How realistic do the sound effects for movie fights sound?

Rocky Balboa widely praised for using realistic sound effects during its fight scenes. The punches, at least.

Try watching an Indian film fight scene if you think Hollywood ones are bad.

@Grisaille There was a fist fight one day in class in high school. It erupted right behind me, and one kid went to the hospital with his upper lip pasted around his teeth and his top inscisors missing. All I heard was the shuffle of chairs and feet, and the thuds of the punches.

It depends a bit on the movie. Bruce Willis movies are terribly unrealistic (but fun to watch), but others are more accurate.

The Whooosh! of the fists moving through the air is impressive, but totally unrealistic.

They sound… as realistic as some of the leading ladies look.

@CyanoticWasp So true, but I do like looking at the ladies more than listening to moronic sound tracks. :-)

No disagreement here. But even the bad sound tracks can’t hold a candle to every single car crash seeming to result in huge explosions, billowing flame, and smoke seen for miles and miles. That, and instant death.

@CyanoticWasp I guess what it comes down to is, if you made a movie entirely believable, nobody would believe it

I recall my first episode of watching “The Office” (BBC version with Ricky Gervais—when I didn’t know who he was, or any of the cast), and wondering if it was a real documentary of a weirdly dysfunctional (but oh-so-familiar!) office in a small to mid-size company.

No, there is a market, even if it’s just a niche market, for realism.