Seconded! I came in to mention that one!
Close second to Bond vs Grant: Bond vs Oddjob in Goldfinger.
The hallway fight scene from the original Oldboy
A classic “one-punch” fight scene : McLintock!
I consider the second Mad Max film, The Road Warrior, to be one of the greatest action movies of all time. The final chase sequence is awesome and one of the greatest chase scenes in movie history.
Also I am surprised no one has mentioned the insane gun shoot-out from *Predator *yet.
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From the TV series The Sarah Connor Chronicles, there is the scene where the terminator Cromartie single-handedly takes out an entite FBI SWAT team while the Johnny Cash song “When the Man Comes Around” is playing in the background. They don’t even really depict the fight on screen but it effectively demonstrates just how bad-ass the Terminators are.
The ability of movies and TV shows to contain mini music video clips should be used more often. If you can have movie musicals where the actors break out into a dance, you could just as well have an action scene superimposed with relevant music of the same duration like this scene from Kingsman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3zdYUG2_RA
The compound assault scene from Zero Dark Thirty has a surreal starkness: https://youtu.be/bKht-_lX-u0?t=1
A good, unsettling take on what a real action scene might be like in the modern age from Patriot games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoVWedQOQl4
So many great ones here. For movies, I’ll nominate River vs. the Reavers in Serenity.
For TV, the first hallway fight scene in Daredevil.
Am I crazy or is he just randomly punching people who are not even in the fight half the time?
Can’t believe I forgot to add the Battle of Helm’s Deep in LOTR: The Two Towers.
Uma Thurman and Vivica Fox in Kill Bill I
This is part of why I enjoy many of Tarrantino’s films. Very tight, fast scene that ends with a twist. Very tense and keeps you breathless.
Knife fight from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Rules? In a knife fight?!
The final sword fight of Syrio Forel (GOT)
Great character, was sorry to see him go.
Can’t believe I forgot this one–the battle on the snow-covered mountainside in Mulan (1998).
The teahouse shootout from Hard Boiled, the first 4:20 of the link. The hospital shootout is also awesome. It starts at about 19:15.
My*** favorite*** fight scene?
Come now. There can be only one favorite fight scene, and it featuresIndiana Jones.
The fight between Roddy Piper and Frank in the alley in They Live.
Youtube already agrees - Best Fight Scene Ever
Spanning multiple scenes, the fight between John Wayne and Victor McLaglen in the Quiet Man.
Right behind that, in the original True Grit, John Wayne faces down Ned Pepper:
Clint Eastwood in the bar scene in Unforgiven. “Misfire! Kill the son of a bitch!”
Shootouts? You want shootouts?
I can’t really say it’s a “favorite”-- even after seeing it a couple of times, it’s still kind of hard to watch – but this one deserves a mention: from Deadwood, Dan vs Captain Turner