Best Fight Scene In A Movie/Show?

After watching the season 4 finale of Boardwalk Empire I have to say the fight scene with Eli and Knox is easily among the best ever. It got me thinking of other great fight scenes in TV shows and movies like Good Will Hunting, Training Day, Fight Club obviously, Breaking Bad, Brdwlk Empire and plenty others. I wanted to know what are some of your favorite and/or most memorable fight scenes you've seen on TV or in movies over the years

Click here to watch Eli and Knox go blow for blow

Rocky v The Russian in Rocky IV.

Two of my favorites:

Robert Shaw fighting Sean Connery on a train in "From Russia With Love".

Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin fighting on a train in "Emperor of the North".

Seems trains and good fights go together.

Very realistic fight choreography. I was rooting for Eli.

Excellent one!

The bareknuckle fights in "Hard Times" (Charles Bronson) get my vote.

Just about most of the fight scenes from The Raid, hand down for now.

My clear winner:

John Wayne and Victor McGlaglen in The Quiet Man.

Good choice Klyd.

And like any good brawl it ends with the combatants staggering home drunk, and singing arm-in-arm.

James Gandolfini in True Romance!

Inglorious Basterds baseball bat beating.

Not sure if it's the best, but it's one of my favorites.

Ray, look at me.

yes Pizza boy, The Get Shorty scene was good one. Another classic was Casino's ending of the killing of Joe Pesci and the Untouchables bat beating scene. Would post but don't know how!

The ending of Casino is hardly a fight, more of a gruesome beating with a baseball bat..haha

Sonny beating Carlo in The Godfather
The Apollo vs. Rocky fight in Rocky, especially when they cut Rocky's eyelids.
Pretty much every fight scene in Raging Bull, including when Jake goes after his brother.

Uma Thurman and Darryl Hannah in Kill Bill. Anybody can do a Hollywood punch scene, but sticking someones face into the vilest toil;et bowls and plucking someone's eye out from their skull is talent.

Eli beating Knox to death was such a great one.

The Brad Pitt and Jim Gandolfini movie that came out last year, KILLING THEM SOFTLY has a scene where Ray Liotta gets a pretty awesome beating.

How about the girlscout fight in Airplane!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9BSLm53Qnc

Definitely the most entertaining fight.

Heres one of my favorites from pineapple express-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LbjX5b_M-B4

Another girl fight in Muriel's Wedding. It doesn't start until about 2 minutes in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U4kDzwZAMk

Danny Glover vs Predator last fight scene

Probably not in the major movie category but...

Every time I hear "fight scenes" I have to think of the movie, "They Liver" with Roddy Piper(sp), an ex wrestler I think.) Don't know if it's the best but one of the longest fight scenes. Seemed like it went on forever. I actually like that movie tho. It was more a fun type flick.




TIS

I remember it TIS. As I recall, they were fighting over the last piece.

Baseball Furies fight in The Warriors and the bathroom fight in that also

Good choice NE, Especially the fight with the furies..

That was one of the most brutal fight scenes ever filmed, Yogi. Unfortunately, the movie pretty much sucked. And I had high hopes for it because it was based on George V. Higgins's "Cogan's Trade," which is a classic in post-modern crime fiction.

I think the problem was that they should have left it a period pice and set it in the '70s. When I read Higgins today he brings back that decade so vividly that I can practically smell the polyester .

Check out the book, Yogi. I'd never steer you wrong with a book recommendation; you know that .

PB, I have just read one of his, the Mandeville Talent. I have also read the Friends of Eddie Coyle, Great stuff!!

oh and yes, the movie sucked a big one, I agree!!

James Gandolfini was in two good fight scenes in the Sopranos:
1. Fight with Ralphie in the kitchen
2. Fight with Bobby Bacala in the cabin

Another scene with James Gandolfini which in my opinion, supersedes any of them is the beating he threw to Patricia Arquette in the movie True Romance...which is the scene in which David Chase made his decision to cast Gandolfini as Tony Soprano. Also, the scene where he beat the shit out of Coco at his restaurant in Little Italy when he made him bite down on the fireplace.

The final episode of the most recent season (4) of Boardwalk Empire, where Eli beat to death the FBI agent.

Here's my favorite fight scene, which also takes place on a train.

Oh yea!! I remember in particular the fight scene with Ralphie in the kitchen. LOL The Sopranos thread which was always hopping on Sundays, was on fire that night. What a shocker that was. I miss those Sunday nights.

TIS

John Wayne in The Quiet man where he kicked some guys but all through town.

Just remembered the fight scene from Mean Streets in the pool hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIEhGve8MWI

Ya. That's great.

The rumble in The Outsiders I always liked.

Cheesiest scene of the whole movie I thought.

"What's a mook?"

I'm just about to begin Boardwalk Empire Season Four so thanks very much to the douchebag who actually revealed the outcome of that Eli-Knox contest!

I echo MaryCas re Tony-Bobby in The Sopranos. Jesse-Walt in Breaking Bad matches it for showing how utterly exhausting and clumsy fights tend to be.

The rain-drenched finale of Paradise Alley.

Classic!

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the biker scene in the bar from "A Bronx Tale". I always thought the choice of music during the scene was especially ironic.

"Now youse can't leave."

Classic!

Off topic: Why can't we embed Youtube videos anymore?

Good question. Dunno. Geoff will have to investigate.

A few of my favourites. The hallway fight scene from Oldboy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IspheJGJiYI

This scene from Ip Man even though it's incredibly cheesy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXOiqHOdLjs

Pretty much any fight scene from Hero. The cinematography in this scene in particular is amazing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGq6FXcpxtY

I also found this hilarious - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnESWtnURrQ

Good point about not being able to embed videos anymore, i don't think it's that much of a problem but i think people are more likely to watch it if it's embedded.

Google has upgraded youtube to always use https. But embed code is set up for http. Until the powers that be upgrade board to follow you can still embed video just by dropping the "s".

Lilo,

I love that fight scene. I was gonna post it but figured I'd be the only one who likes it. As over the top, far fetched as it was, I still loved it.



TIS

Cool. Thanks, Lilo.

That was a FIGHT, wasn't it TIS I love 80s sci-fi/horror movies.


No problem!

Lilo i edited and dropped the s in the videos i posted but it's still not embedding. Do you think i would need to repost them? Or have i completely misunderstood you, and the s is notthe one after the http? Thanks in advance.

It's working for me Camarel. When you use the video tags and use "http://www.youtube.com/...." between the tags it should work for you as well.

[video:youtube] enter your youtube video link here using http instead of https [/video]

Sonny and Carlo in The Godfather.

Thanks Lilo i think i just needed to repost it

Oldboy-



Ip Man-

Observe and Report-

[video:youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnESWtnURrQ [/video]

It's not the best, but it might be the funniest

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZRriEcU-Fc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

ha ha... he looks like the AB construction crew guys in southern cali when they noticed one of their "kinda fat, but still hot" sister's sitting with a bunch of ASIAN co-workers at the local pastrami joint... they couldn't BELIEVE her audacity... stfh's...

u asked for it u got it

Funny

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUcODGfvD9Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Excuse the N words. They forgot you don't supposed to say that

If you notice a lot of the time who ever gets the first punch wins.

This is how I thought my kids to fight. Anyone your not sure of gets into your space hit him, and down stop to they are on the floor. Then get the hell out of there.

Your space is when you extend your arms out in front of you. They get into that space don't hesitate don't think about it just hit them go for the eyes, throaty and balls.

My communist daughter in Germany thinks I am an animal. But one time she had to use it there and kicked the guys arse. At least that is what she told me.

Any of you guys ever play shot for shot? We did not do it in the arm. We did it in the face.

There was a guy named Ralphie Lanza you may have heard of him or his older brother. Any we were going to do it. I say I go first. That dummy let me go first. Amazingly, he stood there and let me rap him. More amazingly I didn't knock him out with my first punch. It was supposed to be his turn next. But I hit him again then I knocked him out

Suddenly I'm beginning to understand...