best action sequences
 

to coincide with the action movies thread .. there are some outstanding action sequences i love .. (not always neccessary in an action film)


- Terminator 3 ... the town demolishing crane sequence

- terminator 2 - hard to pick just one

- the abyss - the chain of events sequence starting with the crane falling off the ship in the storm

- the freeway sequence in Final Destination 2

- the car chase in To Live and Die In LA

- anything that involved the dinos in Jacksons King Kong

- the fight sequence between Cusack and the assassin in Grosse Point Blank (probably the most realistic fight sequence ever filmed)

- the bridge crossing scene in Sorceror where you had to sit through it twice...



i'm partial to unrelenting action scenes that are realistic - that play out probably just as they would if the events were happening in real life (given the absurdity of time travel and killer robots..etc)

The fight scene between Roddy Piper & Keith David in "They Live".

The last fifteen minutes of Equilibrium.

The car chase in Bullet or The French Connection [they don't do car chases anymore, like they did in the 70's ]

A couple "on foot" chase scenes
in "Nemesis".

The "hammer time" scene in Oldboy

The duel in the falling leaves in Hero

Travis Bickle's mad rampage in Taxi Driver

The first fifteen minutes in "Saving Pvt. Ryan".

The gun fight in the bar in "Desparado".

ron jeremy and amber lynn in ......


uh, nevermind.

One of the most realistic fights scenes [imo] was with Matt Damon and er....the other guy..in the apartment in
The Bourne Supremacy

The battle at Helms Deep in" LOTR-Two Towers".

the bathromm/hallway fight in Danny the Dog/Unleased was pretty good too ..

(at the risk of this becoming a best fight scene thread)

i dont like a lot of fight scenes .. they are almost always the same damn thing ...


which is why the Grosse Point Blank one stands out in my mind as an action scene .. more than just a fight scene (but thats just my point of view)

not necisarly realistic but i liked them,

the big hit- hotel scene
hard boiled- the tea house, warehouse, boat, and hospital scenes
shanghi noon- the native american fight
the contract killer- jet vs. the frenchmen #1
kiss of the dragon- the hotel scene and chip shop
the crow- the metting
a history of violence- the coffie shop, tom/joeys house, and richies house
the replacement killers- the movie theater
collateral- club fever
the last samurai- when tom returns to town, the first battle, the ninja attack, and the final battle.
mission impossible 2- the bio lab scene, the motorcycle chase, and the beach fight.
walking tall( remake)- the casino scene #1 and #2
the bourne identity- any
the bourne supremacy- any
x-men 2- the school seige
the hunted- any
blade- any
blade 2- any
blade 3- any
leathel weapon- riggs vs. the mr. joshua
wasabi- the mall and the golf range scenes
the crimson rivers- vincent cassel vs. the gang
the crimson rivers 2- reda( benoit magimel) vs. the dru dealer.

there are more but not now.