Nolan's Best Action Sequences

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What are Nolan's best action sequences?

Batman's First Night [BB]
1
1%
Tumbler Chase [BB]
3
3%
Narrows/Train Chase [BB]
2
2%
Bank Robbery Prologue [TDK]
11
10%
Hong Kong Extraction [TDK]
5
4%
SWAT Chase [TDK]
9
8%
Truck Flip [TDK]
9
8%
Batman vs. Clowns vs. SWAT [TDK]
2
2%
Mombasa Chase [Inception]
3
3%
Warehouse Shootout [Inception]
1
1%
White Van Chase [Inception]
1
1%
Rotating Hallway [Inception]
19
17%
Zero Gravity Hallway [Inception]
10
9%
Ski Chase [Inception]
2
2%
Plane Hijacking [TDKR]
10
9%
Batpod vs. Police Chase [TDKR]
5
4%
Batman vs. Bane Sewer Fight [TDKR]
10
9%
Batman vs. Bane Final Fight [TDKR]
3
3%
Caravan/The Bat Chase [TDKR]
3
3%
Other
3
3%
 
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Nolan has incredible imagination, but more importantly, he actually follows through with his ideas and puts them up on the screen. What's your favorite action sequence, shot, or set piece?

Mine is definitely the plane hijacking. When I saw it for the first time in the IMAX preview, I was completely blown away. It's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen on the screen and one of the most thrilling and terrifying experiences I've ever had. The scene is edited, performed, and scored perfectly. The amount of danger involved during production and the fact that pretty much nothing like that has ever been attempted truly astonishes me.
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Hijack
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I class the SWAT chase and Truck Flip as one big action sequence, so that. With the hijacking in second.

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For me it was a toss up between zero gravity and swat chase. But swat won after much thought. Great thread :thumbup:
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Among some I didn't list:

1. Log chase scene in Insomnia (wonderful use of perspective)
2. Bruce vs. Ra's sword fight on Ice (beautifully shot and choreographed)
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So hard to choose just one, but the bank robbery might be the most perfectly edited, scored, and directed sequences of film I have ever laid eyes on. Heart beating through my chest every time I saw that shit in IMAX.

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TeddyBlass wrote:So hard to choose just one, but the bank robbery might be the most perfectly edited, scored, and directed sequences of film I have ever laid eyes on. Heart beating through my chest every time I saw that shit in IMAX.
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1.Plane Hijack
2. Sewer fight
3. Rotating Hallway fight
4. White Van chase
5. Ski chase
6. Batman's return chase
7. SWAT chase
8. Glacier fight
9. Mombasa chase
10. Collapsing dream shootout
Last edited by Law on December 12th, 2012, 2:10 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Law wrote:1.Plane Hijack
2. Sewer fight
3. Ski chase
4. White Van chase
5. Batman's return chase
6. SWAT chase
7. Glacier fight
8. Mombasa chase
9. Collapsing dream shootout
10. Batman vs Joker and his thugs at the Fundraiser
Wait... do you genuinely feel all these are better than the rotating hallway? Or are you just trying to spark a reaction from me because of what I said earlier? Not trying to argue, simply just curious.

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Allstar wrote:
Law wrote:1.Plane Hijack
2. Sewer fight
3. Ski chase
4. White Van chase
5. Batman's return chase
6. SWAT chase
7. Glacier fight
8. Mombasa chase
9. Collapsing dream shootout
10. Batman vs Joker and his thugs at the Fundraiser
Wait... do you genuinely feel all these are better than the rotating hallway? Or are you just trying to spark a reaction from me because of what I said earlier? Not trying to argue, simply just curious.
To be honest I seriously forgot to add in the rotating hallway, I'll edit it

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