Posted on 10/12/2015 9:47:50 AM PDT by A Navy Vet
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I'll start off with in no certain order;
Handfights: A toss up but lean towards "Fight Club".
Gunfights: "Open Range"
Car chases: "Fast & Furious" franchise.
Agreed. South Park did a parody of that fight between the handicapped kids. It was hysterical.
clint eastwood in The Good The Bad and The Ugly
The Father and Son shootout in the movie with Sharron STone, Decaprio and Gene Hackman- can’t remember name- The father shoots his son and the son says soemthign like “Wow, that was fast”
Another excellent gun battle scene was Doc Shooting the outlaw before Wyatt showed up- Val Kilmer was Doc- Shots the man in one of the best ‘draw scenes’ I’ve ever seen (although Charles Bronson had a great one too In the movie where he played a harmonica just three notes)- anyway- Doc tells the fella “You aint no Daisy” or something like that
They did an excellent job filiming that draw scene-
Best really, really short fight scene: Charles Bronson’s first fight in “Hard Times.” (”Ain’t you a little old for this, pops?”)
The Quick and the Dead
"I'm your huckleberry"
Fair, but do yourself a favor and Google "Fast & Furious" +car stunts. I just did. The vast majority of those stunts were real world which I already knew. My problem with car crashes in movies is when they blow up like they had pounds of C-4 in them. Stupid crap for 16 year old boys.
Car chase: The Bourne Identity.
Not a fancy car at all, but wow! What a ride! as he cooly slides to a stop in the underground parking garage.
The first fight scene, when Jason realizes ‘they’ are sending assassins to kill him, was very well done!
Another good fight was Arnold v. that female Terminator.
As for the car chases, I not only rule out CGI, but also any where the “ooh-ah” factor is created by editing. On that basis I rule out any of the F&F series, as entertaining as they are.
I think the last great car chases to meet this standard (and had three of them) was “Ronin.” Walter Hill’s “The Driver” also has multiple quality chase scenes.
My favorite part: Right after the first shooting, when the bad guys scatter, Costner picks up the head bad guys rifle. (Only guy smart enough to bring a rifle to a gunfight!) Costner starts by putting another shot into one of the bad guys on the ground, who was only wounded. Never leave a live enemy behind you!
once upon a tiem I nthe west
Charles Bronson; You Brought Two Too Many
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XkHsinz7oU
(skip ahead to about 1:50)
one of my favorite street shootemup scenes of all time, fro m same movie
Once Upon a Time in the West (5/8) Movie CLIP - That Strange Sound Right Now (1968) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vUcfymkjNY
I know. It would take a few more movies before he got himself killed - in a freak accident. It reminds me of the movie “The Omen” the way it happened.
That was a great movie.
“They call them billions”
Okay, but you should remember that the characters in the series are professional car thieves and street racers and not Joe-Six-Pack. You may want to check out this url: http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/04/secrets-behind-the-three-most-amazing-stunts-in-furious-7
That and other things I've read verify that the vast majority of F&F car stunts are real. Not saying the franchise is all that good...just saying the car stunts are real-time and real-world. Of course when the sequence shows the driver behind the wheel with the scenery whizzing past, it is green screen. Best.
There was a story in Errol Flynn’s autobiography “My Wicked, Wicked Ways” where he saw a very young just arrived from Ireland Maureen O’Hara in the studio commissary and on a dare went up and copped a feel. She slugged him like a trained middleweight. The lady was, and still is, a lady. If you ever watch the 1930’s “Hunchback of Notre Dame” you’ll see how she looked at that time, age 19 ... spectacular. When she did the Quiet Man with Wayne she was 32 and He was 45.
+1,000,000
James Bond ‘Die Another Day’ sword fighting sequence.
Probably one of the best made for TV movies ever. A thrilling exciting small movie by Steven Spielberg. Remind me the actor's name. He played Marshall Dillon's sidekick in the Gunsmoke TV series. Tired of Googling, poor me.
Dennis Weaver
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