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Post by Dracula on Feb 1, 2024 22:54:21 GMT -5
For those who weren't here when I did this in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 and this is part of a tradition of year-end rituals I put together each year and I'm ready to go through with this once again. Basically what I want to do here is post one category a day for five weeks. The First week will be scene based categories (best chase etc.), The second week will be technical awards (best editing etc.), The third week will be acting awards, and the last week will be genre awards and will culminate in Best Picture which will be announced in a top ten format. These awards will be entirely based on my opinions, but I don't plan to have this being an entirely self-indulgent pursuit. I hope that each category will lead to discussion and that people will find themselves playing along and giving their opinions about these various categories. Blanket Spoiler Warning Please note I have not held back when discussing spoilers of certain movies. On the old forum I could black these spoilers out but here I can't do that so easily. So, without further ado I'll give out the first of the scene based awards: Fight of the Year
The first of our action scene award, Fight of the Year always looks at the best in melee combat for the year. Qualifications are getting a little tricky recently because, thanks to a certain successful franchise, action movies are increasingly mixing firearms with their martial arts scenes into a sort of “gun-fu.” I’ve decided to allow that so long as the actual shooting is pretty short range and there are more blows than shots. Close range weapons like knives and swords are, as always, eligible.
The Battle of Los Angeles – Creed III: Like pretty much every movie in the Rocky Cinematic Universe Creed III ends with a climactic fight against the rival its protagonist has been feuding with, but for once the phrase “this time its personal” seems to have a bit more meaning. This fight is dubbed “The Battle of Los Angeles” by its promoters in honor of both fighters’ shared hometown and it takes place in the middle of Dodgers Stadium. Much of the fight takes place in standard Rocky fashion but it takes a left turn in the eleventh round by having the ref, the announcers, and everyone else in the audience disappear and we get this sort of violent dream ballet where both opponents are locked in on each other and drowning out the world. Had Michael B. Jordan gone too far with this it might have been annoying but there’s plenty of regular boxing here too and he effective has his cake and eats it too.
Prison Yard One-er Fight – Extraction 2: Midway through Extraction 2 its audiences is treated to what is meant to look like a twenty minute long “one-er” which encompasses several different action scenes as the protagonist tries to extract an innocent family from a prison they’re being held in. As they’re doing this a riot breaks out in the prison and this scene finds our hero stuck in the middle of that riot. He tries to fight people off with guns but once the ammo runs out he needs to fight the brutes rushing him hand to hand or with various knives and improvised weapons he gets a hold of. At one point he’s hit in the head but gets back up (all in a cool unbroken to the face shot) and fights on with a riot shield he grabs from a guard. Eventually his arm catches fire after said shield get a Molotov cocktail thrown at it but he fights on. It’s an intense and violent attack and one of only a few obstacles he needs to fight in before the camera cuts.
Osaka Continental Armory Fight – John Wick: Chapter 4: This scene, which can just as easily be called “The Nunchucks Fight” happens in the middle of the larger Osaka Continental action sequence. In it Wick needs to fight off several henchmen coming at him and while he tries to shoot many of them his gun often runs out of ammo or comes into too close a range to really use it, and for those moments he picks up a pair of nunchucks to fight off the villains. There’s a little more gunfire here than a normally like in this category but the nunchucks are the centerpiece with bullets used more as a finishing mechanism. It’s some of the best use of this showy weapon since the days of Bruce Lee and there are also plenty of MMA style grapples and martial arts moves along the way.
Florida Fight – The Killer: For the most part David Fincher’s The Killer is not really an “action” movie per se, but it does finally get its hands dirty during this scene in which our unnamed protagonist attempts to kill one of the fellow assassins he’s targeting at his fenced off Floridian home. Soon he’s ambushed and disarmed and needs to fight hand to hand with the clearly larger and more aggressive opponent and what follows is a pretty brutal little fist fight around the entire home. This is not a highly choreographed martial arts sequence, or at least isn’t meant to look like one, instead it depicts two desperate men trying any trick they can to get the upper hand and go for every improvised weapon they can in order to do it and it seems extremely painful for both parties.
Spider-Man Vs. The Spot – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: This fight comes a good twenty minutes into Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and brings us back into the world of Miles Morales after a Gwen Stacey centric prologue. It’s meant to initially seem like a sort of frivolous bit of friendly neighborhood Spider-Maning as Morales stops a bodega robbery by a “villain of the week” who turns out to be a bit more formidable than he initially appears. The Spot, as he’s called, can open up portals at will, and this leads to a fight across town filled with fun portal related gags as Morales also tries to get to school on time. The fight continues after Morales’ Parent/teacher conference leading to a construction site. It’s an appropriately lighthearted fight in a movie that’s just warming up but it’s as clever and innovative as anything else in the film.
And the Golden Stake Goes To… The Killer On a level of pure choreography and spectacle there are probably better fight scenes than this one this year and among the nominees but there’s a certain something to this fight that elevates it beyond the sum of its parts. In fact I think the fact that it’s not so well choreographed is part of what makes it work so much: it feels like a fight scene from people who don’t know ahead of time that they’re going to fight and what the course of that fight will be. Instead it feels improvised in a way that’s appealing and the variety of objects the two fighters go for to knock their opponents senseless is impressive. And man, that one shot against “the brute” looks so frickin’ painful. Almost felt sorry for the bastard.
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Post by PG Cooper on Feb 2, 2024 7:11:09 GMT -5
Wooooo. Awesome. Great first pick too. Much as I love the nunchucks The Killer is a good shout here.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Feb 2, 2024 9:39:27 GMT -5
Yeah, that Killer fight was all kinds of great.
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Post by frankyt on Feb 2, 2024 10:21:32 GMT -5
Best fight hands down this year.
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Post by donny on Feb 2, 2024 10:24:39 GMT -5
Yeah woulda gone Killer or Wick. Solid.
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Post by Dracula on Feb 2, 2024 18:14:56 GMT -5
Shootout of the YearIn the past handful of years it’s often been difficult to come up with quality gunfights to fill this category with, and while I probably would have had trouble filling out even a few more slots this year I’d say this is one of the healthier lineups we’ve gotten in a while. The top three in particular were pretty hard to choose between. As with the fight of the year there was some gray area between how much melee a scene could have and still be a shootout or when they cross over to being a fight with some shooting on the side. Taliban Ambush – Guy Richie’s The Covenant: This scene from Guy Richie’s The Covenant is essentially the disaster that solidifies the bond between our protagonist and his translator. In it an American special forces group attempt to break into a Taliban compound in the desert that contains a weapons supply. They take the building pretty easily but come to realize they’ve been led into a trap and are soon outnumbered surrounded by enemies swarming in. Fighting id divided between three different locations each with their own little dynamics. I can’t speak to the scene’s accuracy, my guess is that it’s about as informed by action cinema as anything that really happened in Afghanistan, but it is compelling and tense and the mournful score in the background does a good job of emphasizing the weight of what’s going on despite the excitement and explosions.
Vienna High-Rise Shootout - Extraction 2: At about twenty minutes this scene from Extraction 2 is almost certainly one of the longest shootouts here, and in this sense comparing it to some of these other sequences almost feels like comparing suite by a prog rock band that takes up half an album against a group of 3 minute punk songs, which doesn’t necessarily make it better but it certainly makes it impressive just in sheer size and scope. It starts with a helicopter opening fire on a high-rise apartment building, continues into a parking garage as the family tries to escape, then back up into the building and into a gym and out onto a glass ceiling all while another battle is being fought on the outskirts of the building. Throughout we get all sorts of John Wick style close range firing and other battles and explosions and making great use of this location.
Hallway Mayhem – The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: This scene, set to The Beastie Boy’s “No Sleep ‘til Brooklyn” sees the Guardians fighting their way through a hallway full of the High Evolutionary’s soldiers and creations. It only last two short minutes but it packs a whole lot into that tight package. Meant to look like an extended “one-er,” it has the camera going back and forth through this hallway focusing on various different Guardians as it goes and showcasing what each one of them individually brings into the fight. It’s one of the most memorable action scenes to grace a Marvel film in a while and its heavy emphasis on how well these guys work as a team does speak to the broader farewell being expressed by the film.
Abandoned House Shootout - John Wick: Chapter 4: Just when you think the John Wick movies have maybe run out of ways to show people getting shot they surprise you with a fresh and new take on cinematic gun violence like this scene that pops up late in John Wick: Chapter 4 and features Wick wielding a unique weapon that fires incendiary rounds which enflame their targets upon impact. To show off this weapon the film breaks from its usual style and starts showing the action from a top down “isometric” angle and follows Wick from this bird’s eye perspective giving an all-encompassing vision of the players on the board as they proceed to massacre each other.
Stairway Shootout – Silent Night: In terms of gunfights and action John Woo is maybe a master who’s been eccipsed by his apprentices at this point, but he does still have some tricks up his sleeve like this fun shootout within the finale of his latest film Silent Night. In this scene, which is intended to look like a “one-er,” our mute protagonist must shoot his way up a spiral staircase as various gang members try to impede his progress, sort of like similar fight scenes in Tom-Yum-Goong and Atomic Blonde, but with guns. Joel Kinnaman is pretty convincing toting a shotgun as the scene begins and manages to efortly transition between shooting and stabbing as needed. Kind of wish they hadn’t used CGI blood, but it’s a fun time nonetheless. And the Golden Stake Goes To…John Wick: Chapter 42023 is possibly going to go down as the year in which video game adaptations became a major force in Hollywood and yet the most buzzed about and acclaimed piece of video game inspired content was probably this scene, which plainly borrowed from the game “Hotline: Miami” in its new take on John Wick style madness. This could have played as a bit gimmicky, and yeah to some extent it is, but it comes at just the point in this rather lengthy movie to come as something of a breath of fresh air and they wisely divide up the two main overhead shots with some more conventional action photography and end on this cool little duel between Wick and newcomer Mr. Nobody AKA The Tracker.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Feb 2, 2024 19:08:13 GMT -5
Yup. One of those scenes from last year that just filled me with glee.
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Post by Doomsday on Feb 2, 2024 19:49:06 GMT -5
The John Wick shootout was incredible. Hoping the Arc de Triomphe scene gets some love in this thread.
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Post by frankyt on Feb 2, 2024 21:31:42 GMT -5
Truly something special that shootout.
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Post by IanTheCool on Feb 3, 2024 7:48:45 GMT -5
I mean, it had to be
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Post by PG Cooper on Feb 3, 2024 9:01:00 GMT -5
Yeah. Key moment of "they can't possibly top themselves" only to so vividly see they absolutely can.
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Post by donny on Feb 3, 2024 14:14:02 GMT -5
Now i wanna go back and watch JW4.
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Post by thebtskink on Feb 3, 2024 15:01:34 GMT -5
Is this a safe place to say I've never seen a John Wick movie?
I should probably start these at some point...
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Post by Dracula on Feb 3, 2024 15:43:38 GMT -5
Chase of the YearAnd the third of our action scene categories will focus on chase scenes, which can take the form of any sort of vehicular pursuit but also covers foot chases or chases that are fantastical in nature. Kind of a weird year for chase scenes as certain themes seemed to get repeated several times across movies, but I’ll not hold that against anything. Also note that I do not consider racing to be synonymous with chasing so movies about legal racing like Ferrari and Gran Turismo will not be covered here. Wildshape Chase – Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: This very fun sequence comes midway through Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves as a character named Doric who has the ability to transform into animals is caught spying on a meeting in the villains’ castle while in the form of a fly. What follows is an extended chase out of the castle and out of the surrounding village which meant to look like a continuous “one-er” shot. The fun of this is seeing Doric as she shifts various forms depending on the situation whether its as a fly, mouse, falcon, emu looking fantasy bird, or deer as well as the various ways that the villains seem to come at her from all angles to try to prevent her escape. It’s a very fun use of the fantasy setting to give us a chase scene that’s outside of the action movie norm but still fun and engaging. Meet Cute Chase – Elemental: Though they eventually fall for each other, the relationship between Ember and Wade gets off to a rough start as they meet when he, as a city inspector, observes code violations at her family shop and leaves to report them. She then chases him hoping to destroy his notebook taking them both into downtown Element City. What follows is a short but fun little footchase that doubles as a look at the infrastructure of this strange city and a showcase of the clever things the animators are able to do with this “living elements” concept like having the water guy fit between the cracks in a building or having the fire girl levitate by applying hot air to an umbrella. The culmination in which she uses oil to turn herself into a wall of flame which the guy can just get around by ducking into a water grate is also fun. Rome Chase – Fast X: In some quirk of fate or of tax credits, this year we were treated to not one but two car chases through the Eternal City, each with their own distinct charms. The first is this extended chase from Fast X in which the Jason Momoa hatches a plan to blow up the Vatican which involves rolling a giant spherical bomb through the city as our heroes try to stop it. Momoa absolutely hams it up throughout this scene as he rolls through the streets on a motorcycle and this giant explosive ball causes all sorts of impressive damage, even catching on fire and rolling through the Spanish Steps and the fountain beneath at one point. We also casually get this really sweet low level motorcycle jump from the Michelle Rodriguez character at one point. Fast X may well be where this franchise jumped the shark, but for this one scene it felt like they recaptured the magic of what made the series so fun. Rome Chase - Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: For the second of our two chase scenes set in the City of Seven Hills we get this fun little chase from Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is based around the Tom Crusie and Hayley Atwell characters being handcuffed to Tom Cruise’s left hand while they’re being chased by three different parties through the streets of Rome. They try to avoid this by switching cars but find that they’re now stuck in a tiny little Fiat 500, which they proceed to use to race and tumble down the Spanish Steps so soon after they’d been wrecked by Dominic Torreto’s nemesis. Unlike him they do spare the Fontana della Barcaccia though, which is nice.
Spider-Society Escape - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: After Miles Morales learns that the Spider-Society intends to hold him as The Spot kills his father to fulfill a canon event he decides to break out and what ensues is an extended chase through the Spider-Society’s headquarters and out into the futuristic city that surrounds it. As such we get all the “Easter-Egg-o-Rama” elements that made the Spider-Society so fun to begin with but put into more of an action context with tons of alternate universe spider-people (including a cat Spider-Man, a spaghetti western Spider-Man, a wheelchair Spider-Man, a therapist Spider-Man, and a T-Rex Spider-Man) pursuing him. It’s chaotic but somehow manages to avoid being completely distracting and the jokes don’t distract from the fact that this is actually supposed to be a pretty pivotal moment in the character’s life. What’s more there’s a lot of interesting spectacle going on here even without the easter eggs whether it’s the crowd leaping from the building or swinging through a futuristic super-highway or climbing up a vertical futuristic train. And the Golden Stake Goes to…Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseFor all the comic chaos in this chase what really makes it impressive is just how much emotional weight is added to it by the fact that among the spider-people pursuing Morales are some of his friends from the previous film and from earlier in the movie. None of these people turn into villains because they’re trying to catch Spider-Man and you feel the whole time that they want what’s best for him, including during a brief interlude where Peter B. Parker tries to talk him into standing down. At the scene’s climax when Morales shocks Spider-Man 2099 and says “Im gonna do my own thing” you really feel like we’ve reached a turning point in a character arc and not just a chase sequence.
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Post by IanTheCool on Feb 3, 2024 16:21:18 GMT -5
I woulda given it to MI7
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Post by thebtskink on Feb 3, 2024 16:30:21 GMT -5
That winner is a real great scene. Watched it on an airplane and it was still tremendously effective.
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Post by PG Cooper on Feb 3, 2024 20:10:18 GMT -5
Fast X feels like the odd man out in this category. Best scene in the movie but still felt pretty mid by series standards or comparable scenes like the bomb chase in Dark Knight Rises.
Great winner though.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Feb 3, 2024 23:18:34 GMT -5
Yeah, great winner. Still just as effective on a rewatch. The one in MI7 would be a close second.
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Post by Doomsday on Feb 4, 2024 10:51:01 GMT -5
Great pick!
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Post by Dracula on Feb 4, 2024 11:21:47 GMT -5
Best Set-PieceBest Set-Piece is kind of like a “miscellaneous” catch-all category for big elaborate set-pieces that don’t cleanly fit into any of my more specific action scene categories like Best Fight, Best Shootout, or Best Chase. The sequences in question do need to be at least somewhat contained, which is why I couldn’t quite bring myself to nominate the race scene from Ferrari, which kind of takes up several separate scenes from that movie. Similarly I couldn’t really justify calling the play within the film in Beau is Afraid as a single set-piece. Otherwise there aren’t a lot of rules and I let my definition be pretty expansive. Train Battle - Extraction 2: The Extraction series has a lot of what I’d call “hybrid action scenes,” which are scenes that combine fighting, shooting, and chasing in quick succession. One such scene is this train battle that concludes the twenty-some minute “one-er” that’s in the first half of the movie. In it the extracted family attempts to escape on a freight train in Georgia only to have that train get attacked by a pair of helicopters and a team of mercenaries that land on the roof. Our heroes then have fight these things off, lead to this brutal close quarters fight between the Golshifteh Farahani character and various bad guys in the engine and Hemsworth shooting his way through various cars. We also get Hemsworth shooting down not one, but two of the helicopters and of course it all ends with the train derailing in spectacular fashion, which is where the movie finally cuts away from the one-er. Attack on Ginza – Godzilla Minus One: There are three major set-pieces in Godzilla Minus One and one could make an argument for the other two based on the fact that they do less familiar things with the character but at the end of the day the true standout is the one which features the big guy doing what he does best: rampaging through Japanese cities. Here we see our favorite mutated lizard wrecking the Ginza district of Tokyo, a commercial section of that city known today for upscale shopping. He’s destroying smaller buildings here than he usually goes up against but there’s a special intensity to this one and there’s a particularly inspired section where we see this chaos from the perspective of a group of reporters doing a radio broadcast from the roof of a nearby building. Train Crash - Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: Big year for action scenes set on trains. When they set out to make this latest Mission: Impossible adventure Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie compared notes and found that Crusie want to jump a motorcycle off a cliff and McQuarrie wanted to crash a train, so they came up with a finale that incorporated both stunts and then wrote the movie around that. Frankly I think McQuarrie had the better idea. This scene, in which Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell have to climb up several train cars is simply one of the most impressively constructed action scenes of the year and frankly the film would have better served by emphasizing it in the advertising. The incredible tension as they climb up that last train car is incredible. Austerlitz – Napoleon: There were two major battle scenes in Napoleon to choose from, this and its recreation of the general’s defeat at Waterloo. That latter scene probably has the most “cast of thousands” extras running at each other, which is pretty cool, but ultimately I was more taken by this battle which was one of his great victories. The legend of this battle is that Napoleon lured Russian and Austrian troops onto a frozen lake then bombarded it with cannon fire to drown them. Historians agree that this is an exaggeration at best and possibly and outright myth, but Ridley Scott kind of takes a “print the legend” approach, and to great effect as watching a bunch of 19th century soldiers drown in bloody water is quite the spectacle and Scott knows how to shoot stuff like that. Nuclear Attack Celebration Rally – Oppenheimer: Oppenheimer depicts its title character as a man highly conflicted about the force he’s unleashed on the world, though the enormity of it doesn’t hit him all at once as seen in this scene where he has something of an epiphany while speaking at a rather uncouth rally of sorts in a high school gymnasium in front of a crowd in a sort of ghoulish flag waving frenzy the day of the bombing. He confidently says he has no regrets but as he’s saying it Nolan undermines the sentiment by taking the scene in to impressionistic Lynchian territory by having the background shake behind Oppenheimer and then having flashes of white in the arena of the kind the victims and Hiroshima would have been witness to. We then see a vision of a woman in the front row having her skin come off and as he leaves Oppenheimer seems to step on a charred corpse and sees someone vomiting outside. It’s the closest the film comes to depicting those bombings that it otherwise famously does not depict. It’s kind of all you need. And the Golden Stake Goes to…Oppenheimer This is a much smaller scene than the bombastic action scenes its nominated against so I’m a little conflicted about giving it the prize against all that spectacle. In fact it’s not even the biggest spectacle in Oppenheimer, that would of course be the Trinity Test sequence that the film was sold on so there’s a certain irony to the fact that the movie’s most memorable moment comes just minutes after with this scene that in a lot of ways feels different from the rest of the film and different from anything Christopher Nolan has shot before. It perfectly captures the conflicted mind of the man at the movie’s center and also introduces the violently jingoistic world that he’s introduced the weapon to. Watching the scene you wonder if the main thing disgusting Oppenheimer is really the bombing or if the main thing he’s disturbed by is this crowd that seems to be in a sort of Nurumberg-esque frenzy and his own role in firing them up. The foot stomping in the scene becomes a motif in the film used both before and after this sequence as a symbol for militarism which is particularly potent in the film’s chilling final moments.
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Post by IanTheCool on Feb 4, 2024 11:29:12 GMT -5
Persoanlly, I'm glad the train crash wasn't in the advertising, because I was completely blown away by it, and having no idea about it probably helped.
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Post by frankyt on Feb 4, 2024 13:32:31 GMT -5
Does extraction have that good of action scenes?
Might have to give it a watch.
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Post by Dracula on Feb 4, 2024 13:57:47 GMT -5
Does extraction have that good of action scenes? Might have to give it a watch. It has that good of action scenes... and not much else. |
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Post by PG Cooper on Feb 4, 2024 18:47:08 GMT -5
Very much appreciate the choice you made here. Good set of nominees too.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Feb 4, 2024 19:44:54 GMT -5
Hm. Interesting choice. Not sure if I myself would call it a setpiece, but it is very much a distinct part of the film.
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