10 Most Hilariously Terrible Yet Weirdly Awesome Movie Fight Scenes

We all love a good fisticuffs when we're watching a film, but what about when a fight scene is so staggeringly, head-smackingly bad, that it goes the other way and manages to become awesome again? It's a feat almost impossible to realise on purpose - one typically achieved by a marriage of ignorance and accidental genius - but one that makes said films a whole lot more memorable than they otherwise would be, even if they're still going to be bargain bin fodder through and through. Here are 10 hilariously horrible fight scenes that are, in fact, weirdly awesome...

10. Strike of the Panther (1989)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x0LQt-MoxTw Though the ass-kicking Aussie protagonist of this execrable feature might be able to land a few convincing kicks, he's let down by just about everyone around him in this ludicrous fight scene. Note early on as he throws an assailant through a doorway, entering a room where there appears to be...a guy in a chicken suit...causing the lead actor to destroy any good will he earned with those opening kicks with his wooden line-reading, telling the chicken suit guy, "You're sick". He then unnecessarily removes his shirt - a staple of 80s action films trying to broadly appeal to women - and in order to avoid some tacky man-on-woman violence, a female antagonist punches him, only to appear to break her own hand on his finely-honed washboard abs. Unquestionably the most bizarre moment, though, is the appearance of a middle-aged man dressed as a schoolboy, clinging to the protagonist's leg, begging for mercy, before he is unceremoniously kicked in the face. And this is all before a guy uses a blow-up sex doll to try and shield himself from an attack from a cat 'o nine tails. Try and keep a straight face, I dare you.
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