Timmy vs. Jimmy on South Park which beautifully parodied the fight in They Live!
Cripple Fight!!!
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Not a movie, but Peter vs. the Giant Chicken in Family Guy is pretty intense. Also from Family Guy - the episode where the entire family brawls it out. I still think that it’s some of the best animated violence I’ve seen.
Best fight scene ever…
The climatic fight at the end of Once Upon a Time in China…unbelievable…
Allow me to add another vote for the Luke vs. Vader fights in the original trilogy. Yeah, the actual swordplay was only decent, espescially compared to Inigo vs. Wesley, but the atmosphere and the emotion were really cool. The new trilogy just doesn’t get there as far as I’m concerned.
Also, I’d like to nominate Indiana Jones vs. the big nazi in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Just a great example of a hero taking a beating until the gruesome ending…
From the movie “Giant”
The scene where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, their daughter, and their grandson are in a diner and the cook/owner says some mean things about the little boy (Mexican American). Then he refuses to serve them.
Hudson starts the fight for what is right. He puts up a good fight for a while, before the cook/owner takes it to Hudson to the point where he is on his back, unable to get up. But in a show of respect to Hudson, (and to acknowledge he was a racist jerk) the cook/owner takes down the “we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone” sign and tosses it on Hudson’s chest.
Which version?
Lethal Weapon Riggs vs. Joshua. First one that came to mind.
**Indiana Jones ** vs. the market place swordsman. ( pure comedy.)
Tyler Durden vs. “Jack”. That was just tanfastic.
Or how about Arnie vs. the T-1000 in T-2? Jesus, that was just a brutal fight, and the perfectly stone-faced expressions on the two machines of death… suh-weet.
I’ve always considered the climactic fight between Riggs and Joshua in Lethal Weapon to be a fairly badly staged fight scene. It’s so obvious that it was staged for the camera, using the water spray, oblique lighting, and rapid cutting to obscure what was actually going on that I never really believed that these two guys were duking it out.
And yes, I do realize that all fights are staged for the camera, but it isn’t always as obvious that the two combatants involved are staging things one position or move at a time as in Lethal Weapon.
To my eye, rapid cutting between close-ups is a way of advertising that the actors involved don’t know how to stage a convincing fight scene. As with dancing, I want to see the actors’ whole bodies, and I want to be able to see their faces as they go at it. YMMV
Johnny Ringo vs. Doc Holliday in Tombstone. It’s pretty short seeing as it’s a gunfight but it’s one of my favorites.
Martin Blank vs. Grocer in Gross Point Blank.
Maximus vs. Commodus in Gladiator.
Honey Roy Palmer vs. Minoso Torres
Honey Roy Palmer vs. Hammerhead Hagen in Diggstown
There’s one on the tip of my tongue but I’ll be damned if I can remember it.
Sean Archer/Castor Troy in Face/Off.
The 1959 version. I’ve never seen the earlier one except for a few bits and snippets. I understand it’s really outstanding though.
The fight scene in They Live was only five-and-a-half minutes., though I admit it felt like 11, or 35… That warn’t no sissified kung-fu crap, neither, but two big guys going at it with roundhouses, multiple head-butts, and numerous knees to the gazebos.
I was impressed by Frank Sinatra and Henry Silva brawling in The Manchurian Canditate, during which they pulverize all of Laurence Harvey’s furniture. It had some elements of karate, but presented in a very utilitarian and credible fashion with no loopy gymnastics but lots of smashy-smashy.
Similarly, Sean Connery vs. Robert Shaw in the train compartment in From Russia With Love was cool, made spicier by the revelation that Shaw’s character is one crazy-ass mofo.
Blade vs Deacon Frost in BLADE
Kirk vs Kruge in Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock
AH-nuld vs the Australian guy in COMMANDO
Kurt Russel vs Jason Scott Lee in SOLDIER
Sonny vs Carlo in The Godfather
“Sonny vs Carlo in The Godfather”
To me, the term “fight” means that both participants get their fair share of licks in. In that sense, Sonny vs. Carlo wasn’t a fight, it was just a major ass-whipping (including Sonny biting Carlo on the fingers and hitting him in the face with a trash can lid).
Redmond Barry vs. his stepson in Barry Lyndon.
What it lacks in “hail of machine gun bullets” it makes up for in emotional tension and cinematography.
It was pretty one-sided, but I am suprised that no one (including me, earlier) has yet mentioned the brutal beating delivered by Sonny Corleone on his brother-in-law in The Godfather. James Caan actually hurt the guy pretty badly for real.
Cato vs Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series.
Any of the fights Temuera Morrison got into in Once Were Warriors. Especially the one right at the end of the film. The one with the beer bottle.
I think I’ll go ahead and disagree with you on this one; they basically did nothing to each other until Blade pumps Frost full of that anti-coagulant or whatever. Game, set, match.