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After only really seeing Enter the Dragon about a hundred times, I've been very, very happily watching the Bruce Lee boxset that my girlfriend got me for the holidays. Any favorites? I mean, Game of Death is a little low on actual Bruce Lee content but it's got Kareem Abdul Jabbar, while Return of the Dragon has the Bruce vs. Chuck Norris and a kitten fight scene!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Game of Death is completely great! The low-Bruce content may actually help the film along - it's got a sort of patched-together feel that makes it kinda menacing, you know? otherwise, naturally search Enter the Dragon, repeatedly, while drunk or even hungover. It is the all-purpose film.

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

That kitten in Enter the Dragon freaks me out. What the fuck? Is it supposed to be God observing the battle of good and evil through the eyes of his cutest minion?

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! And I love how the beginning of the battle is all tense, with like five minutes of stretching and warming up and cutting to the adorable kitten, and then the kitten says 'fite!' by going "RREEEAAOOW!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man, there's some Bruce Lee documentary DVD that has the original uncut pre-death scenes from Game Of Death in their entirety. The fight scene with Kareem is a lot more interesting because it's revealed that Kareem's one weakness is light (hence the bomb-ass aviator specs), so Bruce busts out all the paper windowpanes and knocks Kareem's sunglasses off and he's got EVIL RED SATAN EYES. Classic classic classic.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

holy shit nate, this is the most bomb news ever

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It's called "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey" and also has a bunch of documentary footage of Bruce smacking various stationary objects with the one-inch punch and sitting in TV studios looking like a smooth motherfucker. $18 for the DVD on Amazon.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.skop.com/brucelee/

fun little program for bruce lee fans. favorite mood: mystery.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 1 February 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

the tone of the wiki on bruce lee is pretty funny

Black Belt magazine in 1985 carried the speculation that the death of Bruce Lee in 1973 may have been caused by "a delayed reaction to a Dim Mak strike he received several weeks prior to his collapse".

― dayo, Monday, 30 May 2011 00:52 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

NYC MoMA has 4K "restorations" upcoming

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/3641?locale=en

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:52 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3205-bruce-lee-his-greatest-hits

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 April 2020 20:04 (six years ago)

nice extra features, especially re Game of Death

― Brad C., Monday, 13 April 2020 22:36 (six years ago)

five years pass...

Jeff Chang's long in the works book about Lee is out in a couple of days, and he's got a slew of events upcoming too:

https://jeffchang.net/water-mirror-echo/

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 September 2025 03:46 (nine months ago)

Excited, more for the Asian America part than Lee himself (whom you quickly get bored of hearing about once you go down the kung fu rabbit hole); Chang's social history skills are great.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 22 September 2025 09:28 (nine months ago)

Wasn't sure if I should put this here or look for a Kareem thread, anyway, great read: https://lithub.com/when-bruce-lee-trained-with-kareem-abdul-jabbar/

― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Friday, 26 September 2025 23:35 (nine months ago)

Nice. Will be getting my copy from the Booksmith tomorrow, and I have my ticket for this in two weeks:

https://litquake2025.sched.com/event/28R4l/bruce-lee-and-the-making-of-asian-america-plus-screening-of-fist-of-fury

You should go to this too, lukas!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 September 2025 23:39 (nine months ago)

two weeks pass...

So yeah, last night's event was fun:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kqdyhnklmmv34nmml6btyqv6/bafkreieqipdufmtplrvrqiydjj7vnc43nvhshznjtiyi5tcd5mtrbit6w4@jpeg

And the book itself, absolutely stellar, a must read.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 October 2025 16:12 (eight months ago)

Ugh wanted to make that

― disco stabbing horror (lukas), Saturday, 11 October 2025 18:08 (eight months ago)

Ya shoulda!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 October 2025 23:01 (eight months ago)

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