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Swords, guns, spaceships, horses, lances whatever it is lets see your thoughts on the greatest duels in cinema!
No armies, no legions, no fleets, just a few standing there to duel and fight it out!



And yeah I'll start the bar nice and high with the fantastic duel at the end of A Few Dollars More. A powerful end of the film that's been building its way toward this final confrontation. This final few moments






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Its anime and not a film, but the end of Trigun is a favorite of mine. Particularly when it comes to the way they use the cylinders on the revolvers and how it comes down to a great "bet you forgot that was there" kind of moment. Anime honestly has some of the best duels out there, but the end of Trigun remains one of the best.
   
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This thread must have Kmicic vs Wołodyjowski duel - the most accurate sabre duel ever filmed (from 3:50):


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Just about any of the lightsaber duels from any of the Star Wars movies (except TLJ) would fit. My personal favorite of all of these is Qui-gon Jinn and Obi-wan Kenobi vs. Darth Maul, as seen in The Phantom Menace. Hate on that movie all you want, that fight was amazing!

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The Duelists from 1977 with Harvey Kietel is a pretty great movie about sword fighting......

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Inigo Montoya vs the Man in Black!


/thread. No further response needed.

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 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Inigo Montoya vs the Man in Black!


/thread. No further response needed.


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 ZergSmasher wrote:
Just about any of the lightsaber duels from any of the Star Wars movies (except TLJ) would fit. My personal favorite of all of these is Qui-gon Jinn and Obi-wan Kenobi vs. Darth Maul, as seen in The Phantom Menace. Hate on that movie all you want, that fight was amazing!


It had great choreography and visuals, but as a storyline it was IMO pretty weak sauce - the fight had no flow or proper idea behind it, characters had no believable motivations, it was just wushu for sake of wushu. Compared to hugely emotional confrontation in RotJ, it fell flat. Though, it is still better than any of the subsesquent prequel duels.

My all-time favourites include subway station fight in first Matrix between Neo and Agent Smith - great directing and story of the fight between Smith's machine-like power and execution and Neo's superhuman abilities and obtained skill and form. Even better is duel between Jen and Shu Lien in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - great character motivations they built an entire movie before it, and excellent inner storyline where Shu Lien's superior experience meets Jen's unbeatable magic sword.

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Aragorn vs Lurtz is one of my favourite one-on-one fights, I remember the first time watching Fellowship in my early teens and thinking it was awesome, and I still do!





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He's the one he fights at the end of this scene. Technically though he's not an ork.



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The best one because it's so unexpected but so obvious when you think of it:

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Either the final gunfight in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, the pond fight in Roadhouse, or the final fight in Karate Kid Part 2.

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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is virtually Epic Duels: The Anime series, but I think the one that stand out for me is the D'Arby "battle" in part 3. It's barely even a physical fight, instead being a poker game with the souls of the heroes at stake, fought through a battle of nerves and psychological warfare. It marks the spot where the series started getting really creative and experimental with the idea of what a "fight" could even be.

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All this time and no Star Wars either. Duel of the Fates is the low hanging fruit but Vader and Luke (either) are certainly up there with the best.
   
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 LunarSol wrote:
All this time and no Star Wars either. Duel of the Fates is the low hanging fruit but Vader and Luke (either) are certainly up there with the best.


Well, yes, but it’s competing w/ the Princess Bride duel. Then again, people started adding in trash that is anime, and the thread took a nose dive.

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