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Best Fights Ever
« on: April 26, 2009, 01:31:31 PM »

For some reason I was thinking about my favourite movie fights today and I was sort of interested in what other people's were as well as sharing mine. Thanks to youtube this is easy although grainly livestreamed flash video technology doesn't really do the majesty or smoothness of some of these justice. The Carrey vs Broderick one is pretty well represented though.

Uhm originally I wanted to restrain this to weapon fights only, but then I found myself breaking that rule pretty quick as a lot of my favs are just hand to hand. One stipulation I still wanna keep though is that it has to be one on one or at least one vs many situations. That basically means no big battle scenes, save that for an other thread. However if it is a specific one on one fight that happens in the middle of a battle, then fine. But it better have some length to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sQ27R4rICI

It`s not the longest fight ever, but the presentation of this fight in the actual movie is just awesome. I love how it`s story boarded too, the way they cut to Tigrus and Maximus looking over their shoulders to make sure a Tiger isn`t about to jump them every few seconds really gives you a feel of the tension in this fight. On top of this you have the cool match up of a big strong guy with a sword and an axe fighting a smaller crafty guy with a sword and a shield. I also like how you can sort of see their different styles and strengths. Maximus is military trained but used to real combat, not a duel with tigers at the perimeter. Tigrus is a veteran of the arena, used to killing single opponents to entertain making him unrefined, but brutal and dirty. Plus his face plate just looks awesome for some reason, especially whenever you get a view of him just running at Maximus, slashing away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OxQ-2gR1DU

Of course if you want the most beautiful weapon combat ever seen, train two chinese ballerinas and then give them every melee weapon in chinese history. I often don`t like chinese martial arts and especially weapons combat, because I find it overly twirly and containing too much unnecessary motion. This often makes it look fake and ineffective to me, too over the top. But in this fight, Ziyi and especially Yeoh really sell it. Without a doubt, this is the best scene in that whole movie and way better than anything Chow Yun-Fat does in it. How hard they seem to go at it, the well displayed emotions of both characters surrounding the fight and the events around it, plus the little bit of humor here and there make it probably one of the best concieved and executed fights of all time. It really deserves to be a part of some movie that`s part of a larger epic trilogy or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqKFadyJxwg

Alright, alright, I`m pretty sure that everyone knows this was the inspiration for the Jimmy vs Timmy cripple fight in Southpark (which is hilariously almost a frame for frame imitation in both action and dialouge) but the reason for that is because it`s just a really good fight. There`s really no martial arts on display here, and really there`s hardly any props either. What it is is just a really real looking street fight between two guys who don`t want to kill eachother but just won`t see eye to eye on something. The fact that both fighters don`t really want any trouble means that this fight can go on for quite some time where as if they meant to really hurt eachother, it would be over pretty quickly. I guess this is thanks to having someone like Piper there in it, but this fight looks very real. When they wail on eachother they look hurt afterwards and the result of them getting hurt so much in the fight translates into it getting perfectly sloppy and desperate as it goes on. Anyone who`s ever been in a real fist fight, even just fighting some kid at recess knows this is how it is. When two guys who are a match for eachother get into a fight and neither of you is really a trained fighter, the result is not a boxing match, it`s the fight from They Live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVsigkUmvy8&feature=related

Jacky Chan said this was his favourite fight of all the ones he`s ever filmed, and I agree whole heartedly. Billy the Jet looks so uncool in this fight in terms of hairstyle and clothing, but his fighting looks so good, he comes out of this fight seeming like the coolest guy on the planet. I love when he starts taking off his coat as a fake out, and then kicks Jacky as he finishes taking it off. Chan`s use of props is flawless as always and even though it`s a pretty typical chop socky fight, they manage to make it look decently realistic. They definately look like they get hurt during it, they just don`t have much time to dwell on it. Also, James Rolfe included this one in his top 10 Chan fights video he did a while back and he pointed out that Billy`s kick that puts out the candles was actually legit, he really kicked them out when they filmed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbpX0r1995U

I haven`t linked the original Star Trek fight that this is a parody of because it`s the first related video that comes up in the side bar if you watch this on youtube. Cableguy was an amazingly bad movie and displayed pretty much everything that I hate about Ben Stiller`s sense of humour, but funnily enough, even though many people attribute this as the movie that ended Jim Carrey`s career (the first time), he`s actually the funnest thing about the movie. Broderick`s character is terrible due to being poorly written and the whole plot line is really underdeveloped and boring as fuck when isn`t just plain painful to watch, but the way Jim Carrey imitates the stock Star Trek arena duel music by shrieking like Xena in this scene makes me laugh every time. It really is the only part of that movie worth watching and it`s pretty short... yeah.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2009, 01:37:45 PM »

I don't have much to say on these two, but they'd definitely be my picks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LPW0gr0too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXIGP6_fNZk

Pretty sure I've posted that one from The Protector before. It still stands.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2009, 01:43:08 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ze-xQoEfOU

Pretty sure I've posted that one from The Protector before. It still stands.

I think you meant to post this one.

There's entirely too many Jackie Chan movies for me to pick out my favorite.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2009, 01:43:42 PM »

 :perfect:
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2009, 01:51:35 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LPW0gr0too


actually pretty much all of Oldboy.

infact just all of Park's films watched end on end.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2009, 02:03:59 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuZQfZ-WxTk

Good lord I love this flick. Pretty much every fight in it is The Best Fight, but the intro really goes without saying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa4Ys2V7pW0

Couldn't find a decent dubbed clip. For everything the Cowboy Bebop movie did wrong, this furball made up for it.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2009, 02:09:05 PM »

geo already posted the fight from They Live, so this thread doesn't really need to go on any longer.

I suppose other fights are interesting from a pure science standpoint, though.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2009, 02:30:27 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVaslN1NiT0

Best realistic swordfight. Also Liam Neeson and Tim Roth <3 <3 <3. Notice the complete lack of music to underscore the realism and horrific tension.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSr_uvgWgu0

Best swordfight. Goes without saying, really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHJZxO3zO9w

The Burly Brawl and Dragon Ball Z final battle can go suck a dick. This is the best fight in the Matrix. The contrast of Neo's twirling, flowing kung-fu against Smith's direct, brute strength face-punching creates a wonderful battle of styles and good vs evil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-whpelvnk

My favorite Chan fight scene. Perhaps not the best, but I love it anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awskKWzjlhk&feature=PlayList&p=F2F8C47BF5D6E917&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

This is Quentin Tarantino's favorite scene in any movie, and you can tell, because he stole the fuck out of it for Kill Bill 2. Not technically a "fight" so much as a musical masterpiece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2l4IKz3m7c&feature=PlayList&p=0FD866D4AAFADEC1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=12

Can you tell I like spaghetti westerns? Lee Van Cleef gets to be the good guy in this one. Clint plays his usual role.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTnv9bsxyBA

Oh hey it's a realistic close quarters gunfight. Remember, kids, if you want to hit anything, you have to fucking aim.

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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2009, 02:58:03 PM »

 :facepalm: Princess Bride! I should have thought of that one. See also: Clint Eastwood scenese.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2009, 03:02:05 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geMOjj4o2Jg

Did your theater applaud too when Aragorn whacked the guy's head off with no more than annoyance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXeLQEu27fY

Classic Chinese-Opera Chan is just its own, completely different sort of animal.  Shame about the dubbing.  This one's probably not the best but it was the first to come to mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9QqIfwb1ck

If you severely edited every DBZ style fight in Japan you could probably get some pretty good shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_NDrSbKNNg

Not so much a fight scene as "Guy walks into a castle and kills a bunch of shit."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvdv55TQcCw

Advent Children was basically this with some sort of movie tacked on to the beginning.

...wow, this list is making me seem like a huge fucking weeaboo.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2009, 03:08:04 PM »

Oh yeah, and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQFuwXXW0Uc

Admit it, you love that shit too.  Sausage-chucks, come on.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2009, 03:08:58 PM »

Oooh, damn you Friday, I was gonna get to Spaghetti Westerns (The only westerns worth watching other than some more modern examples like Unforgiven) in my next post in this thread. Although, my favourite scene musically from the good the bad and the ugly is actually the scene right before that scene where Tuco is running through that grave yard trying to find the grave and they play Esctasy of Gold in the background. It's a great scene for how simple it is and really fills me with a feeling of the senseless waste of life the civil war was. All those graves, most of them marked with wooden markers and none very deep, it's a feast for the eye, ears and soul.

But yeah, that part of Unforgiven is awesome. It really is the last great Eastwood film but man is it good. I like how the whole movie is basically the tale of what happens to the Man with No name when he grows old. It's a really good introspective look at the character. What was he, really? He was a killer and for that he's sorry, but he really has no excuses and no reason to explain himself.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2009, 03:28:11 PM »

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Advent Children was basically this with some sort of movie tacked on to the beginning.

I agree, but this also deserves mention, if just for the ringtone at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqB06B4yBFs

In addition, I'd like to mention the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon fight Geo posted and also Sephy vs Cloud are two of my favorites.



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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2009, 03:39:31 PM »

Although, my favourite scene musically from the good the bad and the ugly is actually the scene right before that scene where Tuco is running through that grave yard trying to find the grave and they play Esctasy of Gold in the background. It's a great scene for how simple it is and really fills me with a feeling of the senseless waste of life the civil war was. All those graves, most of them marked with wooden markers and none very deep, it's a feast for the eye, ears and soul.

Oh fuck yes. Amen to that.

For your intitial perusal, I present the final scene from The Wild Bunch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUhUAa3y4rE&feature=related

Background: The characters, miserable ragged old desperadoes, bound together by a tattered code of honour, in the dying sunset of the Western era (movie is circa 1911, which also explains the Automatics, Maxim Gun, and grenades) abandoned their comrade to a Mexican Generalissimo, but in a final show of bravado, go to take him back. The Germans are military advisors.

Apologies for the lower quality.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2009, 03:45:56 PM »

I've only seen a few bits of Advent Children, but I think it's not really an actual movie, so much as a long cutscene.

Also, I think this deserves some kind of mention:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2009, 03:53:16 PM »

Fuck yes. Best Fight Ever.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2009, 04:04:27 PM »

We're allowed to do Anime fights?

Anyway, Brentai is wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6LhC7GItZE
As much as I orgasm over the really even fast fights with lots of counters, I hold a very special place in my heart for the juggernaut demolishing everyone in his path.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2009, 04:43:15 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcldQmAzr7s

Ong-Bak. Three man marathon, with each opponent using a vastly different style.
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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2009, 04:54:38 PM »

You're allowed to post anime one's by all means. But only if they are a really good fight and to be honest, none of these ones Brent or you have posted have impressed me at all and the thing about anime is that it does actually translate well to youtube so... yeah, post less sucky fights? In fact, just stop posting bleach all together.

If I had to choose some anime ones I love? Pretty much anything from Cowboy Bebop is great, Spike vs Mad Pierrot especially. Samurai Champloo has a ton of really well animated fights. My favourite is when Mugen and Jin fight the Hand of God or more accurately, Mugen tries to fight him, while Jin looks shocked and plans how he's gonna fight this guy without dying in 3 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAYCIg3J7co

This fight is made better by having watched the whole series first. Basically the crux is that Mugen and Jin are basically equal, but very different from eachother. Jin is a very skilled and refined samurai who bests opponents with his skill and incredibly trained in speed. Mugen is a crazy, unorthadox mad man who beats most opponents purely with animal like aggression and by never attacking in a predictable or expected manner. The problem, they run into someone similarly skilled and trained like Jin, only more so. Jin doesn't think he's good enough to beat him and he's too confident and skilled to fall for Mugen's usually baffling tricks and style.

I love the later parts where Mugen refuses to be ignored, but can't even get near the guy.

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For your intitial perusal, I present the final scene from The Wild Bunch.

I do love that scene from the wild bunch, but it definately breaks the rules. Sorry Mongrel, but that post will be removed due to being a battle of many vs many and not a fight.

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Re: Best Fights Ever
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2009, 05:08:34 PM »

Well, try this one then.  Apologies for only being able to find the utterly horrible dub version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afgHqNQuiKQ
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