This can range anywhere from car chases to fights. What are some of your favorites?

The Matrix- Lobby scene
Raiders of the Lost Ark- Indy vs. the truck
Aliens- Dock loader vs. mother alien

I go along with Indy and the truck.

"The Quiet Man": the fistfight between Sean Thornton (John Wayne) and Squire Danaher (Victor McLaglen).

From "Temple of Doom", I'll add the pilotless plane with the "raft parachute" falling into the "Grand Canyon"; the "Disneyland Mine Car Ride"; and the "Rope Bridge"

"French Connection II": Everything from "Exterminating the rats" through the "Flooding of the drydock" through attacking the "canned heroin factory" and culminating in the greatest chase on foot in film history.

"Jaws": Practically the last 50 minutes.

"The Incredibles": The Opening Series of "Rescues"; Both the fights on the island with the "Escaped Star Wars Robot": Elastigirl and Family trying to rescue Mr. Incredible through the missile attacks; the kids attacked by the "Flying saucers"; the attempted defeat of the "Star Wars Monster Robot" at the end; probably two-three others. Is it called "omnidroid"?

That's enough for now.

I'm am first going to get my favorite scenes in "The Matrix Reloaded".
1. The first fight Neo gets in with the hundred or so agents
2. The car chase, which is arguable the best car chase ever.

Some other sequences that I liked were:
The car chase in "The Bourne Identity"
Rocky vs. Apollo Creed in "Rocky"
Neo vs. Agent Smith in "The Matrix Revolutions
The opening scen with Nightcrawler in "X2:Xmen united"
"The Rock" The entire time they are on the island
The fight between Mel Gibson and Gary Busey in "Lethal Weapon"

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The action sequence in house of blue leaves in Kill Bill. Mostly when Uma faces Gogo, also the crazy 88.

The hospitol and the teahouse in "Hard Boiled"
The church in "The Killer"
The train in "The Hunted"
and the last battle in "Seven Samurai"

a few that come to mind.

Only FIVE people at this site have an opinion on action scenes? I don't buy that. Please post some thoughts about memorable action scenes. I didn't even see any mention of anything fron any Star Wars movie, any western or any war movie.

Thanks Mark, I really missed a lot on my list. Some more excellent sequences are:

"Saving Private Ryan" The D-Day portral at the beginning is excellent
"Braveheart" This is an obvious choice and should not be ignored. Has a great battle sequence in it.

I am not a big "Star Wars" guru so I will let someone who actually knows what they are talking about give out a couple of good scenes that I am completely forgetting right now.

I am sorry, my mind is going blank. I will most certainly add many more later.

Best action scene hm? I don't know man... that Monster Ball scene with Halle and Billy Bob was a good one. Wait, wrong sort of action. No but seriosuly, an action scene that got my heart pumping was on "Sin City" when Mijo (or however you spell it) throws the swastika (or however you spell it) shaped ninja star at Jacky-boy and completely hacks his hand off. The events that followed were hilarious. "She didn't quite chop off his head, she turned him into a PEZ dispenser."

Lets get this one going again.

1. Arnie Takes on the Predator
2. The attack on the Japanese hiding in the grass/MG bunker in The Thin Red Line
3. The chase through the snow at the start of True Lies
4. Matrix - Lobby
5. crazy 88
6. Street assault in Heat
7. The breaking of the barricade in Mad Max 2 (the only car chase)
8. Construction of chainsaw-arm in Evil Dead 2
9. Luke striking down Vader in Jedi
10. Crop Duster in North by North West

Neo versus the Agent Smith clones. I'm surprised that no one else has said this. This was a great scene.

Best action sequences:

1. John Woo's Hard Boiled: Opening gunfight where Chow Yun Fat goes down the stairs. Can't beat the dualing gun action. Hospital was just as dope!!!

2. Michael Mann's Heat: Bank robbery spilling into the street. This scene influenced that robbery in Texas where the 2 guys in body armor rampaged through the streets.

3. Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch: Last gunfight scene where they do the walk down the street (where Tarantino ripped for RoDogs). Never seen a Gatlin gun used so well.

4. Empire Strikes Back: Attack on Hoth and Luke getting his hand cut off by Darth Vader. "Luke. I am your father!"

5. Equilibrium: Tetragrammaton Cleric Preston saves a St. Bernard pup in the nethers and takes on 10 cops doing so. Gun Kata? What? Just a great fight scene that you wish wouldn't end.

6. Matrix: Beginning of 3rd act where Neo and Trinity go to save Morpheus.

7. Saving Private Ryan: Open attack on Omaha Beach Dog One. Best war scene ever.

8. Braveheart: William avenges Murron and the first major battle sequence at Sterling.

9. Star Wars: Trench attack on the first Death Star. X-Wings are badass.

10. Kill Bill Vol. 1: Crazy 88's get their asses handed to them.

11. X2: X-Men United: Wolverine goes beserker style when the mansion gets attacked. Nightcrawler's opening scene was money as too.

12. The Rock: When the SEAL team tripps the alarm in the shower room. The squad of marines messes them up. Felt bad for Michael Biehn.

13. Aliens: Final stand against the aliens. Hicks goes nuts, "You want some too?!?" Vasquez sacrifices herself, and Ripley tapes the pulse rifle and flame thrower together and kicks some bootay.

14. Desperado: Opening fight that Steve Buscemi tells a tall about. Also the second major gunfight where Cheech catches a bullet in the noodle. Guns popping out of sleeves?!? Awesome. Just fantastic. And I hate Antonio Benderas.

15. Taxi Driver: Travis Bickles shoots Sport (Harvey Keitel) in order to save Jodie Foster.

Top 3 Car Chases:
3.)The ferrari chasing the big car holding truck on the highway in Bad Boys2
2.)The two dueling motorcycles at the end of Mission Impossible 2
1.)The huge scale mulit-car chase in Terminator 3 which was incredible and so much damage occured

Top 3 Fight Sequences:
3.)The fight between the Punisher dude and that huge Russian dude in the Punisher
2.)When Blade takes on that army of ninja vampires near the end of Blade 2
1.)The huge fight sequence in the bus garage of the Transporter

Top 3 Gunfights:
3.)The pistol war between Travolta and Cage in Face/Off
2.)Of course the lobby scene in The Matrix
1.)Every gun fight in Hard-Boiled was amazing


...those are just my opinions so chill the f### out if u don't agree

Apparently I'm not a great fan of action, action scenes since in reviewing my all time favorite movies, almost everyone of them are not based on action sequences. However, using my convoluted notion of action sequences, I'm going to try to offer a few that came to mind:

(1) Alien (1979). The last sequence of actions on the Nosotromo when Ripley is attempting to get off the ship has become a classic sci-fi sequence that has become a model for many sci-fi and even other action sequences in the cinematography of the narrow corridors, the lights and shadows, the steam, block vision, the strobe lighting.

(2) Matrix Revolutions (2003). There are two battle scenes that have immense intensity of the hoards of creatures that just keep coming and coming, attacking and attacking much like scenes I've had in reading Lord of the Rings.

(3) The Great Escape (1963). The sequence of digging out of a concentration camp is a slow and intense build of overpowering emotional suffocation - underground.

(4) Run, Lola, Run (1998). A hyper-active series of quick events that are repeated in different variations in rapid-fire bullets, makes this movie a unique action movie.

(5) Fate is the Hunter (1964). A relatively unknown piece of work where Glenn Ford attempts to recreate an airplane crash in order to determine what happened. The last sequence is chilling and thrilling.

(6) Gettysburg (1993). One of the most remarkable history action sequences with the charge of the Confederates to Little Round Top against the Union soldiers is yet to be outdone for its intensity and brilliant directing and action performances put on film.

There are so many great action sequences that I will try to add some no one has mentioned yet.
Heat--the final bank robbery that spills into the street.
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan--the opening sequence storming the beach still twists my stomach.
Hard Boiled--pretty much any of the gun fights.
Aliens--I love the first time the marines encounter the aliens, punctuated with screams of "Where's Apone?!?" and Vasquez' classic, "Let's Rock!" Also the final sequence with Ripley in the loader, "Get away from her you bitch!"
Bullitt--car chase
Ronin--car chase
The Terminator--right after "I'll be back" when he drives the car into the police station. Also when he is on the hood of the car and punches through the windshield.
Terminator 2--after he promises to to kill anyone, he shoots all the cops in the legs.
Predator--my favorite is after Blaine gets killed and Mac eviscerates the rainforest with his gun.
The Blues Brothers--the final car chase is rediculously great!

Having only been an avid film fan for the last 2 years, I'm yet to experience the more hardcore of John Woo's actioners, so I could be called inexperienced in that sense. However, Robert Rodriguez and co. have given me sufficient tastes of film ultra-violence, true and proper.

Last of the Mohicans (1992) - The ambush in which the Mohicans come to the officer and girls' rescue, and, the revenge sequence on the cliff ledge involving the elder Mohican and the badass Huron.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) - The shootout between Antonio Banderas and the Cartel thugs in church; the shootout sequence in the street with Enrique Iglesias's flamethrower-in-a-guitar-case; and the shootout in the Presendential Palace between the soldiers and Antonio, Enrique and the drunk.

Desperado (1995) - The Antonio & Salma VS Bucho's Thugs shootout at the bookstore just before its set alight; when Antonio and his buddies with the 'custom' guitar cases take on the last of Bucho's thugs; and the knife-thrower's assault on Bucho's limo.

Most of the fight scenes in "Hero" were pretty sweet.

I also loved most of the action sequences in "The Bourne Supremacy".

And, I have to second the car chase in "Ronin". It goes on for so long, it's almost rediculous. It's the car chase equivalent to the "Kill Bill" Crazy 88 fight scene. A great, underrated action movie.

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Originally posted by dbakes1061:
Top 3 Car Chases:
3.)The ferrari chasing the big car holding truck on the highway in Bad Boys2
2.)The two dueling motorcycles at the end of Mission Impossible 2
1.)The huge scale mulit-car chase in Terminator 3 which was incredible and so much damage occured

Me thinks you're of the younger generation dbakes1061!
No one who likes car chases can possibly leave out Ronin, Bullet or The French Connection!
The difference with these movies were that ALL the cars and crashes were real and not magiced up by CGI unlike your top 3.
Do yourself a favour dbrakes rent out all the 3
movies I mentioned and I guarantee your top 3
will look VERY different after you have watched them!

Besides the three you mentioned Editor, I want to add the one in To Live and Die in L.A., where the chase eventually ends up going the wrong way on the L.A. freeways!

I don't think I'll ever forget watching the first rooftop fight sequence in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Almost entirely silent, and downright poetic. Nobody in the theater with me even breathed once during the sequence. It doesn't fit the traditional definition of an "action sequence", but it's one of the most exciting experiences I have ever had in a movie theater, to be sure.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by vlad:
I don't think I'll ever forget watching the first rooftop fight sequence in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Almost entirely silent, and downright poetic. Nobody in the theater with me even breathed once during the sequence. It doesn't fit the traditional definition of an "action sequence", but it's one of the most exciting experiences I have ever had in a movie theater, to be sure.

[I agree! I felt as though I was watching a graceful ballet. Never has a violent act looked so beautiful. I didn't sit on the edge of my seat in excited anticipation; I sat in awe, which is rare in a film these days.]