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Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

What's your favorite battle scene in a fictional work?

You can list multiple ones for different mediums, like movie vs book vs comics or something like that.

By "battle" I mean something with a large number of combatants, not just a handful of main characters or one-on-one, though it could be a large number of combatants against a single or a small handful of superpowerful opponent(s) I guess.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[kaijinscendre]

The Battle For Helm's Deep.

The opening battle in Gladiator. https://youtu.be/T0SNjnsi_rM

Battle for Carentan in Band of Brothers. https://youtu.be/UitLOeZENlU

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[philstar22]

yes to the Battle for Helm's Deep, though I prefer the book version (named differently), the movie version is still awesome.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

The assault on the Death Star in Star Wars: A New Hope

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

The Siege of Gondor in the LOTR books. In the movies I preferred Helm's Deep though.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

Helm's Deep in The Two Towers. Far superior to the Battle of Pellenor Fields, IMO. Honorable mention to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring when the Ringwraiths sneak up on the hobbits at Weathertop.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

Yesssss the Pellenor Fields had some great moments but it was rather too big and flashy and plain given its screentime. Helm's Deep was just a fantastic battle scene from start to finish on all levels. Just the right amount of special effects, and perfect buildup and tone, great pacing and tangible progression and ebb and flow, especially in the theatrical version, with a great quantity of appropriate pain and harrowingness (the 14-15 year old boys being fitted with weapons and armor), lightened by just the right amount of comic relief and camaraderie between Legolas/Gimli/Aragorn, and balanced out well by the Ents scenes and a great ending. I have, like, zero criticisms about that entire battle except that I was kind of disappointed they didn't do the book version of Legolas and Gimli's reunion in the aftermath.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

I didn't like the inclusion of the elves at Helm's Deep in the movie version (it kinda fucks with the point of the battle in the larger picture, showing that the race of men can hold their own without elves, further enhancing the point that the time of the elves is over), but that's the only thing I don't like about it and it's not too big a problem.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - I know it's not canon, but I loved that moment too much to complain. I choke up every time Haldir shows up and Aragorn embraces him, and I love the tragedy of such a small troop of Elves and how they died. It felt like an important symbolic gesture, their last contribution to Middle Earth and the race of men.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

IA. Pellenor Fields was flashy, maybe a bit too flashy like they tried to make everything bigger and better. It did have its moments but it lacked the exquisite tension and build of Helm's Deep, and it lacked the heart of that battle.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[philstar22]

The Silmarillion battles. All of them. Dagor Bragollach, Dagor Arnoediad, and the War of the Elves and Sauron are particular favorites.

LOTR battles too, particularly The Battle of the Hornburg and Battle of the Morannon.

In Babylon 5, the final battle between the Vorlons, the Shadows, and the other races. Short but epic. Also the battle to free Earth.

The final battle in Return of the Jedi.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

The opening cinematic of Final Fantasy XII.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

Movies:
Battle of the Last Alliance at the very beginning of Fellowship. Wish it were longer (and was kind of hoping to see something like it for BoFA).

Honorable mention to the battle in Prince Caspian when the trees kick ass and the river dude stops the retreat.

Books:
War of Wrath - it just sounds awesome

Honorable mention of Battle of the Pelennor Fields. It was so much cooler in the book than in the movie.

Comics:
Kingdom Come - Mostly for the art, but I liked the different motivations of the different groups fighting.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

The Battle of Helm's Deep from the tTT and the battle at Gondor in RotK.

The battle at Castleguard in the movie Timeline.

Madara vs the Shinobi Alliance from Naruto.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

The Iliad.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[bigpaw]

Honestly I'm such a sucker for the silly battle scenes at the end of a lot of animated movies, where each character gets their little "moment" and there's a lot of silly gags. Those are always so fun! I loved the one at the end of The Book of Life.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

I really like the battle in the first Narnia movie. All the more because Lewis completely glossed over it in the book, lol.

In the JLA comic tpb of Divided WeFall, the battle when the fairy tales were spreading through new York...I love that whole arc.

Re: Favorite Battle Scene

[(Anonymous)]

Agincourt, especially in Kenneth Branagh's film. Mud, blood and arrows. Especially impressive on the big screen, when it first came out.

A Biggles short story, The Great Arena. All the WW1 battle scenes are great - the author was a pilot himself and by gosh, he could write - but that huge dogfight is particularly vivid. Also the battle in "Biggles Learns to Fly" in which they're fighting in a vast chasm in the clouds, thousands of feet deep, at the bottom of which he sees other planes darting and swirling like tiny, brightly-coloured fish... The other thing I like about his dogfight scenes is that Biggles, in his one encounter with the Red Baron, can't even get on his tail. Unlike, y'know, practically every other WW1 aviation story that's ever been published. But Johns knew how difficult and dangerous war flying really was during that era.