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#4448717 - 11/14/18 06:28 PM Some great melee combat scenes from films  
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What are some of the best war melee combat scenes you've seen?


My top 3



"300" - Historical inaccuracies aside, I think this is an amazingly well done battle scene.






"Gladiator" - What a fantastic way to open a film.





"Glory" - It's starts off ranged but turns melee rather quickly!



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#4448720 - 11/14/18 06:52 PM Re: Some great melee combat scenes from films [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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The cool thing about "300" was how they did the long "One Shot Take" fight scene (at the end of clip above) where they used a loooong stage and moved left to right....


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#4448724 - 11/14/18 07:16 PM Re: Some great melee combat scenes from films [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I hate 300 because of how it established the jumping sword swing that has been copied so much since then. The more goofy graphic style has even gotten into serious history programs.


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#4448725 - 11/14/18 07:16 PM Re: Some great melee combat scenes from films [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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"GLORY" is definitely among the very best. Unfortunately the movie was severely overshadowed by "TITANIC", which garnered all the attention at the time.

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Originally Posted by Dunolde
"GLORY" is definitely among the very best. Unfortunately the movie was severely overshadowed by "TITANIC", which garnered all the attention at the time.





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Glory came out in 1989. Titanic came out in 1997.


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#4448727 - 11/14/18 07:18 PM Re: Some great melee combat scenes from films [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Those are good scenes Panzer. I still have yet to watch 300 all the way through.

Excalibur to me is one of those movies that makes combat truly look painful and ugly. I still have it imprinted on my mind from seeing this as a kid all the heavy armor slicked with mud and blood and guys clanking around being brutal. Speaking of armor this movie seems to capture it right. Its heavy and serves a purpose and for a short spurt men can fight but then there are periods of burnout where they lumber around slowly having expended a lot of energy. Just the sounds though of warriors inflicting wounds and contending with one another on a battlefield is captured in such a way in this movie that is all to often not matched.



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#4448728 - 11/14/18 07:23 PM Re: Some great melee combat scenes from films [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Outstanding pick Coot!!! "Excalibur" is one of my absolute favorite films of all time for many reasons.


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#4448735 - 11/14/18 07:51 PM Re: Some great melee combat scenes from films [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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The Normandy landing part of 'Saving Private Ryan' was outstanding. Shame the rest of it sucked.
Another vote for the 'Gladiator' opening battle...

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Most of the modern fight movies do not have very good fight scenes. I think it is mostly due to the fact that they cut at each hit vs actually filming people fighting. Some of the older movies has some really good fight scenes though.

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ive always like the battle scenes in the "last sumurai" .. yea its not historically accurate blah blah blah, but its was extremly well made!





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#4448776 - 11/14/18 11:38 PM Re: Some great melee combat scenes from films [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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In Saving Private Ryan I think the man to man combat between the German and Mellish is one of the best I’ve seen.

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#4448788 - 11/15/18 12:34 AM Re: Some great melee combat scenes from films [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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The Last Samurai had some good scenes.

Samurai vs Ninjas


This video addresses various historocity aspects of the movie, both good and not-so-good, for anyone who is interested.
https://youtu.be/-buQSp6wOMc

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Spot on Cy when Tom cruise and the usless grunts first encounter the Samari is great in fact a lot of great fights in the movie and I don't worry about historical accuracy they are entertainment not documentaries


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Not a "film", but rather a series... Sparticus, War of the Damned, had some entertaining melees. A lot of the jumping sword work that oldgrognard understandably dislikes, but I think it is easier to suspend disbelief when it is unconventional combatants who were trained as gladiators... they were unlikely to be constrained to limited catalog of conventional moves.

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This one has always been rather endearing to me.


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Rob Roy, duel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27M5KWI_q50

Not, from a movie, but a sample choreography, longsword duel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn36Pb8z3yI

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I dis agree Stylized action choreography should go to Mr. John Wick

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#4448814 - 11/15/18 03:33 AM Re: Some great melee combat scenes from films [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Yeah Rob Roy is a good one, nasty and brutal. That clip you linked of the longsword duel Lieste is outstanding. I dislike the music choice and some of the filming tricks but that has to be some of the best, realistic looking and impactful sword fighting that I've seen. That kind of thing needs to be in the movies. I think those guys captured what a real, trained and seasoned sword fighter would have looked and fought like.


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