Best film sword fight

[pokerfan]

Poll question: Best film sword fight

Watching Die Another Day last night and while it's the worst of the Brosnan Bonds it does have a very well choreographed saber duel between Bond and the villain.

I imagine the 'others' category will run away with this one: Braveheart, The Princess Bride, Troy, Three Musketeers, Star Wars, Zorro, numerous foreign language films. There are too many to fit into one ten item list.

[Richardo]

1. Princess Bride

Gotta be in there.

[3.14158675309]

4. Correct!

Did you express that left-handed or right-handed? :hi:

[MrCoffee]

5. Wesley v. Inigo is far and away the best film sword fight since

Baldwin v. Harris in Glengarry Glen Ross

[GreenPartyVoter]

40. "There is something you should know"

[Orsino]

7. That and the Court Jester, maybe. n/t

[Greyskye]

8. Why am I the only one to vote 'other' for Princess Bride?

:shrug:

[TZ]

13. INCONCEIVABLE...

That Princess Bride is not on this list!

[DarkTirade]

25. 2nded (or whatever number we're up to)

also, I thought the best swordfight in Seven Samurai was actually the one duel before they even got to the village, when they were still trying ot hire samurai. The one where someone challenged Kyuzo, and they tried with sticks. They both struck at almost the same time, and Kyuzo said, "I won." The other man disagreed, and challenged him with a real sword.

... after a lot of standing and nerving themselves for it, they repeated the same action. Both swung at almost the same time. Other man fell down dead.

[Shell Beau]

30. .

:thumbsup:

[SallyMander]

32. I clicked on this thread just to vote for that movie!

x(

[Ava]

2. kiddo vs. elle

that whole movie is awesome

[foxfeet]

3. You beat me to it!

Pluck out that eye!

[DS1]

6. 2 in the seat #4

[pokerfan]

9. YouTube for Rob Roy

The sword fighting sequence, staged by William Hobbs, is the best of its sort ever done. In most movie sword fights, the participants leap about effortlessly, their blades shimmering and clashing. Here we get the sense of the deadly stakes, and the great physical effort involved.

Cunningham chooses a rapier, Rob Roy a broadsword (their weapons reflect their personalities), and the fight is punctuated by passages of dead silence, except for heavy breathing. They become very tired.

They are both wounded. The pauses grow longer, until the duel seems like a chess match in which thought counts for more than action. It is one of the great action sequences in movie history, and "Rob Roy" is a fabulous entertainment.

--Roger Ebert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHCvV8uUr9U

[SidneyCarton]

19. Agreed, if for no other reason than Neeson's dispatching of Roth.

It's classic defiance.

[pokerfan]

A perfect finish that was true to both characters

Cunningham was cocky and MacGregor was desperate. Otherwise a rapier vs a broadsword duel would have been over in short order and indeed would have been had Archie not chosen to play with and humiliate his opponent.

[HopeHoops]

10. Kermit the Frog and Long John Silver in "Muppets Treasure Island"

[sarge43]

11. Zorro and Captain Love. The Mask of Zorro

Loved the background flamenco music.

[Pierre.Suave]

12. WHY IN THE HELL!

Is The Princess Bride NOT on this list?

:mad:

[EastTennesseeDem]

14. At the risk of sounding like a total dork

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Aragorn vs. Lurtz

[flvegan]

15. Arthur v The Black Night in The Holy Grail

[Richardo]

22. "It's only a flesh wound"

:D

[Twillig]

38. The lack of a clear winner hurts this sword fight. n/t

[mikebl]

16. Mark of Zorro

Tyrone Power v Basil Rathbone

[kwassa]

17. KYUZO (Miyaguchi Seiji), the master swordsman in Seven Samurai

"A man only interested in perfecting his own skill" who single-handedly slew lots of bandits.



not Mifune, who was a buffoon, though brave.

[Lost in CT]

18. Rob Roy is considered the best but Battle Royal gets an honarable mention. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. Highlander

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J1wUPIM9z4

[SoxFan]

21. Qui Gon and Obi-Won vs. Darth Maul

The movie itself was a big let-down, but the duel scene was awesome.

[DarkTirade]

26. Would have been better had it not been interrupted by shots of Anaking being stupid and lucky.

Any 10 year old who's into flying the way he was s'posed to be would know what to do in a cockpit better than he did. He just hit random buttons and somehow the midichlorians made it all work out. :banghead:

[Bucky]

23. President Lloyd Bridges vs Poodlized Sadaam Hussein in Hot Shots Part Deux

I laughed, I cried, I wet my pants

[Danger Mouse]

24. Luke vs. Vader, Empire Strikes Back.

[begin_within]

27. No contest - the skeletons in "Jason and the Argonauts" (1963)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057197/

[Richardo]

31. Oooo good call

I love that movie... :thumbsup:

[begin_within]

33. And here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yYeZMx1Y7U

[Rambis]

28. Princess Bride is the correct answer

:toast:

[deucemagnet]

29. The final fight from "The Brotherhood of the Wolf" is one of my faves.

You might want to mute the techno music that the user added.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBcKX7FDGwI

[MrSlayer]

34. Achilles vs. Hector in "Troy".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20w8ozwuNaY&feature=related

[martymar64]

35. Pretty much any Zatoichi or Lone Wolf and Cub film

They're the ultimate in swordgasm.

[XemaSab]

36. Ziyi Zhang v Michelle Yeoh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OxQ-2gR1DU

[redqueen]

37. Oooh yes.

I *love* that movie.

[tigereye]

44. there are so many great ones in that film!

[FloridaJudy]

39. Jet Li vs. Donnie Yen

"Hero" - one of many great sword fights in that movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTsKEgUJyUQ

[DemBones DemBones]

41. Zatoichi! nt

[sammythecat]

42. Alan Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham vs

Robin Hood in Kevin Costners Robin Hood movie (forget the whole title) gave me the most laughs, but I voted for Neeson vs Roth in Rob Roy. That was a real classic sword fight.

[tigereye]

43. Hero has some great sword fight scenes, too

[surrealAmerican]

45. The Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.