More on fused spherical case projectiles, invented by Lieutenant Henry Shrapnel {yes, that one}, and introduced in 1803, well in time for Sharpe’s Peninsular War.
My personal entry for worst fight scene? Pretty much any one involving Roger Moore.
And if they’re shrapnel shells, then they wouldn’t send you flying when they detonate near you. They’d just poke lots of holes in you, and you’d drop like someone cut your strings. Although, not having seen the show myself, it’s still possible that they do all this in an unconvincing manner.
If you’re going to list that, you might as well add in Superman or The Hulk.
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That was the most awesome thing ever.
Um, excuse me. That wasn’t fighting. That was foreplay.
It’s rare that I agree completely with hyperbole on the SDMB, but you are 100% spot on here.
This thread is over. Any other posts will merely be an epilogue.
BWAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHA
Ok, you win. That’s even worse than Bollywood.
And he was still alive the whole time!
Congratulations, you win the thread.
Oh my God! In my stage movement II class at the UH School of Theatre (Which all theatre majors had to pass.) all of the combat finals were better than this. Mind you, these were choreographed by freshmen theatre students that had only a rudimentery knowledge of stage combat learned in one semester. The class was intended to give us enough to be able to work ith a “Real” fight choreographer without killing ourselves and the choreographer in the process. If any of us had done this for the final, we would have been given a F.
No offense to the movie itself, but the “fight” at the end of Big Night was riotous. I felt bad for the actors who’s job it was to break up the fight and sound like they were actually worried about anyone.
Wow. I think I’m hard to impress in terms of bad movies, and that is truly awful. The screaming was monotonous and unbearable, the slow-mo was stupid, the shirt removing was ridiculous, and I couldn’t tell the two guys apart. Plus it had what might be the worst ‘stinger’ I’ve ever heard, and the second guy looked like he blew his line. 
The “swordplay” in Highlander III (hack, spit) seems to reflect Chris Lambert’s eye problems at the time it was shot. Hoo boy. Somehow two guys clanging their swords together in unison doesn’t seem like a real fight.
ya know, I’m just wondering if this fight scene predates that really awful Schwarzennegger flick where is daughter gets kidnapped and at the end he fights mana a mana with a broken arm against his nemisis (who has a giant knife). I saw a lot of similarities between the two scenes although the Hollywood flick obviously cost more to make. The finish was more family friendly than the old “meathook in the eye and hoist him up” ending.
I’m just saying…
That guy has the worst luck with his eyeballs.
You did know there were cannonballs filled with gunpowder, & fused to explode, didn’t you, Smeghead? :dubious:
All of them? :dubious:
FLAWLESS VICTORY!!!
On the cannonball thing, you have four kinds of artillery projectiles during the Napoleonic Wars and up through the American Civil War and the Wars of German and Italian Unification.
Common shot - a cast iron ball – does not explode, just batters and crushes. During the Napoleonic Wars naval cannon fired shot almost exclusively because of all the dangers of keeping exploding shells on a wooden ship with canvas sails and everything soaked in pine pitch.
Common shell –a cast iron ball, hollow with a fairly thick wall and containing a power charge. It was fused with a wooden plug containing a power train that ignited by the flash of the propellent charge. It went off with a flash scattering big hunks of cast iron that were lethal at a few yards.
Case shot or Shrapnel– fused like common shell but with a thin wall and filled with iron or lead balls and a small powder charge. The idea was to have the shell rupture above and just short of the target, scattering the target with the balls.
Cannister or case shot – a thin iron can filled with iron balls. The can ruptured when the projectile cleared the gun and threw the balls down range. Fairly short range but devastating against approaching troops. Grape shot was similar but generally fewer, bigger balls and was more a naval thing.
The effectiveness of Common Shell and Case Shot was impaired by the unreliability of the fuses of the period. Common Shot was the default projectile in almost all situations. It was terribly effective against the packed attack formations used in the Napoleonic Wars. Up until the carnage of WWI forget the big flaming explosions throwing bodies into the air.
“We’ll keep an eye out for you.”
“Yeah…we’ll see ya!”
That clip makes me want to watch the whole movie. I wish MST3K was still around to do it.
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I had seen that clip before, and remember thinking “wow this couldn’t get much worse.”
Then suddenly, as if the fight gods themselves had conspired to mock me... Cynthia Rothrock showed up!
Rothrock is gorgous, and could no doubt kick my butt, but acting and choreographed fight scenes were never her strong points!:eek:
All I can say is: cocaine is a hell of a drug.
FINISH HIM!!!