# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/81 "2019-04-02T19:49:59Z")
I like the scene near the end of, “Statesman: The Golden Circle”, where Eggsy and his partner fight Agent Whiskey. The music goes real well with it, too. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/82 "2019-04-02T20:33:33Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > [Darth Vader at the end of **Rogue One**](https://youtu.be/wxL8bVJhXCM?t=39). Would not want to be in that corridor. Yeah, that was awesome. Vader shows just what kind of an implacable killing machine he was. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/83 "2019-04-02T20:54:50Z")
The entire movie _The Raid: Redemption_ is basically one long fight scene. It is amazing, but extremely brutal. Also, the end of _The Wild Bunch_, which inspired John Woo and other HK action directors. The end of _Serenity_ was pretty good too. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/84 "2019-04-02T21:35:33Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Jason Bourne in the park in Switzerland. Not the biggest or flashiest, but super slick. Every Bourne movie had at least one, like this one from [_The Bourne Supremacy_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyZU7lfGjyk) and this one from [_The Bourne Ultimatum_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLt7lXDCHQ0). ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/85 "2019-04-02T21:44:12Z")
The battle on Cybertron starting the **Bumblebee** movie. 11 years and 5 movies later, they _finally_ showed us the Transformers battle we wanted to see. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/86 "2019-04-02T23:33:55Z")
The final island assault in _Commando_. Also John Matrix’s fight with Cooke if only for this dialogue: **Cooke** : You scared, motherf\*\*\*\*\*? Well, you should be, because this Green Beret is going to kick your big ass! **Matrix** : I eat Green Berets for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/87 "2019-04-03T01:43:16Z")
The bathroom brawl in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/88 "2019-04-03T01:45:47Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > The final island assault in _Commando_. > > Also John Matrix’s fight with Cooke if only for this dialogue: > > **Cooke** : You scared, motherf\*\*\*\*\*? Well, you should be, because this Green Beret is going to kick your big ass! > **Matrix** : I eat Green Berets for breakfast. You forgot the third line: Matrix’s Daughter: I can’t believe all this macho bullshit! ---
**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:** [April 3, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/89 "2019-04-03T02:07:03Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > You forgot the third line: > > Matrix’s Daughter: I can’t believe all this macho bullshit! Sorry, not Matrix’s daughter (Alyssa Milano)\*; it was Rae Dawn Chong, the flight attendant. She also said something about eating too much red meat. - She did have one good line: Not as nearly as nice as watching him smash your face in. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/90 "2019-04-03T02:51:03Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > The bathroom brawl in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT. This fight was awesome, but pretty much everything in the movie was top notch. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/91 "2019-04-03T13:19:26Z")
Two crazy/brilliant fight scenes from _Rick and Morty_… Rick vs. the President: [Rick and Morty - All Rick Vs The President Scenes - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNKkDuvtyPk) Pickle Rick vs. Jaguar: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3C0gh4tEJU) ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/92 "2019-04-03T14:15:58Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > For battles, its hard to beat Kurosawa films. For my money, no one has beaten the final battle in _Seven Samurai_, in the village, in the rain… And remember, no CGI. Just practical effects, stuntmen, and brilliant staging… ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/93 "2019-04-03T15:04:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Yeah, that was awesome. Vader shows just what kind of an implacable killing machine he was. I read a theory that Vader was the reason the door wouldn’t open, as soon as the data is handed off and Vader reaches the door, it opens. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/94 "2019-04-03T15:20:39Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > For my money, no one has beaten the final battle in _Seven Samurai_, in the village, in the rain… > > And remember, no CGI. Just practical effects, stuntmen, and brilliant staging… Can’t believe I missed gatopescado’s post. Especially when I used Sanjuro for an example of a great fight scene. There’s also the infamous arrow scene from Throne Of Blood, where Kurosawa used real archers, with real arrows, really shooting at Toshiro Mifune. [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3GvVzvoEx4w](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3GvVzvoEx4w) They promised to try and not hit him in the face. Then you have \*Hero’\*s take on that sort of scene… [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I87tDV\_JTLQ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I87tDV_JTLQ) ---
**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:** [April 3, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/95 "2019-04-03T20:20:10Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I read a theory that Vader was the reason the door wouldn’t open, as soon as the data is handed off and Vader reaches the door, it opens. I think it opens because he cuts the lock mechanism with his saber. ---
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/96 "2019-04-03T20:53:21Z")
I particularly like the first swordfight between Jack Sparrow and Will Turner in _Pirates of the Caribbean_. It was at that moment that my doubts about the movie turned into “this is truly going to be a swashbuckler of a movie of the old school”. Which reminds me to bring up the brilliance of every Burt Lancaster/Nick Cravat “against all the guards” fight in _The Crimson Pirate_. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/97 "2019-04-04T19:02:06Z")
_The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:_ the fight between the League and the Phantom’s men in Dorian Grey’s library. Fast-paced, intercut brilliantly between the various characters…Captain Nemo proving to be a martial bad-ass, the gag with Dorian taking a full clip of bullets at point blank range: (“I’m complicated!”) and the great ending with Mina ("Now that’s your biggest mistake: thinking I need _them_ to protect _me!"_). The movie itself could have used another re-write, but that scene is gold. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/98 "2019-04-04T21:31:56Z")
Vader and Luke at the end of _Empire_. The kid’s really showing his stuff, then daddy gets tired of screwing around and, as Chuck Klosterman put it, beats him like Ike used to beat Tina. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/99 "2019-04-04T22:12:58Z")
Fight Scene from [48 Hours](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5edcamhCJI) I loved it for realism in the quote. - I’m too fuckin’ tired to put my hands up. My gun and my badge are over on the car. \* ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777/100 "2019-04-04T23:07:02Z")
This sword fight from The Mask of Zorro left me breathless: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ofmBgLEsthU/maxresdefault.jpg "The Mask of Zorro - Antonio Banderas & Catherine Zeta-Jones") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofmBgLEsthU) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-action-or-fight-scene/831777.md?page=6)