Awesome fight scenes
 

Some scenes kill you with their realism, others with their balletic grace and energy. This is the place for examples of awesome screen fights.

And the fight sequence that prompted this thread? The hallway fight from season one of Daredevil. Filmed as one continuous take, and paying homage to a scene from the movie Oldboy, this is a truly beautiful sequence. I love everything about this scene. The choroegraphy, the way the fighters are tired by it, the way the scene is lit and shot, it's just gorgeous. I also like the way they set the scene up. I highly recommend watching full screen

OK, You have to check out Brad Allen's reel.

Oh that was awesome!

Have you seen Kick Ass and Kingsmen?

Haven't seen Kick Ass (yet, it's on the ever-growing list :P) have seen Kingsman - that fight in the pub was pure gold

Excellent thread.

same choreographer

That is the first scene that came into my mind. I've not seen the original (Asian) version, only the western (Merkin) version with Josh Brolin. Awesomeness:



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Have any of you seen the Asian version of "Old Boy"? How was it?

I've seen the Asian one, but not the American. The Asian one was okay--I found the plot to be more than a little contrived, and there were at least two acts of violence that I had to look away from and still shudder thinking about. Plus the actor eats a live octopus for no real reason or character development, but I thought it was hilarious for some reason so it's not a bad memory.

Anyway, long story short I wouldn't watch it again, but the Korean revenge genre was never my thing in the first place, so YMMV.

They Live

http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/roddy...they-live.html

One of the best in my opinion ,

Large format , well just because

Thank you, I watched that movie with an, it's-gotta-get-better attitude. But it didn't. Glad for some kind of explanation.

So cool. He keeps a close guard throughout to gain reaction time and draw his opponent in close where vision is irrelevant.
I've done blindfolded fencing lessons. You actually get information and reaction through the blade faster than through visual processing.

But, but, but, his blade wasn't touching anything most of the time, he'd have to have some radar/sonar going on there. It requires a lot of dismissing of science and logic. Akazuka just came to the realization he was being bitchy because he was getting his period, shown by a trail in the snow.

Aside, I'd read that Hollywood and the fiction creators have convinced everyone that ninja's wear black and move like shadows in the night. Complete bullshit, in a culture where status was most important, and everyone above the bottom rung wore clothing/uniforms that reflected that. Ninjas were successful because they dressed as common peasants, which allowed them to get close without suspicion, strike, and fade immediately into the rabble.

There is another Zatoichi film, Zatoichi meets Yojimbo (from the earlier versions with Shintaro Katsu -the more recent series directed by Beat Takeshi are not as good; he's like a Japanese Sam Pekinpah) That has some very funny and good fight scenes.

LOL.
When fencing blind fencers fence from engagement. So yeah some magic here.

For funny, I love a good Jackie Chan drunken boxer routine.

OK, you're reading too much into it. The Zatoichi character is pure satire of the Chanbara genre of films.


When you watch it with Japanese people they are howling with laughter. (At least my friend was and she was old and Japanese so she had wisdom-just like it says on the label)

Think spiderman. There is one funny scene where Zatoichi is in some whatever-they-called-a-bar in 14th century Japan and he is annoyed by the sound of a moth flickering around a nearby lamp, he also wants to show some buffoon that although he is blind, he's not fucking around. He takes the toothpick from his mouth and flicks it across the room and it spears the moth in mid-flight pinning it to a wooden post.

It's over the top parody that even pokes fun at itself. Another scene he is trying to show off how badass he is and he throws a persimmon in the air and does this crazy slashing pirouette spastic flailing move as the persimmon falls past him, untouched. Zatoichi completes his display with a kneeling re-sheathing of his sword cane. As he hears the persimmon hit the ground he frowns because it was in one piece, when the sword hilt hits the scabbard it bumps it just enough so that the end of it taps the persimmon which then splits open in 8 perfect sections like an orange.

I watched a lot of Japanese films with my late Japanese friend and she let me in on a lot of cultural references that I'd otherwise have missed.

A classic one is when the guy throws away his scabbard before it fight it means that he doesn't intend to be around when the fight is over to re-sheath the sword.

Thanks for the insight. I've seen bits and pieces of a bunch of Oriental films over there years. Couldn't sit through a whole one because they strike me as high camp melodramas. I figured the Kung Pow series was just an animated version of the same thing. But didn't know if Asians thought these were serious drama or not.