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Film School Rejects: The Ten Best Cinematic Fights of 2008
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CaptainReg0981 · 10 months agoHey Bob! Thanks for putting Iron Man in the list but what about TDK? The Joker and Batman interogation I love Heath's break thru perf on that one making the Joker his own.
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RobertFure · 10 months agoTDK was a good movie, but the only action sequence that stood out was the chase with the batpod and the big rig, which, at the end of the day I decided wasn't a "fight" and was a pure chase. Neither The Joker or Two-Face has the skill to fist fight Batman, so it was reasonable neither of them tried.
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CaptainReg0981 · 10 months agoyea thats true.
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MoMo · 10 months agogreat list, but i thought the LARP scene at the end of "Role Models" was worth a mention.
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TheGreenMalice · 10 months agoAfter reading the list above, I was going to pose the same question. The movie wasn't great, but that scene should have made the list.
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RobertFure · 10 months agoThe LARP scene was awesome (Role Models was one of my favorites of the year too), the KISS costumes were great. What state are our action movies in when 3 of the best fights could have easily come from comedies? (Role Models, Step Brothers, Pineapple Express) I didn't put them all on, because that would be a little too much comedy at the expense of some traditional blood.
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Cole_Abaius · 10 months agoYou also forgot to mention my epic battle with my FICO score.
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Nish · 10 months agoTDK didnt have great fight scenes which is what I think held it back from being a greater film. Yes the performances were great but the fight scenes were not. Also I didnt think there was enough of the fight scene in Iron Man, I would have liked to have seen Iron Man taking names and kicking ass more. Personally Wanted had my favourite fight scene, 1 man vs 100? And there were some pretty sweet deaths.
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Curtis G · 10 months agoSo none of the fights from Forbidden Kingdom made the list? This list is awesome but come on people how can you not put the fight scene of Jet Lei and Jackie Chan on this list?
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Spacetree · 10 months agoI gotta agree with Curtis G. If you're gonna have a mediocre movie with a great fight scene, that would be it.
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DMuff · 10 months agoGood list, love the number one. Would have liked to see the pineapple express fight though.
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Jch · 10 months agodefinitely pineapple express-"your in the jungle now!"
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Jason Larson · 10 months agoWould you say "6. Back to back spinning jump kicks in front of flying doves" in Step Brothers was a nod to John Woo? A friend thinks it's a nod to Charlie's Angels. Thanks a lot.
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RobertFure · 10 months agoI would say 100% a nod to "John Woo" considering the white doves are almost a trademark of his and "Charlie's Angels" was both a bad movie and paying homage to John Woo in itself. Though their unathletic spinning jump kicks were closer in skill level to Drew Barrymore, but hey, we can't all be Chow Yun Fat.
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jon · 10 months agothe fight in pineapple express, with rogen, franco and mcbride was all sorts of awesome
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eugene · 10 months agoi think it was a mistake to include the big shoot-out in "wanted" on this list. even if you try to work the whole "peter parker gone wrong" angle, you still end up with james mcavoy shooting guns, which just looks ridiculous. mcavoy may be a good actor, but he doesn't have enough presence to pull off convincingly an action sequence. isn't this why he was cast as a replacement soldier who dies in his first battle in an episode of "band of brothers"?
