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Best Movie/TV Show Fight Scene
Raijin Quickfoot
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Jackie Chan vs Benny “The Jet” Urquidez in Twin Dragons
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I think it's gotta be the final fight in The Legend of the Drunken Master.
The best swashbuckling fight of all time.
of course, need to mention the fact that Thomas Jane accidentally stabbed Kevin Nash with the real knife instead of the prop, and that's the take used in the scene
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Martial arts...
Shaw Brothers films, wuxia stuff, Sammo and Jackie and Bruce... jet li and Donnie yen
I used to really love Ong Bak, but I haven't watched it in ages.
Zatoichi and Lone Wolf and Cub were all great
Gun play stuff... I really soured on all of it, but I used to be a big fan of Hong Kong blood opera stuff
A better tomorrow and the second one had some insane fights, as did the killer and hard boiled
I liked Bourne Ultimatum as a movie, but the action in Identity was much better. Everything was short and did a better job of establishing why he was so dangerous. The fights just felt more vicious.
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The shaky cam worked in the Bourne movies because it fit the frenetic feel of the fights. It just sucks in a lot of other movies who took inspiration from it, but used it as a way to disguise weaker choreography not to make the scene more intense.
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Oh. Yup, that's where it was.
A lot of it is because of the fight itself - raw, ugly, dirty, not cool or fun at all, just very real. But a big part is also how they ramp up to it, showing the two of them getting ready, hyping themselves up, etc. and also showing the aftereffects and how hard it hits Dan, cold-blooded killer that he is, because of the circumstances.
You've also been waiting for this encounter all season, it's a really satisfying payoff to a pretty long setup.
edit: it also does a great job of showing just how quickly you'd get gassed in an all-out street fight if you're not a highly conditioned fighter/actor.
I can sure as hell find weird fan edits of them "fighting" each other as different characters in different movies, and some weird obviously ai crap
It's also one of the cooler fights that have been staged in a movie, I should have put it in my post. Them on a bridge quietly imagining things and then going eh, fuck it, rules so hard.
I don't know if I have a best-fight-scene-ever, but rooftop fight between Jack Chan and "Punch Guy and Kick Guy" is definitely a top 5 for me:
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Pick whatever one you want - I'm not gonna argue (Rolls Royce fight had better be in the conversation, tho).
But the most realistic fight is the three way brawl in Pineapple Express.
For my money this is Donnie Yen's best fight scene, it's really creative and grounded enough to still feel convincing. Grappling tends to not be very cinematic, it's harder to communicate who's winning or what someone is trying to do, and this is Yen kinda experimenting with that, finding the best balance between realism and clear physical action.
Also Donnie Yen's a great action star buuuut most of his fight scenes have a bit of an ego problem, he tends to win every fight pretty easily, never looking bothered or sweating. This is one of his rare fights where he gets as good as he gives.
Not sure if the audio is good on this clip, I've got no speakers here.
Speaking of adapting specific fighting styles to film, the one take fight from Creed is an impressive piece of filmmaking, and supposedly is truly one shot, rather than a bunch of sneaky cuts.
I will always pick the MMA guy.