Best sword fighting in a movie...

[Anubis]

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon has some bad arse sword fighting scenes it it

 

[PhoKing]

Saviour of the Sword (or Soul, I can't remember exactly). It's a Hong Kong flick with some classic sword fighting...a must see. The movie was funny too.

 

[isildur]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Any of the Highlander movies, all had custom made swords & more than a couple stitches during the filming...

You can't be serious.

The action in these movies is typically American: redundant moves/poses, slow actors made to look fast by use of cuts & flim speed, and remedial moves - almost like watching Walker: Texas Ranger on the big screen..."hey look, he's going to do yet another big, slow roundhouse kick!"

 

[Maverick]

the last two star wars movies

 

[Legendary]

Originally posted by: ergeorge
My name is Inigo Montoya ...

...you killed my father. Prepare to die.

 

[Nemesis77]

Monty Python and thye Holy Grail. More precisely: King Arthur vs. The Black Knight. True classic of swordfighting

On a more serious note... Conan the Destroyer?

 

[Kev]

Another vote for Swordsman 2. The only problem with it, is that on the version I saw, the subtitles are translated so horribly that you can't follow the movie.

 

[Aceshigh]

Excalibur (1981) with Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, and Nicol Williamson. Directed by John Boorman. Awesome movie and good realistic swordfighting scenes.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77
Monty Python and thye Holy Grail. More precisely: King Arthur vs. The Black Knight. True classic of swordfighting

Come back you coward!

 

[Michael]

I have close to 2 decades of experience with sword fighting (knight in the SCA).

It really depends on what you are looking for in swordfights.

If you want something that looks somewhat realistic - fighters in armor with shields and such, then Braveheart and Gladiator are two recent films that have good looking fighting scenes.

Rob Roy is in between pure fencing and sword-fighting. The broadsword vs. rapier battle at the end is well done.

If you want more Western style fencing, then I highly recommend The Princess Bride.

I don't know as many Eastern-style films that I consider to be "good". Most of the more modern ones have so much wire work in them that they're not even close to being plausible (they're cool to watch, but not sword-fighting in my mind). I seem to remember that the "Lone Wolf and Cub" films were well done and Ran had some decent battle scenes.

Michael

 

[Nosaj]

I vote for "Conan the Barbarian"

 

[Adrian Tung]

Hmm... nobody mentioned The Hunted yet. Great Japanese swordfightning here.


atwl

 

[GagHalfrunt]

The Three Musketeers, 1974 version with Oliver Reed, Michael York and Racquel Welch.

The Adventures of Robin Hood, the 1938 Errol Flynn/Olivia De Havilland version

The all-time 2 best swordfight movies and unlike Highlander, Conan, Crouching Tiger, etc, they're actually good movies underneath the fight choreography.

 

[SSP]

Rurouni Kenshin OAV. Ok its not a movie, and an anime, BUT it has amazing sword fight scenes (hell, its about samurai's... wht more could you ask for ). Besides, everything is mentioned already.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Well You do have to give props to Christopher Lambert for doing his own sword fighting in the Highlander movies. The man is blind without glasses, and he can't wear contacts.

And the best fight in the highlander series is in 4 when Duncan(adrian paul, really does know how to use a sword) and the chinese guy(Donnie yen) go at it. I was like OMG OMG.

 

[Martin]

I liked crouching tiger, hidden dragon. Its probably not realistic, but it rocked!

 

[Xsorovan]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Well You do have to give props to Christopher Lambert for doing his own sword fighting in the Highlander movies. The man is blind without glasses, and he can't wear contacts.

My real issue with Mr. Lambert is that he can't act. I mean the only thing I have ever seen him do is that same type of person he plays in Highlander. I personally think he was a bad casting choice. Granted doing your own blade-work while half-blind isn't easy, so I can give him that, but still, I think maybe he spent too much time with the sword and not enough time in acting class.

But this forum thread isn't about acting, this thread is about how cool the sword fighting is.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: ergeorge

Originally posted by: Nemesis77
Monty Python and thye Holy Grail. More precisely: King Arthur vs. The Black Knight. True classic of swordfighting

Come back you coward!

Tis only a flesh wound!

 

[isildur]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Well You do have to give props to Christopher Lambert for doing his own sword fighting in the Highlander movies. The man is blind without glasses, and he can't wear contacts.

And the best fight in the highlander series is in 4 when Duncan(adrian paul, really does know how to use a sword) and the chinese guy(Donnie yen) go at it. I was like OMG OMG.

Well, you can be LEGALLY blind w/out glasses, but to my knowledge, no eyewear exists that can grant sight to the blind!


Still, even legally blind would make sword work- shoot that would make walking and talking at the same time dangerous, never mind swords.

I never knew that about Lambert - what is the deal then with his other movies, I don't remember him ever wearing specs on screen?

 

[Byte]

the Taiwan series State of Divinity had some kick ass sword scenes. HK stuff is crap to that man.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Kenshin OVA 1!! i knw it's anime, but the OVA has some crazy samurai sword fight scenes....it actually rivals some of the best live action sword fighting scenes...great story too....kinda ties in w/ the series...(well, best if you watch this, than the series ..up to episode 60something..forgot..until the end of the sishio saga....than watch the OVA again)

in the US, it's called samurai X...which in my opinion is a gay name....they shoulda just left it as ruouni kenshin...(and the voice dubs of the english version is terrible...watch the english subs instead)

 

[Byte]

kenshin had crappy sword fighting. I'm sorry, i'm one of the biggest kenshin fans out there (i have all the dvds, all that have been released in teh US, all the HK ones, all the mangas, most of the wall scrolls, the action figures). But my standards are high for sword fighting.

 

[weirdichi]

Ahh.. Donnie Yen.. needs to break out into the American market, although I think Iron Monkey was pretty good exposure (not enough though).

Oh, and another vote for Swordsman II.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: jorken
But I know something you do not know... Ohh whats that? I am not left handed.

Another vote for The Princess Bride

That was such a great scene, in a great movie..

"Inconceivable!"

 

[chinkleii]

Three Musketeers had some cool sword fights.