Originally posted by JohnConstantine
I think the best fighting in the matrix trilogy had to be those 30 seconds that Neo and Smith faught in the building when Neo got thrown through a brick wall. They had brilliant fight coreography, but right when Neo kicked Smith through the window, it all went to hell.
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i actually agree in part... any part of the fight in revolutions where they were on solid ground was cool...
Originally posted by Faction
The Bourne Identity and Supremecy had some very original looking fight scenes. I think they tried to capture the frantic, furious element of a fight in those films and it worked really well, I thought those fights were awesome.
Personally, I prefer battle scenes, eg: The Last Samurai, Bravheart, Saving Private Ryan etc.
Speaking of Saving Private Ryan, don't you just love the bit with the German Sniper in the tower?
The Last Samurai was also great for the action, there were some brilliant scenes in that movie.
What about animated movies? The fight between Simba and Scar in The Lion King? Hello??
I'm actually serious, I thought that scene looked pretty cool, I like watching it. Great music too, for that fight.
And the little tussle between Ori Yen Ishi's (sp) dad and the assassins in Kill Bill 1 was pretty decent too.
Faction
i agree with orens father fight, that was tight, he smashed them, literally. i like epic battles too, and sav pri ryan is my all time fav movie. but i dont consider those to be "fight scenes" those are BATTLE scenes. now if we are gonna get into battle scenes of course that is a whole thread on its own. anyways, havent seen ong bak, but simoly b/c of the trailor the fights in that have to be crazy. and yes scar vs. simba was tight. Scars line when he killed Mufasa was actually one of the best villian one liners ever. LONG LIVE THE KING, and launches him in the path of the wildebeast. hella tight. any movie villain lover has to love that scene. and of course that is another thread too. last samurai had some cool fights, i consider the Ninja attack to be a fight, it wasnt a battle, too small scale. the nijas were tight, but of course the KILLER Tom Cruise crushed them!!
Originally posted by finti
thing is Rocky (at least the firstone ) and raging bull have fight scenes that looks real. That is more than you can say for the rest of the films mentioned here
It doesnt look that real when you can see that the actors are not even hitting each other.
Raging bull does possibly have some of the best boxing scenes, if not the best. Raging bull was viscerle, rocky was triumphant, and raging bull diddnt have blatant phantom punches
by the way, the last samuri has some of the most overated fight scenes EVER. the blind swordsman has action that cannot be and never has been duplicated.How about letting the japanese tell their own culture. Americans obviously cannot,or we would a decent samuri flick
I've also heard of a movie called 'Iron Monkey' that people seem to rave about but I've never seen it. I saw a poster or something once and said to myself, "I have to see that someday" 😄
Yes, the Scar scene with Mufasa was priceless. It was really something, really powerful and moving too. I still shed a tear when I see that scene 🙁 I heard it was the first time Disney showed a character really die on screen, without coming back to life.
I agree about Last Samurai, maybe the little fights in that were okay-ish but the large-scale battles were awesome, as in Saving Private Ryan. SPR is probably one of the best war movies I've ever seen. 'We Were Soldiers' is fighting it for first place in my book.
I can't comment on any of the boxing movies as I haven't seen any of them except 'Ali' which I thought was a damn good show, and the final fight from one 'Rocky' film. It was with a blonde guy on the street. Wasn't a bad match, it was a fairly decent brawl, if you ask me.
'Hero' does have some crazy-ass fights. But they make 'em look good and not stupid, which I like 🙂
Faction
yeah, i have seen iron monkey, some of the fights is that were awesome. the best scene was when donnie yen kicked up a big as bag of beans or rice or whatever and like (you know what subzero looks like when he freezes stuff in mortal kombat) did that punch thing is it smashed a guy in the face it was done with wires obviously but it was so seamless there was no way of telling. the last fight on these tall 10 foot poles was really cool but WAY over the top. we were soldiers is a great war movie, but there arent really any fights, and i like the fight between thunder lips and rocky. that fight was awesome. havent seen ali, looked to cliched. but i have heard it was awesome.
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