# Best fight scene **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443 "2000-12-07T05:44:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443/41 "2000-12-08T02:24:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*Best one-on-one - Bruce and Chuck in _Return of the Dragon_. > > Best Rumble - The bathroom rumble near the end of _The Warriors_. \*\* Yo, **J.B.** , when you’re finished using my brain, please remember to replace it back in my head…gonna need it for work tomorrow… These two fight scenes were the _exact_ ones that immediately came to mind even _before_ I opened this thread. …although I kinda liked the scene in _The Warriors_ where Swan and Ajax beat the crap outta those freaky Baseball Furies with bats. Yeow! ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443/42 "2000-12-08T02:38:19Z")
For the funkiness factor, I’ve got to go with scenes from _The Bride With White Hair_ or _The Crippled Masters_. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443/43 "2000-12-08T08:51:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stephe96 \* > \*\* > For gunfights? Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer vs. the LAPD in “Heat.” \*\* Ooh, gunfights? **Hard Boiled** , Chow Yun Fat vs. everybody, either in the warehouse or the hospital. or **Face/Off** the shootout in the drug dealers house. and The entire storming of the beach in **Saving Private Ryan**. ---
**Author:** ![bashere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bashere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bashere)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443/44 "2000-12-08T10:39:25Z")
Another vote for True Romance - one for best fist fight - Patrica Arquette, and best gun fight - final scenes. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443/45 "2000-12-08T15:19:55Z")
Best gun-fight. I’d have to go with _Resevoir Dogs_ (pick a scene). But the top was Steve Buschemi whirling on the cops as he was stealing the car and popping off some caps. Sure it was quick, but then most gun-fights in real life are. That’s what made it chilling. ---
**Author:** ![spazo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spazo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spazo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443/46 "2000-12-12T07:13:48Z")
Best one i’ve ever seen, Darker Than Amber-1970. Rod Taylor and William Smith, its a classic. ---
**Author:** ![Bubble\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443/47 "2000-12-12T15:17:25Z")
There is an excellent fight scene on the TV show The Practice. It was on a couple of seasons ago and it has one of the main lawyers, Eugene, attacking a child molestor in court and he totally kicks the guys ass before anyone could pull him off of the guy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443/48 "2000-12-12T16:31:45Z")
Tyrone Power (Zorro) vs. Basil Rathbone (the evil Capitan) in The Mask of Zorro ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443/49 "2000-12-12T18:10:21Z")
A mechanically enhanced Sigourney Weaver versus the Alien Queen. You can’t really call it martial arts, but it’s undeniably cool. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443/50 "2000-12-12T18:15:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pipeliner \* > \*\ ***Gross Pointe Blank** is right up there, but I think my favourite is the fight scene from **Raising Arizona** - Nicholas Cage’s character fighting the biker (Leonard Smalls?) \*\* Actually, I was going to vote for the earlier fight, when he and John Goodman are fighting in the trailer. They’re busting the place up, cereal is flying, and Hi loses the upper hand when he raises his arms to give a death-chop and scrapes his knuckles on the low textured ceiling. Meanwhile, the Gale’s little brother is hiding in the bathroom with the kidnapped baby. It’s a keeper. ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443/51 "2000-12-12T19:14:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Pipeliner \* > > \*\ ***Gross Pointe Blank** is right up there, but I think my favourite is the fight scene from **Raising Arizona** - Nicholas Cage’s character fighting the biker (Leonard Smalls?) \*\* > > Actually, I was going to vote for the earlier fight, when he and John Goodman are fighting in the trailer. They’re busting the place up, cereal is flying, and Hi loses the upper hand when he raises his arms to give a death-chop and scrapes his knuckles on the low textured ceiling. Meanwhile, the Gale’s little brother is hiding in the bathroom with the kidnapped baby. It’s a keeper. \*\* Actually, **that’s** the scene I was thinking of. Sorry, got my fights mixed up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fight-scene/44443.md?page=2)