Lanmandragon
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Something kind of ironic aboit the matrix. Is the "slow mo" bullet dodging the movies famous for. Were actually done by blade first.
Awesome Fight Scenes You Remember From Fiction
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Something kind of ironic aboit the matrix. Is the "slow mo" bullet dodging the movies famous for. Were actually done by blade first.
PsihoKekec
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Heat, bank robbery and the shootout
Clint Eastwood dual wielding MP-40s in Where Eagles Dare
The Way of The Gun finale against retiree division of the assasin league
Clint Eastwood dual wielding MP-40s in Where Eagles Dare
The Way of The Gun finale against retiree division of the assasin league
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Human Primacy
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Remember when Ender kicked that kid in the balls so hard it killed him?
PsihoKekec
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Wasn't it actually the headbutt that killed him?
SergeantBrother
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Ender's headbutt killed the kid, the ball kick was a hint at the damage caused by the headbutt because the boy didn't even react to it.
Human Primacy
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I think there were two kids he killed. I choose to remember that one of them was from the ball kick.
SergeantBrother
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The other one died from multiple kicks to the head while he was on the ground.
Argent
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I had to look it is up but you are right. I think a lot of it is that Bladel and its squeals as a whole are generally forgettable movies. Not bad but compared to other superhero movies like Spiderman or X-men most people don't remember Blade. Not to mention everyone knows that Black Panther is the first black superhero and that just came out last year.
The Martix on the other hand is going to be a classic movie. Not only for the special effects but the way it encompassed a lot of the cultural themes and attitudes of the late 90's and early 2000's.
While maybe not exactly new Crouching Hidden Dragon introduced wire fu to a new generation and showed off a lot of Kung Fu movies staples to a western audience that only had Karate Kid.
Then managed to make the fight look like a dance. It is a different type of fight scene from the Hollywood gun fights or the Western rough and tumble bar brawl.
One of the gun battles in an action movie I find comparable to Heat is from Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.
Amazing Western. Amazing movie and the film itself begins and ends with amazing action scenes.
Amazing Western. Amazing movie and the film itself begins and ends with amazing action scenes.
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Awesomely awful. 
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This remains the most perfectly epic example of a European duel that I know, to contrast with the most perfectly epic Japanese duel (and both equally wonderfully choreographed) in Sword of Desperation.
PsihoKekec
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And so much woe would be avoided if he had a good grace to die of his wound.
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Indeed! But the days of Ogniem i Mieczem were not to be avoided, they were written as fate...
prinCZess
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Two men do their best to hit each other's swords instead of each other for two-and-a-half minutes.
As questionable as 'Flynning' looks from a modern perspective...It still kind of works I think? The bombastic swells and the like in the music and the way the actors look like they're enjoying themselves and 'into' things in the role of pirates at least always made it one I recall, and there's no question that the old 'smack each other's sword' school of Hollywood fight-scene choreography had lasting influence (The fight between Vader and Kenobi in Episode IV as the obvious example).
Contrast that with a more modern example I recall:
Still has some signs of the dramatic, flashy to it, but also focuses things down a lot more so that it looks much more like the characters are trying to hit one another rather than one another's swords--the extended number of long pauses in particular gives ever exchange a little more 'weight' to it so each exchange feels like it might decide things...Which, as someone with as much experience with swords as with hyperdrive generators, at least seems more like the 'feeling' there should be in a swordfight.
To jump off swordfighting:
Sure it came long after the 'death' of Western as a genre, and there's some degree of...almost-cheese...in Tombstone (I would argue adding to things rather than detracting). But I still love the setup of the fight in Tombstone with the panning face-shots that always get used in Westerns to build tension...Especially when the tension gets called out and broken by Val Kilmer's character with his little wink right before things kick off.
Plus, Sam Elliot's amazing mustache (and Sam Elliot) are fun to see in anything.
As questionable as 'Flynning' looks from a modern perspective...It still kind of works I think? The bombastic swells and the like in the music and the way the actors look like they're enjoying themselves and 'into' things in the role of pirates at least always made it one I recall, and there's no question that the old 'smack each other's sword' school of Hollywood fight-scene choreography had lasting influence (The fight between Vader and Kenobi in Episode IV as the obvious example).
Contrast that with a more modern example I recall:
Still has some signs of the dramatic, flashy to it, but also focuses things down a lot more so that it looks much more like the characters are trying to hit one another rather than one another's swords--the extended number of long pauses in particular gives ever exchange a little more 'weight' to it so each exchange feels like it might decide things...Which, as someone with as much experience with swords as with hyperdrive generators, at least seems more like the 'feeling' there should be in a swordfight.
To jump off swordfighting:
Sure it came long after the 'death' of Western as a genre, and there's some degree of...almost-cheese...in Tombstone (I would argue adding to things rather than detracting). But I still love the setup of the fight in Tombstone with the panning face-shots that always get used in Westerns to build tension...Especially when the tension gets called out and broken by Val Kilmer's character with his little wink right before things kick off.
Plus, Sam Elliot's amazing mustache (and Sam Elliot) are fun to see in anything.
It's the 13th Boss Battle in the excellent game Shadows of the Colossus. Basically facing down a giant Sand Dragon... known as Phalanx aka 'The Snake' aka 'Aeris velivolus' if your feeling fancy. For many players it is their favorite Colossus battle (of the sixteen that make up the game). It is suitable epic In a game known for every enemy encounter as being epic in scale.
The creature isn't summoned until almost 7:00 into the video.
The creature isn't summoned until almost 7:00 into the video.
PsihoKekec
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Big shootout from the Extreme Prejudice (also spoils the plot twist), influence by Wild Bunch shows.
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Wait there was an 80's action movie with Michael Is inside, Nick Nolte and a Clancy Brown (whom I could only recognize from his damnable distinctive voice) AND Officer Dan from Married With Children with a Wild Bunch inspired shootout At the end and somehow I never heard about it until now???
Damn... I shouldn't of seen the video in the first place but how would I never know then about this film?
ShadowsOfParadox
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do you like feeeeeels in your epic fights?