Hand fight: Any fight starring Bruce Lee beating up half of Hong Kong or some other Asian burg.
Car chase (comedic): What’s Up, Doc?
Well, for melees, I’d nominate the turkish bath scene from “Eastern Promises”. Brutal stuff.
Best car chase ever, Ronin.
Wow! A lot of great choices here, but here are mine:
Fist Fight: Gonna go with “The Quiet Man.” The Duke was just toying with “that great oaf” until it was time to go home for dinner.
Gun Fight: Absolutely “Open Range.” Best gunfight ever put on film. It goes through phrases, like a sword fight. Each one is excellent, all together they are epic. “Heat” is almost as good, I will admit. But my second place choice would be going way back to Roger’s Rangers raiding the Abenaki village in “Northwest Passage.” Amazing camera work for the late 1930’s. And appears to have been shot in nearly real-time, starting from just before dawn to mid-morning. Truly deserves the term “classic.”
Car Chase: Think I have only ever watched part of one of the F&F movies, and was underwhelmed. Being old-school, I would go with “Bullit”, although “Ronin” is very good.
Handfight: The boxing scene between George Kennedy and Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke.
Gunfight: The final showdown in The Wild Bunch. Give ‘em Hell, Pike!
Car Chase: Someone already mentioned the Seven-Ups and Road Warrior, so...I’ll go with any of the showdowns in the Roger Corman flick Death Race 2000. A little silly, but lots of fun.
The “never bring a sword to a gunfight” scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Handfights: Between fight between Mellish and German soldier (While Uphamstands frozen in fear on the stairs) ‘Saving Private Ryan’
Gunfights: “Open Range”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAMRhP-zji8
Charley: You the one killed our friend?
Butler: That’s right. I shot the boy, too. And I enjoyed it.
[Charley pulls out his gun and shoots Butler]
Car chases: Car chasing Train ‘The French Connection
Seriously!
Fight: Bruce Lee v. O’Hara; Enter the Dragon
Guns: Deadwood
Chase:Bullitt
No debate.
Fast and Furious is so over-done its ridiculous. If you want to see a couple of great car chase sequences, check out Steve McQueen in “Bullit,” and Gene Hackman in “The French Connection.”
Of course the movie “Duel” was one long chase scene.
Gun fight:
Malone: “Isn’t that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gun fight.”
Untouchables
For the longest car chase I have to go with Vanishing Point. The whole movie was a car chase.
For the longest car chase I have to go with Vanishing Point. The whole movie was a car chase.
Enter the Dragon
Jack Reacher in the “bar fight scene”
The “sister”: I don’t mind the sight of blood
Reacher: Well, it means you’re not pregnant, anyway.
(now outside)
Jack Reacher: It’s your last chance to walk away.
Jeb: Are you kidding? It’s five against one.
Reacher: It’s *three* against one.
Jeb: How do you figure?
Reacher: Well, once I take out the leader, which is you, I’ll have to contend with one or two enthusiastic wingmen. The last two guys, they always run away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu1MtT_S3bc
Hand-to-Hand: James Bond tie between From Russia With Love (train) and Diamonds Are Forever (elevator). Honorable mention: Torn Curtain (kitchen)
Car chase: Ronin. Honorable mention: The Driver
Gunfight: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly