Let’s face it: There just aren’t a lot of quiet, thoughtful meditations on human nature featuring a lot of nice conversations at the top of the box office these days. If you want to sell a movie, it’s gotta have some action. Superheroes throwing skyscrapers at each other, shootouts between rival mafiosos or at least some lunkheads playing real-life bumper cars.
Rarely do you ever just see two dudes having a good old-fashioned brawl, probably because it’s inherently not nearly as exciting. In the hands of the right, well, hands, however, a fist or sword or vase fight can be just as thrilling as any superhero showdown. Redditor TheNastyRepublic cited a scene from Bruce Lee’s The Way of the Dragon as one such example.
They then asked r/Film, “What’s the most iconic hand-to-hand fight scene in movie history?” and those proved to be fighting words to their fellow Redditors — in all the right ways, of course.
Ip Man
Raising Arizona
Above the Law
Oldboy
Lethal Weapon
Fists of Legend
Fight Club
The Punisher
They Live
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Casino Royale
The One
Wheels on Meals
The Raid 2
The Raid
Bloodsport
The Matrix
Troy
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Legend of Drunken Master
The Karate Kid
Evil Dead 2
Eastern Promises
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