Best fight scene

[Russ]

I hate to be the one creating a thread called "Best fight scene".

So, why, eh?

Because I saw a nifty little film the other day with, arguably, the greatest bar-room fight scene I've ever seen.

Here's where you come in: check out my clip and see if you can top it. Let's all do ourselves a favor and NOT submit Roddy Piper's clip from They Live.

'cause we would all die from its awesomeness.

Still, look at this scene from the 1963 film, Soldier in the Rain, an army buddy movie starring Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason:


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The choreography is awesome. And it's sustained for a solid 3 minutes plus. Search your film logs. Give me something as kick-ass and gritty as this (realizing that comparing HK fights is like apples and oranges, but still, don't let stop you from posting your favorites).

[Raiders]

Always loved the choreography, physicality and sheer bloodiness of The Hunted's final knife fight. Few fight scenes I have seen felt as brutal as this one. Friedkin is a master at cutting together action sequences. The only problem is they occasionally cut away to create the tension of the arriving reinforcements.

Sadly, the only video of this I could find is in another language:

Oh, and spoilers obviously...

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[Yxklyx]

Break Up the Dance - Roman Polanski

The fight in this one comes late and isn't that great but apparently it's real as Polanski supposedly brought in a actual gang to break up a party he was filming:

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[Pop Trash]

EASTERN PROMISES!!!

[B-side]

Dude, that was awesome, Russ.

[Boner M]

Day of the Outlaw has a really sombre and embarrassing one, which is how fights - in my experience - always register as.

[MadMan]

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YouTube told me it was the best fight ever, so um, yeah :P

[Stay Puft]

I don't remember which episode (four or five, maybe) but there's an incredibly awesome and well sustained brawl around the middle of the Adventures of Captain Marvel serial from 1941. Most of what makes it awesome is that it just comes out of nowhere and then goes on and on with repeated false endings, and is unlike any other sequence in the serial.

[Rowland]

Hmm...

How about the best fight scene I've seen this year, courtesy of the otherwise pretty lame Ong Bak 3:

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Or how about a scene fought through telepathy?

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[Stay Puft]

How about the best fight scene I've seen this year, courtesy of the otherwise pretty lame Ong Bak 3

You've seen True Legend, and that's still your answer? No way, dude.

[Rowland]

You've seen True Legend, and that's still your answer? No way, dude.Yeah, I had mixed thoughts about how the fights in True Legend were shot and edited. Too much stop-and-go, CGI-enhanced, slow-mo stuff, not sure if Yuen's past work was the same or if it's just a nasty habit he picked up while choreographing for Hollywood, but it threw the rhythm off for most of the fights. Don't get me wrong, there are some great bits (the oft-cited well sequence for one obvious example), but the fight I posted from Ong Bak 3 had the most impact for me. It's wittily choreographed, captured with an almost classical attention to clarity, and executed with a brutal muscularity and charisma that is rousingly convincing.

[Yxklyx]

If Scanners gets included then Sissy Boy Slap Party should be here too:

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[Dukefrukem]

wrong Tony Jaa movie!

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Also, what was that Asian movie with the robot that looked like a human? It was jumping around on cars or something?

[Stay Puft]

Yeah, I had mixed thoughts about how the fights in True Legend were shot and edited. Too much stop-and-go, CGI-enhanced, slow-mo stuff, not sure if Yuen's past work was the same or if it's just a nasty habit he picked up while choreographing for Hollywood, but it threw the rhythm off for most of the fights

It's Yuen adopting a more contemporary style, for sure, and I'd normally agree with you as far as aesthetics go... but then as far as these styles of martial arts films go, I was suitably impressed. I thought Yuen successfully married his old school sensibilities to some new age flash, and delivered typically strong choreography (and more to my taste than the Ong Bak stuff, with prolonged sequences of martial combat) with some fun camera work and wit (the special effects only bothered me in the dream sequences, so I'd say it's a lot more successful anyways than Detective Dee). I also thought he established a good rhythm for most of the scenes (the only one I didn't like was the boxing match during the final segment of the film).

The climactic fight between Su Qi-Er and Yuan Lie is easily my favorite fight scene of the year.

[Rowland]

The climactic fight between Su Qi-Er and Yuan Lie is easily my favorite fight scene of the year.It's a close second for me. I thought the bit at the beginning with the shattering pots of water in slow-mo was clumsily conceived, but then they wind up in the well and it's suddenly ridiculously awesome, with the reveal involving his training by ripping the tree bark being a great final touch.

I also agree that the special effects are much more aesthetically pleasing and appropriately utilized than Detective Dee, and the action sequences far less problematically executed.

[Lucky]

Catfights, anyone?

The Bride vs. Elle Driver
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Flying Snow vs. Moon
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Some TV catfights..

Buffy vs. Faith
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Sydney vs. Francie
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[MadMan]

The Scanners fight at the end of the movie was one of the few reasons to actually watch said movie. I was disappointed there wasn't enough head exploding.

[dreamdead]

The Boxer from Shantung has my most memorably visceral fight scene, though this is a dubbed German version.

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The lake fight from Hero has the balletic interpretation of a fight scene, which works on a more metaphysical level.

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[Spun Lepton]

I'm astronished I'm the first one to mention They Live.

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I'm astronished I'm the first one to mention They Live.

The first since the opening post, you mean.

[Spun Lepton]

;374903']The first since the opening post, you mean.

AH-HAAAAaaa ... you've, uh ... you've passed my TEST! Yeah. Yeah, that's what it was. A TEST. Yeah.

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[Ezee E]

Duke - good call with The Protector. However, despite the fanciness of the one-shot scene. I'm more impressed with the fight scene where he just breaks 20-30 guys arms.

Lucky - the Driver/Bride fight is definitely one of my tops

I'll have to ponder over this.

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I don't think I have to say anything.

[number8]

YOU GUYS. BANGKOK KNOCKOUT HAS JUST BEEN ADDED TO INSTANTWATCH.

If you're going to continue hanging out in this thread, at least watch that first.

[Yxklyx]

I'm astronished I'm the first one to mention They Live.

The OP wanted to push lesser known fight scenes. The one in They Live is classic but well known.

Yeah, the one in Oldboy is a very unique experience - like a beautiful dance.

I love scenes where young women beat up grown men - like this one in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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[Llopin]

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet. (http://youtu.be/0oFBlM_o8zc)