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2019/03/06 22:11:04
Subject: Oh, it’s a fight is it? The finest scenes of fisticuffs.
Lum wrote: Virtually all the fights in pretty much every Bud Spencer/Terence Hill movie. The beefy punch sounds, the signature moves. Sure, absolutely not to be taken seriously, but I still enjoy them immensly.
Though, for the record: I am not surd how good they hold up in any language but german. Afaik, thr german synchronisation added quite a bit of dialogue.
Here's a classic, and one of the first scenes in a movie ever to feature CGI:
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2019/03/12 10:46:40
Subject: Re:Oh, it’s a fight is it? The finest scenes of fisticuffs.
In my opinion, a great fight scene is more about interwoven storylines leading to it, and during to it, rather than kick-ass choreography (although that matters, too). This is why original Star Wars lightsaber battles (ESB and RotJ at least) are so great, and why the prequel fights are much less so. Basically, a fight scene, especially one which climaxes the movie (or show, book, comic) should have gripping outer storyline, basically explaining why these people fight, and also inner storyline, which explains what and why happens in the fight. This is something you see a lot in Pro wrestling, a match is set up by feud and then resolved using what is often called 'in-ring psychology'.
One of the best fight scenes ever is the climatic fight scene between Shu Lien and Jen Yu in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
This fight has TONS of things going on. First, the backstory to the fight is very complicated, but basically they envy each other: Shu Lien is estabilished martial artist who was never quite allowed to break the glass ceiling in male-dominated martial arts world. Jen is upper-class girl who hates her restricted life but has secretly trained martial arts and is super-talented in it, so much that she is handed an opportunity Shu Lien never got. They try to be friends but fail because Shu Lien is too bitter and Jen is too petulant. Oh, and Jen stole the magic sword from Shu Lien's master.
But in addition to that, the fight has an inner storyline: as opponents they are quite well matched, perhaps Shu Lien being slightly better because of her experience and strength. But Jen has a magic sword which will defeat any ordinary weapon. So Shu Lien has to literally go through her entire arsenal and try every trick in the book and come up with new ones if she wants to have a chance. It is just pure liquid genius.
And, by the way, this movie is real girl power, not some overpaid producer or actor or talking head lecturing to people how you are chauvinist if you hate their movie.
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2019/03/12 15:27:17
Subject: Re:Oh, it’s a fight is it? The finest scenes of fisticuffs.
Sergeant Morse has gone down to London to check out the office of a murdered private detective. When he gets there, he is mistaken by two local bent cops for this detective, and they tie him to a chair to beat him up for info.
Morse's boss, the middle-aged, slightly podgy, trilby wearing Detective Inspector Thursday arrives and gets Morse free, then goes to confront the London police by himself. (Thursday in fact is an an ex-commando and secret agent from WW2.)
"Are you going to tell me what this is all about, or am I going to have to take my hat off?"
The camera cuts away. There's a couple of thuds and a groan.
In the next shot, Thursday wipes his hands, hands a knuckle duster to Morse and tells him to hang on to it, it might come in useful.
Bone crunching ridiculous slapstick, guaranteed to raise a smile. Well, for me anyway. Ditto Vyv and Rik.
And Vic and Bob, with their comedy frying pans. I remember being in the comedy tent at Reading '95 watching some terrible act that involved the "comedian" swearing at a glove puppet. He was rapidly bottled offstage (that's how awful he was, that people who'd paid £4 a pint at festival prices were willing to throw them at this guy), and the gap in the schedule was partly filled by two audience embers standing up and hitting each other repeatedly over the head with empty plastic Coke bottles.
2019/03/13 11:31:53
Subject: Oh, it’s a fight is it? The finest scenes of fisticuffs.
One of the best UFC bouts I've ever seen was the first Forrest Griffin v Stephan Bonner in the TUF finale. Neither of them stop until the very end, and you can see when someone shouts last 2 minutes they both nod at each other and go all out. theres so much heart shown, and its all love and respect between the 2, which is how MMA should be in my opinion. This was about 12 years ago now, but if you can find it on youtube its definitely worth watching. their rematch was the same.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Film wise, Ong bak/Tom Yum Goong with Tony Jaa, have some of the best acrobatic martial arts I've ever seen
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2019/03/13 12:05:28
Subject: Re:Oh, it’s a fight is it? The finest scenes of fisticuffs.
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2019/03/14 13:02:56
Subject: Oh, it’s a fight is it? The finest scenes of fisticuffs.
Bone crunching ridiculous slapstick, guaranteed to raise a smile. Well, for me anyway. Ditto Vyv and Rik.
And Vic and Bob, with their comedy frying pans. I remember being in the comedy tent at Reading '95 watching some terrible act that involved the "comedian" swearing at a glove puppet. He was rapidly bottled offstage (that's how awful he was, that people who'd paid £4 a pint at festival prices were willing to throw them at this guy), and the gap in the schedule was partly filled by two audience embers standing up and hitting each other repeatedly over the head with empty plastic Coke bottles.
for the uninitiated....DIRTY BOY!
Please. Please don't make us explain Reeves and Mortimer!
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I remember being in the comedy tent at Reading '95 watching some terrible act that involved the "comedian" swearing at a glove puppet. He was rapidly bottled offstage (that's how awful he was, that people who'd paid £4 a pint at festival prices were willing to throw them at this guy), and the gap in the schedule was partly filled by two audience embers standing up and hitting each other repeatedly over the head with empty plastic Coke bottles. 
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