shittest/best battle scenes in film and tv

[starfish]

These white boys , they're getting obstreperous

Don't fuck with the wongs

Dont fuck with the baldies

Who are these guys, friends of yours?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Tank duelling in Kelly's Heroes

 

[Sirena]

It's a sort of war scene

 

[Kaka Tim]

The battle scenes in "A Bridge too Far" are mint.
And "Waterloo".
Fuck CGI - you need the old yugoslavian army dressed up en-masse and a shit load of pyrotechnics.

 

[stdP]

How did Charlie Brooker describe the fight scenes in Transformers? Something like an angry dishwasher shitting on your face. I'd rate those as some of the worst fight scenes I have ever seen. Yet more incoherent pap from the master of incoherent pap where they've set the bar so low that the National Union Of Limbo Dancers With Dwarfism are on strike due to incessant shin bruising.

There are many brilliant battle scenes but probably the best on a technical level for me is the jaw-dropping street shootout at the climax of Children of Men. More war-ey, there's the great helicopter shoot of the french commandos taking Oistreham in The Longest Day. Other than that, the epics of David Lean: Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.

 

[Reno]

Another vote for Children of Men.

I thought the battle scene with the white walkers/zombies in S5 of Game of Thrones was pretty amazing, especially for telly. I preferred it to anything in the LOTR films and it was made on a fraction of the budget.

The battle scene in the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland was truly crap. WTF is a battle scene doing in Alice in Wonderland in the first place.

 

[Teenage Cthulhu]

Some of the sound design in Fury is brilliant; such as when the shells hit the tank and ricochet off the armour. They seem to have concentrated a lot on the soundscape in that film to create a claustrophobic atmosphere on the field of battle.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Battle Of Britain, the ‘War in the Air’ climax with William Walton's score...

“Is everything up?”
“The lot, sir.”
“Reserves?”
“None.”
“That's what I've told the Prime Minister.”

 

[Spymaster]

The Brecourt Manor Assault in Band of Brothers.

 

[lefteri]

Yeah children of men, the blood spatters hitting the camera lens

 

[Artaxerxes]

Best:

Any of the fights from Last of the Mohicans. Especially the last one with the old Mohawk wrecking the shit out of that guy

Worst:

Star Wars prequels, Wuxia inspired shite.

 

[FNG]

 

[DotCommunist]

Any of the fights from Last of the Mohicans.

I remember almost nothing of this except the last fight and a bit near the start where a man has been olding his tomohawk right up at the head and you see him let it drop so he's holding at the bottom of the shaft. The music and pacing also tell you that shit is about to go down

 

[RoyReed]

All Quiet on the Western Front - 1930 film version - possibly the best war film ever, if not the best battle scene.

 

[Knotted]

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.

Helms Deep is great if we are talking about Ralph Bakshi's film.

 

[likesfish]

Waterloo they used the Russian army and some conscripts possibly got to vist sibera as the first time they filmed the cavalry charging the squares the squares broke
Band of brothers had more german tanks and half tracks than the Director was planning because several er
"Collectors" turned up with their nazi hardware for the chance to be on film and were overjoyed to actually get paid.

Possibly the worst battle scenes was Solider Soliders attempt to stage a falklands style war on Salisbury Plain
On a dr who budget . Although a scence where the baddies plan on torturing one of the heros because he's wearing an SAS smock so must be special forces was .
Back then just about everybody paid out for an SAS smock a type of combat jacket thats was lighter dried better and pockets didnt fall off.

 

[Idris2002]

Waterloo they used the Russian army and some conscripts possibly got to vist sibera as the first time they filmed the cavalry charging the squares the squares broke

The history book on the shelf, is always repeating itself.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Battle Of Britain, the ‘War in the Air’ climax with William Walton's score...

“Is everything up?”
“The lot, sir.”
“Reserves?”
“None.”
“That's what I've told the Prime Minister.”

Just realised I've previously posted about this exact same scene

Old Aviation and War Films

 

[DaveCinzano]

Forgot my customary cross-threadism

Log of war films recommended across various threads

 

[BlackArab]

What film is this?

 

[FNG]

Tae guk gi
Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War (Korean: 태극기 휘날리며; Taegukgi Hwinallimyeo) is a 2004 South Korean war film directed by Kang Je-gyu. It stars Jang Dong-gun and Won Bin and tells the story of two brothers who are forcibly drafted into the South Korean army at the outbreak of the Korean War.

It's on you tube link to follow

 

[FNG]

 

[Cid]

I remember almost nothing of this except the last fight and a bit near the start where a man has been olding his tomohawk right up at the head and you see him let it drop so he's holding at the bottom of the shaft. The music and pacing also tell you that shit is about to go down

Run and gun with two smoothbore muskets...

 

[8den]

Best:

Any of the fights from Last of the Mohicans. Especially the last one with the old Mohawk wrecking the shit out of that guy

Worst:

Star Wars prequels, Wuxia inspired shite.

There's this great but during the climax were day Lewis keeps shooting guys and grabbing their muskets without missing a beat.

 

[8den]

Yeah children of men, the blood spatters hitting the camera lens

There are four key scenes (the explosion, the battle, the car ambush and another one I forgot) that appear to be shot in a single take and are incredibly complex. The dvd extra showing this is worth the cost.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Run and gun with two smoothbore muskets...

Hey, at least they actually bother to show them reloading for once

There are four key scenes (the explosion, the battle, the car ambush and another one I forgot) that appear to be shot in a single take and are incredibly complex. The dvd extra showing this is worth the cost.

The escape from the farmhouse I reckon? Good scene that.

 

[DotCommunist]

flame and citron contains a pretty intense final scene. Can't find it on the tube. its brutal, a proper shootout

 

[Casually Red]

Operation daybreak



Made a point of visiting the orthodox cathedral years back to pay my respects

 

[ferrelhadley]

Just realised I've previously posted about this exact same scene

Old Aviation and War Films

Repeat please.

 

[ferrelhadley]

Fury for me because they went to a lot of trouble to get technical details of the weapons rights, even hauled out the famous UK owned, still running Tiger 131. But the gist of the story was a reheating of the UK\US producing piss poor weapons while the Nazi Ubermench had near superweapons from the future and only succumbed to raw numbers. It helps perpetuate a wholly unwarrented romantic myth of Nazi technical genius. The Tiger I and M4 Shermans were actually quite close in frontal armour from low angles due the US sloping its armour thus getting more equivalent armour for less weight (same trick as the T34 and most tanks since) the 76mm at the ranges depicted would have had one shot one kill capability on a Tiger I, US crews would have had far more training than the children and old men the Nazis were dragooning into their suicide death cult. In order to create a sense of jeopardy and drama the battle scene throws aside any reality that and their tactics seem to be from 1950s war movies. Drive straight at each other? Seriously, are they jousting knights?