Worst fight scene ever? More like BEST fight scene ever. (video)

[Video Link] Continuing in our Turksploitation theme, a spectacularly awful fight scene from the Turkish film "Death Warrior." Previously: worst death scene ever. (thanks, Michelle Strait, via internalbleeding)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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http://www.andrewheiss.com/ Andrew

Turkish John Kerry to the rescue!
- Preston Sturges
  
  Fire cannot exist in the presence of John Kerry because he sucks all the oxygen out of the room.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Flugfrei-Jones/1403604860 Flugfrei Jones

am i hearing a bit of the beginning of Pink Floyd’s “Heart Beat, Pig Meat” off the Zabriski Point soundtrack? starts at 1:39.

i never knew the hoff was such a ninja.
- http://twitter.com/ThatNeilGuy Neil Shurley
  
  Don’t know about that part at 1:39, but the opening snippet (that gets repeated later) is from Bond ’77 – a track from The Spy Who Loved Me.
- http://twitter.com/kpkpkp Kevin Pierce
  
  It’s nice to see Hasselhoff is still finding work.
  - oasisob1
    
    That’s actually Mr. Hasslehoff Sr.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Pink-Frankenstein/737962684 Pink Frankenstein
  
  I totally hear Heart Beat Pig Meat too, and yes it is that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPxeYv_Y8rc
- Phikus
  
  Yep. I signed on to see if anyone else noticed. Good catch!
spejic

If you didn’t watch what happens in the last minute, you haven’t seen it at all.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Ender-Wiggin/100000885624281 Ender Wiggin
  
  holy crap. you’re 100% right. shit gets real in the last minute. lmao.
- jackbird
  
  Holy smokes.
- Syn -
  
  holy shit. What?
- franko
  
  O.O i second this.
  just when you think there’s nothing more to come of this fight…
  - ocker3
    
    So That’s where “Kill it, Kill it with Fire” comes from!
- http://twitter.com/latinageek latinageek
  
  There were tears. OMG that ending was entertaining.
- SpaceBeers
  
  Whoa. Yes. That last minute is epic.
- robuluz
  
  Bam. Thanks for the heads up.
- dragonfrog
  
  Having watched it, I’m still not sure what I just watched. Did the rock (or was it a mis-shapen square bale) cause the fire?
- Preston Sturges
  
  STOP – DROP – AND ROLL
  
  or just beat it with a really big stick I guess
http://lectiblog.blogspot.com/ lecti

Someone PLEASE make a fighting game out of this.
- nixiebunny
  
  I thought it was from a video game. How else to explain the repetitive, mechanical movements?
http://twitter.com/glamaFez glamaFez

Best death scene ever.
http://twitter.com/OnceDeadFlesh Once Dead Flesh

Best Venetian Snares track evar!
- ldobe
  
  First I thought Tekken, then I saw your quip about Venetian snares. Exactly this.
  
  Perhaps something off of Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole? Or maybe detrimentalist?
  
  I’m going to have to inflict those albums on my ears again now………I made a deal that I’d relisten to at least one album every time someone mentioned Venetian snares in passing. I figured it was a safe bet, since he’s the antithesis of commercial popularity.
  
  Snares was the soundtrack to my high school experience. It wasn’t happy….. But at least I had a little control over the suffering, heh, kept me humble, to know someone else was more bitter and hateful than I was.
- http://twitter.com/Contrasoma Bruce
  
  I was all set to come in and post a silly “I’ve heard worse breakcore/powernoise” comment. Well done.
- Preston Sturges
  
  I just thought it sounded like a broken drive-in movie speaker.
http://twitter.com/Ultrafem Ultra Fem

This awesome! Are you kidding?
Syn -

can you imagine the foley session?
http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

I also like the Roddy Piper fight scene in ‘They Live’, which just goes on for far too long. You can almost hear John Carpenter going, “Damn! This fucking movie is far too short. Lessee here….how about we make that fight scene excruciatingly long. That oughta get the sucker to be at least over an hour…..people can go out and buy more popcorn, use the bathroom, etc. and still not miss a thing!”
mcheshire

Best Benny Hill show episode ever.
http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski

It doesn’t help that they’re breaking the axis on 75% of the cuts.
cstatman

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-mind-blowing-moments-from-indian-action-movies/ just saying, #3 Captain Vijayakanth, Flailing Pile of Fat and Death
http://boingboing.net/ The Life Of Bryan

My sincere hope is that the flaming corpse being beaten with a stick is that of the foley “artist”.
Frank Diekman

He’s such a badass, he even kills the 180 degree rule!
Barış Korkut

He is Cüneyt Arkın (aka George Arkın in international films). He is an epic action movie actor in 70s-80s of Turkey. He’s also starring in the movie known as the “Turkish Star Wars”. Which I strongly suggest to watch if you enjoyed the action above.
- juepucta
  
  that movies has one of the best training montages EVER
  - Vole_tron
    
    You’re right, it’s amazing. Those rocks don’t know what hit them.
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBb_VnkMJRU
  - Preston Sturges
    
    He has all the physicality of Pee-Wee Herman
- ImmutableMichael
  
  “Turkish Star Wars”? Three words like deep fried, sugar frosted crack… I know it’s not going to make me a better person, but I really, really want it.
http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

Man I want a job a sound editor for Turkish Films. It seems like you’re pretty much just allowed to add whatever sound effect you want to whatever scene.

Two people standing 10 paces apart without touching each other? Sure add “punching” sounds that bad snare beats from horrible drum and bass, that’ll work perfectly!
- http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty
  
  The last minute has lots of sounds from Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’
soundslike

Why do they always leave trampolines lying around everywhere in these movies?
- Ashen Victor
  
  Also, explosive rocks and flammable ninjas.
http://germanwotd.com Amelia_G

O Xeni, you’ve made me so happy.

“They ranged all ovah…”
http://twitter.com/GaspardWinckler Joe McNally

That looks like Cüneyt Arkin, star of Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam aka Turkish Star Wars – it’s certainly very similar to the fight scenes in that.
- Vole_tron
  
  Yes, fight scenes like that mixed with lots of “borrowed” footage from Star Wars and music from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Moonraker, Ben-Hur, Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galactica, Planet of the Apes, Silent Running, Moses and The Black Hole.
  (thanks Wikipedia!)
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOjSSTbhCIk
  - http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo
    
    What. The. Fuck…
    
    Am I being a bit picky, or does squeezing 16:9 (or whatever) footage including bloody planets down to 4:3 make this the most pathetic rip-off in the history of ever?
rewhu

Dude, stay down! Just stay down.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZH5LQHHJPERMWNVHCR2Y5GRHHE Jose

Wow! Chuck Norris and Jay Leno really don’t like each other very much.

If you can make arrows magically appear out of thin air, why even bother with hands-on fighting?
http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

With a title like that how could I not watch it?
http://www.facebook.com/daniel.z.klein Daniel Zenon Klein

Çok güzel!
bruce_a14

Never get between a David Hasselhoff look-alike and his cheeseburger.
Quiche de Resistance

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- Quiche de Resistance
  
  I’m gonna put the audio from this on my next sexy mixtape bout six or seven songs in, after Chevy Van and Shockadelica (but before Escape (the pina colada song)) when girl is totally hot and ready to go, and then BOO-YAH!! If she can hang with that, wife material right there.
snagglepuss

Beautiful day, isn’t it ?
Brainspore

That’s what happens when your Ninjitsu Dojo is the Star Wars Kid.
DewiMorgan

That’s good raw material right there. They can fix it in post.
kiptw

I did have a problem remembering which one I was supposed to care about, but I especially liked the way the Foley artists were using clips of something that included a voice saying “chromo” or “gromo” or something like it, over and over and over and over, sometimes three or four times a second! And the way the fight sounds continued when they were just standing there! And the maneuver the one guy used where he turns into a burning bag of something and rings the other guy’s doorbell! And then the final plot twist, where we learn at the very end that they were closely related all along, tipping us off with just the word “SON.”
http://twitter.com/Kra1d Alex

All hail Cuneyt Arkin!
http://xeow.myopenid.com/ TSL

This is the funniest bad movie ever!
It took me quite a while of searching and research, but I found this, which is *way* higher quality than the YouTube VHS rip. This is a DVBRip (Digital Video Broadcast Rip) from Turkish television. You can download the entire movie as three .RAR files that you need to reassemble into an .AVI file. No registration is required, just a captcha.
http://www.filecrop.com/79585484/
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1048764900 Joe Littrell

Citizens demand “Yakety Sax”!