Holy crap, you’re right. I was just thinking yesterday that a full cavalry charge with THX and everything would be awesome and wondering why no one’s ever done it before. I got goosebumps reading your post.
I second that… literally… i got goosebumps thinking of how awesome it’ll be. Can’t wait 
Talk away…I just watched it again Sunday. Love a movie with PIATs. Can’t get enough PIATs.
I’ve only ever caught parts of A Bridge Too Far, and I’ve checked out the local video shop - which has just about every crappy movie ever made, including They Live and Attack of the Killer Tomatos as well as a large military film section due to proximity to an Army post, and they don’t have it.
Dammit, I really want to see that film.
Saving Private Ryan blew me away the first time I saw it.
The Seven Samurai
I feel the same way. I first saw the movie on A&E and the cavalry charge made my jaw drop.
This one has become a regular at our He-Man Movie Fest for Manly Men.
I’ll second the person that said the ending fight in Unforgiven.
The last fight in Rob Roy was very well done too. Tim Roth is such an excellent prick in movies.
Quite agreed. Maybe “satisfying” isn’t the word, but definitely a powerful scene.
Also the many times aforementioned saving private ryan but for me the most effective scene is where
adam goldberg’s character and the german fight it out over the knife and the german wins, killing Adam goldberg while he begs for his life. then the german passes the skinny american translator (the guy from “spanking the monkey”) on the way out
gut wrenching every time. The “normandy” battle was damned good too.
Also, the scene in Zulu
Realistic? You’re kidding, right? It’s one of the most gloriously unrealistic fights I’ve ever seen. There are way too many pro-wrestling moves, for one thing, and at one point one of the guys takes, like, seven knees directly to the nuts and keeps fighting for another seven minutes. It was great fun, but realistic is the last word I’d use to describe it.
I also think that I use way too many italics when I post, but that’s my problem.
I think Once Were Warriors had the most realistic bar brawl type fights in any movie I’ve seen. Incredibly brutal, so fast you’ll miss it if you blink, and the loser has to be carried out on a stretcher.
Not quite your traditional battle, but the final soccer game in Shaolin Soccer is a sight to behold.
not most, but also star trek: first contact - for translating what a MOO battle will look like on the big screen.
“I don’t take coupons from giant chickens anymore. Not after last time.”
Thanks for mentioning the Family Guy “Chicken Fight”.
Oh god, I can’t believe I forgot that one.
I like nothing better than big-ass explosions. So the part of A Bridge Too Far in which XXX Corps begins its drive into the Netherlands has to be one of the most satisfying I’ve ever seen. It begins with one of the scariest artillery barrages ever filmed and ends with aircraft bombing the snot out of a forest. They look like real high-explosive blasts, too, not those chincy Hollywood gasoline fires.
The end battle of The Real Glory w/Gary Cooper, though a cheesey movie… is a real nail-biter.
The ship to ship fights in Errol Flynn’s The Sea Hawk
which used some of the battle footage from his earlier film: Captain Blood, but was made more exciting by Korngold’s music.
Hey, I put Zulu in my top-10 but let’s not overlook Zulu Dawn.
I loved the final ninja vs. spectre-goon fight in You Only Live Twice.
The storming of the castle from 1952’s Ivanhoe.
If we are counting Zulu style sieges I have to vote for the vast majority of Dog Soldiers (for one-on-one Pvt. Wetherspoon vs a seven foot werewolf bare-handed)
Great. Twenty movies have to go rent now. Thanks a lot, guys.