I'm posting in c/movies but including tv shows, anime, comics, manga, etc.

Personally I think the final war rig sequence in Mad Max: Fury Road is the most impressive live-action fight I've ever seen. The practical effects and choreographing are incredible and the fight keeps moving along by having the stakes raised and characters dying, it doesn't meander.

In animation it's harder to say. Attack on Titan had a lot of really well animated action (it used be so good, goddammit). The battle in Shiganshina in season 3 is the best, the narrative weight is so strong, the characters all have really good moments, the stakes are really high and the production is incredible, animation, soundtrack, sound design, voice acting etc.

Mob Psycho has the most consistently incredible animation of anything I've ever seen, I think the group fight against the teleporting psychic in season 2 is my personal favourite, even if it's not the flashiest, it's really well directed and just such a cool fight, even though it's not that long.

The ChainsawMan manga has a lot of good fights, the Falling Devil arc is like my favourite arc of anything ever, but that's mainly because of the characters. The art is stunning, Fujimoto at his absolute peak, but the action is pretty straightforward. I mainly love it because it's Asa at her best as a character, and Asa is my favourite character of anything ever.

Wow it was way easier for me to choose a live action sequence than animated. Honestly there's so much lazy action in superhero slop that Mad Max stands out so, so much.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    4 months ago

    For live action, it's gotta be the opening of Ninja 3: The Domination, where a ninja kills like two dozen cops in a row.

    Took all that gunfire like a champ then hid with a smoke bomb. RIP piggies.

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      It's a major point of the movie's fiction that only a ninja can truly kill a ninja

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        That's like saying it's a major point of the movie's fiction that there's a force of mutual attraction between objects with mass. Gravity exists irl and it's true outside of the movie thst only a ninja can truly kill a ninja, that's basic science, not some plot contrivance.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          4 months ago

          Because it's impossible to know where a ninja is and where he is going at the same time ninja/ninja violence is often used in particle physics research, such as at the dark smoke dragon infinity collider in Beverly Hills, California