shittest/best battle scenes in film and tv

[DotCommunist]

Now I've always recalled the various series of Sharpe here- the battle scenes were never terribly well funded and this was all pre CGI so fair play:

Thats sean bean not dying because his invincibilty cloak only works in the Sharpe universe. The eagle at talevera.

I've got a lot of time for the opening scene to Gladiator, The battle in the german midwinter.

There was some absolute shit, superflous and over done ones in the hobbit trilogy.

 

[Sea Star]

I thought the battle scenes in the 3rd LOTRs film were over done shite too. Never been so bored!!

 

[Sea Star]

eeek!

 

[DotCommunist]

eeek!

great minds etc

I loved helms deep in the second though. The Two Towers. It also had the staff battle of the thesps (rip christopher lee) atop orthanc which was quality.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Helms deep is a quality battle. When the outer wall gets blown up by the giant bomb in the drainage channel is a test of your home cinema kit, with a good surround system (especially sub) at high volume it's mint.

 

[wtfftw]

Not all the Step Up films.

 

[likesfish]

sharps were more for exercise purposes imagine theirs fuck loads of people about

there was a deeply insane movie on the sci fi channel about aliens and stonehenge. shot entirely in the states using cheap cgi for stonehenge
with the "british army" driving humvees except for a lone sikh officer in a landrover who kept mentioning allah

 

[Steel Icarus]

pretty epic gun battle in Heat after the robbery. Just so loud, well shot, etc

 

[Idris2002]

The Wind that Shakes the Barley's version of the Kilmichael ambush.

 

[trabuquera]

Siege of Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven is pretty battle-tastic - for once the CGI is worth it, giving a sense of genuinely scary hordes rather than just pieces on a virtual gaming board. Also some half-decent sense of tactics and the different stages of medieval warfare.

 

[DotCommunist]

pretty epic gun battle in Heat after the robbery. Just so loud, well shot, etc

Its a good scene, but I think I'd class that as a skirmish between organised criminals and security forces rather than a battle between armies. iyswim.

 

[Roadkill]

It's full of continuity errors, impossible manoeuvres and doesn't do the battle in the original novel justice, but I've a sneaky soft spot for the battle between HMS Lydia and Natividad in the old Captain Hornblower film from 1951:

It's not a bad old film at all, actually, although ever since I first saw it I have pictured Hornblower - one of my favourite fictional characters - as Gregory Peck, complete with Californian drawl.

 

[Idris2002]

For a recent example, the duel between three Shermans and a King Panzer in Fury.

 

[DotCommunist]

Siege of Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven is pretty battle-tastic - for once the CGI is worth it, giving a sense of genuinely scary hordes rather than just pieces on a virtual gaming board. Also some half-decent sense of tactics and the different stages of medieval warfare.

theres loads of quality battles in that, and single combats. I watched the directors cut which is longer but has more battle so worth it.


Game of thrones has done battles well I think. Skirmishes also.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

For a recent example, the duel between three Shermans and a King Panzer in Fury.

I was thinking of that. You can really feel the war watching it in a cinema just like Saving Pvt Ryan, It's a shame the last battle scene isn't so good. It goes from day to night in about one take for example.

 

[Idris2002]

I was thinking of that. You can really feel the war watching it in a cinema just like Saving Pvt Ryan, It's a shame the last battle scene isn't so good. It goes from day to night in about one take for example.

I think it is meant to be near dusk when they reach the point where the showdown will take place. There's a lot of things wrong with Fury but that's not one of them.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Saving Pvt Ryan

Opening scene, its all down hill from there.

Flesh and Blood does some lovely gritty historical fights, blood and guts and muck and sweat.

 

[DotCommunist]

brad pit is Wardaddy. Wardaddy is his nickname

oh there was some great combat scenes in Generation Kill where the troops had the callsigns of Iceman and Maddog and other lol ones.

 

[hot air baboon]

...the Aliens running battle is a good one...nicely claustrophobic, well directed and darkly lit to cover up the limitations of men in rubber suits ( proper non-CGI aliens )

...and not un-influenced by Zulu ofcourse...

 

[Sirena]

Now I've always recalled the various series of Sharpe here- the battle scenes were never terribly well funded and this was all pre CGI so fair play:

Thats sean bean not dying because his invincibilty cloak only works in the Sharpe universe. The eagle at talevera.

I've got a lot of time for the opening scene to Gladiator, The battle in the german midwinter.

There was some absolute shit, superflous and over done ones in the hobbit trilogy.

Sharpe was my first thought, too... But they did really well to make convincing battle scenes on less-than-Hollywood budgets and I loved the series.

 

[Mumbles274]

I like the scene in band of brothers.. Is it episode 3 or 4 when they take the artillery position

 

[SpookyFrank]

For a recent example, the duel between three Shermans and a King Panzer in Fury.

A lot of that dialogue in that film approached Terrence Malick levels of pretentious shiteness, but the battles were great.

 

[vogonity]

Talking of Mr. Malick, the US attack on the Japanese base - and its aftermath - in The Thin Red Line is stunning.

 

[trabuquera]

Aha! Thought this thread was film-only, but if it's open to the small screen as well and you like fighting, then pretty much any episode of any series of Vikings (History Channel/netflix/amazon prime/DVDs now) will scratch your itch - having everything from man-to-man brawling with axes to clangy sword duels to a full-on invasion of fortified Paris cAD900 and something (season 3 eps 7 and 8).

Plus plenty of pitched battles in Nordic fields with SHIELD WALLS and some very realistic scrapping (and very unrealistic jump-kicks etc)
it's absolutely awesome and they all have terrific coiffures and wardrobes as well.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

sharps were more for exercise purposes imagine theirs fuck loads of people about

there was a deeply insane movie on the sci fi channel about aliens and stonehenge. shot entirely in the states using cheap cgi for stonehenge
with the "british army" driving humvees except for a lone sikh officer in a landrover who kept mentioning allah

please tell us what film

 

[Gingerman]

Good battle scenes in Cross of Iron......

 

[Gingerman]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bWraOy6Kw4
The battle scene in Chimes at Midnight is one of the best imo.....

 

[dylanredefined]

please tell us what film

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge_Apocalypse
must be this

 

[idumea]

That long tracking shot with the shooting and the baby being carries through the battlefield in Children of Men is amazing.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Aha! Thought this thread was film-only, but if it's open to the small screen as well and you like fighting, then pretty much any episode of any series of Vikings

Hmm... it varies, I think they get better after Season 1, which iirc is the one where it was 2 shield walls in a wonderfully flat field with Rollo going apeshit.