History Main / FightSceneFailure

* Creator/RalphBakshi's ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings'' has this to such a degree that it's hard to say what fight scenes ''do'' work. The film makes very heavy use of rotoscoping real performers in its animation, but said performers were clearly not trained to fight beyond the bare basics. Add in the fact that the film sticks very closely to the original footage (at points, being little more than that footage with a filter over it), and nearly every fight scene looks like what you'd see in a middle-school play, with characters making weak and inexpert swings that seem like they're trying to avoid hurting their opponent.

*** Rey's fight with the Sith Troopers has some questionable editing. It appears to be the same scene shot at different angles, with the footage spliced together out of order; this results in Sith Troopers somehow getting hit by blaster bolts that weren't aimed at them, Troopers that got shot suddenly being fine a few frames later, Rey's hand motions not always matching what happens onscreen and one Trooper firing at the ceiling for no apparent reason. She ends up killing the same set twice, leaving only one set of bodies.

** The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E3CodeOfHonor Code of Honor]]" has a particularly inept fight scene at the episode's climax, with most of the action being shot from the same camera angle, and the two combatants (Tasha Yar and an alien woman) standing on what looks like a children's climbing frame and mostly just flailing around at each other with spiked gloves. This was largely due to the episode's director being fired the day before the sequence was shot, and the first assistant director -- who had never directed ''anything'' before, much less an action sequence -- having to take over.

** [[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]: According to WebSite/SFDebris' review... ''"Khan and Kirk battle heroically, while meanwhile in an identical room, two men dressed the same also have a fight. (The) problem with forty years of television enhancement: What you could get away with on a small grainy screen becomes rather obvious on a large digital one, especially when presented in loving 1080p."''

* ''Film/{{Dolemite}}'': Scenes are shot from the wrong angle, so it's obvious that punches miss, while in other cases it's clear the actors are leaping into position, rather than trying to synch up with the movements of the choreography. ''Film/DolemiteIsMyName'' lampshades this, showing off that Rudy Ray Moore, though bighearted and energetic, had no martial arts training whatsoever (which is a problem when you're playing a purported kung fu master).