# Favorite Action or Fight scene. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777 "2019-03-30T18:10:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/41 "2019-03-31T02:39:55Z")
I’ve always thought the[sword fight from Stardust](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkdrbg4EwGA) was extremely entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/42 "2019-03-31T03:06:34Z")
N/m ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/43 "2019-03-31T04:21:42Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > …[The final sword fight of Syrio Forel (GOT)](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=game+of+thrones+serio+forrel&t=ffsb&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=ZcjQ4rQQ8H8) > Great character, was sorry to see him go. Oh, yes. Good one. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/44 "2019-03-31T07:51:36Z")
Tommy vs Mad Dog [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs6B3uXXllI) ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/45 "2019-03-31T08:17:41Z")
Ripley v the Alien Queen. Doesn’t get much better than that…“get away from her you BITCH!” ---
**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:** [March 31, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/46 "2019-03-31T08:55:09Z")
Feel like going on a dive through the desert? Let’s take a [truck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVdRfnLPypE)! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/47 "2019-03-31T14:40:05Z")
The final gun battle from, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” (Yes, the ending, too.) ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/48 "2019-03-31T15:49:14Z")
The train heist in _Breaking Bad_ as well as the shoot out in the finale. Also the shoot out in _Breaking Bad_ that ends with Hanks death ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/49 "2019-03-31T16:53:45Z")
Well, since the alley fight from “They Live” was taken, I’ll toss in “Banshee” Lucas Hood vs. Damien Sanchez. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ulL2IYg8AAM/maxresdefault.jpg "Banshee - Fight: Hood X Sanchez S01E03 - Legenda PT-BR") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulL2IYg8AAM) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/50 "2019-03-31T18:50:40Z")
Robert Shaw vs Peter Boyle in _Swashbuckler_. It starts as a genteel duel with rapiers, then degenerates into a brawl with cutlasses. Lee Marvin vs Robert Culp in _The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday_. Two men ostentatiously demonstrating their pugilistic skills (but both flagrantly cheating). ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/51 "2019-03-31T19:53:09Z")
[Jonathan Winters vs the gas station guys](https://youtu.be/o_k8RMREdbc?t=198) in It’s a Mad Mad Mad World ---
**Author:** ![LennieB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8dc957/32.png) [@LennieB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LennieB)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/52 "2019-03-31T19:54:58Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Tyrone Power versus Basil Rathbone in THE MARK OF ZORRO: it’s a story playing out, but each one also seems like he genuinely wants to stab the other guy to death. No, I get that there’s plenty of blade-on-blade parrying, but it never appears to be an end in itself; it always looks like a cheerful killer is maybe just one second away from thrusting a long knife into somebody who’s thinking the same thing. ITA!! Basil Rathbone, a renowned swordsman, said that "“Power was the most agile man with a sword I’ve ever faced before a camera. Tyrone could have fenced Errol Flynn into a cocked hat.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nB8tiSMCwRE/maxresdefault.jpg "The Mark of Zorro (1940) Tyrone Power vs Basil Rathbone") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB8tiSMCwRE) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/53 "2019-03-31T19:57:12Z")
Jason Bourne in the park in Switzerland. Not the biggest or flashiest, but super slick. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/54 "2019-03-31T20:00:28Z")
The sword fight at the end of _Rob Roy_ is the best there is. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/55 "2019-04-01T17:21:47Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Well, since the alley fight from “They Live” was taken… Timmy V. Jimmy from _South Park_. 😃 > [@blondebear](#): > > [Jonathan Winters vs the gas station guys](https://youtu.be/o_k8RMREdbc?t=198) in It’s a Mad Mad Mad World My favorite part is about half-way through, when Winters says something like, \*“You guys are gettin’ out of line!”. \*The place is already trashed! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/56 "2019-04-01T18:26:58Z")
a lot of my favorites are already listed above, but I’ll add: **Jason and Argonauts vs. Skeletons** – Ray Harryhausen’s signature scene was the Skeleton Fight, and in this one he has a half dozen skeletons fighting four or five Greeks. This is probably the best pre-CGI special effects fight scene. If you don’t think so, you imagine moving six skeletons, all with articulated arms and legs, all moving at the same time, so that all the motions appear uniform and smooth. It outdoes the nine-headed, two-tailed Hydra in the same movie. And the motions and fighting styles are all different, with unique little ideas thrown out – burying a sword in the skeleton’s ribcage, a skeleton swiping at a man as he leaps over it, a man cutting off a skeleton’s skull (which seems to be the only way to disable one). Great stuff. It even outdoes Harryhausen’s previous skeleton fight, the one-on-one with Sinbad in **the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad** , which was a masterpiece of choreography. The really long one that starts in The Merovingian’s Restaurant in **The Matrix Reloaded** – one helluva long sequence that gives us Keanu Reeves as Neo, Carrie-ann Moss as Trinity, and Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus each getting highlighted and pretty impressive fight scenes. After that long, dull sequence in Zion, it appears to be the entire justification for the movie. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/57 "2019-04-01T18:41:13Z")
Either [the slaver fight from **Ong Bak 2**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgwe9SdZBLQ) or the [“option B” fight from the beginning of **The Rundown**](https://youtu.be/1RhJK5fQ9w4?t=4m18s). . ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/58 "2019-04-01T18:54:15Z")
“You know, I always thought that Matt Damon was like a Streisand, but I think he’s rockin’ the shit in this one!” I always liked the sequence in the first Bourne movie when they are trying to hide out at that family’s house, but then Bourne tracks down the agent in the field who’s trying to snipe him. The fight with the Golden army & the prince at the end of Hellboy II is pretty cool. Though really i love all the action in that movie. The scene in the church in the first Kingsmen movie. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/59 "2019-04-01T19:00:08Z")
The fight between King Kong and the T. rex in the original 1933 **King Kong** was a standout in a film filled with matchups. Willis O’Brien, a boxing and wrestling fan, reported adapted many of his favorite moves from ones he saw in the ring. and I love the little touches, like the T. rex scratching its ear right after it comes “on stage”, or Kong working the jaw of his dead opponent after he kills him. Overall I love Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake, regardless of what others say, but even I have to agree that the fight between Kong and _three_ sort-of T. rexes is just too much, and goes on way too long. But there’s no denying that it’s impressive. and it ends up in a bout that echoes the one in the original film, with some of the same moves, and with Kong breaking the T. rex neck and “working” the jaw again, then beating his chest. I still love it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/60 "2019-04-01T19:06:14Z")
I know that the later Bonds can’t compare with the earlier ones, and that people seem to have a special kind of hate for **Die Another Day** , the last Pierce Brosnan Bond film (and the last “classic” Bond before the Daniel Craig reboot), but I have to admit that I love the swordfighting battle between Bond and Graves, in which they use just about every type of sword, it seems. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IAMGkUZulvw/maxresdefault.jpg "James Bond vs Gustav Graves | Die Another Day | James Bond 007 (Pierce Brosnan)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAMGkUZulvw) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777.md?page=4)