What are your favourite knife movies?

Nobody mentioned Kill Bill I and II?

Come on guys...

The knife fight between Vivica Fox and Uma is awesome.

And the hamstringing with the Buck 110... gotta love it.

Not to mention how freakin hilarious it is throughout.
 
Dekz said:
I hate it when people point out things like this in movies. Maybe WE would like a couple hours of film of him actually making that knife, but 99.9999% of the population is there to watch a movie, not a documentary on knife-making.
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Well, they could have made that scene a lot more realistic. He would've never got a perfect edge like that with the tools he had at hand regardless of time. Even the general population scoffs at that scene. I was just pointing out how obviously unrealistic that scene was.
 
I know this thread is suppose to be about knives in movies.
But you've just got to see the classic Japanese "Lone wolf and Baby cart" raving ronin swordsman movies.
It'll leave you in a spin with heads rollin' in disbelieve.
 
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SPERRON said:
Ok, then, H2H907, what movie would you recommend? You seem to have very high expectations of Hollywood.[QUOTE/]

Listed mine already, on the basis of both reality and coolness. Scroll up. And no, I have no expectation that Hollywood will deliver reality, the "reality" part was your assertion. It couldn't stand uncorrected.

SPERRON said:
I'm not exactly trained in knife fighting, but some of the moves I saw in the movie were taught to me by my kempo instructor.
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'nuff said.
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The first Friday the 13th. There were a few edited versions of this movie. We saw the earliest version and it was much more graphic. I believe it was too graphic and then they edited out the really good parts. The knife work was fairly detailed, in particular the first victims throat was slit in detail where the knife could be seen slicing and sawing its way into the flesh of the throat.
 
A couple of TV western movies. Lonesome Dove and Broken Trail. Robert Duvall uses a slip joint for simple everyday task.
 
Alexander was good too. I didn't know they had stainless swords three thousand years ago. That was some good looking steel Alexander the Great had.
 
GIRLYmann said:
I know this thread is suppose to be about knives in movies.
But you've just got to see the classic Japanese "Lone wolf and Baby cart" raving ronin swordsman movies.
It'll leave you in a spin with heads rollin' in disbelieve.
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I was going to mention those films. They're great!

Some of my favorite movies with blades, while not necessarily all 'knife movies' in particular:
Excalibur (1981).
Rob Roy.
Kill Zone (a.k.a., Sha Po Lang, or 'SPL'. In this recent Hong Kong film, Wu Jing plays an assassin who uses a tanto-like knife to brutally assassinate specific targets. His alley fight with hero Donnie Yen, where Yen uses a collapsible baton vs. Wu's knife, is a classic).
The Edge.
Full-Contact (Chow Yun-Fat's character uses a bali-song knife on two occasions in this film, and the choreography/fighting uses of it look better IMO than 99% of cinematic bali-song work).
The Night of the Hunter (1955. A preacher/serial killer armed with a switchblade pursues two children cross-country).
Twilight Samurai.
Versus (2000. This Japanese film is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of several genres: zombie horror, kung fu/martial arts, shoot-'em-ups, samurai films, the Highlander, yakuza gangster films, etc. If you can appreciate off-the-wall humor and non-conventional characters/storylines, you might like this one, too. For the best effect, it's highly recommended to watch it in the original Japanese w/subtitles option).

Jim
 
Fake stunt knives - but Dune (David Lynch version) has a great knife fight that ends in the death of sting at the end!

First blood - awesome movie, if you don't believe me watch it again. First blood isn't that parody that the rambo franchise has become.

Seraphin falls I think has some of the most knife-is-the-star scenes I've ever saw.

Love the blade in Spartan. 'I got it from an East German'....'As I recall, he wasn't so keen to give it up'.

The edge - didn't like it.....how the hell does a grown man just about cut his leg of with a slippie sharpening a stick?

Crocodile Dundee - enough said.

Season 1 of Lost - the TV series - the knife dude was just so cool in the first season - then he got all wishy-washy with the flash back stuff. I think we should all have a couple of spydy's hanging off our chest...
 
Blade 1,2,or3 Are some great movies as well. Some of the best films WS has done!!!
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Nightmare on Elm Street, Pat Crawford made the gloved knives IIRC and Gunga Din, lots of Kukris.:D
 
The knife in the Alamo Movie was made as a prop. Its a authorized copy of Joe Musso's Brassback Bowie Knife. The Knife in The Iron Mistress is a different knife and is also owned by Joe Musso. It is smaller and designed by Wellman for that Movie. The Iron Mistress was also used in the 1960 John Wayne Alamo Movie by Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie...Hope this helps..Chris
 
Jeramiah Johnson
Seraphim Falls
First Blood
Conan (since we throwing swords in here too)
 
wait, didn't I do this post a couple weeks back?? where it was shipped off as silly??
I'd agree with most of the films, Twilight was fantastic so is Hidden blade.so is Duelist,
but those are mostly swords, anyone remember David Carridine in the Lone riders?..G.
 
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