Good/great fight scenes in film/TV?

[irocfan]

I was just reading The Witcher thread and how good the fight scenes are reputed to be and thought it might be fun to see other good fight scenes (bonus if the film's not too shabby!). I

think you'd have to go a long way to beat the scenes with Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Boy (Raid 2 - https://youtu.be/6ReYBIqLY_U) but there are loads of cracking scenes out there, even on TV these days (some of the stuff from Wu Assassins is quite good for example). Why not let us know what films/choreographed fights really have you going WOW!

[Morningside]

Going by the TV series of the 1970's (Minder, The Professionals, The Sweeney etc.) you could be guaranteed a good punch up and a car chase in every episode.

[HOGEPH]

The pub fight scene from Wild Bill

https://youtu.be/tYho_e5mt3o

[Zirconia]

Kung Pow. It has an udderly great fight in it.

[ajprice]

Daredevil season 1 hallway fight https://youtu.be/B66feInucFY

[nicanary]

Peter Griffin v. Big Chicken in numerous episodes of Family Guy.

[Pesty]

Grosse point blank

Benny the jet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es9j52r0Lek


Old boy hammer My favourite.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwIIDzrVVdc

[bloomen]

They Live? though if it were real I presume they'd both be dead.

George Lazenby wasn't a good actor but definitely the best fighting Bond. His punch ups looked proper vicious.

[Bright Halo]

As above
The “They live” fight was epic
George Lazenby OHMSS opening scene beach fight probably one of the best bond fights ever.
Jet Li Unleashed. Although far fetched are great entertainment

Edited by Bright Halo on Sunday 8th December 16:37

[Cold]

Dun dun daaa!

https://youtu.be/CRef_rDxo0s

[Mcphisto]

Anything with Bruce Lee

[mikiec]

Nightclub scene in Blade
Pretty much the entire John Wick 3

[GravelBen]

Lots of good ones in the Ip Man movies. Here is one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upwyWKzozII

[MOBB]

Banshee - Burton vs Nola

Warning, bit nasty at times :-/

https://youtu.be/p1veh-SGma0

[mikiec]

MOBB said:

Banshee - Burton vs Nola

Warning, bit nasty at times :-/

https://youtu.be/p1veh-SGma0

Forgot about that one, got to be up there for most brutal TV fight

[Pesty]

Yes definitely. Awesome scene.

Same series there was that fight with the British guy, the MMA fighter and the albino

Actually I think there was several cool fights in every episode.

[PositronicRay]

Most fight scenes are completely overdone.

If you want believable, try Bridget Jones diary.

[Zirconia]

I suppose taking a sword to a gun fight is about tops?

[durbster]

Although there are billions of fight scenes in films, most of them are bloody awful so a good one does stand out.

For me it's down to editing. The fewer the cuts, the better the fight scene. The modern style of strobe cutting and shaking the camera about is so frustrating and usually pretty boring to watch. It always feels like they're compensating for a lack of imagination and/or time to set the scene up.

The other style that I don't like is when it looks more like a dance scene, where every person's movement is in sync. Fights by their nature are reactive so when it looks like they're dodging before the punch is thrown, it feels more Strictly than John Wick.

Anyway, surely nothing can top Jackie Chan, especially the ladder scene from First Strike:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrRFzwPE0d4

[FrenchCarFan]

https://youtu.be/U0z62IALjqM

Always loved the visceral nature of this kicking.