Best women fight scenes
Joe Tamburino
Joe
Keith Meng-Wei Loh
>What movies have the best fight scenes involving women?
Do you mean fights involving two women going at each other or just
including a woman?
The last movie I saw was _Romeo Is Bleeding_ in which Lena Olin plays
a toothy Russian assassin who beats the crap out of Gary Oldman whenever
she gets a chance. She has a smile that could eat up a lot of men. But
in any case, she strangles Oldman several times and is otherwise menacing.
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The best fight scene involving a woman is at the end of the 007 James Bond
adventure "From Russia with Love" where the female Russian assassin dresses
up as a maid and tries to kick James Bond with a poison switchblade that
pops out of her shoe. Bond pins her against the wall with the legs of a
chair and his girlfriend shoots her.
Another great fight scene, albeit comic, is in the film "Foul Play" where
Burgess Meredith has a karate fight with a mean woman kidnapper. He ends
up throwing her into a grand piano, and knocks the piano cover on top of
her by karate chopping the support stick. After the fight, Meredith
exclaims "She was one tough old momma!"
Joe Tamburino
>j...@iri14.infores.com (Joe Tamburino) writes:
>
>>What movies have the best fight scenes involving women?
>
>Do you mean fights involving two women going at each other or just
>including a woman?
Both!
>
>The last movie I saw was _Romeo Is Bleeding_ in which Lena Olin plays
>a toothy Russian assassin who beats the crap out of Gary Oldman whenever
>she gets a chance. She has a smile that could eat up a lot of men. But
>in any case, she strangles Oldman several times and is otherwise menacing.
>
I havn't seen that movie ... Is it any good?
Joe
Joe Tamburino
>In article <1994Apr1.1...@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>, j...@iri14.infores.com (Joe Tamburino) writes:
>> What movies have the best fight scenes involving women?
>>
>
>
>For some reason, T2 is at the top of my mind (Gee, I wonder why!), so I have
>a lot of images of Linda Hamilton looking burly and kicking some ass.
>
>Too often, women are left screaming, stranded or wielding something silly,
>like a vase. Strong on-screen women are such a rare thing, they really
>should be shown more often (not that I'm for violence in the movies).
Total Recall also comes to mind.
Joe
Jim Ortlieb
>What movies have the best fight scenes involving women?
Ripley. One word describes her: DAMAGE!
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Christopher K. Koenigsberg
No one's mentioned the classic "Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill Kill" or
the one with Wendy O of the Plasmatics as a prisoner, maybe titled
"Women in Cages" or something like that? Or how about "I Spit On Your
Grave," another all-time classic.
Robert Bryan Lipton
: j...@iri14.infores.com (Joe Tamburino) writes:
: >What movies have the best fight scenes involving women?
The cat fight in the 1939 DESTR RIDES AGAIN
Bob
Allan Bourdius
the best hands down.
Allan
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: What movies have the best fight scenes involving women?
: Joe
Hmm ,
Try Jacky Chan's 'Armours of GOD'.
Some of the stuffs those women did really put us guys to shame!!!
Bye,
Richard.
Keith Meng-Wei Loh
Oh, yes. Lena Olin really makes the movie. It's rather simple but the
performances are pretty damned good and it's a very ... mean movie. If
you liked _Reservoir Dogs_ you'll probably appreciate this noir film.
ASH
>>I havn't seen that movie ... Is it any good?
>Oh, yes. Lena Olin really makes the movie. It's rather simple but the
>performances are pretty damned good and it's a very ... mean movie. If
>you liked _Reservoir Dogs_ you'll probably appreciate this noir film.
However, if you really liked _Reservoir Dogs_ and picked up on some of its more
complex aspects rather than simply jumping on the bandwagon and pretending to
like it, you would in all likelihood -*not*- enjoy it. Virtually every review
of it compliments Lena Olin, calling her one of the most vicious femmes fatale
to hit the big screen in a while-why, you may ask? It's because she favors us
wth her irritating cackle while she does her mean little things...not scary,
not menacing or ominous, just extremely irritating.
One of the movie's problems is its miscasting-Swedish-born, Hispanic-looking
Olin as a "Russian" spy/hitwoman, Roy Scheider as a Mafia boss (what the-?),
and Juliette Lewis as anything.
Gary Oldman, an excellent actor, can't save the film, mostly due to a horrific
script and poor direction, and _Romeo_ as a whole is a painful experience.
Slack,
Matt `Ash' Abrams
These opinions are necessarily those of my employer, Yoyodyne Technologies.
Sal (D.P.) Zaragoza
>Hmm ,
>Try Jacky Chan's 'Armours of GOD'.
>Some of the stuffs those women did really put us guys to shame!!!
What about _China O'Brian_. Now that was a movie with a woman
making men look bad. I can't rememebr her whole name, Rothrock
or something like that. She seems to be well respected in the
martial arts community.
Sal
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Wonder 7, Wing Chun, Supercop 3, Project S are a few examples.
Ira
Ron Geroncio Galicia
>What movies have the best fight scenes involving women?
One movie that comes to my mind is Lovely but Deadly. I recall in one scene the heroine
dispatches a group of cheerleaders in a locker room singlehandedly. In another she takes
on all the men's dates at a fancy dinner party. Ok, so maybe these don't qualify as "best"
but maybe funniest?
Ron
COLEMAN EDRICE M
>What movies have the best fight scenes involving women?
>
>Joe
The Turning Point, with Shirley Maclaine (sp) and Anne Bancroft slugging it
out in their evening wear! (I think it was Anne Bancroft?!)
EMC
Steve Hwan
In article <ZARAGOZA.9...@remarque.berkeley.edu>, zara...@remarque.berkeley.edu (Sal (D.P.) Zaragoza) writes:
|> In article <2nkej6$c...@styx.uwa.edu.au> rhu...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Richard Huynh) writes:
|> What about _China O'Brian_. Now that was a movie with a woman
|> making men look bad. I can't rememebr her whole name, Rothrock
|> or something like that. She seems to be well respected in the
|> martial arts community.
|> Sal
clips of that she was in, and now I'm trying to figure out what it was. I
thought it may have been "Above the Law" or "Against the Law" or something
like that, but I think one of them turned out to be a Steven Segal movie...
Anyway, I agree with whoever mentioned the Sharon Stone fight scenes
in "Total Recall." Those were well done. I also liked Renee Russo's fights
in "Lethal Weapon 3."
-Steve
Joe Tamburino
> Anyway, I agree with whoever mentioned the Sharon Stone fight scenes
>in "Total Recall." Those were well done. I also liked Renee Russo's fights
>in "Lethal Weapon 3."
>-Steve
Yea, but the Total Recall scene was way too short. Actually,
I remember two. The apartment scene and the elevator scene.
The elevator scene was definatly better.
I forget the Renee Russo scene in LW3. Could you refresh my
memory?
Thanks.
Joe
Jim Harris
: In article <2nkej6$c...@styx.uwa.edu.au> rhu...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Richard Huynh) writes:
: What about _China O'Brian_. Now that was a movie with a woman
: making men look bad. I can't rememebr her whole name, Rothrock
: or something like that. She seems to be well respected in the
: martial arts community.
: Sal
Cynthia Rothrock IS the ultimate fighting machine. See her in China O'Brien
I & 2, Martial Law 1 & 2, Tiger Claws, Lady Dragon 1 & 2, Honor & Glory,
Rage & Honor 1 & 2, 24 Hours to Midnight, Fast Getaway, and the newest Angel
of Fury.
Jim (Cynthia's biggest fan) Harris
Henri
>From: ji...@sr.hp.com (Jim Harris)
>Subject: Re: Best women fight scenes
>Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 22:20:43 GMT
>: Sal
How about Bridget Fonda vs Jennifer Jason Leigh in Single White Female ?
Nasty !
Ralph Dickhout
>From: gal...@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU ("Ron" Geroncio Galicia)
>Subject: Re: Best women fight scenes
>j...@iri14.infores.com (Joe Tamburino) writes:
>>What movies have the best fight scenes involving women?
The 1939 classic "The Women". Rosalind Russell and Paulette Goddard get
down and roll around in the dirt...."I'll stratch her eyes out!!!"
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Mike Cohen
: Jim Harris (ji...@sr.hp.com) wrote:
: : Sal (D.P.) Zaragoza (zara...@remarque.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: : : In article <2nkej6$c...@styx.uwa.edu.au> rhu...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
: : :(Richard Huynh) writes:
: : : What about _China O'Brian_. Now that was a movie with a woman
: : : making men look bad. I can't rememebr her whole name, Rothrock
: : : or something like that. She seems to be well respected in the
: : : martial arts community.
It has to be the nightgown wrestling/catfight scene in "Manos, the Hands of
Fate". This is one of the worst movies ever made, but that scene stands out
as especially surreal/unsettling.
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cat fights in Cukor's The Women. Katharine Hepburne beats up Charles Bronson
in pat & Mike . No, really; he was going by Charles Brozinski or something.
Jeffrey Soros
: Fighting women: the dueling girl scouts in the bar scene in Airplane. Several
: cat fights in Cukor's The Women. Katharine Hepburne beats up Charles Bronson
: in pat & Mike . No, really; he was going by Charles Brozinski or something.
Go see russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Rose Weitz
McCambridge in Johnny Guitar. This is one weird film--the
girls fight it out while the guys sing and dance.
Richard Matthew Schoenfeld
Joe Tamburino
Yea? What kind of fighting? What do they fight
about?
Joe
Dianne Ferrans
|> j...@iri14.infores.com (Joe Tamburino) writes:
|>
|> >What movies have the best fight scenes involving women?
|>
|> One movie that comes to my mind is Lovely but Deadly.
|>
|>
My number one pick!
Total Recall: Sharon Stone vs. Maria Conchita Alonzo!
Sharon Stove vs. Arnold...!!
Much better than the silly hair-pulling-and-screaming fight scenes
they usually stage for women!
Also.... (in the just-for-fun department)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (vs. everyone including pee-wee herman ) :-)
DDF
Alex Fung
Dianne Ferrans <dia...@ddf.b30.ingr.com> wrote:
>My favorites:
>
>My number one pick!
>
>Total Recall: Sharon Stone vs. Maria Conchita Alonzo!
> Sharon Stove vs. Arnold...!!
>
>Much better than the silly hair-pulling-and-screaming fight scenes
>they usually stage for women!
Actually, Rachel Ticotin was in Total Recall, not Maria Conchita Alonso.
However, Alonso was in another Arnie flick, The Running Man.
A little too much stomping-to-the-crotch in the Stone vs. Arnold battle
for my taste :)
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Richard Huynh
There is no comparison to 'The armour of gods', when Jackie Chan took on
those 4 women. How can you compare this to Sharon Stone ??
Richard.
Marcia B.
(Dianne Ferrans) wrote:
> My number one pick!
>
> Total Recall: Sharon Stone vs. Maria Conchita Alonzo!
> Sharon Stove vs. Arnold...!!
>
> Much better than the silly hair-pulling-and-screaming fight scenes
> they usually stage for women!
I agree *totally*, however, it was Rachel Ticotin and *not* Maria Conchita
Alonzo who traded punches and kicks with Ms. Stone.
MSB
Chris A. Hall
in "The Avengers" tv series? (Come to think of it, I think she might have
done some of that in _On Her Majesty's Secret Service_ as well.)
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Erm. I don't think she did. It was supposed to some style of Kung Fu (at least in
the colour episodes) but quite frankly it was just embarrassing because she
didn't know what she was doing. Honor Blackman's fight scenes were very well done
(she even knocked some guy unconscious while doing it making headline knews)
because she'd been taught by a member of the French Resistance. Diana Rigg merely
relied on good stuntmen.
I agree with everyone about Sharon Stone's fights in Total Recall though.
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Joe Tamburino
>Erm. I don't think she did. It was supposed to some style of Kung Fu (at least in
>the colour episodes) but quite frankly it was just embarrassing because she
>didn't know what she was doing. Honor Blackman's fight scenes were very well done
>(she even knocked some guy unconscious while doing it making headline knews)
>because she'd been taught by a member of the French Resistance. Diana Rigg merely
>relied on good stuntmen.
I'm confused! Is "Honor Blackman" the name of a person or a movie?
If a person, what's the movie? If a movie, what is the actress's
name (if you know it)?
Thanks,
Joe
Mike Cohen
>In article <2p9jv2$n...@nic-nac.CSU.net>, ch...@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Chris A. Hall) writes:
>|> I know this isn't a movie, but how about any of Diana Rigg's karate sequences
>|> in "The Avengers" tv series? (Come to think of it, I think she might have
>|> done some of that in _On Her Majesty's Secret Service_ as well.)
>|> --
(deletia)
>Erm. I don't think she did. It was supposed to some style of Kung Fu (at least in
>the colour episodes) but quite frankly it was just embarrassing because she
>didn't know what she was doing. Honor Blackman's fight scenes were very well done
>(she even knocked some guy unconscious while doing it making headline knews)
>because she'd been taught by a member of the French Resistance. Diana Rigg merely
>relied on good stuntmen.
>I agree with everyone about Sharon Stone's fights in Total Recall though.
The famouse 6-way nightgown wrestling catfight scene in "Manos, the hands of
fate" is certainly the most memorable, surreal & weird one I've ever seen &
the movie itself is so memorably bad it almost hurts to watch. It's being
shown Friday & next Monday on the MST3K hour on Comedy Central (the scene in
question is shown in part 2).
Robert Buckley
seasons 2 & 3 of the show and transformed it a popular success in Britain.
Diana Rigg took over from her in seasons 4-6 when she left to make "Goldfinger"
(she appeared as Pussy Galore)
Micah Williams
>Thanks,
>Joe
Honor Blackman is an actress who starred in the British seires,
"The Avengers". Diana Rigg was in it as well.
Blackman was also in "Goldfinger", as Pussy Galore.
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j...@iri14.infores.com
>Honor Blackman is an actress who starred in the British seires,
>"The Avengers". Diana Rigg was in it as well.
>
>Blackman was also in "Goldfinger", as Pussy Galore.
I see. Was Blackman the one who played Goldfinger's assistant?
Joe
j...@iri14.infores.com
>The famouse 6-way nightgown wrestling catfight scene in "Manos, the hands of
>fate" is certainly the most memorable, surreal & weird one I've ever seen &
>the movie itself is so memorably bad it almost hurts to watch. It's being
>shown Friday & next Monday on the MST3K hour on Comedy Central (the scene in
>question is shown in part 2).
MST3K? Eeegad. You'de have to pay me to watch that show. I wish
Joel and his robot friends would accidently mess up an O-ring
or someting. That show stinks!
So if you'de like to pay me to watch the movie, just email
me privately for my address, and we can discuss the terms!
Joe
CRIS RAVENDEN
Ah we have a very young thread here, them what teethed on TV and little
else.
Does no one recall From Russia With Love, One Million Years BC, The Legend
of French King, Black Mama-White Mama, Kanasas City Bomber, The Miniskirt
Mob, and more recently Amazons, Knockouts, etc., etc., etc.
Even more recently there's been a tendency to stage fem fights around
swimming pools. I wonder why. I guess it's so the gals can freshen up
quickly after their set-to with a quick dip.
Uh oh. Bettergo>>>>
Sraven
EBA
:
: Ah we have a very young thread here, them what teethed on TV and little
Try the gal in "Last House on the Left," the one who took out a
police dog -- a bitch, presumably -- with her bare hands and teeth.
RA
Jodi Giannini
It's gotta be Sigourney Weaver and The Mama Alien. I think that's one
of the best fight scenes, ever. I sat thru that, and was like, "Whoa!"
Jodi G.
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> CRIS RAVENDEN (sra...@delphi.com) wrote:
> :
> : Ah we have a very young thread here, them what teethed on TV and little
> : else.
> :
> : Does no one recall From Russia With Love, One Million Years BC, The Legend
> : of French King, Black Mama-White Mama, Kanasas City Bomber, The Miniskirt
> : Mob, and more recently Amazons, Knockouts, etc., etc., etc.
Reform School Girl
Faster Pussy Cat, Kill! Kill!
Moulin Rouge
Flash Gordon
Cheers,
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Mike Cohen
>In article <ebaCpu...@netcom.com> e...@netcom.com (EBA) writes:
>> CRIS RAVENDEN (sra...@delphi.com) wrote:
>> :
>> : Ah we have a very young thread here, them what teethed on TV and little
>> : else.
>> :
>> : Does no one recall From Russia With Love, One Million Years BC, The Legend
>> : of French King, Black Mama-White Mama, Kanasas City Bomber, The Miniskirt
>> : Mob, and more recently Amazons, Knockouts, etc., etc., etc.
>Reform School Girl
>Faster Pussy Cat, Kill! Kill!
>Moulin Rouge
>Flash Gordon
I still have a special place in my heart (heartburn?) for the 6-way catfight
by the Master's wives in "Manos, the Hands of Fate".
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: Cheers,
: Christophe.
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How about American Angels!?
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slapping contest? Wasn't it The Turning Point? Had me standing up cheering and
rooting for them! (well, sorry, but you can take just so much ballet and bad
acting by what's-his-name).
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> fight. And lots of screaming. I think it's got something to do with acting
> credentials, but all the stars seems to get to do one big fight scene in
> their careers, then alas no more. Maybe it has something to do with aging.
>
> Ever seen any of the old Westerns with Katy Jurardo as the darkk force
> usually tangling with some prim frontier blonde? Never much more than a
> slap and some hairpulling, but I kept thinking about those cowboy boots
> the women wore beneath those long long skirts.
Best fight scene between women has to include the one in the movie "Barfly"
between Faye Dunaway and another actress whose name escapes me fighting
over the drunken poet/fighter/misanthrope character played by Mickey
Rourke. It went on for several minutes, was very well staged and quite
believable.
JB
James A. Peters
In article <CqH8C...@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>, ji...@sr.hp.com (Jim Harris) writes:
|> Christophe Muller (mul...@simulog.fr) wrote:
|> : In article <ebaCpu...@netcom.com> e...@netcom.com (EBA) writes:
|> : > CRIS RAVENDEN (sra...@delphi.com) wrote:
|> : > :
|> : > : Ah we have a very young thread here, them what teethed on TV and little
|> : > : else.
|> : > :
|> : > : Does no one recall From Russia With Love, One Million Years BC, The
|> : > : Legend of French King, Black Mama-White Mama, Kanasas City Bomber,
|>
|> : Reform School Girl
|> : Faster Pussy Cat, Kill! Kill!
|> : Moulin Rouge
|> : Flash Gordon
|>
faye dunaway in barfly. plus the classic line "i suck the best paste in
this bar", "just like a hoover".
cheers,
james, pet...@iex.com
CRIS RAVENDEN
fight. And lots of screaming. I think it's got something to do with acting
credentials, but all the stars seems to get to do one big fight scene in
their careers, then alas no more. Maybe it has something to do with aging.
Ever seen any of the old Westerns with Katy Jurardo as the darkk force
usually tangling with some prim frontier blonde? Never much more than a
slap and some hairpulling, but I kept thinking about those cowboy boots
the women wore beneath those long long skirts.
Uh Oh. Bettergo>>>
Sraven
Mark S. Pope
Well, this is usually the type of thread I expect in the cult-movies
group, but I'll still bite.
My pick is a Hong Kong film called ANGEL, starring Moon Lee and Yukari
Oshima (my fave HK actress, even if she is Japanese :')). The ending
fight between the two has to be seen to be believed (I'm amazed that
both lived through the stunts!). Anybody who
says that there are no great action heroines have not seen films like
ANGEL.
cheers, mark pope
whit...@eng.umd.edu
CRIS RAVENDEN
>My pick is a Hong Kong film called ANGEL, starring Moon Lee and Yukari
>Oshima (my fave HK actress, even if she is Japanese :')). The ending
>fight between the two has to be seen to be believed (I'm amazed that
>both lived through the stunts!). Anybody who
>says that there are no great action heroines have not seen films like
>ANGEL.
in the heart of the mid-south. It is Elvis country, but I don't know about
oriental films.
Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Sraven