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HuangKaiVun
04-15-2001, 03:33 PM
Who cares about the PLOT?

If a movie doesn't have good fight scenes, it's not worth watching.


The entire "Mystery of Chess Boxing" movie was a wonderful slam fest, but the last combat sequence (Ghost Face Killer vs. Chess King and Ah Fu) is KILLER!

Like "Chess Boxing", "The Buddhist Fist" is awesome from beginning to end and has an incredible final fight scene.

"Dirty Ho" is Gordon Liu at his best, as is "Master Killer".

Budokan
04-16-2001, 06:40 AM
'Last of the Mohicans' had some of the best and more importantly, believable, fight scenes of most movies I've seen. Really well done.

I tend to categorize fight scenes that don't dwell on any fantasy aspect as better than those that do, but that's simply my personal taste.

K. Mark Hoover

Jimbo
04-16-2001, 08:44 PM
My favorite movie fight scenes include:

In the movie The Kid From Kwangtung (Shaw Brothers, 1982), the final fight scene where villain Hwang Jang-Lee fights Wang Yue, Yang Pan-Pan, and Chiang Chin (a pudgy kung fu actor).

Fu Sheng vs. Liang Jia-Ren in Shaolin Martial Arts.

Liang Jia-Ren vs. Chang Yi in The Victim.

Lau Ka-Leung (Liu Chia-Liang) vs. Eddie Maher in New Kids in Town.

Jackie Chan vs. Benny Urquidez in Meals on Wheels.

Jackie Chan vs. Ken Lo in Drunken Master II.

Ren Shi-Guan vs. Meng Yuan-Wen, Ching Siu-Tung, and Casanova Wong in The Master Strikes.

John Liu's final fight in Struggle Through Death.

Lau Ka-Leung vs. Wang Lung-Wei in My Young Auntie and also in The Lady is the Boss.

Meng Hai and Meng Yuan-Wen vs. Hwang Jang Lee in Hell'z Windstaff.

Gordon Liu and Wang Yue vs. Chiang Tao in He Has Nothing But Kung Fu.

Jim

HuangKaiVun
04-17-2001, 10:42 AM
Shaolin Drunk Monkey: opening scene with the two white-hair guys.

Shaolin Temple Strikes Back: after eating through hordes of Shaolin defenders, General Wong Yi gets easily beaten by an "old" Shaolin master.

The Karate Kid Part III: Miyagi toasts Kreese and his sidekick in an incredible display of traditional Okinawan karate.

Star Wars Episode 1: Darth Maul

Ky-Fi
04-17-2001, 06:53 PM
* #1 probably when Fei defends his fishing village from the evil troops and the 2 master swordsmen in "Moon Warriors". I think it's just the best of old-school and new-wave together.

* Gordon Liu's friendly weapons sparring with the senior monk in order to earn promotion, and he ends up inventing the 3-sectional staff.

* Jackie Chan Vs. Lau Kar Leung, spear vs. dao in Drunken Master II.

* Jet Li's fight in the rain vs Iron Vest Yim in OUATIC 1--great music and it was filmed so cool.

* The sword fight out in the open field in Last Hurrah for Chivalry.

* The pre-credit sequence at the beginning of Shaolin and Wutang, with the Wutang swordsman taking on the Shaolin monks.

* Michelle Yeoh and the other girl in the training courtyard in Crouching Tiger.

(Obviously I prefer weapon fights)

Son_Goku
04-17-2001, 07:28 PM
Darth Maul vs. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn....a truly awsome fight scene! And all the fight scenes from "Crouching Tiger...", those were way too good! ;)

Fear.....Fear attracts the fearful.....The strong....the weak....the innocent....
Fear is my ally

RENEGADE_MONK
04-18-2001, 10:14 PM
All the fight scenes between Brigitte Lin, and Sandra Ng in Fiery Dragon Kid. a classic fight scene in Wheels on Meals between Jackie Chan and Benny the Jet Urquidez. also the last fight scene in 8 Diagram Pole Fighter between Gordon Lui and the Manchu's

Jimbo
04-21-2001, 09:15 PM
Other top movie fights include:

Samo Hung vs. Lau Kar-Leung in Pedicab Driver.
Samo Hung vs. Billy Chow (Pedicab Driver).
Final battle scene in Eastern Condors.
Jackie Chan vs. Hwang In-Sik (Young Master).
Jackie Chan vs. Ren Shi-Guan (Fearless Hyena).
Samo Hung and Casanova Wong vs. Feng Ke-An in(Warriors Two).
Meng Hai vs. Hwang Jang-Lee in Buddha Assassinator.
Jet Li vs. Billy Chow in Fist of Legend.
Moon Lee vs. Ohshima Yukari in Midnight Angels.
Liang Jia-Ren vs. Kurata Yasuaki in Legend of a Fighter.

Jim

HuangKaiVun
04-22-2001, 07:17 AM
Bloodsport: Chong Lee (Bolo Young) wastes that early opponent with a quick submission hold.

The Octagon: Chuck Norris fights that superskilled ninja in the compound.

Conan the Barbarian: Conan (Schwarzenegger) battles Forgrim (hammer) and Rexor (double axe) in Thulsa Doom's orgy chamber

anything with Toshiro Mifune.

cho
04-22-2001, 11:35 PM
Jackie Chan vs. Benny Urquidez in Dragons Forever - good build up
Jackie Chan vs. Sammo Hung vs. Yuen Biao in Dragons Forever - funny, good choreography
final fight in Project A
final fight in OUATIC: Wong Fei Hung vs. that Iron Shirt guy - good fight, had some good music

...quick ones that came to mind

Martial Joe
04-25-2001, 05:14 AM
Whatch the last fight scene in Jet Li's FIST OF LEGEND...It is so great.And all the other scenes are greta also

edziak
04-25-2001, 09:13 AM
I loved that movie. The fight scenes were so emotional. It was just epic, I cared about the charachters. The setting and the music and the overall conditions leading up to the fight were what made it so good. Its realy the story that makes a good fight scene. A star can do anything in a scene but its all acrobatics untill you give him a pourpose. It can be funny or it can be heroic, but it has to have some sort of motivation to go along with it. Even the slapstick of Jackie Chan is at its best when it is involved in the story. Like the scene in Drunken Master II when his mother gets him into trouble by encouraging him to fight and get drunk.

I'm a sucker for tragic scenes or ones with a sense of biterweetness. Like the entire second half of Crouching Tiger, or even the final little fight in Last of the Mohicans.

NyHc
04-25-2001, 09:35 PM
HKV...I totally agree with the Conan fight scene!
We also have...
* The end sequence in Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms.
* The Freddie Wong/Thunderfoot fight scene at the end of Drunken Master. His aunt in that movie also is amazing.
* The scene at Yellow Hill in Crouching Tiger.
* Sun Te w/ 3 sect staff vs. the monk with the butterfly swords in Master Killer.
* The fight between Donnie Yen, the eagle claw witch and the scarred up monk in Iron Monkey.
* End, AND beginning of Fist of Legend

-....many more

HuangKaiVun
04-25-2001, 11:19 PM
Kato/Green Hornet vs. Batman/Robin: the Caped Crusaders get their asses handed to them.

Robin Hood (Costner): fighting little John with quarterstaves

Karate Kid: Darryl Vidal was awesome, though he got convincingly beat up by "Johnny"

Fist of the North Star (anime): THAT'S kung fu!

Jimbo
04-26-2001, 01:19 AM
Yuen Biao vs. Frankie Chan in The Prodigal Son.

Yuen Biao and Samo Hung team up against Lau Kar-Wing in Knockabout.

Yuen Biao vs. Yuen Sum-Yi at the end of Dreadnaught.

Donnie Yen vs. Yuen Sum-Yi in Drunken Tai Chi.

Liang Jia-Ren going insane at the end of Thundering Mantis.

Billy Chong destroying the three villains in Super Power.

The final fight scene in Five Superfighters (a Shaw Brothers film).

Now for some non-Chinese fight scenes I liked.

Ray Liotta using a gun to smash in an @$'s face in Goodfellas.

Joe Peche's character and his brother getting what they deserve at the end of Casino.

Boxing scenes in Raging Bull.

Steven Seagal finishing Screwface in Marked for Death.

Sonny Chiba's brutality in the original Streetfighter movie (1974). In this film, Chiba is so intense it's funny (but a bit disturbing, too, the first time you watch it).
Jim

jackiech
05-03-2001, 01:31 PM
I think that the best fight scene is Jackie Chan Vs Brad Allan in Gorgeous

cho
05-04-2001, 05:07 AM
I thought that was especially well done. The two weren't trying to kill each other, but just to make each other give up first.
The rhythm and choreography was nice.

Wyvern_Beta
05-06-2001, 04:54 AM
Matrix: Neo (Keanu Reeves) vs. Agent Smith
Neo vs. Morpheus

Final Fantasy 8 introduction movie:

Squall vs. Seifer with Gunblades (I know it was only computer generated)

Invincible Armor: The last fight in the movie

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:

Where the two women fight in the weapon hall (I don't remember their names, but if you have seen the movie, it is in the room where one of the women used every weapon in the room against the woman armed with the Green Destiny)

HuangKaiVun
05-08-2001, 03:20 PM
At the beginning of that Bruce Lee dramatization featuring Ho Chung Tao, Yip Chun plays his father.

They practice using traditional chi sao.


In "Tiger Claws", Bolo Yeung defeats his sifu in a contest of seated pushing hands - truly a terrifying demonstration of kung fu.

jackiech
05-08-2001, 06:28 PM
Jackie Chan Vs. Brad Allan in Gorgeous
Jackie Chan Vs. Hwang In-Sik in young master
Jackie Chan vs. Ken Lo in Drunken Master II
Neo vs. Morpheus in Matrix
Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris in fist of fury
Final fight of OUATIC

HitWah
05-11-2001, 11:53 PM
Iron Monkey - Wong Kay Ying(DonnieYen) vs. the 4 Shaolin Monks. Also, the WongKY vs. IronM roof top fight.

Roadhouse - While not a traditional KF flick it has some great fight scenes.

Phantom Menace - Darth Maul vs. Obi Wan & Quai Gon

Jimbo
05-14-2001, 03:15 AM
Death-Duel of Kung-Fu has several cool fight scenes involving John Liu, Wang Tao, Han Ying, and the "elite guards." (An unintentionally funny thing in this movie is that several times the fighters face each other in on guard positions from 30 feet away!).

Operation Scorpio: Liu Chia-Liang (Lau Ka-Leung) fights the "Scorpion" stylist, using his "no-shadow kick" against the Scorpion guy's (Taekwondo) kicks.

Tang Wei vs. Ren Shi-Guan at the end of The Killer Wears White. This is a particularly brutal fight, with Tang Wei in handcuffs half the time.
Jim

jethro
02-16-2006, 10:34 PM
Young master-last fight, bench fight, pipe fight, sword fight against the 9 tough cops, escaped whan-in sik, hell watch-em all.

Drunken Master-pre final fight, same with snake in eagles shadow

Iron monkey-iron monkey vs. Donnie Yen, kid naming his techniques

Any from Shoalin vs. Lama

Chinese Boxer-surgical mask scene

7 grandmasters- one of the longs against corey yuen(weapons fig

Ong-Bak-jaa vs. Maddog-Oh god its mad dog

Fist of legend-jet li against the whole school, and every other fight scene

The sword-best sword fight ever(or maybe just my fav)

wheels on meals- uh yeah that one

Once upon- Li and kwan pre final fight, and final fight(laddr fight)

jethro
02-20-2006, 02:59 PM
the best fight scene ever is gordon liu vs. johnny wang from return to the 36th chamber.
1st half with liu against everyone with the sweet tea benches would be the part I would consider the best, then Wang and Liu is great also.

yutyeesam
02-20-2006, 03:20 PM
--Chen Sing vs. gorillas wearing kung-fu shoes in Bruce Li The Invincible pwn3d!!
--Carter Wong in Born Invincible whenever he draws the 8 trigrams symbol with his foot around his opponents.
--Lo Lieh when battling Bruce Li in Chinese Connection II.
--Leung Kar Yan vs. Yasuaki Kurata in Legend of a Fighter
--Samo Hung vs. Fung Hark On in Magnificent Butcher
--Kwan Tak Hing vs. Fung Hark On in Dreadnaught.
--Phillip Ko vs. anyone

SimonM
02-21-2006, 03:44 AM
End Fight: Fist of Legend
Jet vs. Donnie in Hero
The raised platform Lei Tai fight between Jet and the Hung Gar guy in Fearless
The tea house sabre fight in Fearless
Basically every fight in Tai Chi Master / Twin Warriors

End Fight: House of Flying Daggers

The Magnificent Butcher fight mentioned earlier
The Machette fight in Dragon Squad

The baton vs knife fight in SPL

Anything where Bolo is the bad guy... Especially when he fights Jalal Merhi - oh the camp! Oh the low budgets!

puma
03-09-2006, 01:06 AM
Here's what comes to mind so far

The Hot The Cool and The Vicious...the final fight scene-Wong Tao,Tan Tao Liang v.s. Tommy Lee

Kid With a Golden Arm...the fight scene when Chiang Shiang(Little Axe) and
Lu Feng(Silver Spear) end up killing each other

Kid With a Golden Arm...Lo Mang v.s. Wei Pai ...Lo Mang talks sh*t to Wei Pai
after he disarms him

Fist of the White Lotus...the begining fight scene

The Victim...Chang Yi v.s. Leung Kar Yan

Baby Cart at The River Styx...Ogami Itto's final battle with the Gods of Death

The Image of Bruce Lee....Bruce Li v.s. Chang Wu Lang and two of his thugs

Executioner From Shaolin...Liu Chia-Hui fight to the death with the mancu troops
and Chan Kuan-Tai final battle with Bei Mei

Death Dual of Kung Fu...Wong Tao,John Liu v.s. Han Ying

That's all that come to mind for now...some of you guys
mention Pedicab Driver..was it really a good movie...if so
I'm gonna stop passing it up and buy it

jethro
03-28-2006, 10:08 PM
Death-Duel of Kung-Fu has several cool fight scenes involving John Liu, Wang Tao, Han Ying, and the "elite guards." (An unintentionally funny thing in this movie is that several times the fighters face each other in on guard positions from 30 feet away!).

Operation Scorpio: Liu Chia-Liang (Lau Ka-Leung) fights the "Scorpion" stylist, using his "no-shadow kick" against the Scorpion guy's (Taekwondo) kicks.

Tang Wei vs. Ren Shi-Guan at the end of The Killer Wears White. This is a particularly brutal fight, with Tang Wei in handcuffs half the time.
Jim


Who the hell are you jimbo, post again man, nobody else cares, but you have answered a question I posed a long time ago, has anybody else seen shadow ninja? But now I can post if anyone has seen killer wears white because your 3rd scene there is EASILY one of the greatest fight ever, let's just say that they are not not trying to hit eachother. It will seriously leave you breathless.

And I will certainly buy Operation scorpio based off of your opinion.

THANK YOU:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Jimbo
03-29-2006, 11:17 PM
jethro:

Let's just say that back in the '80s I had a lot of time and opportunity to watch a LOT of old-school KF films. (certainly a lot of which probably nobody but a hard-core fanatic would know or care about).
:)
Recently saw for 1st time Showdown at the Cotton Mill starring Chi Kuan-Chun and Tan Tao-liang as the villain. I must say, the final fight between these two is the best southern hands vs. northern kicks fight scene I've ever seen filmed, IMO. Tan Tao-liang is of course the awesome superkicker, like John Liu (he taught Liu TKD). Tan usually played a hero, but seems more at home playing a bad guy, like in this film and in The Blooded Treasury Fight; he has much more of an edge to his persona as a villain.
Oddly enough, I had forgotten about this thread...it's been years, I've only logged back on here recently.

metsubushi
03-30-2006, 09:41 AM
Right now I'm really into Hwang Jang Lee Vs Jackie Chan in the original Drunken Master.

Shaolinlueb
03-30-2006, 10:21 AM
Jet Li vs the karate Master in Fists of legend where they are in the field. infact all the fight scenes in that movie were awesome.

Judge Pen
03-30-2006, 12:15 PM
Some of my favorites:

Bond vs. Red Grant in "From Russia with Love"

Jet Li vs. Donnie Yen in Once Upon a Time in China 2.

The Bourne Identity fight (with the bic pen)

Uma v Lucy in Kill Bill 1

Ong Bak The whole movie rocked with fight scenes

Darth Vader vs. Luke in Empire Strikes Back (sentimental favorite for me)

I loved Michelle Yeoh vs. Ziyi Zhang in CTHD (when they weren't hooked up to wires)

I just got Fist of Legend, so I'm really looking forward to checking out those fights

jethro
03-30-2006, 02:26 PM
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I just got Fist of Legend, so I'm really looking forward to checking out those fights[/QUOTE]

You will not be dissapointed, does anyone have the chinese version of this? I imagine it is longer like the 2 jet collection movies I have chines version of, the miramax(I think) really does a good job at trying to ruin the movie, but at least it is like 100 minutes long.:)

Judge Pen
03-30-2006, 02:32 PM
I forgot to mention another great fight scene:

Jim Braddock vs. Art Lasky in Cinderella Man.