Best Sword (Or any weapon type) Fights ever?

[Upper_Krust]

Hey there!

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.

Star Trek: Nemesis - are you kidding me!?

Read this pictorial:

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Nemesis/Pictorial.html

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.

Achilles was definately epic level.

 

[barsoomcore]

Couple of unmentioned ones:

Jackie Chan and Lau Kar-Leung against a few hundred axe-wielding thugs in Drunken Master II

Wait, EVERYTHING in Drunken Master II

There's a movie with Kitano Takeshi called Taboo that opens with a practice swordfight (using wooden swords) that is just stomp-down amazing. Worth tracking down if you're a swordfight fan.

The climactic battle in the bad guys' house at the end of A Bullet In The Head II. Holy crap.

The big shoot-out at Sidney's house in The Killer.

Jackie versus the town guards in Young Master. And the final fight in that movie is a great one-on-one test of endurance.

Toshiro Mifune versus anyone.

 

[barsoomcore]

Oh good grief. Has nobody mentioned Kill Bill? Not even ME?

Showdown At The House Of Blue Leaves kicks BUTT. And both the Bride versus Vernita Green and the Bride versus Elle Driver rank as two of the best one-on-one fights EVER. Man.

And I'm just going to shout out for a couple of Xena fights. There were plenty of crappy fights on that show, but Xena versus Ares in "The Furies" was big fun, and the ladder fight against Callisto is top-notch.

 

[Staffan]

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

If you're going to include space battles, you can't leave out the defense of Babylon 5 in the middle of season 3, the episode "Shattered Dreams." Though in many ways, the strongest moment in that battle comes after the main battle itself is finished.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

The climactic battle in the bad guys' house at the end of A Bullet In The Head II. Holy crap.

I think that youre thinking about A BETTER TOMORROW II. and yeah...DAMN.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

A lot of people have mentioned Inigo vs Westly, but in many ways I'd take Inigo vs the Six Fingered Man. The former is more of a courtly duel, nice dialogue and some fancy flips but ultimately aniseptic. The latter is the fruition of decades of pain, a fight for life and honor with an incredibly brutal yet emotional finish.

 

[merztrumpet]

Ryunosuke (versus many men) in Sword of Doom after being warned by a woman that there is an ambush up ahead the path. Touche on the last fight of the movie in a burning house.

 

[mmu1]

Well, since the thread seems to be going all over the place, and the original post did say any weapons...

How about Exley and White's "last stand" at the Victory Motel in L.A. Confidential?

Also, a lot of people are mentioning LotR, but no one brought up my personal favorite for a "smirmish" - the fight with the Uruk-Hai ending in Boromir's death. The look on Aragorn's face before he goes off to wade into a mob of orcs gets me every time...

Master and Commander had a great shipboard melee.

Pirates of the Carribbean Forge Fight definitely belongs somewhere on the list...

For one-on-one fights, I'd also mention several from the Bourne movies - the one in the first ending with the guy jumping out of the window, the incredibly nasty fight in the second involving anything from rolled-up newspaper to telephone cord, and finally the last "fight" using cars as weapons.

 

[trancejeremy]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaah!

It's Westley. Westley! Westley!!!!!

Not Wesley, in the Princess Bride. (I know someone got it right, but most called him by the wrong name).

 

[Kahuna Burger]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaah!

It's Westley. Westley! Westley!!!!!

Not Wesley, in the Princess Bride. (I know someone got it right, but most called him by the wrong name).

But who would win between a spaniard and an acting ensign?