Favorite battle of Sci-Fi\Fantasy movies?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-01-06 05:46am

Of all battles protrayed in movies and TV, which is your favorite(s) and why?

I personally liked either the Battle of Dgaorlad from the first LOTR movie, or Helms Deep from the 2nd one. Basically because they were cool large scale and still focused on individual characters.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-01-06 05:54am

If you count Anime then I'd take the last battle between the Earth and the Zentraedi at the end of the Macross Saga. Gundam also had a lot of great battles, especially Solomon. And the free for all at the end of the Escaflowne series. Definitely.

In terms of actual cinema though I would have to say the Battle of Endor. It had everything, a raging space battle with the most bad ass superweapon ever, a vicious ground battle, a lightsaber duel, and the most Memorable ending to a film ever in my opinion.

BlkbrryTheGreat · Post by **BlkbrryTheGreat** » 2003-01-06 06:12am

Battle between the Whitestar fleet (under Ivoniva) and President Clark's Omega-X class destroyers (the ones with Shadow Bio-Armor melded to it). Definatly a fast paced battle that sucked you right into the T.V. and easily my favorite.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-01-06 07:12am

'Nuff said.

BenRG · Post by **BenRG** » 2003-01-06 09:20am

Hmm...

In no particular order:
The Battle of Endor - Return of the Jedi
The final air battle in 'Independence Day'
The Shadows' strike against the Narn task force - Babylon 5 (season 3, I think)
The battle in the nebula in the past - Andromeda

Sorry that I can't remember particular episode titles or locations for most of these. I can't ever remember such things.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-01-06 09:43am

Battle of Endor (mostly for "Into the Trap")
Mogadishu (As seen in Black Hawk Down)

Can't think of anything else right now, I'm probably late for school anyways.

Balrog · Post by **Balrog** » 2003-01-06 05:49pm

Gandalf vs Balrog (beg. of Two Towers)

Battle of Helm's Deep

Warg attack (Two Towers)

Last Alliance vs Sauron's forces at Mt. Doom

Pretty much any B5 battle

Mogadishu

Ia Dang Vally (We Were Soldiers)

D-Day (any movie with D-Day in it

)

Matter of fact, any WWII movie will do

Hmmmmmmmmmm.............

I'll get back to you when I can think of anything else

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-01-06 05:56pm

Luke vs Vader Round 2 in ROTJ. The bit where Luke goes Mental after Vader says he'll turn leia to the darkside.

Gandalf Vs Balrog - Lotr:FOTR and bits from TTT

Gandalf leading a cavalry charge into a pike block - LOTR:TTT for being so laughably stupid.

Malachius · Post by **Malachius** » 2003-01-06 05:57pm

Not in order.

AOTC large scale battle scene (as well as Yoda v.s Dooku).

The whole of the Moria scene in LOTR. (The troll, the Balrog, and the old school sniper battle between Legolas and the orcs

)

All of the fights in Gladiator (about the Roman Empire maybe, but still fictional). Particularly the Maximus vs. Tiger (the person, not the animal) fight.

And while not really a favourite, honourable mention to the Neo vs. Morpheous sparring match. Just fun to watch.

Slayen · Post by **Slayen** » 2003-01-06 06:06pm

The ones i particularly liked where;

Lord of the Rings
Battle of Helms deep
The last battle with sauron (i know this probably has a real name but i have no clue what it is)

Babylon 5
The Battle of Coriana 6
The defence of B5 against Clark's Earth Force
White Stars vs Omega-Xs

Star Wars
The Battle of Genonosis
The Battle of Endor
The Battle of Hoth

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HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-01-06 06:15pm

I personally liked either the Battle of Dgaorlad from the first LOTR movie

Which one is this?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-01-06 06:47pm

Favorite ground battle:
Battle of Hoth

Favorite space battle:
Battle in the Mutara Nebula

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2003-01-06 07:51pm

HemlockGrey wrote:
I personally liked either the Battle of Dgaorlad from the first LOTR movie
Which one is this?

The one where Sauron comes out and starts sends 20 guys flying with a single swing of his mace.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-01-06 08:54pm

Ah, ok. I only know it as the Siege of Barad-Dur.

Balrog · Post by **Balrog** » 2003-01-06 09:35pm

Yeah, a seige that lasted 7 years....

Not exactly something that's filmable

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-01-06 09:50pm

You haven't seen the super extended Directors cut yet have you

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-01-06 11:45pm

I have, I wish they used the loooong prologue from the storyboards

Gunstar · Post by **Gunstar** » 2003-01-07 01:05am

Starship Troopers
Final chase scene in The Road Warrior
Final battle in AOTC
Battle at the end of the Dominion War on ST: DS9 (I forget the episode name)
Kirk VS Kahn in ST2: TWOK

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-01-07 01:56pm

The Battle of Helms Deep

And to my shame i loved the Battles involving DS9, the Klingons and the Jem'Haddar.

Battle of Endor space section, We need to see more of that in the next SE.

Any of the battles in Bravehart

Conner McCleod -v- The Kurgan at then end of Highlander.

Any battle in Gladiator.

Balrog · Post by **Balrog** » 2003-01-07 05:11pm

Actually, I do

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-01-07 05:21pm

Endor just plain rocked. The episode of Firefly where Serenity's crew storms a space station to rescue their captain was pretty kickass too.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-01-07 05:28pm

Darth Pounder wrote: And to my shame i loved the Battles involving DS9, the Klingons and the Jem'Haddar.

Ehh, I wouldn't feel too bad about that. I dug 'em too. Especially the first Klingon attack on DS9. Really, when did we see a battle on that scale until then in ST ?

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-01-07 05:31pm

FINAL BATTLE OF CHAR'S COUTERATTACK RULES ALL! I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY!

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-01-07 05:33pm

Oh, the general battle on the ground of Patience's moon was pretty cool.

Moonshadow · Post by **Moonshadow** » 2003-01-07 07:48pm

Best Battles

Endor
Attack of the Clones Battle
Most of the Battles in DS9
Most of the B5 Battles
Kirk vs Kahn
Kirk & Sulu vs Chang( another great TOS Movie battle that gets overshadowed by Kirk vs Kahn)
Balance of Terror ( the effects weren't good but it was still a nice 1 vs 1 fight)
ID4 Final Battle

Honorable mention

The Nemesis Battle

Worst Battle

Ent-D vs a BOP in Generations ( come on the GCS was a Flawed ship but a 20 year old obsolete BOP killing one? BAH!)