Good/great fight scenes in film/TV?

[Cotty]

durbster said:

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.

One of the longest single cut fight scene I know of. The stairs fight from The Protector with Tony Jaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqw369ZskMk

[Taylor James]

Lightweights. This takes a bit of beating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVZZSVlDXz0

[Pesty]

Yeah that guy is an athlete

I can’t even walk up a flight of stairs without being out of breath

[Teddy Lop]

Ong-bak, chocolate, transporter movies are some of my faves.

[ceesvdelst]

John Wick 3, the early part when he finds out he is targeted, that is a damn well put together fight scene.

Some of the Matrix stuff too, though heavily CGI, still cuts it today if you watch it on the type of tv you did then!

[P5BNij]

Morningside said:

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.

The first episode of The Sweeney 'Ringer' has a good fight scene at the end, part of it was real - during the first take actor Alan Lake was showing off and gave John Thaw a viscous punch which hit him very hard, stuntman Pete Brayham stepped in and gave Lake a good hiding. A second take was shot but producer Ted Childs decided to use part of the first take in the final edit, the whaling and screaming from Lake in this part where he's cowering at the back of the van was real.

Another well staged viscous seeing to occurs in the film 'Villain' during the wages blag at the plastics factory in downtown Bracknell, for the time (1970) it was pretty nasty and looks brilliant on screen...

[MYOB]

Robert DeNiro's fight outside the shop in The Irishman...

Just wow wee.

[cuprabob]

John Wayne in "The Quiet Man"

[colin_p]

Pat Butcher and Peggy Mitchell.

[Little Pete]

Love the fight scenes in the Bourne films.
Anyway thanks to PN5Bij, an afternoon on the couch watching Villain and Robbery beckons.

[nonsequitur]

'From Russia with Love', Bond and Grant on the Orient Express.

[Amirhussain]

The ending scenes of Training Day. Denzel Washington at his finest. All of his previous actions catching up to him. His cool and calm persona slowing turning into desperation.

“You disloyal fool ass bh made punk”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v...

[gregs656]

Kill Bill has some good ones. Copperhead one in the house when her daughter shows up is my favourite.

In terms of shocking, brutal fights I think the murder in American History X stands out for me.

[Amirhussain]

Forgot about this one. The cafe scene in Layer Cake. One of the most underrated films. All that rage and anger finally unleashed.

https://youtu.be/UogRQ9UOscI

[Amirhussain]

gregs656 said:

In terms of shocking, brutal fights I think the murder in American History X stands out for me.

Remember watching that for the first time, still shocks me even when I watch it now knowing what’s about to happen.

[ceesvdelst]

Agreed and forgot about Kill Bill and some other films of that ilk.

Vinnie in Lock Stock is also pretty scary!! But that was not really a fight was it.

[poing]

Kingsman church fight scene. Brutal but brilliantly filmed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1WWDBTda2Y

[marksx]

The final fight scene at the end of the revenant.

[98elise]

poing said:

Kingsman church fight scene. Brutal but brilliantly filmed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1WWDBTda2Y

Was going to post that myself, it's a fantastic scene.

[PMacanGTS]

Pineapple Express wins it hands down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DD8QRsms1s