Weasel | 08 Oct 2015 7:18 a.m. PST |
Since we have a fencing topic, how about the greatest brawl ever seen on screen? My personal nominations are the long knock-down, drag-out alley fight in "They Live" or the final battle in Commando. "Let out some steam" |
Shedman | 08 Oct 2015 7:26 a.m. PST |
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Saber6 | 08 Oct 2015 7:34 a.m. PST |
those are the top 3 in my book (partial to the Quiet Man) |
davbenbak | 08 Oct 2015 7:42 a.m. PST |
The Ninth Configuration. Stacy Keach takes out a bar full of bikers. No messing around. It's pretty much one hit and they go down. |
markmors | 08 Oct 2015 7:47 a.m. PST |
"They Live" by John Carpenter. Roddy Piper and Keith David--6 minutes long!! link |
evilcartoonist | 08 Oct 2015 8:11 a.m. PST |
They Live, and all over "Put these sunglasses on, Frank." |
TNE2300 | 08 Oct 2015 8:13 a.m. PST |
'They Live' it's what happens when you are all out of bubble gum |
Saber6 | 08 Oct 2015 8:14 a.m. PST |
Yeah, but the winner in They Live doesn't get Maureen O'Hara |
etotheipi | 08 Oct 2015 8:20 a.m. PST |
1) Everything except the tigerclaw fight in …
2) Raiders of the Lost Ark bar fight (does that count)? 3) Ripley in cargo loader vs Alien 4) Raiders of the Lost Ark plane interrupted fisticuffs 5) The one where Jackie Chan beats up two dudes using a refrigerator in a junkyard … Rumble in the Bronx, maybe? |
mad monkey 1 | 08 Oct 2015 8:28 a.m. PST |
Not a fist fight till the near the end. Raid : Redemption, the first hall way brawl. YouTube link |
15th Hussar | 08 Oct 2015 8:28 a.m. PST |
The ongoing "Peter vs The Chicken" Fight on Family Guy! All others are CHEEP imitations! |
Maddaz111 | 08 Oct 2015 8:44 a.m. PST |
I do not like john wayne, but it can only be the quiet man.. |
Random Die Roll | 08 Oct 2015 9:11 a.m. PST |
1. They Live---Piper 2. Enter the Dragon----Bruce Lee 3. Hero---Jet Li 4. Drunken Master--Jackie Chan |
haywire | 08 Oct 2015 9:22 a.m. PST |
The Raid and the Raid II have destroyed action movies for me. They will never compare. |
Huscarle | 08 Oct 2015 9:24 a.m. PST |
I'm quite fond of the fistfight in "North to Alaska". How about "The Spoilers", the original 1914 version fistfight was the benchmark. "Farnum and Santschi had originally choreographed the fight with the director as Farnum was scheduled for two pictures at Paramount immediately thereafter. According to Farnum he told Santschi, "Go easy, Tom. I've got to be pretty next week." Farnum misjudged Santschi's first swing and it caught him flush in his nose, breaking it. According to Farnum's own words, "I'm ashamed to say that I thought he'd hit me hard on purpose, so I waited for an opening. Then I let him have it. After that we were both punch drunk. The people on the sidelines – those were silent pictures remember – yelled 'Stop them! They're killing one another.' He caught me over the left eye, and I spurted blood like a stuck pig. I leaped at him, and he bent double, but he straightened up. He was a big man, and I landed twelve feet away. Dear old Tom! We got to be great friends afterward. We smashed a bookcase – I found myself inside with Tom on top of me, and then it went over – it should have killed us. I've never been quite the same man since that fight. Besides the broken nose. I had two bent ribs and a crushed sinus in my cheek that gave me dizzy spells for years. At the end I got a good shoulder lock on Tom, and I bent him back and back and back until I heard him groan, 'For God's sake, Bill!' Then I had enough sense to let go. When it was over, messy and bloody as we were, Tom and I went to a Turkish bath and stayed for three days." In the 1942 remake, the Duke still got his nose broken YouTube link |
leidang | 08 Oct 2015 9:27 a.m. PST |
Although there were some weapons involved I'd throw out the hallway fight from the original Oldboy. Also the fights in the Daredevil series on Netflix are pretty good. |
miniMo | 08 Oct 2015 9:43 a.m. PST |
More on the brawl side than the fisticuffs side, A#1 to Portland: Ernest Borgnine vs. Lee Marvin Emperor of the North, 1973 YouTube link Even brawled on for more miles than the Quiet Man ^,^ |
miniMo | 08 Oct 2015 9:49 a.m. PST |
Don't forget Doing The French Mistake: Grand finale of Blazing Saddles! |
MHoxie | 08 Oct 2015 10:20 a.m. PST |
The One-Armed Boxer vs. the Master of the Flying Guillotine. Available on YouTube. Example fight: YouTube link Namaste. |
jefritrout | 08 Oct 2015 10:23 a.m. PST |
My very first thought when ready the title was the fight from "They Live". |
TNE2300 | 08 Oct 2015 10:29 a.m. PST |
Spoon vs the <spoiler alert> in 'Dog Soldiers'? |
redbanner4145 | 08 Oct 2015 10:36 a.m. PST |
Best fight on screen was from tv. HBOs Deadwood. I can't remember the characters names but the fight ended when one guys eye got gouged out and then he was drowned in a puddle.Both fighters greased up for the battle. |
The Virtual Armchair General | 08 Oct 2015 10:50 a.m. PST |
A definite contender for "Best Fist Fight" has to be the private punch-out contest between Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston in "The Big Country." Really epic, and filmed to be that way, set against an enormous Western horizon. Absolutely Top Notch! TVAG |
Dynaman8789 | 08 Oct 2015 12:20 p.m. PST |
I really don't see how anyone can like the fist fight from They Live – I put that on my list of WORST fights ever. Can't think of a best. |
John the Greater | 08 Oct 2015 12:55 p.m. PST |
The barroom brawl in Dodge City. Ann Sheridan sings "Marching Through Georgia" in a bar half full of Kansans and half full of Texans. Fisticuffs ensue. link |
Skeets | 08 Oct 2015 1:29 p.m. PST |
My vote would be for "The Quiet Man" and "McClintock". |
Raynman | 08 Oct 2015 1:35 p.m. PST |
I'm with you, Skeets! The Quiet Man and McClintock. |
iceaxe | 08 Oct 2015 2:22 p.m. PST |
Max vs. KAOS agent in the ski lodge (I think) in The Nude Bomb |
Jeigheff | 08 Oct 2015 3:34 p.m. PST |
I vote for the fist fight in the Mexican bar in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre." Humphrey Bogart's and Tin Holt's characters get sucker-punched by a crooked boss who owes them their pay, and the fight is on. Bogart and Holt have to team up on the boss to get their pay. Decades ago, I saw "Emperor of the North." I'd like to see that one again. |
Old Paul | 08 Oct 2015 4:08 p.m. PST |
Been a long time since I've seen it, but it seems like Lee Marvin and John Wayne had a pretty good tussle (or two) in "Donovan's Reef". |
doug redshirt | 08 Oct 2015 6:34 p.m. PST |
They Live is without a doubt the best. The hallway fight in "Daredevil" is a film master piece in that it was done with no cut aways and at the end you could see the toll it took on the guy. |
mandt2 | 08 Oct 2015 8:46 p.m. PST |
Robert Shaw vs. Sean Connery in that tiny stateroom, in From Russia with Love. YouTube link In Bourne Identity, the fight to the death in his apartment with the assassin was pretty brutal.
YouTube link Deadwood, Dan Dority vs. "The Captain"
YouTube link Watch for the "surprise" at the end. |
UltraOrk | 08 Oct 2015 8:55 p.m. PST |
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Martin Rapier | 09 Oct 2015 4:19 a.m. PST |
Hugh Grant vs Colin Firth in Bridget Jones Diary? |
Bushy Run Battlefield | 09 Oct 2015 8:24 a.m. PST |
I was also going to suggest the hallway scene where he rescues the kid from the Russians in Daredevil. I've never seen its like. I'd also have to vote for the fight between Tyler and Too blonde from Fight Club. |
leidang | 09 Oct 2015 8:50 a.m. PST |
Ash vs his hand in "The Evil Dead 2" |
bobspruster | 10 Oct 2015 7:03 a.m. PST |
Well I'm glad to Donovan's Reef get mentioned! Bob |
Supercilius Maximus | 10 Oct 2015 1:36 p.m. PST |
The Quiet Man. And what man wouldn't have shed his blood for Maureen in her prime? (Did anyone ever learn what she whispers to him at the end of the fillum?) |
Jericho | 19 Oct 2015 9:46 a.m. PST |
Last good fight I saw on TV which stuck with me was the second barroom fight in 'Shane'. Alan Ladd and Van Heflin slugging it out with the Ryker gang. Beautifully choreographed and filmed, with as good as no visible fake punches. At moments it looked too real, but maybe back in 1953 the stuntmen weren't so shy of taking some blows for the camera. Made me feel like I was watching that oldschool wrestling. |
Supercilius Maximus | 24 Oct 2015 1:47 p.m. PST |
She died today, aged 95. RIP. (I guess we'll never know, now……) |
Clays Russians | 31 Oct 2015 5:56 a.m. PST |
The quiet man. Over hill and dale dey went, I thank you |
Twoball Cane | 08 Nov 2015 9:32 p.m. PST |
Cannonball run 2 ! At the biker bar…..with the train blocking the road….c'mon! Maybe more funny than anything else…..dummmm dummm dahhhhh! |
Bashytubits | 09 Nov 2015 12:18 a.m. PST |
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AussieAndy | 28 Dec 2015 8:15 p.m. PST |
Dodge City saloon fight. I read somewhere that the studio spliced bits of that scene into other westerns to save money. And another vote for The Quiet Man. |