Attention Violence Enthusiasts!

[Artemis]

Which kind of fights do you like to see in your action flicks the best?

[czyznyck99]

Fist fights. They can get very creative. I actually prefer martial arts fights more than anything. Guns and swords are too easy at times.

Later.

[Artemis]

Ah, dontcha hate it when a thread you think is really cool just doesn't catch on? Charlatans. :p


Anyway, there's nothing I enjoy watching more than hand-to-hand combat. Guns & Swords are cool, but I love seeing archenemies tearing at each other with their own fists.

[czyznyck99]

Are you calling me a charlatan? You want to fisticuffs? You going down, boy. :D

Actually, hang on, let me stop laughing first :p .

Later.

[M'ral]

Well, being a karate enthusiast, I have to say that IMHO the martial arts fights are unquestionably the best...provided they are executed realistically. It is absolutely mind-boggling what the human body, with the proper training, is capable of. Add in the human mind, with its incredible creativity and adaptability to various combat situations, and you can have a fantastic fight sequence that takes the audience's collective breath away and still make it appear real. Unfortunately, many filmmakers choose instead to go Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and have the combatants leaping 50 feet in the air and fighting on the tops of bamboo trees. :rolleyes: That kind of hocus-pocus is completely unnecessary, and it seriously strains the audience's suspension of disbelief and involvement in the movie (except, of course, in movies like The Matrix, when such outlandish combat is appropriate and made part of the story). Keeping the fights real keeps the movie real, and more enjoyable for the audience.

[James]

Fist fights. It's what made Xena and Hercules so watchable - and they always look so painful. Buffy and Angel have had some nice ones too.

Swords and guns offer far less fun as they are about defense, or at least not getting hit - because the consquences are worse than a punch so they not as interesting in my eyes..

[EightOh]

If I had to pick just one(and that would make the most sense, wouldn't it?), I'd have to go with fist fights, though gun fights and sword fights can be cool if done right, too.


Buffy and Angel have had some nice ones too.Key word there, for Buffy at least, is had. The fight choreography went way downhill a couple of seasons ago, though there's been some improvement recently.

[Mynd Hed]

Well, almost any kind of fight can be entertaining when done well, but personally I enjoy a good sword fight better than any of the other kinds on the poll. There's just something about seeing two swordsmen go at it, the sound of steel against steel, the footwork that makes the whole thing look like one big deadly dance....

But even better than that, I like a good dogfight, especially in a sci-fi movie like Return of the Jedi with some lasers going back and forth.

Or even better than THAT, an epic battle scene, a swordfight times a hundred. Which is why I'm currently drooling over every bit of Two Towers footage I can get my hands on, heh heh. (-:

[JohnCrichton]

I'm gonna go with Sword Fights.

Fist fights are cool, but they're taken up a notch when the characters have to take up swords.

Buffy vs Angel, Luke vs Vader, Obi-Wan vs Maul, Connor vs Kurgan, Andros vs Astronoma, Jubei vs The Blind Swordsman, Gatts vs a Hundred Foes, Duncan vs Ever Immortal That Came to His Show, Let Li and the cast of Swordsman II....

I dig banging, spinning, whirling thrusting, flashing, spark splashing sword slinging.

[J J Gittes]

I voted for gun fights, because its so easy to kill someone with one, so if there's an actual fight involving guns, you know it'll be well planned out.

[DaphHime]

Sword fights, their so uncommon now a days. Plus sword fighting can be combind with martal arts. Another fighting style I like.

[Dalamar13]

I went with Fist fights, though Sword fights came in a close second.( Gotta love Duncan Macleod)

I think you're being to harsh in your judgement of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It was ment to have a element of magic and fantasy to it. That's partly what made it so appealing.

But my money goes to movies like, "The Legend" and "Iron Monkey". Awesome fist fights and great stories. Not to mention Jet Li and Donnie Yen.

[cross blues]

definitely hand-to-hand/martial arts, especially fighters like jackie chan and jet li. a few of my favorites: the rooftop fight in "who am I", jet li and the jackie chun character in "meltdown", final fight in "romeo must die", and everything in "kiss of the dragon"

[Mynd Hed]

The problem with gun fights is that one good hit tends to end the fight pretty quick. So most of your gun fights out there in Movie Land tend to fall into the same old cliche in which the Bad Guys are the worst shots in the world and the Good Guys are the best shots in the world.

Which is not to say that there can't be good gun fights in movies, just that they're rare.

[Jade_GL]

Fist fights.

Two words to validate: Fight Club

:D

Seriously, I like boxing, I liked Fight Club, and fist fights have that hands on feeling. A gun fight can be accomplished from many feet away, and over in a moment. A sword fight is closer, but could end too quickly. Fist fights are a lor of effort in close quarters.

I guess that's why I voted that way. I must go read a children's book now. I feel bad. :D j/k

[Outlander00]

I prefer a sword fight over the other two.

I like gun fights because they are more action paced, but sword fights have a certain flar of skill and dramatics. Its more classical and tugs at the heart strings of us who enjoy chivilery and the days of Fuedal Japan and England. Anyone can throw a punch (except for martial arts fights where it takes skill, but the last 20 years those scene tend to be dumbed down) or fire a gun, but a sword fighting takes more skill and painstaking delicacy. It takes skill to use a sword.

[RogueMartian]

This was a hard decison.

Fist fights are cool, but eventually, you just don't buy them anymore. I mean, there's only so many hits a person can take, and you know this.

Gunfights have the problem that once a bullet hits, that's pretty much it. I liked how gunfights were done in the matrix. That was pretty cool, but aside from that gunfights tend to be kinda lame.

Sword fights are probably the best. They can last longer, and IMO are slightly more dramatic. And, they just look cooler.