Longest fight? Go East, young man
That would be any
Shaw Brothers Kung-Fu flick from the 70s/80s. Jesus, some of those movie are non-stop ass kicking.
I can't remember the name of my entry to this thread, and my noodle is too fried to recall salient details, but try
this fight on for size (quoted for optimal "Stoy-tellin' Effect").
Quote:
The EVIL MANCHU ARMY is devastating the pastoral Chinese countryside, village-by-village. This is inter cut with an elderly man meditating in his hut on a hill.
That is the first 15 minutes of the movie.
Then the EVIL MANCHU ARMY approaches the village with the elderly man. BIG mistake. His eyes snap open (SHOCK ZOOM!). He stands on the hill, the EVIL MANCHU ARMY below.
The elderly man rips his shirt open and reveals pecs that would make Arnie envious. He screams (overdoubed by the finest HK UK expat VO talent): "BRING IT ON!!!"
He then does a flying flip into the midst of the EVIL MANCHU ARMY, and, for what felt like 60 minutes or so, proceeds to kill all 5000 of them.
At one point, he actually jumps up from the midst of the fray with like a dozen spears sticking out of him, only to pull them out and bitch slap the EVIL MANCHU ARMY with them.
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Fucking brilliant stuff. Though I am quite certain my memory has been kind to that movie, I DO remember being quite impressed with the fact it essentially contained those two elements... evil army, bad ass old guy killing evil army... and not a damn thing more.
(ps... I caught this on KTLA-5 kung fu theatre in the late 80s... if you are from SoCal, you may remember that crazy used-car guy who showed wacky animals in his commercials and bought tons of late-nite air time just to run Shaw Brothers / 70s Fu flicks between his ads... if someone remembers this movie I described above, let me know WTF it's called!)
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