Greatest fight scenes

[upsidedownwalrus]

I didn't like the part in Jabba's Palace. The scenes with the Emperor made Jedi what it is.*

*Second best

I actually think it'd be a much better film than Empire, if it didn't have the sodding Ewoks

 

[Sweet FA]

"You seem a decent fellow... I hate to kill you."
"You seem a decent fellow... I hate to die."

 

[machine cat]

I actually think it'd be a much better film than Empire

Blaspheme!

 

[machine cat]

oh, how could i forget Leroy vs. Sho' Nuff in 'The Last Dragon'?

Three times over boy!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Blaspheme!

I personally much prefer the 'Oh, I'm afraid that this battle station will be quite operational, when your rebel friends arrive' scene to the Vader I Am Your father scene...

 

[llion]

Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women in Love?!

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Sonny Corleone beating up Carlo in Godfather is really staged and fake, but despite this, it still feels really brutal - whenever I see a dustbin lid I think of this fight!

The fight at the start of Rumblefish between Rusty James and Biff is good - very choreographed, like a dance, and I would argue a big influence of some of John Woo's later action sequences - birds fluttering across the scene, lots of jumping, almost balletic movement. Also has a good Stewart Copeland score pushing it, and completes with the coolest of cool arrivals by the Motorcycle Boy....'what is this, another glorious battle for the kingdom?'. Very nice!

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women in Love?!

Good call

Naled men, a fire, and a fur rug......fighting like savages in the comfort of luxury.....all men should have a go

 

[Ted Striker]

Daniel LaRusso vs John Lawrence, All Valley Championships final 1984

 

[Stigmata]

 

[The Octagon]

Basically any fight from Once Upon a Time in China (particularly the ladder sequence, which I annoyingly can't find on youtube).

 

[Rochen]

first fight with brad pitt as the traveller in snatch

 

[Bakunin]

I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned the epic and rather brutal fight at the end of the first 'Lethal Weapon' movie:

'What do you say, Jack? You want a shot at the title?'

 

[Wolveryeti]

I like the Bourne fights... Can't think of any one that rises to the top, but whoever choreographed and cut them did a good job.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Kung Fu Hustle: the landlords take on the beast.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Jackie Chan v The Axe Gang

 

[Artaxerxes]

"You seem a decent fellow... I hate to kill you."
"You seem a decent fellow... I hate to die."

Ah bugger, beaten to it!

The names they quote are all actual fencing masters btw

 

[butcher]

The Wanderers, The Del Bombers & The Wongs v The Ducky Boys.

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don' fuck wid da wongs

Brillliant Film!

My vote would be the sword fight in Scaramouche or Bruce Lee in the underground tunnels in Enter the Dragon

 

[mentalchik]

The big space battle in the pilot of Battlestar Galactica.....

 

[Orang Utan]

Jackie Chan v The Axe Gang

my favourite jackie chan scene is the first one in the project a comp:

though it's more of a chase than a fight i suppose

 

[lemontop]

.

 

[May Kasahara]

teri hatcher vs charlize theron in '2 Days In The Valley'

 

[kained&able]

that scene in that really narrow carridor(or toilet or something) in unleashed, proper gritty and violent inloves jet li and is really really cool.


dave

 

[agricola]

In addition to the end of Sanjuro mentioned on the other best fight thread, there are two bits from the Kitano Zatoichi that are magnificent (in a film filled with great, great fights). For those who havent seen any of the films, Zatoichi is blind.

The first is right at the start of the film where Zatoichi is faced by a mob and disarmed by a child.
The second is the face-off between the ronin Hattori and the gang he has been hired to dispose of, which he does in a (despite the CG blood) oddly realistic way:

 

[8den]

Firstly Kudos to the people mentioning Princess Bride, and lethal Weapon.

But rumble in the Bronx, thats not even in the top ten Jackie Chan fights never mind greatest fight scenes.

My two favourites are the Both of which feature two trained killers trying to murder each other in my most brutal manner possible. As I understand it (aside from a couple of pieces of dramatic licence in both) the eye gouging, the physicality of the violence is incredibly plausible.

 

[Kizmet]

Another vote for The Princess Bride and for The Last Dragon.. terrible but wonderful film.

Though, personally I think that the fight at the end of Rocky is beautifully staged and emotional. Which makes it great, imo.

 

[butcher]

*ahem* Ray Winston, two pool balls in a sock in SCUM



FTW I believe

 

[Motown_ben]

John Wayne and Victor McLaglen knocking seven bells outa each other in the Quiet Man

 

[jeff_leigh]

Jackie Chan vs Benny Urquidez battle in "Wheels on meals"

 

[albionism]

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