One in the ribs! Two in the gibs! It's time to celebrate the movie scraps that give other cinematic tussles awesome lessons.
We've gathered mutants and musclemen, monsters and maniacs, not to mention Arnie, Sly, Van Damme and Seagal for the mother of all movie awesome smackdowns.
So, seconds out for round one. All together now: “FIGHT!"
50. Ran-Cor Blimey!
Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) vs The Rancor: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi (1983)
Slavering, stop-motion death-beast battles to chow down on the unfortunate Luke Skywalker for the delight of big slug Jabba The Hutt and his cackling chums.
WINNER! The Force is with our young Jedi as he drops a massive door on the creature’s lumbering bonce, splatting it underneath.
49. Double Trouble
Liu Jian (Jet Li) vs The Twins (Cyrill Rafaelli and Didier Azoulay): Kiss Of The Dragon (2001)
Tchéky Karyo, Jet Li’s Chinese rozzer in Paris has to get past a pair of hulking, bleached blond thugs. Specialising in bone-jarring kicks, the gruesome twosome soon have Jet battered and bleeding…
WINNER! But kicks are all they can do, so clever Jet lures them into tighter spaces where their great lanky limbs get caught under desks and he swiftly turns them into punchbags.
48. Paddywhacking
Sean Thronton (John Wayne) vs Red Danaher (Victor McLaglen): The Quiet Man (1952)
John Ford’s lusty yarn delivers cinema’s most titanic day-long brawl, with John Wayne and Victor McLaglen knocking each other silly.
Ah, begorrah!
WINNER! Everyone – the lads finding brotherly love through unarmed combat. Aww.
47. Bennett Buys It
John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) vs Bennett (Vernon Wells): Commando (1985)
Sporting some fabulously gay outfits (check out that string-vest) kidnapper Bennett and retired tough guy Matrix square off in an engine room for a claustrophobic battle of the beefy guys.
WINNER! Matrix skewers Bennett through the chest with a hot pipe… then leans in for the immortal line, “Let off some steam.”
46. Logan’s Ruin
Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) vs Harvey Logan (Ted Cassidy): Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
Butch returns from a bank-scouting expedition to find his leadership of the Hole-In-The-Wall gang usurped by lumbering giant Logan.
Challenged to a knife duel, Cassidy follows the path of least resistance – and boots his opponent very hard in the nuts.
WINNER! With Harvey on his knees clutching his pills, Butch sends over a flailing haymaker that lays the big guy out.
Next: Just For Kicks, Robo-Rumble, The Russian Is Cut, The Eye Has It, Power Animal
Comments
SCY385
Sep 14th 2009, 22:59
I love the fight in They Live. It is hilarious, violent, and prolonged to the point of nervousness. I love it.
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SCY385
Sep 14th 2009, 23:02
The fight between Ripley and the Queen is the ultimate battle of the Mom's.
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marxbros1979
Sep 19th 2009, 17:56
not being funny like but where is the fight between bruce lee and the guards in the caverns from enter the dragon???? an astonishing fight sequencw far supirior than the fight between bruce and akeem whats his name from game of death...come on total film you can do better
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pimpernel
Sep 23rd 2009, 19:20
What about Sergeant Angel vs Trolley Boy in 'Hot Fuzz'? Down right hilarious! Or Neo vs agent Smith in The Matrix? The staircase fight in 'Casino Royale'? OR the one between Bond and that Mole in 'Quantam of Solace'? AND the epicness of the fight on top of the mill wheel in PoC: Dead Man's Chest?...... Oh there are just too many!
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DanielMcA
Sep 25th 2009, 13:19
What about Carson versus the terrorist in Paris in Team America. Vicious, brutal and totally unchoreographed apparently.
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thedarkknight
Sep 28th 2009, 16:08
pimpernel, those are all really mediocre fights. PoC? Seriously? I'll give you The Matrix though.
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TheShamrock
Jul 2nd 2010, 14:40
If that Seagal one is when he pushes the guy into the phonebox, that is awesome! BTW Grosse Point Blank fight is to 'Mirror In The Bathroom' - I only know as watching that fight made me download it, good dispatch with the pen. Fight at the beginning of the Watchmen is awesome too. Plus JCVD and Big chinese dude in Double Impact with the barrels, ooh yeah!
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stevolbauer
Jul 2nd 2010, 14:42
Wheres The Matrix, Shaun of the Dead, Pirates of the Carribean, Rambo, and in all fairness, the new kong v rex fight is defo more awesome, come on lads
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TheShamrock
Jul 2nd 2010, 14:44
If that Seagal one is where he pushes the guy into the phoonbooth, that is awesome! 'Mirror In the Bathroom' is tune they fight to in Grosse Point Blank as that fight made me download it! Fight at beginning of The Watchmen or JCVD and big chinese guy with the barrells in Double Impact, great stuff!
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stevolbauer
Jul 2nd 2010, 14:46
And where is Star Wars, I mean, Maul v Obi-Wan and Qui Gon. What about Doc Ock v Spidey on da train in Spiderman 2, Jack v Barbossa at the end PotC, Shaun and Ed v the zombies in the garden in Shaun of the dead, Neo v Smith in The Matrix, Optimus v Megatron, you title it most AWESOME fights ever, alot of these fights are brilliant but not awesome as such.
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