Favorite Movie Fight Scenes

[M Taylor]

OK, what about RAGING BULL.

EQUILIBRIUM has some impressive, dare I say innovative fight scenes. I liked the way they mixed gunplay into the fist fights, or vice versa. The rest of the film was not that great, so it got hammered by the critics.

[M Taylor]

beginning of irreversible made me the most uncomfortable

What, just the beginning? Took me a couple of days to recover from that film.

[Weston Ford]

Kill Bill vol 1, Uma vs. the crazy 88
The Matrix, Neo vs. Smith at the train station
Star Wars ESB, Vader vs. Luke in cloud city

[liquidigital]

Friends of mine (different guys/groups) choreographed Bourne, 300, Equilibrium and Undisputed 2. Brings a smile to my face when I see people appreciate their work.

Loved all these... Bourne Identity, Kill Bill V2, Drunken Master 2, Big Trouble in Little China, Shaolin vs. Lama, Great Hero from China, Old Boy, quite a few more.

It's gotta serve the story, most important. Fun thread btw.

[David Mullen ASC]

There was this great Jet Li fight scene in "Legend of Fong Sai Yuk" that took place on this scaffolding that then collapsed, and continued on top of the heads of the crowd watching the fight (whoever hit the ground first, lost).

There's a pretty wild rooftop foot chase, not really a fight, at the climax of "Peking Opera Blues" that was fun, with one of the best villian death scenes.

The recent naked knife fight in "Eastern Promises" was memorable.

[Álex Montoya]

There's an amazing little dirty, gritty fight in the tv show "The Shield" featuring Shane vs. Tavon.
I believe that was in the fourth season.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1luhj_shane

And funnily enough here's a commentary addressing the points that Ruairi talked about.

[Casey Green]

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" - too many great scenes to pick just one.

[sander kamp]

Ong Bak

Stylized, yes. But real people performing, no computers. Haven't seen Tom Yam Gung though.

[Sean Rawls]

"Oldboy" - The hallway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1spdDaL_eI8

You have to respect the Parkour chase/fight in "Casino Royale" even though it borrowed liberally from "District B13".

Also, "The Battle of Algiers" - pretty much the entire film.

[Dean Bull]

OMG I was just working my way through this thread to see if anyone would throw out oldboy.

OLDBOY -- the movie that did it first, sorry 300 and all those who will bite in the future.

-- Dean


Sidenote: Not the best "fight scene" exactly, but the whole end showdown between Harmonica and Fonda in once upon a time in the west. Other fight scenes worth checking out that many may not have seen: The samuari stuff in "Sanjuro" (especially the very end) The opening scene in "Fudoh", oh, and lets not forget the classic 'The Quiet Man" with John Wayne! Shonen Anime has more fight scenes than you can shake a stick at...