardassian/Dominion Fleet takes back DS9 (Deep Space Nine - Season 6, "Sacrifice of Angels")

Ooo, good one.