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Added 2021-11-17 03:59:18 +0000 UTCName your favorite movie fight scene and why. Topic video to follow.
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The Matrix Lobby Shootout Scene is pretty great
Michael Smith
2021-11-18 03:11:27 +0000 UTCHonorable mention: "Is there no one else" that's one shot bro
Michael Smith
2021-11-18 03:07:26 +0000 UTCHector vs Achilles -- Troy (2004) ...... Revenge, One v One, No Respect, Savage
Michael Smith
2021-11-18 03:03:58 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/uXGE0vuuaDo
Hart
2021-11-18 00:23:01 +0000 UTCThe foyer fight in The Matrix Reloaded. I love everything about this scene. The set is beautiful and the song they chose was perfect. For me, Chateau is the best song on all three of the soundtracks and the way it’s timed with the choreography here is amazing. I enjoy looking for continuity errors in fight scenes and I’m pretty sure this one has none. The choreography maintains a perfect balance of the flashiness you would expect from a matrix fight scene without going over the top and veering off into ridiculousness. I also love how the action begins and ends with Neo standing in the same place. Pretty much a flawless fight scene, in my opinion.
Hart
2021-11-17 23:57:11 +0000 UTCThey Live! It gets your blood pumping in how immediate and visceral it is,Techninally I love the pacing and the sound work. I love how nasty and sloppy they fight, how they both actually get tired like wow getting punched over and over hurts huh? and the cherry on top is how it's still works with the themes, it feels like the a metaphor for cognitive dissonance in a world full of hidden messages.
jared Clarke
2021-11-17 21:10:14 +0000 UTCThe Argonauts vs the skeletons from Jason and the Argonauts. Also honourable mention to the underwater fight scene in Top Secret.
Ross Skilton
2021-11-17 19:55:48 +0000 UTCIp Man vs. 10 from Ip Man (2008). It's more than just a great fight choreography, punches etc. There's emotional core to it. Might be too much pathos for some. The lighting, camera work, music by Kenji Kawai - all mixed in right way. Donnie Yen is one of the best Martial Artist of all time.
Oskitello
2021-11-17 14:32:53 +0000 UTCIs it bad if I say Bridget Jones? Because the showdown between Colin Firth and Hugh Grant is the first one that popped into my mind. The epic buildup to one of the most pathetic and hilarious fight scenes in modern cinema. It was refreshing.
Ronet Jankovski
2021-11-17 11:37:02 +0000 UTCCrouching Tiger Hidden Dragon/Tiger & Dragon: Bamboo forest fight between Li Mu Bai and Jen. It's technically not perfect, of course, but as close as it can be and the most poetic movie fight scene that I know of. A battle out of compassion for the soul of the disciple.
Laro
2021-11-17 09:47:00 +0000 UTCThe fight scene between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David They Live.
Marcus Chandler
2021-11-17 06:09:53 +0000 UTCViggo Mortensen’s naked fight scene in the bathhouse with the two hitmen from Eastern Promises. It’s so nerve-wracking to watch not only because Mortensen is extremely vulnerable and outnumbered, but also because you’re made to feel every deep, bloody cut he receives as the hitmen go after him with knives.
Bennett Oliver
2021-11-17 06:00:37 +0000 UTCThe kitchen fight from The Raid 2. Absolute masterclass of brutal, intense but poetic bloody fighting choreographed PERFECTLY!
Tony Moro
2021-11-17 05:32:51 +0000 UTCI love that movie. It’s my favorite Huston film I’ve seen. Keach and Susan Tyrrell are fantastic in it. Great lived-in portrait of a bunch of people living on the skids, hoping for a break. I love the last shot of the rival as he quietly leaves the arena to catch the next bus ride home. You’re right, the film says so much about him without a word of dialogue.
Bennett Oliver
2021-11-17 05:32:16 +0000 UTCPaul Newman’s knife fight with Harvey over who gets to be leader of the gang in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Proof that it’s better to be smart than tough.
Bennett Oliver
2021-11-17 05:20:09 +0000 UTCFight scenes don't usually do much for me because they're usually about either high adrenaline or the brutality which typically don't do much, if anything, to serve the narrative even in great films. There is a criminally underrated film called Fat City, directed by John Huston, where Stacy Keach is a has-been boxer trying and failing to make a comeback. The fight at the end of the film is flawlessly shot and choreographed because it's less about being intense and brutal and more like a ballet which shows visually why Keach's character is not cut out for it anymore even when his opponent has a kidney stone which is revealed in a prior scene without a word of dialogue. It might not be a roller coaster of high octane but I think a case could be made for it being one of the best contextual fight scenes ever.
Wolfman Brandon
2021-11-17 04:51:04 +0000 UTCThe kitchen fight in The Raid 2 is bigger badder bloodier and more brutal than any other hand to hand fight I’ve ever seen. The camera crew and the stunt team are beautifully in sync, so the shots and the edit emphasize every single hit.
Jared Angcanan
2021-11-17 04:40:08 +0000 UTCThe Courtyard fight between Jet Li and Donnie Yen in Hero. The idea of a fight scene that is essentially just two opponents sizing each other up, imagining the possible outcome of the fight but both coming to the same foregone conclusion is genius. Combine that with the beautiful, dance-like choreography and wire work, incredible but simple score and the dream-y cinematography and you have the recipe for a perfect, iconic fight scene.
Tyler Shobe
2021-11-17 04:07:11 +0000 UTCThe late great "Rowdy" Roddy Piper vs Keith David from They Live. Not only was it a brutal, ground-and-pound kind of fight, but, especially with what's going n with the global divide in our country, that fight scene really represented how tough it is to try and turn people to your side and believe you about the truth.
Tony Moro
2021-11-17 04:05:23 +0000 UTC
