Round 1: Match 2

Charlie Yu Tao vs Yuen Tak/Yu Ching-Chuen vs Yu Yung-Sheng
Movie: My Young Auntie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqn5DQ9Jhzk
The goofy Kung Fu equivalent of "my dad could beat up your dad." The silly bragging between Tao and Tak is funny, although I do think that on occasion the fight just looks like they're doing really quick poses. Other than that, a very good climactic fight.

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Kham vs. Everybody in his way
Movie: The Protector
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K06wDn3XsZE
Tony Jaa beats the everloving fuck out of people in a big elaborate 4 minute tracking shot. The way he fights his way up the big winding staircase reminds me of similar levels in video games, which gets the scene points from me because I like those games. There's some stuff that makes you go "bah, they did that with the editing" until you remember that, no, there is no editing.

Tony Jaa is the greatest ever.

No doubt.

Kham vs everybody in his way

any single one of those dudes from The Young Auntie could kick the shit out of Tony Jaa.
the 3 minute long sequence is impressive no doubt, but the protector is god awful. i walked out of that film. so drawn out.

The Young Auntie for sure.

(ong bak was a a different story though.)

Nice tourny Sam

Tony Jaa

that was pretty impressive

3-1 The Protector

Kham vs. Everybody in his way

Tony Jaa. The movie wasnt great, but that sequence is the shiznit.

Nice tourney, Sam. Kudos to the youtube effort.

And The Long Shot wins, next match in a second

Round 1: Match 3


Zhang vs. Yeoh
Movie: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OxQ-2gR1DU
In a movie initially lauded, now decried for its fight scenes full of flying around and fantasy, this fight is more grounded in reality than any other in the movie. Granted, that doesn't say a whole lot, but in a movie where people are running up plant stems and jumping from rooftop to rooftop, this fight stands out.

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Cunningham vs. Rob Roy
Movie: Rob Roy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVaslN1NiT0
A great movie swordfight if ever there was one. It may not have a lot of visually fancy choreography, but it has a greate sense of realism and psychology to it. They pause, and wait, think the fight out, they run out of breath because swordfighting is tiring. They don't just galavant into it because it's a fight to the death. And rather than the fight being either really close the whole way through or the villain beats up the hero until the hero arbitrarily wins, the better swordfighter gets the upper hand for the great majority of the fight, and then the hero wins in a somewhat ingenious move that might not have worked if the villain had chosen a different sword. This is one of the two really great swordfights I've seen in movies.