Favorite Movie Fight Scenes

[Brian Reisdorf]

Pretty much any fight scene with Tony Jaa in "The Protector" (also known as "Ong bak 2" and "Tom yum goong"). The shear violence and impact of some of the stuff the guy can pull off is unreal. Anyone who's seen it knows how crazy he gets with his flying knees of death.

Also, the final fight with him breaking the legs and arms of about 50 henchmen in pure zenned out methodical rage is completely and totally insane, yet highly satisfying.

It's an ok movie at best, but one of the few worth seeing for the fight scenes alone.

 

[lordtangent]

Tony Jaa is amazing. He's like Bruce Lee: Extreme. Lee never did any of the insane acrobatic stuff Jaa can do. Jeet Kune Do is cool and all, but Jaa definitly has more grace. His moves are textbook perfect. The scene where he breaks all those guys arms is like a Kata for joint manipulation. He must demonstrate just about every arm lock known to man in that sequence.

The movie "Old Boy" is one of my faves. The hallway fight is awesome. I mean, if you got hit with a hammer, that would pretty much be the end of the fight, right? And the fact that the main character (can't remeber his name) actually starts to get really tired by the end... it's true to life in that respect. Even that fight in the alley witht the thugs is pretty cool "Can 10 years of imaginary boxing..." or whatever it is he thinks to himself. Pretty cool.

 

[Colin C]

Not a movie fight scene, but the recurring battles between Peter Griffin and Ernie the Giant Chicken are pretty impressive.

 

[J.R. Hud]

Fight scenes

Are we talking fisticuff style ?

Mel Gibson and Gary Busey in Lethal Weapon

Indiana Jones and the German Mechanic Bald dude in Raiders

Most of the scenes in the Matrix.

Kill Bill V1 Showdown at the House of Blue Leaves

 

[Erik Bien]

Sort of surprised nobody has yet mentioned Sean Connery vs. Robert Shaw on the train in From Russia With Love.