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Favorite Movie Fight Scenes

How bout "Ghost in the Shell" - the scene where she invisibly beats the crap out of that bad guy... yeah it s animated, but still...
 
They Live, classic long and funny fight.. Hard Times what a great picture.
 
Casey Green said:
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" - too many great scenes to pick just one.
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That was my pick. I love the fight between Michelle Yeoh and Ziyi Zhang in the courtyard where Michelle's character keeps grabbing a new weapon because it keeps breaking on the sword. Beautifully shot.
 
I'll tell you something that really profoundly shook me though. Because the content really emotionally invested you in this fight...

"The Last of the Mohicans" when the father watches his son fall, and dive rolls under Magua then comes up to strike him.

When they are standing there, facing each other, it is unreal. Great, great shot and moment.

Also, Mad Max "Beyond Thunderdome." When he did not kill Blaster, honestly, even as a kid I was blown away by it. It spoke volumes about the character.
 
Most of all I love Kung Fu Hustle character The Beast played by Siu-Lung Leung :biggrin: :ninja:

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What I really hate is boring cliché when all the gang of dull villains is waiting around main hero just fight one by one with him that's absolutely ridiculous ...
... and all that empty waving with hands and weapons before and during fight its so stupid and annoying. I think when you fight for your life you rather want to hide your next move.
 
I have to go with Azumi where she takes out about 200 dudes in one scene. I'm pretty sure she killed the entire male population of that village, Iron Monkey pretty much any scene in that movie, the final fight in Blade 2 and Appleseed. Now if your talking old school The Street Fighter, Fist of Fury, Fight Deadly Venoms, Master of the Flying Guillotine and Lone Wolf better known as Shogun Assassin all those had lots of good fight scenes some cheesy but all good!:calm:
 
Method said:
RVD2 (Ryan Vs Dorkman 2) rocks Shawn if you like Lightsabers
check it out here
http://www.stage6.com/user/DorkmanScott/video/1137289/RvD2:-Ryan-vs--Dorkman-2
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Thanks. :biggrin:

I love martial arts movies. I really want to make some. Movies these days, even ones that are technically ABOUT the fight scenes, don't often do the fight scenes justice, either truncating them, shooting them poorly, or otherwise leaving too much to the imagination. I want to see some asses KICKED.

Crouching Tiger was a big influence on "Ryan vs Dorkman 1", Hero was pretty good (when there was actually fighting and not a quick montage of sorta-fighting), and I was obsessed with Kung Fu Hustle's action for a while (except the last fight, which was a violation of The Beast's character and a significant disappointment). I saw Kill Bill vol. 1 three times opening weekend for the fight scenes.

I wasn't all that impressed with the Oldboy fight. I guess I just had my expectations pushed up way too high by everyone going on about how innovative and spectacular it was. I was there thinking "It's just a guy hitting other guys with a hammer. I could've choreographed this." The performance in an unbroken shot was impressive, I'll give you that, but...eh. I like action to blow my mind in a "I would have never thought of that" way.

I'd never seen Undisputed 2 (or the original Undisputed, for that matter), but I checked out the fight linked in the thread and man, that's a great scene. Maybe a little too wushu for the setting of a kickboxing ring, but I can't complain too much since it's a great fight, and extremely well-shot. Reminded me of the shooting style for Unleashed, another movie with some fine martial arts choreography.

If you can get ahold of them, I suggest some of the Shaw Brothers and other kung fu movies for some really inspired action. One of my favorites is Jet Li's Tai Chi Master.
 
Sauna scene from Eastern Promises is a good recent one. :)

BTW, is this really cinematography related??
 
Tom said:
Sauna scene from Eastern Promises is a good recent one. :)

BTW, is this really cinematography related??
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I guess I was thinking part of what makes a great fight scene would be the way it was lit and shot and maybe people would comment on that. Shutter speed, frame rates, camera angles, how many cameras to cover a fight with etc.
 
joelnet said:
What are your favorite movie fights and why? (or are horrible and why? Gymkata comes to mind)

What makes a great fight sequence?

Here's something Ruairi Robinson wrote in another thread.
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=5665&page=12
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It's funny that after your introduction post talking about shaky camera and long lenses people are mentioning the Bourne films as great fight scenes. The Bourne films are probably the biggest examples of shaky camera and long lenses to hide lack luster fights and performers.
I miss the times when to fight in a movie the guy/girl had to actually know what they were doing. I can see from a mile away that Neo, Morpheus or Bourne can't fight their way out of a shoe box.
My favorite movie fights of all time are Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris at the Coliseum, Lee vs. Ohara in Enter the Dragon, Jackie Chan vs. Benny Urquidez, Jackie Chan vs. Peter "Sugarfoot" Cunningham.
 
I totally forgot about the Magwa ownage that occured at the end of Last of The Mohicans.

The best action scenes in film do not live in a bubble -- they are supported by the surrounding movie and provide a visceral release that is echoed in the emotion and intellectual layers of the film.
 
Dean Bull said:
I totally forgot about the Magwa ownage that occured at the end of Last of The Mohicans.

The best action scenes in film do not live in a bubble -- they are supported by the surrounding movie and provide a visceral release that is echoed in the emotion and intellectual layers of the film.
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No doubt about it. You have to care about the characters, and be invested to want to see that final fight. That's the one thing that I really didn't agree with (who am I to disagree with Scorsese? lol) about Gangs of New York. I really, really wanted to see Bill the Butcher and Amsterdam throw down in the end. Didn't really happen and I felt robbed.

Speaking about cinematography though, the wide shot of the entire Confederation of Native Americans (in the beginning) where they stood in the snow ready to fight was fantastic. Very foreboding. Set-up is key, otherwise moments are missed.
 
Actually, that's one of the things I loved about "Equilibrium" - the gun kata and other fights were fantastic, but that last one....I thought it was perfect and totally in keeping with the character arc of the story, whereas lots of people felt let down by its brevity. What they didn't get was that it was the perfect sword fight - no posturing whatsoever, just superior skill and the will to finish the job with the minimum of effort.

Paul
 
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