Comments on: Ten Memorable Movie Sword Fights

By: obi-wan

obi-wan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:56:06 +0000

LIGHTSABERS ARE SWORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: obi-wan

obi-wan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:56:06 +0000

LIGHTSABERS ARE SWORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: fencer23

fencer23 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:27:59 +0000

awesome sword duels…Lord of the Rings???

By: fencer23

fencer23 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:27:59 +0000

awesome sword duels…Lord of the Rings???

By: Someone

Someone — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:45:59 +0000

I call Shenanigans! Count of Monte Cristo (c1934), Scaramouche (c1954) alone set a precedent for years in movie making for sword play choreography that you still see copied today. Unfortunate that we’re far enough along in cinema that editorials are written by people without movie knowledge before the 80’s.

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10 Memorable Movie Swordfights | Listicles — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:33:54 +0000

[...] The rich canon of bladed throwdowns gets a loving tribute in Gunaxin’s listicle of 10 Memorable Movie Swordfights, our favorite of which is and always has been the final battle from the first Blade movie – which [...]

By: vggn

vggn — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:18:09 +0000

The kendo fight between the samurai and Tom Cruise (I dislike Cruise immensely) in The Last Samurai was about the best in recent history but there are countless asian/samurai films from the 50’s to now that had the 10 best, totally outclassing the ten listed here. As stated previously Basil Rathbone was a master instructor and choreographer and any of his fights from his films are about the best from Hollywoods film library but the asian/samurai are IT!

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Leno Has Never Read Hamlet and Other Funny Stuff: September 18th, 2009 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:59:46 +0000

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By: for god's sake

for god's sake — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:48:57 +0000

uh heloo, you forgot Conan versus the Queen’s guard in Conan the Destroyer.

By: Fandango

Fandango — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:45:07 +0000

This is outrageous! How could the writer completely ignore Scaramouche (1954). The sword fight between Stewart Granger and Mel Ferrer is legendary, and – dare I say – should have been number one (where I expected it to be). If I recall the film is in the record books for the longest sword duel in the history of cinema.

For shame Scott. For shame!

Pick up Scaramouche and be humbled!

By: Volfie

Volfie — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:31:15 +0000

You even have Basil Rathbone on the page, but you don’t list any of his?? Oh, I see, movies didn’t exist before color, or 1970.

The fight between him and Tryone Power in Zorro in 1940 is one of the best ever. First of all, they were actually fighting; the points make have been blunt, but the swords were real, and there were no stuntmen involved. Second, Rathbone choreographed it and taught Power how to fight. He was a master sword fighting instructor, and taught entire generations of british actors how to stage fight without killing one another.

By: ninja

ninja — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:15:02 +0000

who ever this article is clearly an idiot, watch asian films you f@cking douchebag

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By: samuraiguy

samuraiguy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:13:48 +0000

OH come on, Zatoichi or Yojimbo vs anyone makes for such a better sword fight than all of the above.

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Nerin Online » Blog Archive » Snippets 17-09-2009 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:10:02 +0000

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By: merp

merp — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:40:59 +0000

Somehow, Tony Curtis’ performance in “The Great Race” gets completely forgotten. His exhibition of the real-world fighting styles of sabre and epee’ are the best ever put on a screen.

By: CKL

CKL — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:28:59 +0000

Re: the fight in Crouching Tiger, I preferred the fight scene between Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi that appeared in the movie just before the one you listed. Michelle is a legend in Hong Kong kung fu movies, and some of her moves in that fight are just amazing. For a beginner, Zhang holds her own, as well.

Glad to see the Kill Bill scene on top, however. I also liked the swordplay in the original 70s Three Musketeers.

By: Kristopher

Kristopher — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:57:19 +0000

My first thought that came to mind when I saw the title on Digg was Princess Bride. So glad it was near the top. Great list.