Seconded!
(*Revolutions *was pretty sucky, though.)
Every second of Kung-Fu Hustle, natch, with special focus on the “Beast” character.
I came in here to mention Kill Bill. My friends think the crazy 88 scene is way too silly. Kill Bill is my favorite movie though, so my friends can go to hell.
That’s not totally true. I’ve driven Formula 2000 cars, and they have starters. I don’t know about Champ Cars, specifically. In fact, I’d guess the pro cars probably don’t. But in the interest of fighting ignorance, I thought I’d offer up that piece of trivia.
In Reservoir Dogs, Nice Guy Eddie is killed with one shot. Joe Cabot is killed with one shot. However, Mr White not only does the killing of Eddie and Joe, but he survives the gunshot from Nice Guy Eddie and has enough strength to talk to and kill Mr Orange.
I would put this in a spoiler box, but c’mon, if you haven’t seen it yet, you really should have by now.
SSG Schwartz
I’ enjoy the scene in GOLDENEYE where Bond purses the bad guy throught the streets of St. Petersburg in a T-54 Tank. Wonderful over the top mayhem.
Dude, Charlie’s Angels, the movie? Especially Crispin Glover’s scenes. The cartwheel through the fence?
Equilibrium had this nutty premise that you could do kung fu, only with pistols in your hands. So, at one point they have a fight scene of the typical sort with two well-matched fighters blocking eachother’s blows, only because they’re using pistols, they have to keep blocking in such a way that the bullets don’t hit them, because they’re constantly firing through the whole thing.
In one scene of Underworld, it is treated as a viable escape plan to shoot your dual pistolas into the floor in a circle until you fall through it. Well, the guns have nigh infinite ammo, after all. You can fire them in full auto mode.
And after all these years, I still love the knife fight in Under Siege with Segal and Jones not only taking swipes at eachother with knives, but parrying with them, as though they were swords.
I want to hear this read out loud by Jerry Stiller, who played George’s father Frank Costanza on Seinfeld. While expounding at a Festivus gathering on the proper form for engaging in the Feats of Strength.
“As I rained blows upon him…”
I’m trying to figure out what emotions the actor is attempting to convey in that clip from 0:08 to 0:10. Some combination of horniness, diarrhea, and frustration at tax forms is my best guess.
This is definitely up there, especially the fight between the three masters and the musician assassins. 
Try hearing it read by James Limpton.
I never tire of the fight that Peter Griffing has with the giant chicken on Family Guy.
Agreed. And when in the first ten minutes of a film, the protagonist
kills a man by ramming a carrot through his brain, delivers a baby in the middle in a gun-battle, and cuts the umbilical cord with a pistol shot
you know immediately that either a) you’re in for something special, or b) you picked out the wrong movie to watch…
Practically any scene where the hero/heroine fires guns while hurtling through the air and actually manages to hit something that was an intended target. Resident Evil: Apocalypse comes to mind.
I can’t stop watching that. I’ve watched it like 10 times.
I keep wondering about the practical aspects of how it was made. For instance, did this occur during the scriptwriting meetings?
“Ok so like… the fights gonna be turned around by her using that wet towel, right? Then the dude’s gonna run into a hook in the wall and it’ll take out his eye! But then he’ll just become enraged and become a one-eyed bad ass so how do we resolve the fight?”
“I’m thinking we have a different hook take out his other eye!”
“Dude!”
A page on a script somewhere that says:
Bad Guy: GRRAAHHHHH
Good Guy: RAHHRRRRRR
Bad Guy: GERRUUUUAAA
Good Guy: RRRAGHHHH
It’s addictive.
The slow motion face punches are fantastic. I nominate most of the second part of Hot Fuzz, though it was meant to be silly so I’m not positive it counts. I second Live Free or Die Hard. Parkour is showing up in more and more movies and I find it more fun to watch than I would have believed.
So we’re just going to remember this as the John Woo thread, agreed?
Isn’t pretty much any great action sequence going to be “ludicrous,” in the sense that it could never occur in real life? I love the Bourne movies, for instance, but there’s scarcely a moment in them I could describe as plausible. Three Jason Bournes couldn’t survive that Moscow car chase.
As far as irredeemably over-the-top scenes go, I would have to second the brawl in The Live.
Thank you, added to my Netflx queue.