This is yet another Tuesday Top 10 List from Atomic Popcorn and today I have brought to you all what I think are the Top 10 Fight Scenes of recent memory. Below are the movie’s along with their videos of said fight.
PLEASE leave your comments with better video or even better yet, better fight scenes. I would love to see what you all have to say as what the Top 10 should be.
Without further interruptions I bring you the Atomic Popcorn Top 10 Fight Scenes.
10. The Way of the Dragon:
Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee – come on folks you CANNOT forget this fight scene!
9. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children:
Cloud and Sephiroth – this is an great fight scene along with awesome animation.
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark:
Indiana Jones doing what he does best – do a google search and read why this scene actually came about!
7. Lethal Weapon:
Mel Gibson against the ever crazy Gary Busey – great stuff all around.
6. Rocky IV:
Rocky kicking some Russian ass – this movie can make me cry in a matter of minutes. Great all around movie and a great great fight scene. Gloves and all!
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Gorgeous ass kicking at it’s finest. What more can you want from a fight scene? Oh yeah Bamboo walking/flying!
4. The Karate Kid:
Crane Kick anyone? Enough said…
3. Snatch:
Mickey O’Neil vs. Gorgeous George – this just looks like it hurts.
2. Fight Club:
Come on you cannot leave out a movie with the word “fight” in it. And besides this is a classic scene in many ways.
1. The Matrix:
One bad actor versus many different agents? And kicking some serious agent ass..The Matrix is number 1 on my list!
No Bourne scenes? I cry foul.
Bourne definitely was possibly 11 for many of the fight scenes. I think these hold something a bit more dear to my heart is all.
Great idea though!
How about a clip from The Thai Chi Master, possibly Jet Li's finest work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHKQ4swaIcw
And with it, a clip from Drunken Master 2, possibly Jackie Chan's finest work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ctc5jmE1M
Great stuff Spencer, thanks for the links!
Good list Matt. I like the inclusion of the Snatch here, that was a fun fight, and gibson vs. busey is always welcome. The Crouching Tiger battle through the bamboo is my favorite of the ones you had here.
Nice work.
A few fights I would have included:
The lightsaber duel from Empire Strikes Back:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuK-34rLkOs]
The battle between Ripley and the Queen in Aliens:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqzHdKqZAmo]
Kong vs. the V-rex:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u5smmvRRhw]
and for the purists:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYWSOzFMZjg&feature=related]
the swordfight from The Adventures of Robin Hood:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L10fR31jC1w]
Bruce Campbell vs. his hand in Evil Dead II:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzXk3nfEdMY]
Roddy Piper vs. Kieth David in They Live:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZpdUUdd3I]
Good list Matt. I like the inclusion of the Snatch here, that was a fun fight, and gibson vs. busey is always welcome. The Crouching Tiger battle through the bamboo is my favorite of the ones you had here.
Nice work.
A few fights I would have included:
The lightsaber duel from Empire Strikes Back:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuK-34rLkOs]
The battle between Ripley and the Queen in Aliens:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqzHdKqZAmo]
Kong vs. the V-rex:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u5smmvRRhw]
and for the purists:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYWSOzFMZjg&feature=related]
the swordfight from The Adventures of Robin Hood:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L10fR31jC1w]
Bruce Campbell vs. his hand in Evil Dead II:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzXk3nfEdMY]
Roddy Piper vs. Kieth David in They Live:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZpdUUdd3I]
Definitely agree with some of those, just not in my top 10 is all!
I have to add a few more that should have been on the list:
Jet Li in “The Black Mask”
Christian Bale in “Equilibrium”
Jean Claude Van Damme in “Kick Boxer”
James Caan in “The Godfather”
Lets redue the list !!!! lol
I don't know how far back you're going, but one of the best (if not THE best) fight scenes in film was the train fight between Sean Connery and Robert Shaw in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. Five minutes of pure violent life-and-death scrapping finished off with a garotte. Good stuff, M8!
I guess the point is that a fight scene is made up of different elements. Are we talking hand-to-hand/martial arts, weapons, or a combination of both? For me, I have to say that one fight sequence I could watch over and over would be from the Chuck Norris classic, “Lone Wolf McQuade” from 1983, the end fight between Karate champ Norris and Kung-Fu champ David Carradine.
If you're going to include weapons then one that was previously mentioned was Chris Bale in “Equilibrium” and the sword/gun-fu fight is up there.
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Good list, but for me the best fight scene is the roof top fight in Jackie Chan’s Who Am I? The choreography is fast and furious, the martial arts display superb and just enough comedy to make take the scene from simply explosive to explosively entertaining.