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Post by WarrenPeace on Apr 18, 2020 16:31:16 GMT
So awesome and underrated. Gotta just love all the dialog that leads up to it. And then of course the fight itself where Butch outsmarts him and doesn't have to kill him to win.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Apr 18, 2020 16:33:38 GMT
What also makes it great is how when Logan asks for "Guns or knives" Butch thinks he has a way out by not seeing a knife. Then Logan pulls out that giant thing out of thin air and the way Butch's face just drops! LOL
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Post by stefancrosscoe on May 8, 2020 12:07:07 GMT
I really want to watch your clip, but I still not seen the whole film, so I might have to come back one day and give you my opinion of the film and fight, however I hope it is okay to post some of those I think are either great, or just very "memorable" movie fights in here.
Hm, I was so sure there must be a video of the fight between the ruthless Shack (Ernest Borgnine) and Lee Marvins hobo charachter A.NO.1 in Emperor of the North (1973), who is the only one who dears getting into one of the most intense and brutal fights I have witnessed on film, agains the movies villain. Borgnine was such an evil bastard in this one, and I have only seen him as all these likable good guys from earlier, but now he is some complete sadistic madman, beating poor men to death with his "club".
Anyway, another gritty and hard hitting 1970s cult-classic, I think surely has to be Charles Bronson in Hard Times (1975), those punches, sounds, camera angles and whole macho-man atmosphere, along with the more light hearted characters, comedy and of course the beautiful Jill Ireland, all made me love this movie when I first saw it.
Also lots of credits to the great Robert Tessier, who makes up for such a memorable part as the scummy henchman, that thinks he can "whip" this old guys ass, but he sure gets a tough lesson learned after Bronson (I think he was in his mid 50s around this time) is finished with him.
Speaking of Tessier, I remember seeing him in a far more likable part, during the thriller The Deep (1977), where he also ends up in a quite brutal fight scene, the kind that is more slow-going but still it feels so much more "real", than to just having another day of having "ordinary" super-men and women throwing each other through skyscrapers and destroying whole cities.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on May 8, 2020 12:19:46 GMT
Alright, this one has absolutely nothing to do with "best", but, well I have rarely laughed as much as when I "stumbled" upon this absolute b-movie Reb Brown "classic", one of those very late movie nights, not that far ago. Strike Commando (1987)"Just me and you, PUSSYCAT!" God I love cheesy 80s fights.
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Post by politicidal on May 8, 2020 16:20:37 GMT
It's funny but I wouldn't call it one of the best.
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Post by fangirl1975 on May 8, 2020 18:12:09 GMT
It's up there with Indy vs. the hulking mechanic in Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 8, 2020 18:28:18 GMT
Another long Borgnine fight is with Rod Taylor in CHUKA and Taylor had a really crazy fight with William Smith in DARKER THAN AMBER.
Stephen Vagg's biography on Taylor on p. 153. "In this scene no stuntmen were used because of the small room. According to Rod Taylor (5' 7") Will Smith (6'2", 200 lbs, Austrian boxing record 31W-1L, body builder & two time world champion arm-wrestler) forgot the routine and belted Rod, causing blood to splat everywhere. Rod wiped his face and shouted "KEEP THE CAMERAS ROLLING!" and the rest of the fight was adlibbed. Rod ended up breaking three of Smith's ribs (Those pounding body shots at 0.48] and Smith broke Ron's nose. Smith (a veteran of numerous punch-ups) called it "the best fight scene I ever worked on." (Rod Taylor. An Aussie in Hollywood. Vagg, S. Bear Manor Media 2010 )
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Post by drystyx on May 8, 2020 19:32:04 GMT
Put these sunglasses on, and I'll let you see the real fight. Those sunglasses help you see the real fight. You need to put them on.
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