theBlackman on 1/3/2006 at 01:31
Hard Times bare knuckle street fighting in the 1920's. Bronson was great. Many good scenes.
Duel on Ganjuro Island from the Samurai Trilogy with Mifune. The last duel. The strategy and action are outstanding.
Wing Chung With Michelle Yee. The fight in the bar with the noodle table.
Circle of Iron the sequence with the Monkey King, as well as the sequence with the blind fighter in the ruins.
Zatoichi any of the movies. All the fights.
Sanjuro the final sequence.
True, many are from foriegn films but then the action in most of the current movies are all Martial Art brawls and not good old "fisticuffs".
Then, lest we forget, Steven Siegal. Butt-kicker of note. The knive duel with Tommy Lee Jones in Under Siege is worth a look.
jstnomega on 1/3/2006 at 01:32
most memorable 'fight' image
1961
One-Eyed Jacks - Brando's solo directorial effort
Dad (Karl Malden) making mince meat out of Rio' (Marlon Brando) right hand & fingers w/the butt of a rifle while Rio's bound helplessly to a hitching post - it doesn't get any better than that.
(No. It wasn't a fair fight.)
oudeis on 1/3/2006 at 01:35
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Hard Times bare knuckle street fighting in the 1920's. Bronson was great. Many good scenes..
FUCKIN' A, BUBBA. l was going to put that one in. glad to see someone else remembers charlie from his badass days.
piln on 1/3/2006 at 01:36
Yeah, the Oldboy fight is incredible. The one with the white-haired dude later is awesome too. What a film. :eww:
Same feelings here about the Phantom Menace duels too - the only part of the entire prequel trilogy I would gladly watch again.
But how the hell could I forget...
the two contrasting versions of the duel in Rashomon! ? !
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And while Kurosawa was hardly a chop-socky director, there's also a fantastic hand-to-hand combat scene in Red Beard, featuring some quality bone-breakage and hilarious sound effects. There's some fantastic large-scale stuff in the likes of Ran and Seven Samurai, but I don't think that's what we're going for here.
Duels in most of the good samurai films I've seen tend to be of the over-in-two-seconds variety, but here are the best exceptions I can bring to mind:
Duel At Ichijoji Temple - the second of the Musashi Miyamoto trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune features another great example of one-against-many without seeming totally unrealistic; clever use of terrain to force enemies to attack one by one. There are lots of great fights in this trilogy, the first in this film being another memorable one (two swords vs. kusarigama).
Twilight Samurai - a great blowout at the end of a not-very-violent movie, and quite different to most samurai filcks; here, the two duellists slice away at each other at some length. Not clinical at all, and quite gripping.
Zatoichi - (the Takeshi Kitano one) the fight in the rain is hair-raising and the fight against the gang towards the end is imaginative and hilarious. Plus the music is fucking ace.
theBlackman on 1/3/2006 at 01:46
Piln reminded me of another Shogun's Assassin One of the many "Lone Wolf" series. A scene where the "Masters of Death" take on an army of Rebels.
And the final sequence when "Lone Wolf" takes them on.
Memorable both.
Cruster on 1/3/2006 at 01:47
Tetsuo!!! Kanedaaaaa!!!
Agent Monkeysee on 1/3/2006 at 01:50
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Fuck yeah, the fight scenes in that movie were excellent. I thought the way Cusack took that guy down was cold, desperate and totally realistic.
I also dug the shootout at the end although the TV-through-the-head was a bit cheesy, but funny enough for me not to care.
Pop pop popcorn.
That movie is awesome on many levels.
Scots Taffer on 1/3/2006 at 01:56
Tell me about it. I've only recently just begun a DVD collection of my own after not really wanting to commit to any medium, and now damn it all, I'm going to go full steam ahead with it now.
I need Grosse Point Blank, Jaws and Adaptation before it even begins to resemble a proper set.
oudeis on 1/3/2006 at 02:00
true romance, christian slater vs gary 'drexel spivey' oldman-
'FUCK WITH ME, WHITE BOYYYYY!!!!'
'he must 'a thought it was white boy day. it ain't white boy day, is it?'
'nah, man, it ain't white boy day'.
jay pettitt on 1/3/2006 at 02:01
Crouching Tiger - Jen and Shu Lien in the sparring hall.
