Hard to beat this scene from The Avengers:
With Carol Cleveland and Diana Rigg, no less!
That was very impressive!
I’ve seen this scene praised a lot, and I just don’t get it. There are some pretty obvious cuts (which is fine, unless the praise is about it being one shot), it’s poorly lit so you can’t see anything, and the choreography itself is not at all impressive.
To be fair, I can’t think of a television fight that really impressed me.
Maybe this one?
This was my vote as well, but since it is taken I’ll nominate Shawn and Gus tampering with evidence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIgSpFP-avg
My vote would be the Big Hammer opener:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuqb02paZ8E
It might be obvious that there are cuts, but there aren’t:
I looked up “Texas switch”: it’s where you use blocking and choreography to switch between stunt doubles and actors without using cuts. Naked Gun has a pretty pure example:
Thank you for explaining it better than I could. If someone is assuming there are cuts then it just shows how brilliant the shot was. And now I learned a new term. I knew there were Texas Switches but I didn’t know the term.
That is technically more impressive, but still has the effect of introducing a weird camera angle for the purpose of X (where X is either a cut or changing actor).
I don’t think it’s a bad scene or anything, just overrated.
I saw the scene in the episode before I had heard anything about it. I remember being like holy shit, the scene is awesome! I didn’t know anything about it, except I remember noticing that it was not full of pinches thrown followed by immediate cutaways to the reaction to the punch, as most action sequences are filmed. It felt brutal, with very plausible reactions to the violence.
Mine is probably when Hank is sitting in his car and the two cousins are coming for him. The tension is unbearable.
It was a hell of a sign that this wasn’t a typical superhero show (or a Ben Affleck movie).
I feel bad for people now, who are clicking on “AWESOME FIGHT SCENE, DUDE!” and don’t get to be surprised by it, as a reaction to a kid being taken by a mob, and a blind lawyer trying to do something about it.
I mean, I watched it as it came out; that was well before I got burned out on Marvel.
They just showed Seinfeld’s reenactment of the courtroom scene in Oliver Stone’s JFK. I laugh out loud every time I see it.
NCIS:
“What did Ducky look like when he was young?”
“Illya Kuryakin.”
Is that the one that spoofs the “magic bullet”?
The scene in The Simpsons where Homer is holding a chicken drumstick in one hand and a cob of corn in the other…
and then a fly lands on his plate…
Yep, the “magic loogie,” as they called it.
I’d go for the “2 idiots 1 keyboard” scene. Or maybe that’s the worst scene on TV.
worst scene has to be Gibbs shooting the monitor to stop the computer virus - and it working.
I’ve posted this before, and I’ll post it again.
Possibly the best scene in the entire Star Trek franchise:
