Best non-martial art fight scenes

[GlimmerMan]

1. Bond vs Blonde assassin in 'From Russia With Love'

One of the greatest, most claustrophobic, most uncompromisingly brutal fight scenes ever committed to film.

2. Coogan vs the entire bar in 'Coogan's Bluff'

Again - an awesomely brutal fight sequence with Clint Eastwood kicking seven shades of sh*t out of several guys before he is finallyand unfortunately overcome.

3. Bond vs Alec Travelyn in 'Goldeneye'

Probably my second favourite fight in a Bond movie, this is unquestionably the bloodiest and most violent fight Bond has ever endured against a more than worthy opponant who was also a trained 'double 0' agent and had the same fighting skills as Bond.

4. Jack vs Jack in 'Fight Club'

Fight Club is full of many fight scenes, none of which are distinctive except for one. Jack, Ed Norton, manages to beat himself senseless in front of his disbelieving boss. He starts with some punches to his face, smashes himself on his boss' desk, knocks out some teeth, cracks his head with a phone, and throws himself into a set of glass shelves. He manages to destroy the office and make it look like his boss beat him nearly to death. The boss' reaction is priceless, after the first couple punches he just asks in a concerned voice, "What are you doing?" Jack replies: "I'm kicking my own ass!" By the end of the self inflicted beat-down, his boss is cowering under his desk fearing for his life. Jack enjoys himself, taunting the boss by begging him to stop while smiling the entire time. Ed Norton is way too good at hurting himself.

5. John McClane vs main bad guy in Die Hard 2'

One of the best fight sequences of the Die Hard franchise in which John McClane and the main bad guy face off on the wing of a moving plane.

6. T-800 vs T-1000 in 'Terminator 2'

All of the fight scenes between these two rock, but mainly the one in the shopping mall and the final fight in the steel mill. The colliding styles of Arnie's Sherman Tank battering ram style Terminator against the more graceful T-1000 is awesome!

More later, but now it is time for Sunday dinner!

 

[MMCK2]

1. Bond vs Blonde assassin in 'From Russia With Love'

One of the greatest, most claustrophobic, most uncompromisingly brutal fight scenes ever committed to film.

2. Coogan vs the entire bar in 'Coogan's Bluff'

Again - an awesomely brutal fight sequence with Clint Eastwood kicking seven shades of sh*t out of several guys before he is finallyand unfortunately overcome.

3. Bond vs Alec Travelyn in 'Goldeneye'

Probably my second favourite fight in a Bond movie, this is unquestionably the bloodiest and most violent fight Bond has ever endured against a more than worthy opponant who was also a trained 'double 0' agent and had the same fighting skills as Bond.

4. Jack vs Jack in 'Fight Club'

Fight Club is full of many fight scenes, none of which are distinctive except for one. Jack, Ed Norton, manages to beat himself senseless in front of his disbelieving boss. He starts with some punches to his face, smashes himself on his boss' desk, knocks out some teeth, cracks his head with a phone, and throws himself into a set of glass shelves. He manages to destroy the office and make it look like his boss beat him nearly to death. The boss' reaction is priceless, after the first couple punches he just asks in a concerned voice, "What are you doing?" Jack replies: "I'm kicking my own ass!" By the end of the self inflicted beat-down, his boss is cowering under his desk fearing for his life. Jack enjoys himself, taunting the boss by begging him to stop while smiling the entire time. Ed Norton is way too good at hurting himself.

5. John McClane vs main bad guy in Die Hard 2'

One of the best fight sequences of the Die Hard franchise in which John McClane and the main bad guy face off on the wing of a moving plane.

6. T-800 vs T-1000 in 'Terminator 2'

All of the fight scenes between these two rock, but mainly the one in the shopping mall and the final fight in the steel mill. The colliding styles of Arnie's Sherman Tank battering ram style Terminator against the more graceful T-1000 is awesome!

More later, but now it is time for Sunday dinner!

Good topic Glimmerman, here are some of mine.

* Rocky vs Ivan Drago (Rocky IV)
* Charles Bronson vs Bald Guy (Hard Times)
* James Bond vs Peter Franks (Diamonds Are Forever)
* Clint Eastwood vs Fishmonger Thugs (Sudden Impact)
* Schwarzenegger vs Bennett (Commando)
* Schwarzenegger vs Subway Thugs (Total Recall)
* Mel Gibson vs Gary Busey (Lethal Weapon)
* Bruce Willis vs Karl (Die Hard)
* Roger Moore vs Julias R Harris (Live And Let Die)
* Rik Mayall vs Ade Edmondson (Guest House Paradiso)

OK the last one is a fight from a British comedy film, but for sheer slapstick madness (ie fire extinguishers, tin jugs, nutcrackers!! are used) it more than deserves a place on this list.

Peace.

MMCK2

 

[TDWoj]

You guys have way too much time on your hands....

<grin>

Actually, my all time favourite non-martial arts fight scene is from the Three Musketeers - the Richard Donner film, with Michael York, Richard Chamberlain and Oliver Reed. It's the scene in the tavern where they're fighting each other and stealing food.

There are other favourites, but I'm blanking on them at the moment.

 

[GlimmerMan]

I made an error when thinking of the Fight Club scene. Jack doesn't actually say to his boss: "I'm kicking my ass!", that was Jim Carrey in Liar Liar, in the scene where he beats the sh*t out of himself in the toilet, which is another scene worthy of an entry.

 

[GlimmerMan]

MMCK - Hahaha... that fight scene in Sudden Impact is awesome, man! I'd forgotten about that one. "Why don't you guys go and suck on some fish heads?!"

More...

Arnie vs The Predator in Predator. The most one-sided fight sequence ever?!

Kurt Russell vs main bad guy in 'Soldier'

Final fight scene between John Wayne and Victor McLaglan in The Quiet Man - highly recommended

Timothy Dalton's Bond vs Necros (the blonde assassin) hanging out of the back of a cargo plane at the end of 'The Living Daylights'

Bond vs TeeHee in Live And Let Die - not as good as the fight in From Russia With Love, but almost. "James... what are you doing?" "Just being disarming, dear"

Riddick vs the Alien in 'Pitch Black' - not a particularly long sequence, but makes it onto my list for Vin Diesel's ice cool line: "Did not know who it was fu*king with!" after he has killed it!

Clooney vs the Russian dude in the truck in 'The Peacemaker': crap film, great fight

Prince Baron vs Flash on top of the spiky tilty platform thing in 'Flash Gordon'. Actually, I'm kidding about this one.

Glimmer

 

[TDWoj]

Okay, here comes my true confessions: any fight scene where Hercules and Iolaus were kicking butt in the Hercules tv series (and yes, I liked the fights in Xena, too).

-TD, Hercules and Xena junkie

 

[Kani]

My favorite non-martial arts fight scene are the 2 fight scenes between John Wayne and Lee Marvin in the movie Donovan's Reef. I'm a big John Wayne fan!

 

[Storm]

John Wayne v Victor Mcglaglen (The Quiet Man). Hollywood paints an ridiculously fairytaled image of Ireland.
Bronson v Al Lettieri (Mr Majestyk).Al is great as the mobster."Hit them melons!"
Ripley v Alien mother (Aliens)

 

[Lotussan]

ok, let me ask a silly question regarding US2...
What I want to know is...
Was the scene where Casey is on the floor of the train mercilessly kicking the guy in the kidneys with both of his boots, part of a specific type of martial art?
In other words, is this type of kicking, a particular technique that belongs to a certain type of Martial art?
Or, is this technique just the very unique (and dare I say brutal) way Steven chose to kick the crap out of this guy?
If this scene really isn't martial arts fighting, then I have to vote for that as one of the best fight scenes...
He sure is impressive to watch...WOW, soooo masterful...
But I sure don't envy the beating he gave that guy...

 

[MMCK2]

John Wayne v Victor Mcglaglen (The Quiet Man). Hollywood paints an ridiculously fairytaled image of Ireland.
Bronson v Al Lettieri (Mr Majestyk).Al is great as the mobster."Hit them melons!"
Ripley v Alien mother (Aliens)

Mr Majestyk is a very overlooked thriller from the 1970's. Charles Bronson must have been the hardest water melon farmer known to man.

"You make sounds like your a mean little asskicker. Only I ain't convinced. You keep talking and I'm gonna take your head off!"

By the way Storm, have you ever seen another Bronson movie called "The Mechanic"? I know director Michael Winner gets a lot of critical flak from the press, but before he made the crap which he made in the 1980's his collaborations with Bronson were solid. None more so than this memorable thriller co-starring Jan-Michael Vincent (remember him?) which competently highlighted the loneliness and isolation of Bronson's hitman character. More than just the sum of its parts, it also has a great twist ending.

Other decent Bronson/Winner collaborations include "The Stone Killer" and "Death Wish".

Peace.

MMCK2

 

[TDWoj]

I saw Murphy's Law the other day. Not great, but I didn't change the channel, either, and watched it all the way through. That building the final fight was in - didn't I see a similar building in Blade Runner? It must have been a gorgeous building in its heyday. Anyway, I kept thinking as one in the action genre, it was about middling good.

 

[Storm]

MMCK, i've seen all the Bronson films mentioned and more! He made good action films before Seagal rose to prominence as we know. I have "The Mechanic" and it's a fine film. Bronson is suitably ice cold and methodical as the hitman. Vincent does well too as the cocky apprentice. I love the twist ending. Just when we thought he'd got away with it. The Mafia are portrayed as ruthless men doing business, no frills of the Goodfellas type. Good to talk movies for a change.

 

[Storm]

TDWoj, It wasn't one of his best but there you go.

 

[Serena]

Okay, I can see a lot of you guys doing after reading this. I liked a lot of the films you have listed here, but now I must confess I also enjoy "bad', campy, tongue-in-cheek movies, and so have to add to the list the barroom fight scenes in From Dusk til Dawn (hanging my head in shame now).

 

[TDWoj]

TDWoj, It wasn't one of his best but there you go.

Oh, I agree it (Murphy's Law) wasn't one of his best; but I was intrigued by the story, and if a story interests me enough that I want to see what happens at the end, I find I'm a lot more forgiving of a film's deficiencies.

 

[MMCK2]

Hi Storm & TDWoj.

I am going to go against the grain here and confess that I actually really enjoyed "Murphy's Law"(1986). I liked the way that the pyschopath who was framing Murphy for murders was actually a woman (excellently played by Carrie Snodgress) and also found that Bronson convincingly played an alchoholic, depressed, unmotivated cop who is recently divorced and is then framed for the murder of his ex-wife. Also, another thing that helped is the female trash-talking sidekick, who is cuffed to Murphy and therefore is forced to go on the run with him when he escapes from the police, the characters hate each other at first but as you can guess, find a begrudging respect for each other come the end.

Overall, it may not be regarded as one of his best films, but it is certainly the best of the bunch of films he made in the 1980's for the Cannon Film Group, especially when it is compared to the likes of "Messenger Of Death"(1988) and "Kinjite-: Forbidden Subjects"(1989).

Not bad in my opinion.

Peace.

MMCK2

 

[TDWoj]

Well, that's what I liked about Murphy's Law; the story, not that it was or wasn't one of Bronson's best. The unlikely "buddy" team of him and the girl was fun to watch and the helicopter landing on top of a marijuana farm was priceless.

 

[Storm]

Was "Kinjite" known under another name? I've never heard of that and i thought i'd seen most of his movies.

 

[Storm]

Okay, I can see a lot of you guys doing after reading this. I liked a lot of the films you have listed here, but now I must confess I also enjoy "bad', campy, tongue-in-cheek movies, and so have to add to the list the barroom fight scenes in From Dusk til Dawn (hanging my head in shame now).

No need to say that Serena. Your opinion is valued here. I liked Dusk Till Dawn Too! Tarantino is out of it!

 

[Serena]

No need to say that Serena. Your opinion is valued here. I liked Dusk Till Dawn Too! Tarantino is out of it!

Thanks, Storm, for saying that. I really was kidding. I've have come to appreciate in my very short time here that everyone here has been great, very responsive and respectful of everyone elses' views, never derogatory, even if they disagree. Besides, I knew I couldn't be the only fan of From Dusk til Dawn or that type of movie. We must all have a "lighter side", eh? And Tarantino is indeed "out of it"!