Best Movie Fight Scenes

[foxyepicurean]

Belated thanks for the button 'splainin', Pepper!

You may be on to something with the Wolverine fights...but I'd say it's every scene he's in. Espeically if he's scantily (or tightly) clad. Erm, excuse me, I drifted off there for a second.

I watched X2 on Friday night and have to agree with the Wolverine vs. Lady Deathstrike love. I'd seen it before, but I still didn't want to blink.

[mommybeast]

Monster said:

How about the one in John Carpenter's They Live? You know, when Piper is trying to make his friend put on the sunglasses and they end up beating the shit out of each other for about five minutes straight?

YAY!!! Love the Rowdy Roddy! I had a rather embarassing year or so back in the late 80s when I obsessed over the Piper-Man and discovered this film. Awesome fight scene (I love it when people kick the shit out of each other & just keep fighting even when they can't swing anymore) & best film line EVAH.

I've come to kick ass & chew bubblegum & I'm all outta bubblegum.

That's right, Roddy. You bring that kick-ass Scottish thang.

Oh, yeah, my favorite fight scene is Colin Firth & Hugh Grant in both Bridget Jones. Men who can't fight are the funny.

[pepper67]

No problem, foxy. Glad you figured it out.

You may be on to something with the Wolverine fights...but I'd say it's every scene he's in. Espeically if he's scantily (or tightly) clad. Erm, excuse me, I drifted off there for a second.

Carry on drifting. Wow. He looks good in (or out) of anything.

I watched X2 on Friday night and have to agree with the Wolverine vs. Lady Deathstrike love. I'd seen it before, but I still didn't want to blink.

It's a fight that really has me on the edge of my seat. She's so determined to inflict pain on him!

Another X-Men fight scene I like is from the first film: all of Toad's moves when he's fighting (and beating - well, temporarily) Cyclops, Jean and Storm. He looks like he's having so much fun being evil.

[Binky]

The Bourne Supremacy: When Bourne goes to the house of the former dreadstone agent. It's obvious they're going to fight from the moment he walks in the door, even though he has emptied the gun and handcuffs the guy Then the actual fight is just brutal. Two skilled assassin dudes just going all out. I love the part where the other guy has a knife and Bourne has a fricking magazine as a weapon.Bourne's win is pretty decisive, what with the using a toaster, a magazine, and gas leak to blow up the house.

[paikeagastineau]

Brad Pitt vs Eric bana in Troy....'nuff said!

[prolix]

I wanted to mention the fight between Frank Sinatra's character and a Korean character in the original Manchurian Candidate. On the DVD extras the director (Frankenheimer?) said that it was one of the first 'karate' fight scenes in American cinema, and that Frank Sinatra was very excited about the scene and worked really hard to prepare for it. When it came out, it was considered incredibly brutal (although now it's somewhat tame, of course). I always thought it was a cool scene, and then hey, it's Frankie.

And the scene where Paul Newman fights George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke.

[Auroranorth]

Anything in The Princess Bride. Classical Italian fencing is soooo pretty to watch.

Road House with Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliot is also very good. It's hand to hand, and according to people who know fighting, they did an accurate job.

The Duellists You'll do a lot of fast forwarding between scenes because it really drags, but the actual duels are great, especially the last scene when Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine are stalking each other though the woods.

[huntergrayson]

C'mon you guys, how about the final fight scene between Jackie Chan versus his real-life bodyguard in Drunken Master 2.

Wow, I read this as real-life boyfriend! Thanks, lack o' caffeine and HoYay-obsessed sites. Hee.

The entirely of House of Flying Daggers is just wow. Gorgeous, poetic violence, just the way I like it.

For some reason, my favorite fight in The Matrix(es) isn't with Neo, it's the opening scene with Trinity. Because it staddles the line between looking really cool and piquing your interest ("what the hell is going on?"). The battle at Monica Bellucci's house in Reloaded is a close second.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is really underrated (Diana Rigg +Bond? awesome) and has a killer fight on a bobsled-track-thing.

[sueli769]

The brawl at the end of The Quiet Man, which you are waiting for throughout the whole movie.

The fight scene bewteen Matt and Dunson at the end of Red River.

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I just posted this in the 'Details & Throwaway Jokes' thread precisely because it's the attention to detail that so blows me away in this scene, but it also deserves a place in this thread;

In The Princess Bride during THE revenge fight scene, they was when Inigo gains the upper hand in the fight, he mirrors every one of the Count's injuries on him, in reverse chronological order. On my first few viewings (this is my fave movie, which i have watched countless times over the past 15 years since I first saw it - and I'm someone who can usually only watch a movie once.) I only registered the cheek slashes, but later on I realised he also made a point (pun, ha ha) of pricking the counts shoulders and arms, which the count had done to him earlier in the fight (even though in that case, it was inadvertent). Also the way the music which was written especially matched not each movement of the fight, but also the general mood. Incredible.

All the recent overrated 'epic' movies with the ongoing generic fights, take note - THAT'S how you do a fucking fight scene.