Blade friendly movies

I enjoyed Beowulf and Grendel too -- very cool overall.

Brendan Fraser uses a balisong in The Mummy.
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels features the line: "Guns for show, knives for a pro."
Robert Carlyle carries knives in Trainspotting and Plunkett & Macleane.
Cliffhanger features some Spydercos if I remember correctly.
Bruce Willis uses a katana in Pulp Fiction (you know what scene I'm talking about).
 
By far my favorite was (and has been for several years) 13th Warrior... even if they did mix-match armor from different periods. I watch it whenever it comes on.

Has anyone mentioned Troy yet? The fight between Hector and Achilles, even though it looked totally choreographed (sp), was pretty cool.

Alan
 
Brotherhood of the Wolf - Great French movie with stunning cinematography and fight scenes. If you can find it, watch it.
 
rottwang said:
Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex - 2nd GIG
I know this is really a Japanese animated series, not a movie, but there is one being made right now that will come out in theaters. Based on Masamune Shirow's Comic books of the same name, which have a fair number of knives throughout, for utility use (wedging a door (rigged with a bomb) shut, for example) as well as hand to hand combat (elabourate 3-on-1 knife fight in Appleseed TPB #4 but you guys don't seem like comic book nerds)

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In the first season the Major picks up a Laguiole Sommelier tool. It even had the Laguiole logo.

In the Cowboy Bepop movie Faye gets her shirt sliced open with a Pesch-Kabz.

Long live the geeks.:foot:
Frank

P.S. Did anyone mention the Crow with Brandon Lee?
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moonwilson said:
That's true. (though MacGuyver is a TV show, not a movie). MacGuyver could build a nuclear reactor with his SAK and some baling wire, then enrich uranium and use it to mutate a mouse into a giant walrus like creature who could tusk open doors for him. He was like Rube Goldberg, but with a fierce mullet.

You could put MacGuyver in a shed full of spare parts and five minutes later he would come out in a fully functional mobile armored suit, straight out of Robotech or Gundam Wing. He would then launch net guns at all of the bad guys because killing is wrong.

Imagine what MacGuyver could have done with a Leatherman! He could have built a Death Star out of some old soda cans and a bicycle rack!
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That's two mentions of anime in one thread. :D I love it.
Frank
 
I liked the final fight scene in Under Siege.

And any of the Lone Wolf & Cub movies.
 
Just saw Jet Li's Fearless. Fantastic action film with lots of blades and a great story.
 
I third the Brotherhood of The Wolf.. though it was kinda sad that his assistant got killed.. great action.

Recommend you guys watch SPL, a recent Hong Kong action flick, rather violent and bloody, got a totally cool and cold blooded assassin that uses a short Jap sword, a tanto of sorts which he uses to carve everyone, especially the first guy that got carved up like he was in a food carving competition. Stars Donnie Yen (the guy that fights Jet Li in Hero with a spear) as well. Cops could watch it to learn how to decimate a villian with an expandable baton. So totally KEWL!!!

Another great one is Musa, a Korean period movie. Action from start to end; decapitation, gory death, blood spurting everywhere, spears, swords, knives, halberd, two handed swords, arrows, large broadswords etc.. you name it, they have it...
 
Ted,
I didnt think that Fearless had been released yet!!!


I GOTTA see that movie!!!!

SPL?? Gonna try and find that one
 
Fearless was well worth the price of admission. Just saw Ghost Dog, another gun/knife-friendly movie.
 
Has anybody mentioned Bram Stoker's Dracula, as directed by Francis Ford Coppola? Blade friendly? You bet. Anthony Hopkins, as Van Helsing, uses a big old wicked looking khukuri to lop off three vampire babe's heads like chopping cabbage. Jonathan Harker uses yet another khukuri to dispatch some gypsies and slice Drac's throat wide open in the big showdown fight towards the end of the movie. Then a good old Texas boy, bless him, though mortally wounded (stabbed in the back by one of the gypsies), whips out a big honkin' bowie knife and gits 'r done, turning old Drac into a "bowie-kabob". Yeehaaaaaa :D :thumbup:

Sarge

p.s.: Out of curiosity, I picked up a copy of Bram Stoker's novel to scope things out. Sure enough it was all right there in the original writing. Not wooden stakes, or holy water, or yada yada yada, it was a dadburn khukuri and a bowie that squared the old bloodsucker away. ;)
 
Blade of corse the vampires and Blade going at it!!!
his sword
the spining blade thing
silver stakes lol
 
rottwang said:
Oh yeah, Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi movies or Lone Wolf & Cub!! Then there's Toshiro Mifune in about everything he ever made, especially SWORD OF DOOM. Now that's good fun for sure.
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Oh man, Zatoichi and Sword of Doom are my favourites!!! That scene where Mifune's character decimates his attackers in the snow is classic! And Shintaro Katsu... probably the finest cinematic swordsmanship I've ever seen. No CGI, no sped-up film, no monofilament. All Katsu! Also plays a blind man very well. Makes Al Pacino's character in Scent of a Woman look like a kindergarten play.

I spotted a few khukuris in Bakshi's animated version of The Lord of the Rings. Orcs can be seen weilding them in a few scenes.
 
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