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Choose one or two for each so others can post scenes not yet mentioned.

I will steal the most obvious...

Best Battle Scenes: Saving Private Ryan (Omaha Beach Landing)
Return of the King (battle for Minas Tirith)

Best Fight Scenes: Star Wars Ep. 2 (Yoda vs. Count Dooku)
Legend of the Drunken Master (Axe gang scene)

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BBS: King Arthur (Final Battle v. Saxons)
Braveheart (Battle of Sterling)

BFS: Fight Club (Ed Norton fights himself in Parking Garage)
The Incredible Hulk (Hulk v. Abomination aka "HULK SMASH!")

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Gotta add one more. sorry.

BFS: Sin City (Dwight v. Irish Mercs)

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Best battle/fight scene?
Either...

• The last fight scenes in the John Wayne Alamo movie.
• Fight scenes in the movie Zulu, with Michael Caine.

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http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDRev...mes/battle.jpg
Chimes at Midnight
1966 - Orson Welles

Welles' frenzied, muddy, chaotic rendition of the Battle of Shrewsbury is like a ten-minute film school on how to make a perfect battle scene. That he accomplished this with a relatively small budget and crew highlights his filmmaking genius even more brightly. Mel Gibson and company clearly cribbed more than a couple shots and plenty of technique for Braveheart. I like Orson's much better.


And while it hasn't been replied to since '04, there's a long thread about best fight scenes HERE.

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Although many people malign this film, I like handling of the battle scene in The Thin Red Line in which they storm the hill. The swooping camera and unique sound engineering always pull me right in...

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I'm going to stand up for the cheesy cult classics here...


BEST BATTLE SCENE: The castle siege from Army of Darkness. Watch this and the Helm's Deep siege from The Two Towers back to back and see where Jackson drew a heavy chunk of inspiration. Exploding arrows blowing evil skeletons to dust, bombs being catapulted into enemy ranks, even Ash piloting a bizarre "death-mobile" with helicopter rotors slicing up whatever's in his path. It's a bizarre cluster-f*** of a battle scene that mixes lovably bad puppets, loads of explosions, a good handful of sword-fighting and all manner of bizarre Evil Dead-style bits of humour.


BEST FIGHT SCENE: "Put on the glasses!" Rowdy Roddy Piper does what he does best in John Carpenter's infamous anti-consumerism B-movie when he tries to convince Keith David's take-no-crap worker Frank to wear the glasses that expose the truth about our world. What was originally supposed to be a twenty-second sequence in the script ballooned out to a six-minute long alleyway brawl between Piper and David (at the insistence of both). The lack of music and the fact that a large number of the hits were real (excluding hits to the face or groin) make it easy to believe that this is a genuine brawl in a movie about a world where almost nothing is genuine anymore.

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Okay, Zulu is a good pick, but I'm always amazed when someone cites John Wayne's The Alamo for any accomplishment. Hollywood has never made a good, truthful film about the battle of the Alamo, and IMHO the John Wayne version is probably the worst. If Crockett, Bowie, and Travis had been as pompus and hammy as portrayed in that film, they couldn't have led men to a dog fight. But that's just my opinion. :)

The only movie with an Alamo setting that I've really enjoyed was Viva, Max!

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OK, the best battle scenes :

The air combat in 12 O'Clock High. Those are actual films of the air war in World War II.

The confused attacks, retreats, and counter-attacks in The Red Badge of Courage, which I still think is the most realistic war movie Hollywood ever made.

The two German fighters making a useless straffing run on the troops swarming the Normandy beaches in The Longest Day.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in From Here to Eternity, especially the scene where the Japanese fighter makes a straffing run at the men on the parade ground at Schofield Barracks.

The assault on the farm house at the end of A Walk in the Sun.

The down-and-dirty fighting in Attack! when Jack Palance gets his armed pinned under a German tank.

The confused battle among the trees and snow in Battleground. The assault scenes in Battle Cry!

The realistic knife fight in Saving Pvt. Ryan, which is the only thing that impressed me in that whole film.

Plus:
The air battles in Hell’s Angels (1930)

The hand-to-hand bayonet battle in Hell to Eternity (1960).

The mortar attack on the company headquarters and the subsequent nighttime Japanese attack on a mountain outpost that only 2 men survive in Between Heaven and Hell (1956)

The hopeless attacks against enemy trenches in Paths of Glory and Gallipoli.

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And I'll stand up for cheesy martial arts movies, still love all Kill Bill's and the Drunken Master was pretty cool to watch, I can't believe it's an actual style!

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Ditto -- I love The Thin Red Line.

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...n_soldiers.jpg
300 is a awsome film and the battles are great.

http://hugereviews.com/Presents/Matrix/matrix6.jpg
This fight sceane is amazing

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Any scence in Shoot Em Up or Crank. I only saw the end scenes Equlibrium but they were awesome.

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Not sure about favourite battle scene but I love the one in Kill Bill 1, no matter how unrealistic it is!

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"Band of brothers" i think it is my all time favorite war movie and has the best fighting scenes. I had watched it when it was new on HBO and when it came out on DVD i watched every episode on the 11 disc set in a row. I just couldn't turn it off. "Blackhawk Down" is a close second. A must have for both movies is surround sound.

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Battle for Helms Deep in LOTR: Two Towers or The Battle of 5 points from the begining of Gangs of New York. I love it.

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Might not be the "greatest" fight in cinema, but certainly very worth a reminder…

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

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY1lpIf5Jmg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_80q_0_mso

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The fight scenes in The Bourne Identity are awsome.
http://images.tomshardware.com/2007/...bourne_425.jpg

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Ong Bak has some amazing fight scenes.
http://www.scene4.com/archivesqv6/se..._Ong-Bakcr.jpg

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/05/34/ong_bak.jpg

http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/P...gBak-BH-04.jpg

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Both great scenes... I didn’t think id like Hot Fuzz, but enjoyed it a lot.. Also I've never seen the Mr Vengeance film out of that trilogy theme... Is it hard to get hold of?

Also.. im surprised no one has brought up Bruce Lee movies.

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I love all the battle scenes in 300 (sorry no pics im posting from my Wii lol)

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The Phantom Menace...darth maul, obi-wan and qui-gon
The major battle in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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Here is a link to one of my favorite Bruce Lee fight scenes: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kJ423UykNEo

From the Chinese Connection the scene in which he nun-chucks the entire Japanese school.

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Favorite fight(s) is in The Blade but I'm not going to link because see the movie. Fight at the end is the best.

Best Bruce Lee fight is between Sammo Hung and Bruce Lee impersonator (actually both are impersonating Lee) in Enter the Fat Dragon. Best scene in an otherwise disappointingly avg. 70s Kung fu movie:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zja-rkeXUxk

Also love the fight between Sammo Hung and Lau Kar Leung in Pedicab Driver:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H4LguqXjITY

Best battle is in Ran.

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Tangential to best fight scenes are some of my favorite martial arts humor scenes. Bombastic caligraphy in The Prodigal Son (1) and Magnificent Butcher (2), and fighting by proxy in Encounters of the Spooky Kind (3). I'll try to think of more, maybe post again later, my brain seems to have gotten stuck on a Sammo Hung setting for these last couple posts:

1:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=J5GslQ6ZP-w
2:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f9j4Ql690eA
3:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9s6AkWVDtHE

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Best fight scenes for me would have to be from the 'Game of Death' lost footage that was discovered a few years back. The scene in which Bruce explains the art of broken rhythm using a piece of bamboo is a particular favourite of mine. These scenes also show what wonderful comic timing he had, magnificent.

Long lost Game of Death footage parts 1-4, enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEUDRKRX1Eg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GQaKK0mWus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfsIGFPxb_w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1L-nFVlao

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300 is awesome as a war movie
Transformers is great if we're talking about pure action and huge CGI battles

as for Martial Arts movies
Ong Bak
Tom Yum Goong
Drunken Master 1 and 2
Danny the Dog aka Unleashed (not the most skillful Jet Li scenes, but its the jet movie with the most realistic and violent fight scenes Ive ever seen)

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Best battle scene was in "Saving Private Ryan" and followed by the Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith scenes from "Lord of the Rings".

Best fight scene was in Old Boy when he single handedly handed 10 or so guys their behinds. It wasn't a martial arts movie but that was a vicious and believable fight.

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Best Battle Scene: I guess I'd have to say Saving Private Ryan's opening scene

Best Fight Scene: Hands down this goes to Oldboy, for the big fight in the hallway...it's one long shot. Amazingly choreographed.

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Came across this little gem on YouTube. Just watch and be amazed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY

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Now I must say Get Him to the Greek's fight scene with Sergio and Aldeous' dad was completly insane and I loved every moment of it.

Love all the fights in Legend of Drunken Master

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

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Although this is a different sort of battle, but the one I can remember from The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is when the Orcs are going after both Pippin & Merry and Boromir steps in to fight against the Orca alone. He tries and tries and gets hit with many of arrows before going down in defeat. The best part is then when Aragon comes and speaks to Boromir and tells him how brave he was and puts his sword with him where he lies dead. Very touching scene.

Ong Bak has great fight scenes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iDQX4AuZiA&feature=fvst

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Best Battle Scene- As many members have mentioned...Saving Private Ryan. It went downhill after that for me.

What about a one sided battle scene? That would have to go to the Gauntlet. I've watched that scene with the make shift armored bus and 1000 rifleman on the rooftops, must be a dozen times....great stuff! You go Clint!

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...20gauntlet.jpg

Best Fight scene -

http://ewpopwatch.files.wordpress.co...9/bourne_l.jpg

Best Gun battle scene would probably be in The Wild Bunch at the end or in The Way of the Gun in the bordello.

For fisticuffs I have a soft spot for Shane, but I would have to say Liam Neeson in Crossing the Line.

Maybe not some of the best ever but some battle scenes I really like are:
The final battle in the Avengers
The battle of Carthage and Maximus vs Tigris in Gladiator
Aang vs Ozai and Azula vs Zuko in The Last Airbender show
John McClane vs Karl in Die Hard

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Heres a few I liked.

The first Rocky movie
Pearl Harbor
Captain Marvel serial - the one scene where a butler kicks major butt when the bad guy breaks into a house
The long swordfight scene in Scaramouche

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One of the best fight scenes I've ever seen is the fight in Oldboy. It's an extremely impressive and engrossing scene and it was all done in one smooth shot.Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufss5ot_vGE

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Battle: Heaven's Gate finale, The Thin Red Line, The Wild Bunch opening + finale
Fight: Every Bruce Lee fight, Oldboy hallway scene, Wheels on Meals finale, Django Unchained shooutout

The beginning 15-20 mins of Saving Private Ryan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8yOdAqBFcQ

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This is not the best fight scene but it is very entertaining. I'm watching this movie right now and can't help but like this opening scene. It's from the Rundown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgtXrL6cAAs" You should have taken option A" - Beck

Among many, many other battles in LOTR -

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PjuXtQ8lEb...ip+screen2.jpg



and in Zulu -

http://iamrussia.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/zulu3.jpg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLumu0DcycM

very entertaining and very great sword fight !

Oh these two kick ass ladies sprang to mind.

The Diva Dance from The Fifth Element (1997)

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

and River's bar fight from Serenity (2005)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwVqW6J4FRc

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXLMCtcb9rI

One of the most badass scene ever.

Loved the mini fight between Iron Man and Thor.

http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/...f-all-gtfo.gif

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

'Nuff said.