Best shoot out/fight scene ever

[Sar]

The Burly Brawl was a shit fight tbh! Chateau was far superior.

Chateau was good, but BB was better imo.

Twas Don Davis's music that makes it spectacular - gets the blood pumping.

 

[Doomy]

Natural Born Killers - Prison escape scene
Hard Boiled - Hospital scene (especially the continous lift scene)
Kill Bill - Big fight

 

[Tom]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the gunfight near the end of Unforgiven, one of the scariest and most thought-provoking climaxes to a film I can remember.

 

[Squalion]

the bank shoot out type thingy in SwordFish was excellent, the way that hostage got blown up lol

 

[evzy]

Just to throw an unusual one in - The car park fight scene early on in Fight Club , makes me go ouch everytime..

Alternative one - The fight scene in Happy Gilmour between Happy and Bob from the Price is Right.

Opening Battle from Gladiator ? Dont think thats been mentioned?

Aliens - when the marines are pinned in that room and the scanner is bleeping and the dude is reading off the distance and realises they are in the room. Great firefight scene.

 

[nath]

Twas Don Davis's music that makes it spectacular - gets the blood pumping.

Man, we have totally inverted opinions. I can't stand the music on BB, think it's lame and they should have gotten Rob D to do it too. Agent fight and Chateu both had Rob D and it's part of what makes them spectacular.

 

[Bodhi]

Think you mean Neo Vs Agent Smith

DOH. Clearly I meant Smith and not Morpheus.


Close second is the first main battle in the Colloseum in Gladiator. You know the one where the wagon wheel chops the Roman dude's head off

 

[Stazbumpa]

Best shoot-out - When Robocop storms the drug warehouse. The greatest demonstration of "I am clearly far better than you at this" in cinema history imo.

Bodhi for teh win!!!11 Completely forgot about one of my favourite movies of all time. Thankyou for reminding me of probably the most raw and uninhibited ownage session I've watched for years.

Agree with the Aliens one mentioned. Love the way they're supposed to be IN the room, but somehow aren't. James Cameron does indeed rule when it comes to action.


Only Nibbler has agreed with my Equilibrium suggestion

 

[Stimpy]

While not technically classed as a shoot out because only one side is shooting one of my all time favourite action sequences would be where they decimate the jungle in predator, Mac emptying his gun then picking up the mini-gun and killing the jungle then one by one the rest of them joining in - brilliant :worthy:

 

[Bullitt]

For fight scenes that are impressive i'd say some of the ones in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon were like "Wtf!?"

 

[Mazling]

Burly Brawl, Super Burly Brawl, other Matrix bits, nothing interesting in the shooting department. Except for some scene (Unforgiven again?) where Chow Yun Fat rolls over a table while someone uzi's him from underneath it - he rolls and dodges the bullets, then shoots the guy underneath, all in slow-mo!
As for fights, some of Jackie Chan's 80's films deserve attention for interesting Kung Fu.

 

[old.Osy]

Best ShootOut like.. EVER: Heat. Second in line, LA Confidential.

Best Fight: Any scene with Steven Seagal will do

 

[yaruar]

Fight scenes are difficult because different fights are hard to compare.

For wire work i love the first rooftop fight in Iron Monkey between Rongguang Yu and Donnie Yen.

I also love the raw fighting in the final Bout in the first Rocky film.

My problem with films like the matrix and even kill bill is that the main protagonists in the fights aren't actually martial artists so camera trickery is used to make them look good.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Yes they use camera trickery. But the actors also go under very intense training and can do it. Suggesting that because the people perform the martial arts are not martial artists makes a fight scene less 'good' is rather silly. We're judging the fight scene, not who is performing it.

 

[yaruar]

Yes they use camera trickery. But the actors also go under very intense training and can do it. Suggesting that because the people perform the martial arts are not martial artists makes a fight scene less 'good' is rather silly. We're judging the fight scene, not who is performing it.

Its a personal thing, fighting in films can be a beautiful thing. I guess the comparison for me would be watching two different actors in two different films. If one actor is wooden and stilted then it can ruin the film for me. I still can't watch Bram Stokers dracula because of Keanu's god awful performance in it.

 

[Lazarus]

My problem with films like the matrix and even kill bill is that the main protagonists in the fights aren't actually martial artists so camera trickery is used to make them look good.

in the matrix, the main characters received approx 3 months* martial arts training by the co-ordinator of the fight scenes

* may have been longer

 

[old.Tohtori]

The fight scene between Trinity and Neo in Reloaded(in S/Zion). Mmhm. Yup. A lot of banging there.

 

[Otto]

Best Fight: Any scene with Steven Seagal will do

Please tell me you are kidding.

 

[old.Osy]

Not kidding. I mean, he is calm, and then starts spanking them silly, with precise movements and stuff... slaps em silly like a swiss watch. Very entertaining.

it goes like kia ! poof ! sbang ! sphew ! poof ! poof ! kabbaaa ! zbing !

...and then he dusts his jacket. Cool !

 

[Otto]

It goes more like: Bull! Shit! Moves! That! Would! Never! Work! In! Real! Life!

I hate him! HATE HIM SOOOO MUCH!!!!!

He stands in the middle of a room looking like a moron and then this 150 kg meatball runs against him, steven does one of his BS moves and the fat guy flys through 3 walls and lands on a car parked 300 meters away from there.

And.. he makes his own movies so he can make himself the hero.

He r teh fat lo0ser.

 

[old.Osy]

Listen Otto, if i wanted to watch fights that respect reality, id watch boxing or muai-thai. I want candy, I watch movies. That's what movies are for, you know.

 

[nath]

That's a fair point, but Steven Seagull is absolutely dire

 

[Wij]

in the matrix, the main characters received approx 3 months* martial arts training by the co-ordinator of the fight scenes

* may have been longer

I don't think Yuen Woo Ping actually trained them himself. He may have been onhand though.

 

[caLLous]

Only Nibbler has agreed with my Equilibrium suggestion

I agree as well, the gun kata scenes are amazing.

Some of the scenes in Way of the Gun are pretty damn good too and it's not really a fight, but the scene where John Cusack kills that guy at the school reunion in Grosse Pointe Blank always makes me cringe.

 

[nath]

I love that scene, it just seems so real for some reason, it's just so unglamorous (Grosse Pointe Blank scene).

 

[Jonaldo]

I quite liked the shootout at the end of Young Guns, where the house was set on fire. Emilio Estevez was a complete nutter as Billy the Kid

 

[harebear]

I just watched Dune and that had some quite cool fights in the desert I think

 

[Stazbumpa]

It goes more like: Bull! Shit! Moves! That! Would! Never! Work! In! Real! Life!

I hate him! HATE HIM SOOOO MUCH!!!!!

He stands in the middle of a room looking like a moron and then this 150 kg meatball runs against him, steven does one of his BS moves and the fat guy flys through 3 walls and lands on a car parked 300 meters away from there.

And.. he makes his own movies so he can make himself the hero.

He r teh fat lo0ser.

I'm inclined to disagree. Seagal practises Akido, and he's bloody good at it too. You'd be surprised what good Akido can do, even to fat people, and although it won't send people through walls (this is the movies ffs), the notion that they're bullshit moves that wouldn't work is entirely incorrect.

I'm not a Seagal fan, but he's good at what he does. Can't fucking act though.

By the way, Tom Cruise makes his own movies too, and he's always the hero

 

[harebear]

John Woo made MI 1/2?

 

[kanonfodda]

... and any of the gun kata sequences from Equilibrium, but particularly the one at the start

win tbh, the fight sequences were brilliant in Equilibrium