Something on par with the sort of stupid discussion you’d hear in a bar or see at a convention.
Plus I’ve watched a few too many of those “Best (fill in the blanks) in movies.”
So I’ve decided we should collectively put together a list of the Twenty Best Úš-Kickings in movies
I took the precaution of running a goggle search on the subject and, sure enough, found someone had already put together such a list. But I consider his choices, for the most part, inadequate. So I want to put together a list that kicks the ášš of the other ášš-kicking list.
What do I mean by ášš-kickings? I mean a fight where someone gets his head handed to him, sometimes literally. An ášš-kicking that is iconic. That when you mention it, it immediately calls the moment to mind and you go, Oh God, yes, I remember that. It shouldn’t be a fight that’s going along fairly evenly matched and then someone wins at the end, such as the battle between Robin Hood and Sir Guy in “The Adventures of Robin Hood.” An ášš-kicking should, for the most part, be someone who is rapidly outmatched and gets more so by the moment. It can even be that the fight winds up turning out the other way, but in the course of it someone still gets their ášš kicked.
At this point, I’m not putting them in any order. Eventually, once I get a sense of the room, I will.
There are my thoughts:
BLADE RUNNER: Rick Dekkard versus Roy Batty. Bad enough that he almost dies between the muscular thighs of Darryl Hannah (which, let’s face it, there’s worse ways to go.) But Dekkard can muster little more than one long retreat before winding up at Batty’s mercy. If Batty had let go, Dekkard’s ášš is little more than grass.
MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL: King Arthur vs. the Black Knight. Rarely has someone’s ášš been more comprehensively kicked than the Black Knight. Yet even more famous than his dismemberment is his absolute refusal to acknowledge it. “It’s just a flesh wound,” has entered the language as an example of denial at its greatest.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: Indiana Jones versus the German Mechanic. Barely edging out Indy getting thrown out the front of a moving truck, this wins because in the truck sequence, Indy rallies and comes out on top. In the mechanic battle, staged in front of a moving airplane, Indy winds up flat on his back and helpless, and only wins because the mechanic didn’t think to look behind him when a propeller swung his way.
EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Luke vs. Vader. For much of the time, Luke seems overmatched, and yet there are brief moments where you think he’s going to rally. So it’s all the more crushing and shocking when he loses his hand. What kicks the ášš-kicking to an entirely new level is that, not only is he beaten physically, but the revelation of who did it crushes him spiritually.
WITNESS: John Book versus a bunch of punks. Harrison Ford finally on the right side of a whupping. When a bunch of smart mouth teens hassle the Amish, Book advances on them despite the caution that, “It’s not our way.” His terse, “But it’s MY way” underscores why he and Rachel will never make it together as he proceeds to issue the teens a single warning and then tap dances on their faces. Speaking of tap dancing…
CLOCKWORK ORANGE: Alex vs. the Author. The only ášš-kicking that is as famed for its perverse use of “Singing in the Rain” as the actual ášš-kicking itself.
ALIENS: Ripley vs. the Alien Queen. An ášš-kicking that announces itself in the unforgettable moment of Ripley emerging in a power loader and bellowing, “Get away from her, you bìŧçh!” No longer running, Ripley lays all her nightmares of aliens to rest by smacking, pummeling, burning, and crushing the queen before chucking her out of the ship, and all it costs her is a sneaker.
ROCKY II: Rocky vs. Apollo Creed. The other list acknowledges Apollo being killed by Ivan in Rocky III, but I’m sorry, if you’re going to have a Rocky-related ášš-kicking, then Rocky should be participating. The second film takes it because it’s a rare double ášš-kicking, with both boxers desperately crawling back to their corners.
DIE HARD: John McClane versus Karl. Pity poor Karl: He was just trying to avenge the death of his brother. Too bad his brother was one of the bad guys. Particularly memorable since it’s an ášš-kicking accompanied by what one would hear in a real-life ášš-kicking, namely an almost non-stop string of profanity. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bruce Willis ad libbed some of that family unfriendly diatribe as he pounds on Alexander Godunov before leaving him hanging by the neck. Props to Karl for surviving and almost having the last laugh…before getting his ášš kicked yet again courtesy of an alert cop blowing him away.
TERMINATOR II: The Terminator versus the T1000. Literally getting his head handed to him, Arnold’s iconic bionic gets slammed in the head repeatedly by an I-beam, then pummeled with a metal rod before getting speared through the chest. Yeah, sure, he blows up the T1000 at the end, but that hardly erases the thorough thrashing he took at the hands of the far smaller, but far meaner, T1000.
I have some other thoughts, but let’s see what you guys come up with.
PAD
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I’m probably in the minority here, but the last 30 minutes of the most recent Rambo movie kicked major ášš and I’m not even a fan of the Rambo movies but that was one brutal scene.
Also, as mentioned above Fight Club when Ed Norton’s character fights Brad Pitt’s character without even realizing he’s fighting himself.
R-
Some “bloodless” ášš-whippings:
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY: Classic man vs. machine; Dave Bowman dispatches HAL by pulling his memory circuits… Hal slowly fades away: “Dave, my mind is going… I can feel it…”
HEARTBREAK RIDGE: Sgt. Highway dispatches the huge, muscular “Swede” in one simple move.
If we’re talking ášš-whipings in Fight Club, I think the commanding one is the hurt that The Narrator puts on Angel Face about halfway through the movie. “I felt like destorying something beautiful.”
Bill Mulligan:
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I just wanted to second Ralphie vs. Scott Farkus from A Christmas Story and Ash vs. Hand.
It’s a shame that They Live doesn’t technically count, though.
Although this one is from a TV show, I believe it actually happened during the Family Guy Movie. It is Stewie beating the crap out of Brian while trying to collect his money. Here is a link if you’ve never seen it:
http://www.on9now.com/toons/familybeatup.html
Garrett
Good ones all around. (Especially kudos to those pointing out Sunny from the Godfather treating his brother in law to some knuckles. Awesome scene)
Now that I’ve seen Wanted I gotta add that one too, especially the scene at the end where he bursts through the factory’s windows….Holy Hairy Hannah that one made me postively giddy with pointless, violent glee.
Also, no one mentions Bruce Lee?? Enter the Dragon, where he kills more henchmen in one scene than James Bond in 3 movies?? His skill WAS extraordinary.
And one of the best movie fights I can recall was in Grosse Point Blank in the High School. Maybe too even for it to be an ášš kicking I guess. Great scene though.
Also: Sin City. Marv gets his ášš HANDED to him by Kevin.
Hmm…I think I’m gonna have to dip into anime territory for this one.
Ninja Scroll — While there are a lot of good fights in this movie, there’s really only one fight that can be called an ášš-kicking, which is the hero, Jubei, versus Genma, an old enemy. The problem is that while Jubei is fighting to kill, Genma has gained a healing factor that makes him essentially immortal.
The first half of the fight is essentially Jubei getting tossed around like a rag doll, with Genma finishing it up with a brutal non-stop beating that lasts about 30 seconds or so of screen time. That’s 30 seconds worth of punches, finished off by a roundhouse. And Jubei still won’t go down. In fact, I’d be willing to say the fight counts as two ášš-kickings in one, and you have to cheer when Jubei finally stages a comeback. Key line. “Genma, if you’re going to keep coming back from the dead, then I’ll kill you as many times as it takes!
Also Robot Chicken offers up “The World’s Most One-Sided Fights.”
There have also been a few great comic book ášš-kickings. Anyone remember the original New Warriors versus Terrax? Or Batman versus Superman in the Dark Knight Returns? For that matter, Batman’s rematch with the leader of the mutants in the same series. I think I’ll also include the fight between Earth-1 and Earth-2 Superman and Superboy Prime at the end of Final Crisis. A fight that comes down not to who is the strongest physically, but whose ideals and convictions are stronger.
James Bond vs. Oddjob in Goldfinger
James Bond vs. Red Grant and James Bond vs. the helicopter in From Russia With Love
James Bond at the beginning of Thunderball. He just plain beats a man to death.
Amazingly, no one has already entered my choices. OK, so my choices are not so obvious.
1.- Patricia Arquette vs James Gandolfini on “True Romance”. Also, Christian Slater vs. Gary Oldman in the same film. BUT if you can count a dialectic battle as an ášš-whupping, hands down the winner is the Dennis Hopper vs. Christopher Walken: when Hopper’s character realises he’s going to die, he decides to go laughing his ášš off those spaghetti bášŧárdš. Classic.
2.- Barry Pepper vs Edward Norton on “The 25th hour”. A guy “persuades” one of his best friends to give him a deadly beating, in order to get a quick and dirty anti-cosmetic surgery of sorts, just before entering prison. A compelling scene, because although Pepper’s character doesn’t want to hit Norton’s, finally all the sadness and the frustation provoked by Norton’s situation explodes, and Pepper beats THE HOLY CRAP out of him. It’s a hurtful scene, and not only because of the punches being dealt.
Hmm…I think I’m gonna have to dip into anime territory for this one.
Ninja Scroll — While there are a lot of good fights in this movie, there’s really only one fight that can be called an ášš-kicking, which is the hero, Jubei, versus Genma, an old enemy. The problem is that while Jubei is fighting to kill, Genma has gained a healing factor that makes him essentially immortal.
The first half of the fight is essentially Jubei getting tossed around like a rag doll, with Genma finishing it up with a brutal non-stop beating that lasts about 30 seconds or so of screen time. That’s 30 seconds worth of punches, finished off by a roundhouse. And Jubei still won’t go down. In fact, I’d be willing to say the fight counts as two ášš-kickings in one, and you have to cheer when Jubei finally stages a comeback. Key line. “Genma, if you’re going to keep coming back from the dead, then I’ll kill you as many times as it takes!
Also Robot Chicken offers up “The World’s Most One-Sided Fights.”
There have also been a few great comic book ášš-kickings. Anyone remember the original New Warriors versus Terrax? Or Batman versus Superman in the Dark Knight Returns? For that matter, Batman’s rematch with the leader of the mutants in the same series. I think I’ll also include the fight between Earth-1 and Earth-2 Superman and Superboy Prime at the end of Final Crisis. A fight that comes down not to who is the strongest physically, but whose ideals and convictions are stronger.
My additions:
“The Naked Prey.” One man’s race for his life.
The Michael York “Three Musketeers.” Fun movie fact. You’ll notice the fight scenes with Oliver Reed are some what shorter than those with other actors. Seems Mr. Reed was a bit over enthusiastic with the fights.
Leon ( aka The Professional): Leon vs. EEEEEEEEEEVREYONE!!
Dune: his name is a killing word.
Unforgiven
The ( original) Hitcher
King Kong: takes on TWO T-rexes bare handed while holding on to his girlfriend yeah ok he’s big and strong …but jeeze.
Oooh, some good ones. I’d like to add another vote for
THE PUNISHER – The Castle vs. Russian fight was wicked brutal.
Ang Lee’s HULK – He cuts through the military like a two-year-old rampaging through a stack of tinker toys.
LEON aka THE PROFESSIONAL – They send every cop in the district to corner this one man in his apartment, and he proceeds to meticulously tear them apart. Stunning.
Now for a new one … Willem Dafoe’s unforgettable run in PLATOON.
Howzabout–dare I say it–Home Alone? Mac Culkin vs. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, in an ášš-whuppin’ that lasts about a third of the entire movie.
Wolverine vs. an entire platoon of soldiers attacking the mansion in X2 would probably qualify as well.
I think a lot of people misunderstand what Peter meant here, as some of the examples cited don’t fit the definition he gave.
Anyway, my suggestion is from Robin and Marian: the Sheriff of Nottingham (Robert Shaw) is reading in his chamber at the top of a tower, when he hears something he doesn’t like from the practice field below. He looks out, then descends to the field and takes a sword. He is unarmored. He points at three of the armored knights in training: “You, you, and you. Come at me.” The three attack. Using only the flat of the sword, he takes all three of them out in less than twenty seconds, plunges the point of the sword into the mud and says, “That’s how it’s done.”
Second example: Kirk vs. Khan at the climax of “Space Seed”.
Shatner, incidentally, once told on The Tonight Show of how as a youth he was caught stealing apples from an orchard by the farmer, who literally kicked his ášš. He said a hard boot, delivered with the full strength of an adult man to the back end of a young teen is extremely painful, and he still remembered that pain some forty years later.
JAWS: Naked chick vs. man eating shark. Guess who wins?
ROBOCOP: Oh, those wacky OCP execs, trying to show off thier fancy new ED-209 machine by having poor Kinney wave around a gun, have ED-209 train its giagantic weapons on him, and then, hopefully, turn the robot off. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planed and then, Oh My God, ED-209 killed Kinney! You bášŧárdš! Here’s a tip: when showing off your fancy killing machine robot in a corporate boardroom DON’T BLOODY LOAD THE THING’S WEAPONRY!
CATWOMAN: The only ášš that got kicked was Hallie Berry’s career.
AMERICAN HISTORY X: Two words: Curb. Stomp. Euch.
MALLRATS: Jay and Silent Bob feed it to the Easter Bunny while horrified kids look on, screaming. Happy Easter, bunny!
SNAKES ON A PLANE: Samuel L. Jackson has HAD IT with these Muthaf%&$in snakes on this muthaf&%$@in plane!! He shoots a hole in the window, snakes go flying out, movie is over in five minutes. (Bonus ášš-kicking: the upper class twit who thinks he can appease the giant python by feeing it a small dog. No can do, jack. Chomp chomp.)
RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE: Possible one of the coolest ášš kickings come when a hapless trio are cornered by two mutated lickers, but, at the nick of time, Mila Jolovich takes care of it in the most effective, simple way possible: she rides a motorcycle through a window, crashes it into the licker, the licker/motorcycle goes flying into the air, and she shoots it and blows the whole gáŧ-dámņ thing up, taking care of licker (however leaving her temporarily without a motorcycle, which would probably come in handy in a city overrun by zombies, but it was totally worth it for the slow-mo mutant explosion)
TITANIC: Guy falls off boat, hits a propeller, and spins all the way down to his death in the icy deep below. The moral of the story? ALWAYS LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP, KIDS!
Peter
As far as I remember, Apollo is killed by Ivan in Rocky IV, not III. In III (Eye of the tiger), both fights would qualify, especially the final one between Balboa and Clubber Lang (the ever-lovable Mr. T).
JC
Master & Commander: Acheron vs. Surprise (at the film’s opening). The first encounter between with the French Privateer sees the Surprise smashed to firewood, while her cannonballs bounce off Acheron’s hull.
Mal vs. The Operative in Serenity – both fights are rather one-sided until the surprise ending.
Tony Stark vs. Obadiah in Ironman – let’s face it, the final battle was basically Tony getting smashed to a pulp.
For bloodiest ášš kicking, I’d have to nominate the brawl in Gangs of New York, probably the most violent film I’ve ever seen – worse than History of Violence, which, for its title, was not necessarily that violent compared to a lot of others.
Another generation heard from:
John Wayne vs Victor McLaglen in 1952’s “The Quiet Man”…
Go. Rent. Enjoy.
Cheers.
Any Tony Jaa movie is a crash course in ášš kickery but in keeping with our definition here I’ll nominate Tom-Yum-Goong aka The Protector. Jaa fights up 5 flights of stairs in a casino in an incredible one-take uninterrupted shot beating up a few score men in the process, only a few of which get in even the slightest offense (unless surprised expressions and the Thai word for “Shìŧ!” count as offense).
My contributions:
Serenity – River Tam versus the Reavers. I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned this yet. It gives me goosebumps every time I see it. (“You take care of me, Simon. You’ve always taken care of me. …My turn.”)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Jen Yu versus dozens of customers in a restaurant. (“I am the Invincible Sword Goddess!”) Memorable because it’s the one time she unambiguously kicks ášš; she’s better than 99.999% of the fighters out there, and this is the only point in the movie where she isn’t going up against the remaining 0.001%.
There Will Be Blood – Daniel versus Eli, during the “I Drink Your Milkshake” scene. Death by bowling. Just for the sheer weirdness of it. (“I am the Third Revelation! I toooooold you I would eat you!”)
The 1st Die Hard. John McClain gets shot at, punched out, has broken glass in his feet and still kicks Alexander Godunov’s ášš.
RE: A Christmas Story. The kid is named Scut Farkas, not Scott. Jean Shepherd had the strangest names for kids ever. You are forgiven for not knowing that if you’ve never read the books, but not forgiven for not reading them. Hilarity ensues.
Charles Bronson beats the šhìŧ out of a snitch in ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST; the guy never even comes close to laying a hand on him.
I will read more of the thread before bringing up others…
Charles Bronson beats the šhìŧ out of a snitch in ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST; the guy never even comes close to laying a hand on him.
I will read more of the thread before bringing up others…
how can you honestly mention indiana jones and not mention his duel with the swordsmen?
also wasn’t it FIST OF THE NORTHSTAR (my friend made me watch it, i hate anime) where the “bad guy” beats the “good guy” so throughly that he feels sorry for him and lets him live….stupidest thing ever…come to think of it…thats the reason i hate anime.
Second that astounding fight in OLDBOY.
But, y’know…the all-time greatest kicking of ášš in any movie EVER, EVER…I mean it, ‘cuz I’ve seen a lot of movies…is Harold Lloyd kicking the ášš of a bully who has made his life miserable in GRANDMA’S BOY. A silent movie. He takes one indignity too many and knocks the guy around a barn for ten minutes. I know the chances are next to nil that anybody else here has seen it, but it is awesome. (There is another great one, absolutely marvelous, ending his film THE KID BROTHER — a weakling vs. a murderous circus strong man, when all the weakling has is absolute refusal to go down. Nor is the weakling allowed to have a sudden adrenaline rush of superhuman strength. Half the battle is outlasting the guy. Maybe twenty minutes on film. Jump up and down and cheer time. If you haven’t seen these two movies you need to check them out right away.)
Oh, and another great one? Probably number two on my list? Toshiro Mifune against the street gang, at the end of YOJIMBO. He has had the šhìŧ knocked out of him and has spent some long painful time recovering. He is just one guy with a sword walking down the center of the street toward a bunch of other guys with swords, and one who has a pistol. The guy with the pistol, who has always been unduly proud of it, takes it from his sash and smiles that same smug smile he’s always flashed before shooting somebody. Cut to Mifune, not breaking stride, the rage burning in his eyes. Cut back to the guy to the gun…and he’s no longer smiling. He looks…afraid.
Wonderful moment, that. Last time I saw the movie on DVD, I replayed it three times, including once in slow motion. That’s an oh-šhìŧ, I’m-about-to-face-the-wrath-of-God moment.
And it isn’t HALF as good as what happens next, when the two sides meet and fight: one of the greatest fights in film history, and it lasts, I think, about three seconds. There’s no slow motion, no long extended clash of swords. There’s just Mifune erupting in a blur of movement, too fast to see (though in real-time); the gun going off, bodies falling, and Mifune the last man standing at the end of it. It’s another moment that rewards the use of the frame-by-frame feature, because you’ll want to see just how the hëll he did that. But one thing’s for sure. None of those guys had a chance in hëll.
They Live – an epic beatdown going back and forth, including multiple full body-weight reproduction career-ending nuttings.
Fight Club – Tyler’s total lack of defense and just taking the beating from Sal in order to keep the basement. How does he win? I whole face full of blood and fear of dry cleaning bills.
Cool Hand Luke – Just not knowing when to stay down
Shogun Assassin (Lone Wolf and Cub) – bloody mayhem
Starship Troopers – First few soldier bugs against unprepared troopers – a potent brew of then cutting edge CGI and the complete lack of acting talent that could be afforded after cutting edge CGI consumed the budget
Hard Boiled – Laying siege to an operating hospital – this may not fit the beatdown criteria, but it should go down as the top colateral damage film of all times
Tony Jaa, Protector, the last, what, 30 minutes? After he sees the skeleton. The crowd fight thru the giant(s) fight. He gets his ášš kicked for all of 5 minutes, mostly slo mo, while he absorbs what happened.
Then he gets pìššëd.
#1: the printer in Office Space, by the three main characters. (my wife’s contribution)
#2: Neo & Trinity vs. the security guards in the skyscraper at the end of the Matrix
#3: Beast vs. Gaston, Beauty & The Beast
#4: Crash Davis taking down Nuke LaLoosh in the beginning of “Bull Durham”
One more, definitely one of the top five of all time, and yeah, once again I wager that it’s not one many of you have seen, though you oughta.
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK. Starring Spencer Tracy, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan.
New guy in town, Tracy, is minding his business in a diner. For reasons we need not explicate, the town toughs have been giving him a hard time all day. Now Borgnine, who has the size and weight advantage (and one more I’ll mention in a moment) wants to provoke a fight with him, mostly because it will provide an excuse to kill him.
He gets his wish.
Tracy beats the living crap out of him.
It is not a fight. Borgnine never lays a hand on him. Tracy is never in trouble at any point. Tracy doesn’t even move all that much. He just stands his ground in the middle of the room, lets an increasingly bruised Borgnine lunge at him again and again…and repeatedly smacks him down, hard, barely exerting himself. This in full view of all the other bullies who have been waiting for this to happen. (Lee Marvin, a pretty formidable movie tough guy himself, looks pretty dámņ unnerved.)
It ends, of course, with Borgnine face down in the street.
And here’s the great part.
Tracy’s character has only one arm.
As a child, Lone Wolf McQuade left a huge impression on me. When the bad guy killed Norris’ pet wolf, I wanted him to pay. And the final fight scene was cool because the bad guy was winning… until he shot Norris’ woman and that just pìššëd Norris off!
Number Six in “Living In Harmony”
In no particular order:
Sonny Corleone deals with his wife-beating brother-in-law in “THE GODFATHER”
Chuck Norris gets revenge on the man who not only imprisoned him but burned his friend alive in “MISSING IN ACTION 2: THE BEGINNING”
Arnold Schwarzenegger lets Bennett, the man who kidnaped his daughter, “let off some steam in “COMMANDO”
A skateboard disagreement leads to someone getting a skateboard beatdown in “KIDS”
Gene Hackman lays down the law on English Bob in “UNFORGIVEN”
The Italian Stallion takes down his protege out in the street in “ROCKY V”
Bruce Lee crushes Chuck Norris in “GAME OF DEATH”
Oh yeah, and Gunny Highway beating the crap out of a fat, obnoxious cellmate AND humiliating Major Powers in “HEARTBREAK RIDGE”
You’re right about that BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK fight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwkBYDjcUaY
I was always partial to the Superman fights himself scene in Superman 3. The fight in the junkyard is the most memorible part of the whole movie.
Okay, Monty Python and the Holy Grail was mentioned, but I’m suprised nobody mentioned the other major ášš-kicking:
A dozen armed and armored knights.
One cute and fluffy white bunny rabbit.
KISS OF THE DRAGON- Jet Li vs an entire room full of guys armed with clubs. Jet Li goes through them without breaking a sweat.
Okay I think I am going out on a limb here but….
AIRPLANE!!!!!
Panicking Lady vs The Rest of The Plane
How about The Bride vs. the Crazy 88s in Kill Bill, Part 1?
“Those of you lucky enough to have your lives, take them with you. However, leave the limbs you’ve lost. They belong to me now.”
I think that the biggest ášš kicking in Princess Bride is Westley versus Fezzik.
Moviewise the one that comes to mind probably does so because it’s fresh, Ben Browder in the recent stargate sg-1 DTV escapade. To be fair though as a farscape fan no one takes an ášš-kicking as well as he does.
Reading PADs original post though brought about the memory of my favorite ášš-kicking of all time. Which unfortunately came from a comic so wouldn’t make this list. Batman vs. Superman at the end of Dark Knight Returns. “I want you to remember in all your years to come, in your quiet moments. I want you to remember my hand at your throat… I want you to remember the one man who beat you.”
well, the black knight scene in holy grail wins. it really does.
but there’s also the boxing episode in battlestar, the cripple fight homage from south park, the wrenching shingen smack down in wolvie’s limited series (and the very satisfactory SNIKT in the rematch).
also, didn’t juliette lewis actually break tom sizemore’s nose in NBK? that ought to count for something…
Speaking of discussing something pointless, I wish to comment on X-Factor #32. We can has comment thread, plz?
THEY CALL ME TRINITY and TRINITY IS STILL MY NAME both had some good funny one sided butt-whoopings in them.
Godzilla vs every monster ever in GODZILLA FINAL WARS.
Bill Mulligan at July 1, 2008 11:49 PM
people mention THEY LIVE and while it is a fight of extreme awesomosity it’s too evenly matched to qualify as a true ášš kicking as PAD defined it.
True, but if PAD can count the double beat-down in ROCKY II then by FSM THEY LIVE should be included.
PERFECT WEAPON – Jeff Speakman’s mentor has just been killed. Jeff on foot chases the car but of course loses it. And while he’s standing there, upset and pìššëd øff, four young toughs decide it’s a good time to try and take his wallet.
Starts at 1:10 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUniFTJiCRQ
The recent Donnie Yen flick Flashpoint features a fight between him and Colin Chou that lasts about 8 minutes and features both guys slamming each other around, taking some absolutely painful looking falls and slapping some pretty ouch worthy grappling takedowns.
Then there’s the “Tony Jaa fights three guys in bar” scene from Ong Bak, which climaxes with the last guy just grabbing whatever he can, including a neon sign and mini-fridge and smashing it into Tony.
I echo both John Wayne vs Victor McLaglen in 1952’s “The Quiet Man” and The Bride vs. the Crazy 88s.