# Best Fight Scene? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2000, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751 "2000-05-06T13:09:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/21 "2000-05-06T21:35:16Z")
There was this campy 60’s movie featuring Ann Margret called “Kitten with a Whip”. One scene had Ann fighting her ex-boyfriend in a Tijuana motel room. The film is purposly undercranked, so the action is crazy fast and really nutty. It’s my favorite fight scene ever. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/22 "2000-05-06T22:14:17Z")
**John Wayne** beats the crap out of **Bruce Dern** in **The Cowboys** , then cowardly sore loser Dern shoots JW in the back. Great scene. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/23 "2000-05-06T22:49:35Z")
Most anything John Woo did is going to be great. I’m a huge fan of the shootout scene in _Face Off_ when the Feds raid Cage’s characters buddy’s (strugling to relate the Cage/Travola characters, hehe) loft. With _Somewhere under the Rainbow_ playing. The beginning of _Saving Private Ryan_ is certainly one of the best modern war scenes. A close second being the finale of _Platoon_ ending in the firebombing. I love the shootout in _Heat_ outside the bank, that is a all time classic and is really cool in Digital surround sound. _Bloodsport_ is great, some of the most exciting martial arts I’ve seen, I’m not a fan of the cartoonish Jackie Chan style. I love most every fight scene Steven Seagal does, and his are so unique. I’m not sure I’d put any as the very best, but they needed mention. But The pool hall scene in _Out for Justice_ and the raid on the Voodoo drug lord in _Marked for Death_ are timeless. Not forgetting the knife fight w/ Tommy Lee Jones in _Under Siege_ There sure are alot of good ones… ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/24 "2000-05-06T22:53:31Z")
Left out an entire genre, the ancient war style. The big ones are _Braveheart_ especially the scene where Wallace is betrayed by Richard the Lionheart, him hitting that guy with the war hammer is perfect. _Gladiator_ has some truely great fight scenes, and I can’t really chose a favorite, it has lots. Not to mention I don’t want to spoil anything yet. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/25 "2000-05-07T00:44:15Z")
The scene in **Heat** where Bobby D’s crew rob the bank together and the shootout that ensues afterwards. I love that scene. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/26 "2000-05-07T00:58:13Z")
Riggs vs Joshua at the end of _Lethal Weapon_. Riggs, Murtaugh and Lorna Cole vs. Jack Travis et al at the end of _Lethal Weapon 3_ was good, too. Funniest? Jeff Blue vs Muerte at the beginning of _Undercover Blues_. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/27 "2000-05-07T01:16:40Z")
Gladiator definatley has some stunning fight scenes, they are my favorite But I also like the scene in Tombstone when Doc Holladay and Johnny Ringo are circling each other, and then Doc shoots Ringo in the head saying “Oh Johnny you aint no daisy, you aint do daisy at all.” ---
**Author:** ![NickDanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@NickDanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickDanger)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/28 "2000-05-07T06:06:18Z")
Gotta’ cast one vote for Rocky. ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/29 "2000-05-07T09:12:40Z")
Along the same lines as the OP, _Unforgiven_ The scene in the bar with “Little Bill”. You know, where everyone dies. I think I am one of the few who think that film deserved best picture. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/30 "2000-05-07T09:55:18Z")
> [@](#): > > I think I am one of the few who think that film deserved best picture. I’m with ya, dude. One of those misunderstood, underappreciated gems. The last word in Westerns, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/31 "2000-05-07T13:51:21Z")
How 'bout the parking lot fight scene between Shirley McClaine and Ann Bancroft in ‘The Turning Point’? ---
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751/32 "2000-05-07T15:28:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > **Milo:** Gotta second you on the Jackie Chan thing. Often the movies around the fights are pretty crummy (ever sit through _Gorgeous_ or _Thunderbolt_?), but Jackie can usually be counted on to deliver something amazing. Ahahahahaha, Thunderbolt. _snork_ _giggle_ _snicker_ > [@](#): > > 1. The final fight in _Drunken Master 2._ For pure speed, intensity, and inventiveness, this is hard to beat. Actually, almost every fight in the movie is incredible. That was going to be my first shot too. The fact that I adore Ken Lo doesn’t hurt either. _drool_ > [@](#): > > 1. The warehouse battle in _Rumble in the Bronx_, starting on the pool table and going all the way to the invitation to tea. Maybe not his best all-time fight, but it was amazing seeing an American audience, who didn’t know what they were in for, get their asses kicked. That counts for something. And it was definitely fun, especially when he ended with cussing the badguys out for being badguys. _grin_ > [@](#): > > That being said, what Jackie does in his American films (from _Big Brawl_ to _Protector_ to, yes, _Rush Hour_) isn’t as impressive, because the Hollywood producers feel the need to slow him down so American eyes can follow what he’s doing. I’m hoping _Shanghai Noon_ I thought it was because the insurance companies wouldn’t cover him if he did _all_ of his own stunts, and got mad when they found out that he had already done half of them. > [@](#): > > of pure testosterone, that’s okay, but I think Jackie’s fights are more interesting, in that he’s just barely hanging on by his fingertips, and he has to do whatever he can, he has to grab whatever comes into reach, just to make it out alive. And the humor factor of improvised weapons doesn’t hurt either. Along those lines, as cheesy as it was, I really liked the musical fight scene in Fifth Element. Funny cheese, which I really go for (that was the film in which I fell in love with Luc Besson’s directing). -Elthia I finally got cables again, I can be back online! Yay! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/18751.md?page=1)