Best Movie Sword Fight

[FridgeMagnet]

/me is watching the Takeshi Kitano Zatoichi from about 1:30 onwards. Featherweight blades, immensely sharp, iajutsu murder.

 

[DotCommunist]

Whoever voted for Boromir death is wrong. A good swordfight has to be man o man. Getting pwned by arrows is cheating

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I'd be glad to fight you in a swordfight then. Fencing swords overtook broadswords and the like because:

A) I can stick it in your chest and into a vital organ whilst you are still swinging your sword back for your first swing.
B) They punched though armour whereas slashing swords tend to deflect off it

A rapier is far more deadly.

Well quite, we're not bashing people to death through tin cans here. Fencing is how you kill people who aren't on the battlefield, and if they are, you use pikes or muskets.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

/me is watching the Takeshi Kitano Zatoichi from about 1:30 onwards. Featherweight blades, immensely sharp, iajutsu murder.

i just rewatched the hirate zatoichi battle from zatoichi monogatari .... it's great but for a compleatly diffrent reason

 

[Diamond]

The introduction of Kyūzō (Seiji Miyaguchi) in Seven Samurai comes to mind, and there's some fine swordplay in Yojimbo too.

Not much of a fight though, is it?

 

[8den]

Whoever voted for Boromir death is wrong. A good swordfight has to be man o man. Getting pwned by arrows is cheating

And then Aragon comes in and is all badass. It's a great fight.

 

[Pickman's model]

And then Aragon comes in and is all badass. It's a great fight.

you're all over the fucking shop

you said above this was a thread about duels now it's about skirmishes.

 

[Artaxerxes]

The princess bride film is two ponces doing salon rapier fighting. Total gash on so many levels. Rob Roy has a classic battle between the salon fops sword and the honest fighting mans sword. The rapier was designed for fannies to have duels with. It has neither the cleaving potential of the heavy claymore nor the robust utility of the english backsword. I Don't consider fannies prancing around with overgrown knitting needles to be a proper sword fight. Bitches need to be flailing around with MANLY swords.

You've clearly never held a 15th century rapier, those things were heavy and are a real pain to keep up for an extended length of time. Originally they were designed to get around laws on longswords, eventually devolving to the swizzle sticks you get these days and combat that has no basis in a real fight. But thats thanks to our freind Mr firearm

A) I can stick it in your chest and into a vital organ whilst you are still swinging your sword back for your first swing.
B) They punched though armour whereas slashing swords tend to deflect off it

Whereas you've bought into the myth that swords were heavy and brutal weapons more useful for chopping wood than flesh. The point was used extensively in all sword schools, from I.33 to the modern day fencing sword and they usually weighed no more than 5-6lbs

(using nylon sparring swords, these are extremely well modelled on the metal swords but safe to spar with)

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

He'd also be a hundred years old, so y'know I quite fancy you could take him in a duel.

He'd probably have a supply of poppers and viagra, though.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Well quite, we're not bashing people to death through tin cans here. Fencing is how you kill people who aren't on the battlefield, and if they are, you use pikes or muskets.

I'd put a top iaido master against any fencing master.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

We have a tv show called Deadliest Warrior. They do simulations, like Apache vs gladiator, etc. All the matchups that everyone wondered about and wants to see.

I think someone should write in about fencing master vs other types of swordsmen.

http://www.spike.com/show/31082

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Whoever voted for Boromir death is wrong. A good swordfight has to be man o man. Getting pwned by arrows is cheating

IT's a good scene though

 

[DotCommunist]

You've clearly never held a 15th century rapier, those things were heavy and are a real pain to keep up for an extended length of time. Originally they were designed to get around laws on longswords, eventually devolving to the swizzle sticks you get these days and combat that has no basis in a real fight. But thats thanks to our freind Mr firearm



Whereas you've bought into the myth that swords were heavy and brutal weapons more useful for chopping wood than flesh. The point was used extensively in all sword schools, from I.33 to the modern day fencing sword and they usually weighed no more than 5-6lbs

(using nylon sparring swords, these are extremely well modelled on the metal swords but safe to spar with)

you aint getting it through plate armour

 

[DaveCinzano]

Not much of a fight though, is it?

Yes it is. A one-sided fight which tells us much about his character.

 

[gsv]

Not much of a fight though, is it?

GS(v)

 

[Artaxerxes]

you aint getting it through plate armour

No, instead I'll just make a run for it before I come back with some mates. It wasnt designed to fight plate armour but for civilian use.

Your english blade also isnt going to pierce plate, so I'd fight you with a longsword or a mace. Or one of those fancy new Arquibus I hear are so nice

 

[Bakunin]

Or one of those fancy new Arquibus I hear are so nice

I'm more of a revolver man, personally:

 

[contadino]

The fight in the posh fencing club in Die Another Day would get my vote (if I'd been quick enough to nominate it) purely based on the quantity of furniture demolished and startled bystanders. A swordfight is nothing without wrecked homewares and feigned surprise by bit-part actors. Plus, they work their way through a cornucopia of bladed weaponry in just one spat.

 

[Bakunin]

Plus, they work their way through a cornucopia of bladed weaponry in just one spat.

As does the esteemed Mr. Bruce Lee in this scene from 'Enter The Dragon', in which he uses unarmed combat, a staff, escrima sticks and nunchakus to devastating effect. Particular highlight are the chap who gets to be used as a human drumkit with said escrima sticks, another chap who gets an escrima stick in the bollocks and the young lad who loses his nunchakus only to get them back in a way he probably wasn't too pleased about: