Best Fight Scenes You Ever Saw
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Manga: Hisoka vs Chrollo.
In films there are lots of great choreographies and picking "the one and only best" is almost impossible for me.
The Raid has great choreographies for instance.
Everyone watched and loved Jackie Chan's fights when they were a child.
I personally like the fight scenes in A Touch of Zen. The technic is probably out-dated but ti doesn't matter to me.
In films there are lots of great choreographies and picking "the one and only best" is almost impossible for me.
The Raid has great choreographies for instance.
Everyone watched and loved Jackie Chan's fights when they were a child.
I personally like the fight scenes in A Touch of Zen. The technic is probably out-dated but ti doesn't matter to me.
Dunno about best but it is a favourite of mine and I will still promote it. 
Well, I didn't write a whole synopsis just for folk to only get the chance to read half of it. Whacking it here since it clearly isn't going to make any difference if people know which one I submitted. Lol.
Chingachgook vs Magua from The Last of the Mohicans (1992).
This is one of my favourite short fights in fiction and it is a fight that has a special place in my heart. This was the first fight I ever saw where one of the fighters got absolutely, utterly and mercilessly wrecked, in a realistic setting no less and it was awesome to young kid me.
So for context, Magua is the antagonist of the movie and is a cunning war chief and dangerous warrior. In nearly every fight he is in, he either seeks to start the fight with the advantage (dude loves a good ambush) or quickly twists a disadvantage into an opportunity with one example being Magua missing his shot at Hawkeye but immediately using the smoke from his musket to cover his escape into the bush before Hawkeye can shoot back.
Magua also proves himself to be a deadly foe in a head on 1v1 fight, defeating Uncas (Chingachgook's son) handily in a duel by using his own tomahawk to block Uncas's tomahawk and counterattacking using the knife in his left hand. Uncas is completely unable to slip past Magua's unbreakable guard and is killed, with Chingachgook witnessing his son's final moments from a short distance away.
So Magua has been an absolutely untouchable menace throughout this film, defeating the British forces in battle, personally executing a British colonel by ripping his heart out and even becoming a hero killer after his fight with Uncas, one of the best fighters in the film. How is Chingachgook going to beat this cunning, underhanded and lethal opponent?
By completely dismantling the guy, that is how.
First, Chingachgook raises his club to bait Magua into blocking his feint attack, rolls under the tomahawk swing, completely bypassing Magua's previously unbreakable guard and nails Magua in the back with spike of his gunstock war club, the painful shock of which causes Magua to drop his knife.
This one move instantly puts Magua up shit creek without a paddle. His defence is broken and he has to immediately counterattack or die. Pity for him that his next tomahawk swing is met with a war club to the elbow, the latter of which gives way to a sickening crunch, causing him to drop his tomahawk.
So Magua is down a right arm and both weapons. That one good arm could still grab a dropped weapon though so Chingachgook goes for that next cause he is having none of Magua's tomfoolery. A sideways club swing to stun Magua in place followed by an overhead swing that dislocates his left arm at the shoulder. Magua is completely screwed and he can only wait for Chingachgook to grant him a coup de grace at the latter's leisure which the old Mohican does so in the most painful manner possible via impalement through the gut.
Seeing Magua finally get his comeuppance in such a way was glorious, especially with fight choreography that made you feel the satisfying weight behind those club swings.
Bonus reasons why I love this fight.
One, Native Americans are cool. They just are, I don't make the rules, that's just how it is.
Two, that magnificent gunstock war club. If you show me a cool, obscure weapon in a film and not only have that weapon present in said movie but actually have the protagonist wielding it then I am going to immediately be a sucker for those fight scenes.
This is one of my favourite short fights in fiction and it is a fight that has a special place in my heart. This was the first fight I ever saw where one of the fighters got absolutely, utterly and mercilessly wrecked, in a realistic setting no less and it was awesome to young kid me.
So for context, Magua is the antagonist of the movie and is a cunning war chief and dangerous warrior. In nearly every fight he is in, he either seeks to start the fight with the advantage (dude loves a good ambush) or quickly twists a disadvantage into an opportunity with one example being Magua missing his shot at Hawkeye but immediately using the smoke from his musket to cover his escape into the bush before Hawkeye can shoot back.
Magua also proves himself to be a deadly foe in a head on 1v1 fight, defeating Uncas (Chingachgook's son) handily in a duel by using his own tomahawk to block Uncas's tomahawk and counterattacking using the knife in his left hand. Uncas is completely unable to slip past Magua's unbreakable guard and is killed, with Chingachgook witnessing his son's final moments from a short distance away.
So Magua has been an absolutely untouchable menace throughout this film, defeating the British forces in battle, personally executing a British colonel by ripping his heart out and even becoming a hero killer after his fight with Uncas, one of the best fighters in the film. How is Chingachgook going to beat this cunning, underhanded and lethal opponent?
By completely dismantling the guy, that is how.
This one move instantly puts Magua up shit creek without a paddle. His defence is broken and he has to immediately counterattack or die. Pity for him that his next tomahawk swing is met with a war club to the elbow, the latter of which gives way to a sickening crunch, causing him to drop his tomahawk.
So Magua is down a right arm and both weapons. That one good arm could still grab a dropped weapon though so Chingachgook goes for that next cause he is having none of Magua's tomfoolery. A sideways club swing to stun Magua in place followed by an overhead swing that dislocates his left arm at the shoulder. Magua is completely screwed and he can only wait for Chingachgook to grant him a coup de grace at the latter's leisure which the old Mohican does so in the most painful manner possible via impalement through the gut.
Seeing Magua finally get his comeuppance in such a way was glorious, especially with fight choreography that made you feel the satisfying weight behind those club swings.
Bonus reasons why I love this fight.
One, Native Americans are cool. They just are, I don't make the rules, that's just how it is.
Two, that magnificent gunstock war club. If you show me a cool, obscure weapon in a film and not only have that weapon present in said movie but actually have the protagonist wielding it then I am going to immediately be a sucker for those fight scenes.
I know this will get me laughed at, but I swear I've rewatched Tony Soprano vs Bobby Bacala like 1000 times since first watching it in 2007.
I know two fat Italians bearhugging and wild swinging isn't really "cool" or "epic" compared to some of the amazing scenes from other series, movies, anime, etc... but if you've lived with these characters since episode 1 you felt every punch without any kind of special effects or special choreography. Just two fat bastards wailing on each other. TV greatness.
I know two fat Italians bearhugging and wild swinging isn't really "cool" or "epic" compared to some of the amazing scenes from other series, movies, anime, etc... but if you've lived with these characters since episode 1 you felt every punch without any kind of special effects or special choreography. Just two fat bastards wailing on each other. TV greatness.
