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The Very Best of Dudes Getting Hurt by Other Dudes
Brolo
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This is a thread about posting fight scenes that you like. Really they can be pretty much anything as long as they contain someone getting injured. Try and give us a link to youtube, or failing that a picture or a good description or story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6P24p_maA
The Chateau scene from The Matrix: Reloaded
I actually really like this sequence from the second Matrix movie. It's far more like the fights in the first movie than the CG-rubber fights that became common in the second and third, and despite the fact that they're going with wire-fu, the weapons that they use stay nice and kinetic, and for the most part look like they have some weight behind them. Rob Dougan's music here is also wonderful, staying dramatic and orchestral while still being futuristic and in the Matrix style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0pUOnpqerI
The Protector temple fight scene
I love The Protector. It's about one man's fight to save his elephant, and the north-american version of the film is clearly influenced most strongly by old NES video games. In this sequence our hero (Tony Jaa) has to fight in a Buddhist temple that's both flooded AND on fire, against three boss characters! First it's Break Dancing dude, and then it's Sword Dude, and then Gigantic Steroid Dude.
Really I could link the entire movie here as its nothing but fight scenes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNTdUfByIhY - skip to about three minutes in, sorry I can't fight a better video of it.
The Rumble in the Jungle
A historic boxing match back when people still watched boxing. Ali, whatever his other flaws, is always a pleasure to see fighting. This match in particular is Ali's bid to reclaim the heavyweight title from George Foreman.
Here's some wiki on the technical aspects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IzQ-hRkZl4
Macross Zero - Episode 1 - Dog fight
Yes yes, animu. However this has got some top notch technical production for its animation, doing some really effective work at combining cell drawn and CG rendered backgrounds, as well as some awesome music. Later on the jets become transforming robots and naked underage girls fly around on magic rocks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6P24p_maA
The Chateau scene from The Matrix: Reloaded
I actually really like this sequence from the second Matrix movie. It's far more like the fights in the first movie than the CG-rubber fights that became common in the second and third, and despite the fact that they're going with wire-fu, the weapons that they use stay nice and kinetic, and for the most part look like they have some weight behind them. Rob Dougan's music here is also wonderful, staying dramatic and orchestral while still being futuristic and in the Matrix style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0pUOnpqerI
The Protector temple fight scene
I love The Protector. It's about one man's fight to save his elephant, and the north-american version of the film is clearly influenced most strongly by old NES video games. In this sequence our hero (Tony Jaa) has to fight in a Buddhist temple that's both flooded AND on fire, against three boss characters! First it's Break Dancing dude, and then it's Sword Dude, and then Gigantic Steroid Dude.
Really I could link the entire movie here as its nothing but fight scenes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNTdUfByIhY - skip to about three minutes in, sorry I can't fight a better video of it.
The Rumble in the Jungle
A historic boxing match back when people still watched boxing. Ali, whatever his other flaws, is always a pleasure to see fighting. This match in particular is Ali's bid to reclaim the heavyweight title from George Foreman.
Here's some wiki on the technical aspects:
Ali started the first round attacking Foreman. This was notable, as Ali was famed for his speed and technical skills, while Foreman's raw power was his greatest strength; close range fighting would, it seemed, inevitably favor Foreman and leave too great a chance that Ali would be stunned by one or more of Foreman's powerful haymakers. Ali made use of the right-hand lead punch (striking with the right hand without setting up with the left) in a further effort to disorient Foreman. However, while this aggressive tactic may have surprised Foreman and it did allow Ali to hit him solidly a number of times, it failed to significantly hurt him. Before the end of the first round, Foreman caught up to Ali and began landing a few punches of his own. Foreman had also been trained to cut off the ring, preventing escape. Ali realized that he would tire if Foreman could keep making one step to Ali's two, so he changed tactics.
Ali had told his trainer, Angelo Dundee, and his fans that he had a secret plan for Foreman. Almost right away in the second round, Ali started lying on the ropes and letting Foreman punch him, without any attempt to attack Foreman himself (a strategy Ali later dubbed the rope-a-dope).
As a result Foreman spent all his energy throwing punches (in oven-like heat), that either did not hit Ali or were blocked in a way that would do little damage to Ali. This loss of energy is the key to the "rope-a-dope" technique.
Ali seemed to do little to resist, except to occasionally shoot straight punches to the face of Foreman. (Although this quickly began taking a toll on Foreman's face and it was soon visibly puffy.) When the two fighters were locked in clinches, however, Ali consistently outwrestled Foreman, using tactics such as leaning on Foreman to make Foreman support Ali's weight, or holding down Foreman's head by pushing on his neck, a move which is both disorientating and which can heighten the effect of punches, since it causes a greater snap in the neck when a fighter is hit in the head, and which subsequently increases the chances of a knockout. Ali also constantly taunted Foreman in these clinches, telling Foreman to throw more and harder punches, and an enraged Foreman responded by doing just that.
After several rounds, this caused Foreman to begin tiring. As Foreman's face became increasingly damaged by the occasional hard and fast jabs and crosses that Ali threw, his stamina looked to be draining from him. The effects were increasingly visible as Foreman was staggered by an Ali combination at the start of the fourth round and again several times near the end of the fifth, after Foreman had seemed to dominate much of that round. Although he would keep throwing punches and coming forward, after the fifth round Foreman was very tired and he looked increasingly worn out. Ali continued to taunt him by saying "they told me you could punch, George!" and "they told me you could punch as hard as Joe Louis."
Finally in the eighth round, Ali landed the final combination, a left hook that brought Foreman's head up into position so Ali could smash him with a rock-hard right straight to the face. Foreman staggered, then twirled across half the ring before landing on his back. Foreman did get up at the count of 9, as Bert Sugar of ESPN Classics has maintained, and as films of the fight clearly show, but the referee inexplicably signaled a ten count. Foreman later claimed that the reason he took so long to get up was that he was looking over at his corner, waiting for their signal to tell him when to get up, and that they were slow to do so.[citation needed]
Some argue this to have been among the greatest demonstrations of strategic planning and actual execution ever displayed in a heavyweight fight. Ali came into the fight with a tactical plan, executed it and achieved an upset for the ages, becoming only the second heavyweight ever to regain a championship.
The fight made clear just how great Ali was at taking a punch and also highlights the different, perhaps dangerous, change that Ali had made in his fighting style, by adopting the rope-a-dope, instead of his former style that emphasized movement.
This fight has since become one of the most famous fights of all time, both because it resulted in Ali's regaining the title, but also due to the fact that Foreman would himself one day regain the title and become a popular champion. It is shown several times annually on the ESPN Classic network.
Ali had told his trainer, Angelo Dundee, and his fans that he had a secret plan for Foreman. Almost right away in the second round, Ali started lying on the ropes and letting Foreman punch him, without any attempt to attack Foreman himself (a strategy Ali later dubbed the rope-a-dope).
As a result Foreman spent all his energy throwing punches (in oven-like heat), that either did not hit Ali or were blocked in a way that would do little damage to Ali. This loss of energy is the key to the "rope-a-dope" technique.
Ali seemed to do little to resist, except to occasionally shoot straight punches to the face of Foreman. (Although this quickly began taking a toll on Foreman's face and it was soon visibly puffy.) When the two fighters were locked in clinches, however, Ali consistently outwrestled Foreman, using tactics such as leaning on Foreman to make Foreman support Ali's weight, or holding down Foreman's head by pushing on his neck, a move which is both disorientating and which can heighten the effect of punches, since it causes a greater snap in the neck when a fighter is hit in the head, and which subsequently increases the chances of a knockout. Ali also constantly taunted Foreman in these clinches, telling Foreman to throw more and harder punches, and an enraged Foreman responded by doing just that.
After several rounds, this caused Foreman to begin tiring. As Foreman's face became increasingly damaged by the occasional hard and fast jabs and crosses that Ali threw, his stamina looked to be draining from him. The effects were increasingly visible as Foreman was staggered by an Ali combination at the start of the fourth round and again several times near the end of the fifth, after Foreman had seemed to dominate much of that round. Although he would keep throwing punches and coming forward, after the fifth round Foreman was very tired and he looked increasingly worn out. Ali continued to taunt him by saying "they told me you could punch, George!" and "they told me you could punch as hard as Joe Louis."
Finally in the eighth round, Ali landed the final combination, a left hook that brought Foreman's head up into position so Ali could smash him with a rock-hard right straight to the face. Foreman staggered, then twirled across half the ring before landing on his back. Foreman did get up at the count of 9, as Bert Sugar of ESPN Classics has maintained, and as films of the fight clearly show, but the referee inexplicably signaled a ten count. Foreman later claimed that the reason he took so long to get up was that he was looking over at his corner, waiting for their signal to tell him when to get up, and that they were slow to do so.[citation needed]
Some argue this to have been among the greatest demonstrations of strategic planning and actual execution ever displayed in a heavyweight fight. Ali came into the fight with a tactical plan, executed it and achieved an upset for the ages, becoming only the second heavyweight ever to regain a championship.
The fight made clear just how great Ali was at taking a punch and also highlights the different, perhaps dangerous, change that Ali had made in his fighting style, by adopting the rope-a-dope, instead of his former style that emphasized movement.
This fight has since become one of the most famous fights of all time, both because it resulted in Ali's regaining the title, but also due to the fact that Foreman would himself one day regain the title and become a popular champion. It is shown several times annually on the ESPN Classic network.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IzQ-hRkZl4
Macross Zero - Episode 1 - Dog fight
Yes yes, animu. However this has got some top notch technical production for its animation, doing some really effective work at combining cell drawn and CG rendered backgrounds, as well as some awesome music. Later on the jets become transforming robots and naked underage girls fly around on magic rocks.
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