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[blurgalurgalurga]

Here's a great little article about the evolution of the cinematic fight scene...it's a lament, really, of how the quick-and-disorienting, cut-cut-cut shaky cam style fight scenes, currently in vogue, suck.
Make sure you watch the video history slideshow at the bottom of the page, the article itself is very short.
http://www.slate.com/id/2196075/

[Rusty Shackleford]

Good to see the Oldboy scene in there. A cinema classic in any language.

[blurgalurgalurga]

Yeah, that was a good addition. I was kind of hoping they'd put the epic one-shot fight scene at the end of "Ong-Bak" in, where Tony Jaa goes up four flights of stairs, beats up about 80 guys, all without cutting scene, but "Old Boy" was probably a better choice.

[ulsanchris]

OngBak kicked ass.
The first time i saw that oldboy fight scene it really rocked. Now it doesn't pay to look to closely at it. I thing I find about the violence done by the director of oldboy is that it is really gritty and much more disturbing than the violence in other movies.

I liked the fight scenes in the move Punisher. It was more of a down to earth fight scene. No CGI or wires.

[sillywilly]

when I first saw that cut-cut style in Gladiator, I thought it was neat and kind of captured the WTF?, disoriented, adrenaline of the situation. Don't know why it's become the standard, though. It was artsy and interesting but should never have become the norm.

[Are they the lemmings]

I'm always mesmerised by fight scenes. You know how the gang of baddies always takes on the hero one at a time, and it never occurs to them to attack the guy in larger numbers (except when it's the exact number of assailants needed to let the hero perform an especially acrobatic move and knock out multiple henchmen on one go)? Well, I'm always riveted by the baddies waiting their turn to take a shot at the hero.

They're always in a ready-for-action stance, shuffling around, hands in that half-fist-half-open position so they're ready for anything, grimacing and supposedly waiting for an opening to lay into the goodie. It's like some kind of suspended animation stage they have to go through before they're allowed to engage in fisticuffs. It's hilarious, and usually more engrossing than the actual biffo