Green Light with Chris Long - Top 5 Movie Fight Scenes Ranked + Top Lists from Action Bronson, Dave Dameshek, Rob Ninkovich.

Episode Date: May 13, 2020

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Happy Hump Day. Welcome to the Greenlight Pod. I am your host, Chris Long, and today we're going to do something different, something different than anything you've heard all quarantine. This is new stuff. It's called ranking. We're going to rank something. We're going to rank movie fight scenes. Haven't seen it done. I haven't seen this particular thing done all quarantine, which is impressive because I know there's been a lot of ranking content. We used to do these things called brackets. That got old. Listen, we're doing what we can here to feed you the content, three pods a week. It's tough, but I'm enjoying it. I hope everybody's doing well. I know everybody likes movies, and every dude likes movie fight scenes. So we had a lot of submissions from a lot of dudes on Twitter. It was a dude fest in my mentions when I mentioned that I was going to be ranking movie fight scenes. It was supposed to happen on Monday.

too much last dance. So we figured we'd get to it today. And initially, I was going to have, and I had my good friend, former teammate, Rob Ninkovich of the New England Patriots formerly. He is a great rancor. I enjoy doing podcasts with him. We took a stab at it tonight. It descended into an absolute shit show.

I'll talk about why at another time. I will salvage the audio. We will chop it up. We will make it work. That's all I can say. the finished product is going to be beautiful. I guarantee it. But it was just a shit show.

And you guys can fill in the blanks and figure it out. But we had a lot of fun. We'll get that to you at some point. I also have some guest rankers in different forms and fashions. I dug into the Rolodex deep to get action Bronson to weigh in. Buddy of mine, rapper. Chef, I guess you could call him. It's a tremendous cook.

He is a Renaissance man. He is an artist. as well. He actually is a really good artist. I like his paintings. I wish he would sell me one. And he's really good at vintage stuff. He's good at appreciating things like retro fight scenes. And there are a couple older fight scenes in his top five. I'll share those with you in a few. Also, Ninkovich's top five that will be shared. You know, I'll let him tell you himself why he liked those scenes when I do chop that audio up and get it to you. And then Dave Damashik was and dimensions as well with his top five.

And like I said, a lot of good Twitter follower submissions. I'll talk about some of those. But I'm going to give you my top five. And then the ones that just missed the cut for me. Ranking these movies is hard. It's obviously very subjective, first off. Secondly, what kind of fights do you like? Do you like the guys with their guards down, just getting punched in the face,

flying through windows? Do you like the kung fu type shit? Do you like the really realistic fights? Do you like the fantastic four dudes running around in tights, you know, spin kicking each other into the atmosphere and shooting fireballs at each other like the Marvel type shit? I'm not into kung fu movies as much as everybody else and trying to get into them. I know that, you know, a lot of people are asking about IP man, very impressive stuff.

I've seen some of it. I've you know, I've YouTube some of the fights that you're talking about. You know, I looked at Old Boy, the corridor scene that looked to be, have some Kung Fu elements to it. I mean, it's just 40 dudes getting beat up by one dude, you know, in a hallway. And as Homeboy is beating the shit out of all of the dudes, half the dudes are standing there just jumping jacks in place and like backing up instead of just bum rushing this cat. So I'm not really into the one dude beating up a bunch of people things. You won't see John Wick place. I think John Wick is a ridiculous movie.

Sorry. You know, Matrix might not place. It's too like airbender type thing for me. You know, Inception might make an appearance that I'll drop that hint. You know, that might be the exception to the rule. You know, but I'm not into the crazy shit. I'm not into the, now you're going to call me hypocritical when you read one of my top five submissions, but I'm not into the superhero stuff.

I'm not in the kung fu stuff as much. I got a lot to talk about. Let's get to it. Let's start with the ones that Action Bronson sent me. So he's got Stephen Segal versus Screwface, I guess. And I'm forgetting which Stephen Seagall movie this was, but it's Stephen Seagal and a villain in one of his movies fighting in like an empty nightclub, just knocking a bunch of shit over.

The villain is like just destroying things for no reason and eventually gets his eyeballs gouged out. I had never seen the scene before. I looked at it tonight. It was quite violent. You had, again, Stephen Seagall pulling a guy's eyeballs out and breaking guys back over his knee. Never seen that done.

It was a really good fight scene. Sopranos, although we were talking movies, I probably didn't explain it one of Sopranos, Tony and Bobby fighting at the lakehouse. Listen, Tony got his ass kicked in front of his wife, and that's a big yikes, a big yikes. But Bobby had just had enough. And I like that submission as well.

It's creative. Arnold versus the terror camp in true lives, I don't remember any fights that stood out to me. in that movie. It's been well over a decade since I've seen it, although I was a huge Arnold fan as a kid. Eddie versus Arsenio, the sparring session with the sticks coming to America. And then subsequently he said when Eddie takes what he learns and disarmed Samuel L. Jackson at his job. So you've got the stick fight, you've got Samuel L. making the cameo in coming to America,

getting a shotgun knocked out of his hands. That's a nice one, two punch there, very creative. I can't argue with any of those scenes. I like them all. Maybe the terror camp scene I'm not so sure about because I can't remember it. These were an Inco selections. So he's got Warrior at five,

and he's listing the fight where the brothers have to go at it. And that's tough. I mean, love the movie, very underrated sports movie there. I actually think there might have been a better fight where Tom Hardy's just hunchbacking around the gym and they pick him to spar with the big bad bully and he kicks his ass. And then he's like, I'm going to need about $200.

And that might be just as good a fight. But, you know, the one at the end is obviously more dramatic between the two brothers. It's a great movie. Listen, I've got two brothers. The two of my younger brothers, they fight way more than I did growing up with them because of the age gap a little bit. but they used to come home from school all the time and get suspended and whatnot. I mean, my youngest brother Howie, who's a little bit smaller in Kyle, that was huge, used to go upside his head with like foreign objects,

like throwing picture frames out of him and shit, and Kyle had to get stitches one time because of Howie. Howie was just very fearless. Fighting among brothers is pretty normal, but what's not normal is fighting among brothers in front of million, of people. So I could not imagine having to fight your brother. I've had to play against my brother, but say we were to fight. First off, it would be a bad deal. He outweighs me about, well, not anymore. He's lost a lot of weight. I feel pretty good about it now, actually, come to think of it.

But when he was like 350 and he's got about four inches of height on me, that would have been a tough one, especially in front of millions of people. Now I'd be a little bit more willing. But yeah, you don't want to get beat up by your brother in front of millions of people. And that's what those brothers were facing. And obviously it was a brutal fight. So it makes sense. I mean, I totally get the submission.

The scene for me in that movie is Nick Noltee, books on tape, Moby Dick, stop this ship. I mean, I just went back and looked at it. It is, it's gut-wrenching. That movie, first off, great movie, first time I saw it, my brother, myself and my dad watched it in the living room. And it was around the holidays almost a decade ago. And that scene comes on. And you know when you're sitting in a room watching something and you stop breathing and

you could feel everybody stopped breathing, that is like what was happening in that room. And I just remember looking around and seeing my brother, Howie, who's the youngest, pop right up. Like it's a dead part of the scene, like right as the scene ends, and clear his throat and just rush into the kitchen. And you know what, you know what that means. And then I'm looking over at Kyle and Kyle's jaw is on the ground and he's like glassy-eyed. And my dad is like adjusting his glasses, you know, like he does on TV, pushing the glasses in, you know, in between the lenses on the frame, adjusting it, just anything to cover his face to show that he's probably about to tear up and me. I mean, there's tears in my eyes too. It's a sad, sad scene. And it's a good. And it's a

great movie. So, good submission at five for Nikovic. At four, he's got lethal weapon, and that's the scene in the yard, which I had forgotten about. Like, I'm not a huge lethal weapon guy. I've seen them. I enjoy them. But this fight scene was legitimately pretty good. It almost made my honorable mentions. You know, you got a guy getting waterboarded in the front yard, like in the lawn. It's a brutal fight. You got your, your Joe Cole. holds. Yeah, it's iconic, I guess. I mean, that's an iconic series. So three, he's got Raging Bull. Holy shit. I watched that movie. I need a Prozac when I finish. It is a dark, depressing movie. And I was a big Jake Lamata fan when it came to the game Fight Night. If anybody

remembers Fight Night, when I was in college, when you played Fight Night, if you lost in fight night, you felt like you got actually beat up. And there was nothing more emasculating on a football team from a video game standpoint. Like, people would break controllers over Madden, but people would get into it physically over fight night. And we pack entire apartment complexes to watch fight night, to watch two guys play fight night and just loser has to sit. And there's nothing worse than having to sit in your room in the apartment and listen to everybody else, cheer in and hollering and playing fight night because you fucking lost.

And now you've got to wait like two hours. Well, I was Jake Lamata all the time in that game. He had an insane hook and was almost like a cheat coat. So I got into it. I read about him. I tried raging bowl. I couldn't stand it. It's so dark.

It gives me a headache. It's depressing. Obviously, the Sugar Ray Robinson scene is the scene that Ninko is referring to. You've got the donkey punch. I mean, absolute donkey punch to the top of Jake Lamata's head. You have, you know, him whispering that you never got me down, which my, my only gripe with the scene, and I'll admit, although I don't love the movie, I know some movie buffs are going to shit on me about this, but I just don't get it. I know it's like black and

white. I'm probably not smart enough to like Raging Bull. I get it. I'm not, I'm just not that into it. I thought my only gripe with the scene, that was otherwise pretty good, was him kind of, like, how do you expect Sugar Ray to hear what he's saying at that volume with 10,000 screaming people or 5,000 or whatever it was. I just thought the lines were delivered too quiet. Number two, he's got saving Private Ryan, the knife scene. Listen, this one is damn good. It's realism.

Or what you would imagine to be realism, I think it's kind of funny that I sit here and say, yeah, well, that seems like a most realistic knife fight. You know, I'm sure people do this on Reddit and shit. Arguing over movie scenes. Well, that's a more realistic movie. Like, how the fuck do you know? I've never been a knife fight. I certainly have never been in a knife fight, you know, in the early 1900s.

In the, was it Germany or England, the English countryside, wherever the fuck they were. Certainly there were a bunch of people getting stabbed in close quarter struggles around that time. But I don't know what realism looks like. It seems like it, a guy almost felt bad doing it. He did feel bad doing it. walked out of the broken down building and passed homeboy on the stairs like fucking i'm out dude um that was hard so that was a tough scene i get it reminded me in 1917 recently like when when buddy gets uh stabbed by the pilot that's how people bleed out again i figure that's how people bleed out

it just feels more realistic saving private ryan and number two for ninko uh number one I love this scene. I'm just going to tell you it's got a good shot at placing in my top five, and I'll get to talking about it when we get there. Damashek, his number five was Skywalker versus Vader, and this is the Cloud City ones. This is the first one. Listen, I like anything, Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker,

I think one of the most iconic noises in film history is a lightsaber. Then he's got some Clint Eastwood fight, Philo Beto versus Jack Wilson. in Wyoming. That's what he says at number four. Listen, Clint Eastwood movies, the old ones, again, maybe I'm not smart enough, but

they don't do it, do it for me. They're entertaining late at night, turn on a Clint Eastwood flick. It's a blast from the past, but it's not quite for me. And the fight scenes weren't quite for me. How many people did Clint Eastwood punch in the face? You know, like those counters,

I want to pay somebody to watch the entire catalog of Clint East with movies and tell me how many times he punched somebody in the face like sit there just clicking that motherfucker just you know like and why did he punch so many people that didn't care that they were getting punched in the face they were just taking it tell me that you know like why did they use the same sound

every time Clint East would punch somebody in the face there are different ways to punch people in the face when punches land they sound differently depending on where you you hit somebody in the face, not in a Clint Eastwood movie. It's the same fucking punch track for his entire catalog. They were still doing that shit in like probably Grand Torino using the same fucking punch soundboard. I can't even do it.

Okay, then he's got the raising Arizona fight Leonard Smalls. Okay, that's the one that maybe I'm like, eh. And then at number two, he's got a kiddo taking out Homegirl's eye in the trailer. Really like that one. It's got a good shot on my list. And then first he's got Flash Gordon versus Prince Barron. Dave usually knows best. So it's amazing.

Dave's recall. He's got everything itemized and listed in his brain already. Like as soon as he saw that tweet where I said I was going to rank something where I might sit there and be like, do I like that more? Do I not like that? And I got to go back and study tape. You know, overthink it. Dave's just got it like boom, boom, boom. These are the five best plays in the 1970s made by teams with blue jerseys.

Like, what the fuck, Dave? Smart guy. All right, my five. Gosh, there are five. It's really hard to rank them. I know that's the point of these exercises. I've watched a few, listened to a few over the quarantine period. I guess the objective is to make one thing better than the other.

But I live in the gray, man. I really do. I'll go from five down. Okay, my five could be higher. If it weren't so controversial, okay? The other fights that I'm going to list in my top five are mostly human on human. But at five, it's human versus outer space. It is Arnold versus Predator. And this is one of my favorite movies of all time. This is my favorite action movie of all time, maybe alongside First Blood.

As far as the genre of 80s type action movies, shout out to Little Richard, passed away this week, really made that red light chopper chopper scene, which is an iconic scene. And that's where I first heard Little Richard. So I first, you know, I know Little Richard did a lot of awesome stuff for rock and roll and is the architect, but to me, first, he was the guy that made one of the most badass scenes in one of the first action movies I ever saw. And I was watching Arnold movies way too fucking early. I don't know, you know, parental controls on people's iPads now. I had none of that shit on my Tshiba. But I love everything about the movie. I love the cinematography, the sound mixing. It's just so that time. They got little out.

If you're an outcast fan, they actually didn't sample the Predator noises. Two dope boys in a Cadillac, like in the beginning, you hear that like fireball sound, which they actually sampled from an old record from like 1960. I thought for the longest time that they took that from Predator. I've probably been telling people for years. Oh, yeah, that's a sample Predator. That's crazy. They sampled an Arnold movie.

And it turned out to be dead wrong. You know what I love that they did with Predator? they don't do this anymore. And they stopped doing it at some point, like post-childhood for me. Back in the day, when you watched a movie, it was a game of how long you could keep the monster out of the view of the viewer. And like most movies teased it up right. And Predator was a perfect example of them teasing out seeing the monster.

You sat there in the jungle and Arnold was hunting Predator and Predator's hunting Arnold and you haven't seen the fucking thing's face. You're like, what does this thing look like? It shoots fireballs. It sees like a scope and call a duty. It killed the Native American dude on the log. Out of nowhere, it shot a fireball and Jesse the body, Ventura's fucking rib cage. By the way, anytime I think of those shitty blue razors,

I think of that scene where Bill Duke cuts his face. It's just an iconic movie. And it's iconic the way that it bleeds out. No pun intended. Predators identity. It just slow bleeds it out and you get to see it. The big reveal, the mask is off. Nowadays,

they're just like five minutes in and they're like, let's just give these motherfuckers the, you know, the villain's face, the monster's face. M. Knight's Shyamalan did a whole movie, I think, and didn't show you the monster. I don't remember the name of the movie, but there was a movie he did. And I felt like the entire time, he was like, what the fuck does it look like? And he went overboard with it. Like, he didn't show us

the monster. Or did he? I don't remember. Remember, by the way, M. Night Shyamalan, worst movie, Lady in the Water, most overrated movie, signs. Best movie, probably The Village, or Sixth Sense, or one of those Bruce Willis movies, but of the non-Brus Willis, M. Night Shyamalan movies from that time period, best was the village. The Village, they did pretty good with that. Of course, it didn't turn out to be a monster at all. Kill Me I'm Here. Kill Me I'm Here is like an iconic line for me in cinema history. The back hands were so disrespectful.

I mean, he pimpslap Arnold around for 10 minutes, let him live that classic 80s, 90s. Well, I mean, they still do it today. Like, I'm going to beat the shit out of the guy that I've been waiting to kill for three hours. And I'm going to let Arnold crawl away until he crawls me right into his booby trap and hits me with a giant fucking log and just crushes me but I'm still alive and I'm gonna set off my little fit bit my little predator fit bit and blow up the rainforest I mean it's an amazing scene and the laugh it's like kawai into domestic terrorist laugh like it just morphs it's the kawai laugh in the beginning and then it's crazy white guy laugh it's and then it's mushroom cloud and the guys in the chopper are

like, what the fuck? Like, I thought they were just fist fighting down there. I love everything about the movie Predator. Love it. Four, the same one that Dave added to the list from Kill Bill. Kiddo, stealing home girl's eye off her face in the trailer. I mean, they were fighting with a bunch of found objects, like dirty carpet, just real trashy. Perfect Quentin Tarantino delivery of like little catchy.

phrases and lines that aren't corny. They're just quirky enough to work. There's stops in the action. You know, she puts her face in the toilet. There's a vagina kick. I don't know how bad that hurts, but it hurts a lot when a guy gets kicked in the dick and the ball. So I'm going to assume that that was realistic. I got the swords out. You know, there's always that sword cross. And I'm always like, where do they go from here? Okay, one girl is going to, or one guy or a girl is going to now release some pressure and they're going to sword cross again and then they're going to go back to fighting. Well, no, no, no. That's not what they're doing and kill Bill. She's going to reach out and take Homegirl's one good eye off her face and throw it on the ground and then stomp on it with her dirty

coal miner looking foot. And I know Quentin Tarantino love that scene. But yeah, it's just, it's a really creative fight scene. There's a snake in the trailer. And one of the best parts is that she leads. her to die or live the rest of her life with no eyes and the scene just gives me the willies i'm going to go three i'm going to go eastern promises the sauna scene listen this could easily be my favorite but i didn't want to list the one naked dude fight scene as my number one also uh eastern promises is not one of my favorite movies um it's a good movie it's very watchable but the fight scene is much better than the movie. And the two that I just listed in Predator and Kill Bill are great, great movies.

You know, this scene is fucking badass. Again, I don't know what a bathhouse fight with two Eastern Block assassins in leather jackets looks like, I don't know, but this seems realistic. They walk in, they're about to clear the place out. There's onlookers. but like if you're an onlooker at one of these Slavic countries in a bathhouse maybe you've seen shit like this on the regular and you're just like sitting there and you're like so relaxing to sweat out the troubles of the day oh there's two assassins and leather jackets they're here all the time they're going to kill that guy I'm just going to act like I don't see anything everybody was just chilling until they really started fighting and Vigo gets cut he beats up the first guy the second guy's like mumbling in eastern block like, do you want me to handle this? And the other guy's like, yeah, you handle it. He just beat the shit out of me.

So he walks over and beats the shit out of the second guy basically kills him. There's a hook knife that looks like, you know, is that what assassins use on the regular? Like, it's not good enough to just have a regular knife. The hook knife is that what like impales people and takes their intestines out? Also, the elephant in the room is not a big elephant and it's Vigo is naked. and it's got to hurt to get stabbed while you're naked. It just does. I don't know what a t-shirt does, you know, on top of your bare skin or a pair of underwear.

But I just figure it hurts a lot more when you get sliced across your back and you don't have, you know, your v-neck gone. Like, that's got to hurt. Also, how did he get traction on a bathhouse floor with no shoes on? That was also questionable. It was a great fight, though. A great fight. And he snaps homeboy's arm like a chicken wing, just like a little chicken wing. And then he stabs him in the eye socket.

So more eyeball play in this fight. A lot of eyeball play in these fights. People are into that. And there's nothing worth. than getting killed in a bathhouse and getting your arms snapped and your eye gouged out with a hook knife. But when you got a guy's dick on your shoulder the entire time, he's doing it, that might be the cherry on top when it comes to Slavic execution backfires. It's unbelievable. Viga's the man. Props to him for just not even getting in a warm shower before the scene.

It's a fucking great scene. Okay, number two. This is a tough one. Easily could have been number one, but it was Ninko's number one. So for me, it's just, I can't do it. It's Revenant. It's glass versus Fitzgerald. It's snow on the camera.

It's blood on the camera. It's dizzying. It's beautiful. What a beautiful backdrop. One of my favorite movies of all time. And visually, I can say the same about it. I remember the first time I saw it. I was on a candy.

And the scene in the beginning was so mind-blowing. The river battle scene was just in the slow motion. I went home. I told my friends about it. I was like, man, it's the coolest 12-minute scene I've ever seen. And then went to watch it again and realized that the scene's actually 37 seconds. But it is a great scene. I just must have been sitting in the theater.

stuck with my jaw drop to the ground watching homeboy ride in slow motion about to kill a fur trapper and it's just majestic it's a beautiful scene and this scene one-on-one mono-e-mono very personal vendetta type scene again the way they shot it was really cool and it was an imperfect fight that's why I like I like a sloppy scrappy it actually hurts to get kicked and punched and stabbed fight. I don't like a guy getting cut with a butterflyed knife in the kidney and just like popping back up. Like these guys were killing each other in the snow.

And it was painful looking. And Leo's trying to grip Fitzgerald. That's my favorite part. But he's been stabbed through his hand and he can't pull him back and he's just climbing on top and he's crawling to kill him. And then glass. tries to do the, hey, kill me like right now, please.

I don't want to suffer. And I'm going to do it by being an asshole. He says, well, enjoy it because ain't nothing going to give your boy back to you. And he was talking about the revenge that Leo's about to enact. And instead of killing him, Leo left him for the Native American dudes that were right place, right time. I wanted to kill Tom Hardy bad, like jumped. through the screen and just decapitate him by the end of the movie. What a bad guy he was in that stupid raccoon hat.

What an asshole. Number one for me. And again, like this could change tomorrow. I live in the gray on things like music and movies. But I went back looking and coming into this, I didn't have a favorite. I have favorites. I went back and looked. I haven't seen Gladiator in years.

It's a great movie. But start to finish, I haven't watched it in a while. And I went back and looked at the Maximus versus Tigris fight scene. It has aged magnificently. That movie does not look like it's almost 20 years old. And the acting, the pan shots, the crowd, a lot of these fights, you look back in the 80s, and I know there's a different genre and a different time period, but all these old action movies, you know, even things like blood sport.

I mean, you look in the crowd. It's just kind of, that was the time period. It's kind of corny. It wasn't the reactions were more exaggerated. Like, this was a well-acted fight scene. By the way, Joaquin Phoenix is a wizard dude. Like the range of things he plays, it's unbelievable. But you've got Maximus fighting the Jose Kinseko looking Roman dude.

with a tiger mask on the gas, just juiced up. I don't know where he was getting his needles back then, but at least he had the periodic equivalent of a bowflex in his hut, wherever he lived. He had dudes holding back tigers that just came out of trap doors. How are three dudes holding back a single fucking tiger? Please, that's the one problem I have with that scene. But Maximus survives a tiger attack,

which seemed a little bit question. homeboy jumped on his back and he kind of shrugged him off but he does stab a tiger impales it kills it rolls it off him like it's a house cat and then it's back and forth with the roman jose canseco and he is i mean it's it's good it's good sword fighting i don't know how else to put it's just good sword fighting it's good realistic gladiator time period sword fight It's just realistic. That's what it's supposed to look like. And eventually he kills him, he stabs him in the foot, has to hurt in sandals.

Again, you know, it's the same thing as Eastern Promises. When you get sliced across the chest with a hook-shaped assassin knife, you know, that hurts more when you don't have a shirt on when you're wearing sandals. If he had some like caterpillar boots or something on, maybe he's okay. Tigris is in sandals. So that really hurt. And then he gets buddy leaking out of the mask. He's about to die.

He's looking at Joaquin Phoenix. Joaquin Phoenix says thumbs down, kill him. And Maximus shows mercy and defies the emperor, first off. Turns the other cheek. I just think it's a really clean scene that's aged really well. Great actors. And again, probably driven up by being a great movie. Not that the revenant, I probably like the revenant as much or more than Gladiator.

But this one is aged just really well. It's impressive to me. Now, my just missed the cut fights, there's a few of them. I mean, anything I'm going to discuss here before we close out will be candidates for the top five. But Friday, Friday is an iconic fight scene. You know, the movie's a comedy, but there's a real dynamic going on here when Debo, rolls up on Craig. And, you know, there's the

Give Me the Gun Son iconic line. You know, who else wants some of Debo? Whop his ass, Craig. You got knocked the fuck out, man. Like, there's just like 10 lines that everybody knows from that one scene. And two, that like everybody, everybody knows.

And there's the Debo reference is like pop culture. Like when you debo somebody, that came from Friday. And, you know, you got knocked the fuck out, man, has been used in, you know, millions of situations. It's an iconic fight. So Terminator 2 for me just missed the cut.

That was another movie I was watching probably entirely too young. And a movie that was frightening to me as a kid. It wasn't a horror film. Maybe that's why I hate robots because I watched Terminator like in the womb, essentially. And it was just driven into my head from an early day that,

You know, robots are taking over the world and look at them. We talked about it on the last pod. Drones are going to be cleaning stadiums soon. Just pay attention, guys. It's coming to an end. Yeah, Terminator, love them all and love this scene where Arnold is fighting T-1000. T-1,000 was fucking terrifying. For a kid, you know, you're always trying to make sense of adult movies.

And I'm sitting there being like, wait, so you can't kill him. Like nothing kills this guy, right? Like the scene where he walks in and he was somebody else and then he stabs Buddy in the face with his spike arm that just pops out like through the milk carton. It's one of the most jarring scenes I've ever seen. It's like four. What the fuck? Maybe the theme of this whole pod is that my parents should have got parental controls on the movies. But that thing was scary.

It could run as fast as a car. He was like hawking down Chevy Malibuze and shit. He didn't have Malibu's back then. You know, he was hawking down grand marquise in parking lots and just stabbing the roof. When Arnold killed him and knocked him into the, the molten steel or whatever the fuck that was, I wanted to throw a party. I was so happy that that thing could die. Great scene.

Great scene. Really? Again, aged well. That's a scene that's aged really well. Last of the Mohicans. Easily could have been top five. It's just maybe a little too quick for me. And also a lot of it's comprised of like what I would deem to be a little bit of an unrealistic gunfight. Little bit unrealistic to be able to like, you know, double fist those things and just hit two targets at the same time as you're bounding over a boulder and then drop the gun and get another gun. Like, but once it got to be a fight, it's amazing, highly personal, intimate revenge factor. You've got the dad and you got West Study, however you say his name. It's been a lot of stuff, by the way. He sent me down a street fighter rabbit hole this week.

He was the guy with the eye patch. Again, maybe not a great movie, but I'm going to watch the shit out of it. 13% or something on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't care if that's 6% higher than Simon says, which is the movie that stars Dennis Robman that I suggested Elaine Johnson earlier this week, I'm going to watch the movie because once I saw that it was him and it reminded me that he was the bad guy in Last the Milliekins that got killed on that rock by the dad after he busted out a barrel roll and then impaled the shit out of him with that thing. When I saw that, I had to go down the street fight a rabbit hole. So I will be going

down that rabbit hole and I will report back on a later pod about how bad that movie actually is. I haven't seen it since I was a child. But last time, The Meikins, great movie, just a little bit quick and not quite a fight per se. Safehouse. This is my sleeper, okay?

Safe House with Ryan Reynolds, Denzel, there is a tremendous fight scene that quite honestly should be in the top five. I snubbed it. I've changed my mind already. I don't know who it replaces, but if we do this again next week,

if there's like a power rankings, safe house is trending. up already just in one day of doing this thing. People are going through glass windows. It looks good. It's violent. It's sloppy enough. It's a good fucking scene. And the thing that stands out to me about that safe house scene is when they're wrestling over that shard of glass. They're just gripping it. And they're doing the who's going to get stabbed thing, the classic, I'm going to stab you know and I'm going to push the knife back into your chest, the saving private Ryan thing, with a shard of glass and the more they grip it you can just hear the skin i think if i remember correctly just

you can almost feel glass going into your hand looking at that scene it is cringy and the whole time denzil's just watching like strapped to a toilet seat or something i don't remember the context of the movie because it's relatively forgettable but this fight scene with ryan reynolds and i did not know he had it in him was fucking awesome um um Safehouse should be in top five. Inception, okay? I told you I don't like these Matrixy, fantastical type, you know, fight scenes, but Inception deserves a mention for me, okay?

Because I know how hard it was to film it, or at least I read about it. It took like three weeks to film this scene. They had to get these big rotating sets. They had a World War I airship hangar in London that they snagged for this. and it was really hard for the actors to learn how to maneuver this rotating set. It was literally a spinning set and it cost a bunch of money.

It took a long time. And Gordon Levitt was like, you know, if I jumped the wrong time, I'd be 12 feet through the air. Like I had to learn how to maneuver it. It's a cool, dizzying type of fight scene. There's a lot of people involved in it. And Christopher Nolan used no CG on it.

Just massive, rotating sets. So that was kind of my first five out and my top five. Now there's a bunch more that I probably missed and I threw this together in a day, but they live was, you know, was something that was submitted a lot by folks on Twitter. I mean, I didn't realize how popular they live, that fight scene is. And I had never seen the movie. I know Rowdy, Roddy Piper's in it. So maybe that kept me from watching the movie would sound sacrilegious to some of you. you guys out there. But the line I love is either put on the glasses or start eating that trash can. I just, I wish there was a functionality for me to use that phrase in my life. For me to utter that

sentence in a serious situation, I would love it. Put on the glasses or start eating that trash can. First blood, I really like that fight. This isn't one that anybody submitted, but I really like that fight. He kicks like everybody's ass in the whole pre-scene. It's also one of my favorite movies. and then he rides off on a motorcycle. Somebody sent me the stone cold opening scene, and this is the Boz movie, that if you haven't watched this scene, you need to YouTube it.

It's just such typical bad guys in the 80s. This movie opens up with these guys robbing a supermarket. There's three guys, and one dude's spit in the orders, as there always is. There's one guy who's maniacal. He's just shooting up Ritz Cracker boxes and laughing. There's a guy with a ponytail. They're just everybody on the ground.

And instead of just playing it cool and avoiding attention, they're just letting automatic gun fire off in a supermarket. And then they're trying to empty the register. But you see the Baws come in. And the Baws doesn't even know what the fuck's going on. He's just shopping because the Baws likes to go shopping. And he happens to be shopping in a trench coat. Baz likes to shop in trench coats.

Presumably, he didn't hear the automatic weaponry going off outside. So he does hear a woman screaming. He's on to them. They send a guy out to help because they heard somebody wheeling a cart through the aisle

and that was Boz. You know, you get the classic sneak up on the Boz. You got a shotgun in the face. Don't fucking move, man. Don't you fucking move, man. Like, that's what they say in every movie. Of course, Boz, the Boz moves and he gets the guy's gun

and he goes on to kick everybody's ass in the supermarket, clears it out. But of course, nobody dies. He doesn't kill any of these guys. He just beats him up bad because when the cops get there, they're mad at the boss for saving everybody's life because obviously he's some sort of visual, and he hasn't seen the movie. And he says, clean up on aisle four and exits the scene. So it's a brilliant, brilliant scene.

So Bloodsport, why is it not in the top 10? Well, I happen to think it's overrated. Is it not top 10 recognizability? Sure, it's top 10 in recognizability. You know, everybody likes it when the scene comes on, but it's not a great fight scene. And maybe that's why I leave off a lot of these old fight scenes is because I'm a little bit of a stickler

when it comes to looking a little bit updated. I guess maybe that's the trend here. Listen, Chong Li has the largest pecks I've ever seen. Chong Li has implants. Chong Lee just does bench press. I mean, he's built like a brick shit house, okay? Van Dam gets to the middle of the ring. He's got to flex his pecks too.

Chong Lee's flexing his pecks. They have like a peck off. And that's the way they assert dominance. Then Chong Lee blows a snot rocket and it's on. And they start, of course, Chong Lee is talking shit about the way he fucked up Van Dam's friend. To be good at kickboxing, these guys just didn't know much about martial arts, did they?

I mean, like, I'm not like some purist, but don't you block your face when you get kicked in the face. I mean, Van Dam on one leg kicks Chong Li in the face with like just ankle flexion three times, like kind of bitch slaps him in the face three times with his foot. I mean, it's ridiculous. And then he's flying it at Chung Lee and he doesn't cover up. You got Forrest Whitaker in the crowd. Then Chong gets dirty, you know, throws his special tackle and powder in Van Dam's face. and Van Dam just has a flashback like he's in the dojo, just starts screaming.

This is one of the worst parts. He catches Chong Li's wrist at the end, and Chong Li is like just stuck. He can't go anywhere. They're throwing the ref around. It's just a fucking, it's an overhyped scene, dude. It's just an overhyped fight scene. It's funny. It's comedy.

It's not a great fight scene. Sorry. Probably lost some listeners. There 13 assassins somebody said to look at. This is a martial arts movie. You know, dude's sword fighting. I looked at the YouTube. It's a really well shot scene.

I mean, it's a really well shot. There's only so many ways it can go, right? You know, guys struggle with two swords. They clang them back and forth. The sword slides up and down on the other sword. Oh, God. Fuck me, dude. I mean, you get the idea.

There's only a couple ways this scene can go. How many sword fights do I have to... And then, okay, there's actually a line. I have this written down because I watch it today where the guy says in that, you know, swords crossing moment, how I missed crossing swords with you. What?

Did you write that into the script? And then the guy gets decapitated and his head rolls off in the mud. But it's a really well-shot scene. It's just kind of seen that type of sword fight 100 times. There's the other kill-bill scene with the homegirl with the ball and chain. And listen, I thought it was a solid scene, but I like the trailer scene better. Also, why didn't the sharp part of the ball and chain come out early, if you could do that? The two-by-four to the head was a good scene.

just not a scene that places for me. Clint Eastwood, again, you know, I've got a bunch of Clint Eastwood submissions here. I don't understand the Clint Eastwood thing so much, the fights. I don't quite get it. And then that might be sacrilege to the Caucasian gods, but I don't get it. My dad mentioned the fight scenes in extradition,

which is the Hemsworth movie out on Netflix right now, which I hear is very good. Here's what I saw from YouTube. that I like the fact that somebody got hit by a car in the fight scene because there's far too many fight scenes I've seen in movies where people are just fucking road housing in the street and nobody gets hit by a fucking sob and thrown up onto the hood of the car like what are they doing Baghdad this is where I'm assuming the fight happens you know do people just drive around expecting people to be fighting in the streets no like eventually if you are hernes and Hagler in a 35 kilometer per hour zone, you're going to get hit by a Toyota Highlux. I mean, like, that's just how it goes down. So I like the realism of getting hit by a car there. Okay, Bob Barker, that's a creative submission. I wasn't thinking a lot about comedy. I know I mentioned the dumb and dumber singing with the doggie bag. I like that one if we're talking comedies or

ankerman. Somebody sent me that. You know, Bob Barker, again, getting beat up on the golf course by Adam Sandler yielded a great classic line the price is wrong bitch really like that scene didn't place for me born supremacy all the born movies

okay everybody sends me the bathroom scene I like the bathroom scene but this is one of these utterly forgettable type like I am a secret assassin I know all the secret assassin

moves oh so does he so it's a wash for like 12 minutes they just block each other's punches for a while and, you know, somebody gets thrown into a wall and it's just like, you know, noise, noise, noise. Like, if I've seen it once, I've seen it a thousand times, okay?

It doesn't do it for me. Although I really like the movies, you know, somebody out there is going to be like, oh, dude, you're not real connoisseur of secret agent fights. Are you? Like, oh, are you? You've seen a bunch? I haven't seen any. And they just don't do it for me on the silver screen.

Raiders of Lost Ark. I do want to mention that before we get out of here. Indiana Jones fighting the giant mustache skinhead. Love that scene. Love that scene. Indiana Jones was such a slickster. Just such a trickster. Backed him right in the propeller.

The old propeller trick. That's another one that had to hurt because Buddy didn't have a shirt on. When you get cut and you don't have a shirt on and you back into a propeller, man, it might not feel so bad if you got like a flannel on or something. But, you know, this guy was perpetually shirtless, who was a big Nazi living in Germany at the time. And he looked like, you know, the final boss at a tea party rally. This dude was the big Nazi guy. And Indiana took him down.

Yay, good win for humanity. You backed the Nazi into a propeller. Also, when my brother Kyle shaved a mustache, he looks just like a fucking guy. So I like that scene. That's as many as I could think of. those were the ones submitted. Again, I left some stuff off. I understand some people are going to judge me on my movie taste.

You know, everybody's different when it comes to movie fight scenes. I like them realistic, guys. What can I say? Anyways, we'll be back on Friday. I got a good show lined up. I have a Philadelphia Eagle that will be joining me. I'll also be joined by Ryan Rusillo. So I'll leave it up to you to figure out who the Philadelphia Eagle is.

Maybe I'll drop some hints on Twitter.com. And again, my good friend, Ryan Rosillo, last time we podcasted together, we kind of got duped by one of those parody NFL accounts. Ryan told me that Aaron Rogers was quoted as saying something that he was absolutely not quoted as saying. We'll see if this week we don't get due. It'll be good to have Ryan on.

Anyways, y'all take care. See you Friday.