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Okay, they don't have the epic grandeur of huge mega-battle scenes, but there is no way these fights can be overlooked. Either for their supercoolness, their sheer number of Hot Bad Guys, or their humor value, here, without further ado, are Princess' Top Six Fight Scenes:
6 - David Boreanaz and James Marsters in various episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Lately, most of their sparring has been of the verbal variety, what with Spike's incorporeal problem and all, but when both these guys have bodies (and boy, do they have bodies), look out. Not only do they beat on each other, often bare-handed, they cause wanton destruction wherever they do battle, while simultaneously avoiding any wooden stakes and unleashing audio hell on each other. Two Hot men in leather? Oh yeah.
5 - Alan Rickman and The Guy with the Lousy Accent in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. A sword fight that interrupts a rape scene? Fantastico! How could it possibly have been left off my Top Six List? Well, the answer is, it can't be, so here it is. Its appearance here has nothing to do with my undying love for Alan Rickman and my being impressed that he gets to have at Kevin Costner with a sword. If only the sword were sharpened, we wouldn't have had to sit through Waterworld OR For Love of the Game. And that's a Damn Shame.
4 - Sean Bean and Some Guy in Clarissa. Another one for the sword-fighting fangirls, this final duel scene makes the rest of the movie even cooler in comparison. Finally, someone stands up to Robert Lovelace at swordpoint. It's the moment we've all been waiting for. Plus, Lovelace even admits that he is Evil during the course of the duel. Yeah, he's evil. Really evil. With hose and impressive waistcoats. That's good TV, kids.
3 - Various in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. It's simple. I couldn't cut a single individual fight scene from this list. Hot and Cool Bad Guy Ian McKellen and Cool Bad Guy Christopher Lee in the Great Wizard Smackdown? Hot Bad Guys Sean Bean, Viggo Mortensen and Lawrence Makoare at various points at the end, resulting in two character deaths and a really cool beheading? Arguments that very nearly erupted into tussles between Messers. Mortensen and Bean? An actual tussle between Mr. Bean and Wanna Be Hot Bad Guy Elijah Wood? It was too difficult to choose.
2 - Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee and Yoda in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. I'll admit it. I'm a freakin' sucker for lightsabers. I love them. I love them a lot. And this was the coolest scene with lightsabers EVER. And, Evil kind of won, which is always a Good Thing. Messers. McGregor and Christensen were put out of commission fairly early on. But then Christopher Lee kind of got his butt kicked by a green midget. Okay, so Evil didn't come off well, but he did escape, so that's something. An honorable mention in this category goes to Hot Bad Guy Ewan McGregor and Wanna Be Hot Bad Guy Liam Neeson in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace for their pretty cool lightsaber fight with Darth Maul, which resulted in two deaths, including one down a Standard Star Wars Issue Gaping Abyss. Good times.
1 - Colin Firth and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones' Diary. Possibly the most hilarious fight scene ever to grace the silver screen, there is nothing better than watching two fantastic looking men beat the hell out of each other, using anything from trash can lids to plate glass windows to Greek restaurants. That they then apologized to diners for ruining their dinners and stopped the fight to sing happy birthday brings this fight to new heights, but what really launches it to the top of the list is the fact that playing in the background is "It's Raining Men." The whole scene never fails to crack me up, especially knowing that right after the fight ends, Mark tells Bridget that he was "laboring under a misapprehension" while bleeding all over his well-tailored shirt. Wow. That's just, so, British.
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