Martial Arts Films

Best Fights

Pretty self explanatory, but what are your favorite fight scenes.  The one that's currently occupying my attention is the capoeira fight scene in The Protector. The movie is pretty stupid, plot-wise, but the action is amazing. Every fight scene deserves to be on my list of best fights, but the capoeira one takes the cake. It's a beautiful, beautiful martial art, and I've always wanted to see it in action. And this film doesn't disappoint.

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TheWorkingDead:

Pretty self explanatory, but what are your favorite fight scenes.  The one that's currently occupying my attention is the capoeira fight scene in The Protector. The movie is pretty stupid, plot-wise, but the action is amazing. Every fight scene deserves to be on my list of best fights, but the capoeira one takes the cake. It's a beautiful, beautiful martial art, and I've always wanted to see it in action. And this film doesn't disappoint.

Oh yeah I love that fight sequence.

I would have to say the whole sequence in Ong-bak where Tony Jaa takes on each of the fighters in that club is still my favorite fight sequence by him.

I really hope he brings out some more martial arts films. I realize that his style is not standard muy thai, but it is a lot of fun to watch.

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rjsprague:

Oh yeah I love that fight sequence.

I would have to say the whole sequence in Ong-bak where Tony Jaa takes on each of the fighters in that club is still my favorite fight sequence by him.

I really hope he brings out some more martial arts films. I realize that his style is not standard muy thai, but it is a lot of fun to watch.

I just got an import of Chocolate, the new movie by some of the people behind Tony Jaa's films. She's apparently the 'female Tony Jaa', and they found her while casting for Born to Fight. I watched the trailer, and it looks REALLY damn silly. But the fighting looks kick-ass. I'll report back here with updates.

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Very cool. I really would like to see more female martial artists become well known like Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi.

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I love a good bar fight. The best one ever is in Tokyo Drifter.  It's cool, funny, brutal, and strange, and any other adjective you could think of.

The Ninth Configuration has a pretty crazy one too!

And Top Secret! has a great underwater saloon brawl.

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   1.)   Bruce Lee and John Saxon vs. Hahn's 'army' at the end of  Enter The Dragon ...   the fight that begins as soon as John Saxon 'kills' Bolo Yueng...

   2.)   Bruce Lee vs. 20 or so karate students AND their teacher in  The Chinese Connection .

   3.)   Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris in  Return Of The Dragon .

   4.)   Bruce Lee vs. the big Russian Guy in  The Chinese Connection .

   5.)   Bruce Lee vs. the boss's son and his gang of thugs in the ice-house at night in  Fists of Fury  .

   6.)   Chuck Norris vs. the sherrifs deputy in the bull corral in  Breaker! Breaker! .

   7.)   Bruce Lee vs. Kareem Abdul Jabbar in  Game Of Death .

   8.)   Bruce Lee vs. the 'escrima stick guy' (Danny Inosanto) in  Game Of Death .

   9.)   The 'bar fight' in  Kill and Kill Again .

   10.)   The 'rest-room fight' in  The Warriors .