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Best Action Scene?

2short2care

By 2short2care,
Posted on: 2010-08-09 04:34 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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Tom Yun Goong (The Protector) --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXIGP6_fNZk
Note that there are no edits until he reaches the top. It took a month to practice and film this.

Hard-Boiled --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bozxgVQ9m0
Another nearly 3-minute shootout in a hospital with the camera following. The first edit comes when bad guy Mad Dog enters the scene. The camera was sped up and slowed at various points by hand, so no digital tricks are being used.

Police Story II --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ect2Q...eature=related
This is probably Jackie Chan's best. (Though Drunken Master is a better film with some more insane stunts.)

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I was enjoying until they started tripping up horses.

 

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Originally Posted by Zikar View Post
I was enjoying until they started tripping up horses.
ooo. Didn't think of that. I just saw a goofy over the top foreign action scene.

 

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What did Lionel Richie do to get arrested?

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I was enjoying until they started tripping up horses.
Same. Poor horses.

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To me my favorite action scene is in Kick-***, when Hit Girl leaves the elevator running through taking out all the guys.

I have to agree the scene in Hard-Boiled is one as well that movie was how I became a Chow Yan Fat fan and why 10 years later when I saw Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon seeing him as a martial artist. It was just weird to me.

 

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I was going to complain that the scene lacked explosions until, at the end, the cars started spontaneously exploding as he rode by.

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I have to agree the scene in Hard-Boiled is one as well that movie was how I became a Chow Yan Fat fan and why 10 years later when I saw Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon seeing him as a martial artist. It was just weird to me.
Well, the whole last 30 or 40 minutes of Hard-Boiled is essentially one long shootout in the hospital, but I'm a real sucker for camera work that actually requires, you know, WORK. The planning, rehearsing and execution of those shots is extraordinarily time-consuming, but so worth the effort. There's a ton of good stuff following that scene once they start trying to take out Mad Dog. The shootout in the warehouse is also rather awesome, and the opening scene in the tea house is incredible, as well. "Give the man a gun and he thinks he's Superman! Give him two guns and he thinks he's God!" Love that movie.

The fight scene in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" between Yu Shu Lien and Jen Yu (Michelle Yeoh and Ziyi Zhang, respectively) is also outstanding.

And I have to agree with a few people above -- I didn't like what was happening to the horses too much in the initial clip. Plus, stuff just seemed to be happening for no apparent reason other than "hey, wouldn't it look cool if...."

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Hard-Boiled --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bozxgVQ9m0
Another nearly 3-minute shootout in a hospital with the camera following. The first edit comes when bad guy Mad Dog enters the scene. The camera was sped up and slowed at various points by hand, so no digital tricks are being used.
I won't argue, but IMHO the throwdown in the church at the end of The Killer is the high point of Woo's gun-fu ouvre.

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The fight between Nameless and Sky from Hero, with the rain and the old man playing his instrument in the back. It's certainly the prettiest action scene I've ever seen.

As for gunfights, I've always preferred The Killer over Hard-Boiled, but both are good movies.

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Nicholas Angel and Danny Butterman versus all of Sandford in Hot Fuzz stands out in my mind.

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well, i have to nominate the lightsaber fight from episode 1. darth maul ruined me for lightsaber fights after being just that @#$%ing awesome. yes, the end of it was poorly done, but the thrust side-kick he knocks obi wan back with..i was on the heavy bag for weeks trying to get mine that crisp. It is about 90% of why i defend the prequel trilogy, that scene, with its music, was just that amazing.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPLXwrj7i7Q "the kick" at 42 secs

also, bruce lee fights the night guards in enter the dragon.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIlBZ2uQyHg

also, for the fans of tony jaa, the movie chocolate had some amazing fight scenes, except instead of tony jaa, it is with a young girl kicking an impressive amount of butt. the acting is blah, the depiction of autism was over the top, but the fight scenes were amazing. here is one to dissuade you from being a thai stunt-man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkQykU6ZDm0

 

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This entire movie was basically one long, well done, action scene.

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personally, this is my favorite fight sequence: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/ca...306098Gy9JhES7

As far as the original video... it was... too over the top... and... well... too Indian. I can forgive special effects that are at least plausible, even if they aren't grounded in reality. E.G. somebody firing a bullet into a gas-tank and causing a car to explode and flip over. No, you can't actually do that, but it looks cool, and it's not pressing suspension of disbelief.

Then I realized I was approaching the opening film incorrectly. I was approaching it as a serious take on an action sequence. It's not. It's a parody. For example, sliding a horse under a tractor trailer. As a parody then, it's never going to qualify for the best of anything. Of course, the point of a parody is to figure out WHAT the film is parodying to begin with:

So: with this in mind, here's a drinking game.Re-watch the opening post video and see how many movies you can pick out that it ripped stunts from. Everytime you can pick out what movie they ripped off, take a sip.

warning: it is suggested that this drinking game be played with a few gallons of a low-alcohol drink.

 

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... okay. that was cool.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MzKvdqdzuY

Chocolate's Butcher Shop Fight Scene. As a Thai martial arts movie, it's treatment of its stunt workers is shifty at best and you can almost count the broken vertebrae as they take bumps onto concrete no body should withstand.

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Unfortunately, I can't post a clip of it, but the last battle from the anime series KIDDY GRADE, where you've got the space battle of the entire ES versus Alv and the Deucalion, had me on the edge of my chair, shouting at my television for them to kick her a** into next week. (Then it just goes from Crowning Moment of Awesome to Crowning Moment of Heartache when you realize what it's going to take for them to beat her.)

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