{"id":44,"date":"2010-03-09T09:37:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthurian.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2010-03-09T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:37:32","slug":"best-fight-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/44\/best-fight-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Fight Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article was written awhile back but never posted so I’m not including it in the “Historical Perspective” category. I’m sure I could add more movies and scenes to the list<\/em><\/p>\n

While watching the director’s cut of Aliens and, when the final fight between Sigourney Weaver and the Alien queen came on (“Get away from her, you bitch!”) I started thinking about what I would consider to be the “best” movie fight scenes. For some of these, I based my opinions on the pure rock-em-sock-em-ability of the fight scene itself (like the final fight in Aliens), whereas I based my decision for others on the scenes “lasting” effects, like how many of us know the crane position from the Karate Kid, even though the actual fight isn’t that great (IMHO). I know I am probably missing some big ones from this list but, after compiling this over a couple weeks, I think I’ve run to the end of my film knowledge (or my memory, at least) so feel free to offer recommendations for what I should add — especially if it’s a movie that I haven’t seen, I’m always<\/strong> open to watching new movies with a good fight scene! This list isn’t in any particular order, I didn’t want to rank these but you’ll probably figure out which ones I like more than others based on my analysis (if you can call it an analysis).<\/p>\n