most realistic

[circa02]

Which "martial arts" movie do you think portrayed the fights most realistically? Like, no wires, people don't get kicked in the head 50 times and keep going, 1 guy against a group and just ONE bad guy attacks at a time ect...

[superfighter]

Blade or Blade 2

 

He uses the most basic of technques and little flash, including knees chokes, arm bars and what not. It shows what will work in a real fight Which is what i like to see

[monkeygirl]

I agree with superfighter, Blade had good techniques and they didn't seem to be all that flashy. But isn't it sad that the most realistic techniques come from a movie about killing vampires? I just think that's kinda funny

 

I actually haven't seen that many MA movies, so I can't really tell you. Sorry

[StoneSkin]

crossing the line with Liam Neeson had the most realistic fights in it. I Havnt seen that move in years but one of the fight seens happends to be on the ultimate fights dvd

[battousai16]

i think it's sad that blade 2 used realistic techniques and 80% of the fights were still computer generated. that fight scene in front of the spot light!?! come on!!! there limbs were flopping around!!! i think there's reason that most movies don't use realistic techniques; it dosen't make the movie half as fun. if i wanna see practical techniques being used, i'll go to the dojang, thank you very much. i don't wanna pay $8 to see some guy get side kicked in the chest.

[Karateka_latino]

Yes, i'm agree with battousai16. Martial arts movie fight is for entretaining ONLY, if the fights in the M.A. movies were the same as on the street, it would be really boring to watch.

 

Back to the thread.

 

Movies with realistic kind of fights or realistic spots during the fights that comes to my mind right now are:

 

1.Rapid Fire starring Brandon Lee

 

2.Police Story 1, 2...starring Jackie Chan, lots of fancy stuff during the fights, but in the group vs 1 fights the bad guys attacked him at the same time and not one at the time.

 

3.RoadHouse starring Patrick Swayze, Not a Martial arts movies but the fighers were coreographed by Benny the Jet and they look realistic.

 

4.Chuck Norris movies tend to have quick and realistic kind of moves.

 

5.Bruce Lee movies also tend to have quick and realistic kind of moves on them.

 

6.Steven "seagull" Seagal also use quick moves.

 

There aren't many realistic movies because the whole movie business is based on ilusion.

[Synaesthesia]

I don't agree in the least battousai16. I'm not going to pay 8-15 bucks to see acrobatics. The fascination with fighting movies is deeply ingrained instinct. We want to see other people fight because it's very useful to us to see the various chaotic mechanics that come into play in real combat.

 

I believe that there is a huge market for more realistic fighting scenes as proven from movies like kickboxer, or saving private ryan. It's too bad that the monkeys in hollywood are too wrapped up in fantasy to provide what could potentially be a huge market with more desirable products.

[battousai16]

huge market? kick boxer!?! didn't that flop miserably!?! that's in the B movie section of my local movie rental place! and i don't know that many people who saw saving private ryan for the fight scenes.

[Az-Kicker]

I would have to agree with Blade 1 and 2, the CGI is pretty bad in parts, but the actual fighting is very good. Also most Bruce lee flix are pretty realistic, and Best of the Best.

[major_motoko]

6.Steven "seagull" Seagal also use quick moves.

 

I agree with you, no matter what you think of Steven Seagal, you can't deny that his films have some of the most realistic moves, especially the earlier films like Nico. Pretty brutal in some places.

 

And another movie... don't yell at me .. The Karate Kid!

 

When Daniel gets kicked by the baddy in the tournament.. at least he does go down and rolls around in pain. That's pretty realistic