# What is your favorite fight scene? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522 "2007-05-17T22:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/21 "2007-05-17T23:37:49Z")
The sword fight between Robert MacGregor and Archibald Cunningham in **Rob Roy**. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/22 "2007-05-17T23:43:52Z")
In Three Musketeers ( Michael York version) the fight in an inn, where they swipe food has a special place in my heart. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/23 "2007-05-17T23:48:41Z")
I came in to suggest the Inigo/ManInBlack duel from _The Princess Bride_. The one at the end with count Rugen might have more emotional weight, but it can’t match the spectacle and the fun of that first one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/24 "2007-05-17T23:49:57Z")
The scene in “Old Boy” where the protagonist takes on and defeats a whole gang of badasses in a hallway is so outrageous it has to be up there with the greatest fight scenes on film. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/25 "2007-05-17T23:50:54Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Is it Black Lectrodes from Planet 9 or 10 or something? [/QUOTE] Lectr **oid** s, not Lectr **ode** s. Geez, some people! ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/26 "2007-05-17T23:52:12Z")
James Bond vs Red Grant in _From Russia With Love_. I also enjoyed the sword duel between James Bond and Gustav Graves in _Die Another Day_. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/27 "2007-05-17T23:52:14Z")
John Cusack vs Benny the Jet Urquidez in Grosse Point Blank. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/28 "2007-05-17T23:52:15Z")
Any or all of the fight scenes in _Raiders Of The Lost Ark_. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/29 "2007-05-17T23:53:56Z")
Christian Bale’s “gun-kata” scenes in _Equilibrium_ are amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/30 "2007-05-17T23:57:08Z")
Apparently I posted in the [wrong copy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=421278) of this thread, but I’ll echo that answer here - Happy Gilmore vs. Bob Barker. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/31 "2007-05-18T00:05:55Z")
Indiana Jones fighting the big Nazi by the plane in **Raiders of the Lost Ark**. Clint Eastwood’s Philo Beddoe bare-knuckle fighting with Jack Wilson all through Jackson Hole, Wyoming in **Any Which Way You Can**. The Johnny Cage vs. Scorpion fight in the \*\*Mortal Kombat \*\* movie was pretty kick-ass, as was Liu Kang vs. Reptile. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/32 "2007-05-18T00:22:03Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] It has been a long time but I think the glasses show whether or not someone is an alien. [/QUOTE] It’s more than that. Putting on the glasses lets you see things as they really are, not as how the aliens want you to see them. So not only can you see all the aliens walking around among the humans, but you can also see that all the magazines and billboards and street signs don’t say what you think they say. Instead they say things like: “Don’t Question Authority” “Marry and Reproduce” “Obey” “Watch TV” “Consume” It’s a really cool and creepy moment. Here are some [stills](http://www.theylivenow.co.uk/css/Theylive2/pages/stills.html) from the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/33 "2007-05-18T00:23:37Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] The sword fight between Robert MacGregor and Archibald Cunningham in **Rob Roy**. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=cmkeller] James Bond vs Red Grant in _From Russia With Love_. [/QUOTE] Two of my favourites have already been mentioned. Another one: the fight scene in the training room between the characters of Michelle Yeoh and Ziyi Zhang in _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon_ - Michelle Yeoh use a large assortment of weapons (including a damned heavy iron bar), but her kung fu cannot conquer for Ziyi Zhang’s youth and training. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/34 "2007-05-18T00:23:44Z")
For Raiders of the Lost Ark, it Indy verses the big bald Nazi under the funky plane. Rocky vs, Apollo Creed in the original Rocky. Luke vs Darth Vader (both of them) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/35 "2007-05-18T00:26:27Z")
duplicate thread, try over here: > **[What is your favorite fight scene?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=421279)** > > I have been on a kung fu kick lately and thanks to youtube, I can dive deep into a squeeing delight watching: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao in Dragons Forever The spinkick that Jackie does on Sammo Hung -the big guy - is lightening fast. Its... ---
**Author:** ![Zambini57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4491bb/32.png) [@Zambini57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zambini57)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/36 "2007-05-18T01:10:19Z")
I liked the fight between Jason Bourne and the hitman in the apartment in “The Bourne Identity.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/37 "2007-05-18T01:16:33Z")
I liked the mention earlier in the thread of Honor Harrington and Nimitz in The Honor of the Queen. But although some might consider it comical, my favorite filmed fight scene is the bar fight in ST-TOS, “The Trouble With Tribbles” Classic bar fight, with chairs being swung, bottles getting broken, bodies flying, and a guy filching drinks. \*“Laddy, don’t you thing you’d better…rephrase that?” "You’re right, I should. I didn’t mean to say the Enterprise should be hauling garbage, I meant it should be hauled away\* **as** _garbage!"_ Scotty carefully puts down his drink, rises to his feet, slugs the Klingon, and away we go! ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/38 "2007-05-18T02:40:38Z")
+1 each for the scenes from “True Romance” and “Rob Roy” mentioned above and adding the fight in the bombed out building between the GI and the German soldier as the cowardly guy watches in “Saving Private Ryan”. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/39 "2007-05-18T02:43:26Z")
Hugh Grant and Colin Firth in Bridget Jones’ Diary. It’s one of the only movie fights I’ve seen that actually looks like it could have been a real fight. shut up ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522/40 "2007-05-18T02:52:25Z")
Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Probably the best male/female fight scene outside of… The War of the Roses [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fight-scene/404522.md?page=3)