Fight Scene Failure: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"This [fight] is obviously staged, and more to the point, it's staged poorly."''|'''General Tarquin''', ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0783.html Strip #783]}}

A [[Subjective Trope]], of course (though let's be real here... some of the examples that follow are so bad that even the most liberal "benefit-of-the-doubt" interpretation comes up as 'Yeah, that sucks'). Compare [[Special Effects Failure]]. See [[Wimp Fight]] and [[What the Fu Are You Doing?]] for when this is done deliberately. If the Fight Scene Failure fails and someone really does get hit, expect the producers to [[Throw It In]].

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]''. Although other fights in the movie ranged from merely poor to passable, the scene where Peter Parker fights with Flash Thompson in a school corridor was especially bad. It's not that this fight was a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] (that's to be expected, after all, since it is intended to illustrate Peter's newly-aquired super-reflexes and strength), its that even ''Peter's'' blows are widely telegraphed and obviously don't connect with anything but air. The mugging done by actors Tobey Maguire and Joe Manganiello (playing Peter Parker and Flash Thompson, respectively) also conspire to make the whole affair look ''silly''.