ha, i saw this recently. its a love story about a boy & his elephant! theres one amazing scene where he rips through a vice den, i dont think its in one take but it fells like it is & goes on for about 10 minutes, he wastes about 100 people
― zappi (joni), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:54 (eighteen years ago) link
One-Armed Swordsman and Return Of The One-Armed Swordsman (the third can be ignored, but might be worth a watch for completists' sake)
Magnificent Butcher - classic Yuen Woo Ping flick starring Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. Amazing fight choreography and funny as hell.
― Mil (Mil), Monday, 2 January 2006 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― white hole (white hole), Monday, 2 January 2006 07:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― waldo jeffers scenario (haitch), Monday, 2 January 2006 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 2 January 2006 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 2 January 2006 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link
(Actually, I think Kung Fu is more interesting to watch.)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 29 January 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 30 January 2006 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
"They've just never felt the sting of Japanese fists!"
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 30 January 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 30 January 2006 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 30 January 2006 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 30 January 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Pluck the Needle from the Bottom of the Sea!
Jade Lady Works the Loom's Shuttle!
Snake Creeping on the Ground!
(fwiw, these really are some faves of mine)
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway, for sheer spectacle - if not coherence or depth - I gotta recommend it.
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 24 August 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link
If it's true that after the balletic fighting and heroic, tragic gore the main charm of these things is the extravagantly terrible dubbing, this might be an alltime winner.
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, do not see "No Blood, No Tears."
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 14 September 2006 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I watched "Dynamite Warrior" last night, do not repeat my mistake. It tries to combine "Ong Bak" and "Kungfu Hustle" but fails to replicate any of the virtues of either, while also failing to bring in any original virtues of its own. The choreography sucks, the fx are weak, the jokes are dull, and the plot is too convoluted to follow or care about. There are several germs of good ideas in here, but none are developed in an interesting way at all.
I heard something about Tony Jaa being cast as a villain in the next Bond picture, though. That would be something worth seeing.
― Oilyrags, Monday, 8 October 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
am i the only one who doesn't like Ong Bak much? i think its admirable that he avoided wire fu but too much of the action was one-sided and the story was much much dumber than usual. i liked some of the visuals but there's much better.
my choices:
king boxer (aka five fingers of death)tai chi masterThe Big BossFists of FuryGame of Death (despite the horrible crap they did w/ the Lee standins)The 36th Chamber of Shaolin/Return to the 36th Chamberfive deadly venomsenter the dragoncrouching tiger, hidden dragonfearlessherobloodsport
― San Te, Thursday, 8 July 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
legend of the wolf!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WnaQgQwGa4
i would advise against watching the entire movie though, its ~2/3rds filler, 1/3rd non-stop beat-em-up showdown. the donnie yen / wilson yip collabs are v nice too imo.
― ☆, Thursday, 8 July 2010 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
yay, my Fist of the White Lotus dvd arrived.
― San Te, Thursday, 8 July 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
the Octagon is on Showtime right now
the out-loud echoing whispered thoughts of Chuck are delicious
― les yeux sans aerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 8 July 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
NINJA Ninja ninja
― Brad C., Friday, 9 July 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
hard to decide what recreational drug would be the best one on which to watch this movie - they'd all have their advantages
― les yeux sans aerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 9 July 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Just watched:
Crippled Avengers--I know the alternate title is "Return of the Five Deadly Venoms", but I for the life of me can't tell why, as it doesn't seem to have any noticeable link to that movie that I could see. I was enjoying what I saw of it then got sleepy and had to turn it off -- I hate when that happens!
Heroes of the East--A lot of fun. It felt more like a documentary on the differences/similtarities between Japanese/Chinese martial arts, but it was still a lot of fun.
Fist of the White Lotus--So incredibly BORING. Bought it as it had the famous Pai Mei character, AND, Gordon Liu, but after a fantastic opening this went nowhere fast. I mean it had good martial arts but the training sequences were meh.
The Mystery of Chessboxing--I bought it because of the Wu connection. And I didn't like it. The storyline wasn't terribly interesting and they threw the Ghostface Killer in your face with no real explanation within seconds of the movie's opening, which was quite confusing.
The Kid with the Golden Arm--Loved this. Not only did it have great fighting sequences, I enjoyed the storyline, the unique concept of the four different styles. Although I clearly got a bootleg and the entire movie is available with subtitles on Youtube (in much higher quality than what I got).
Also arrived/arriving in the mail:
Bloodsport (saw this when I was 8 -- regardless of whether Dux is a liar or not, can't wait to see this again)Disciples of the Master Killer (aka Disciples of the 36th Chamber)8-Diagram Pole Fighter
― San Te, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Disciples of the Master Killer: Clearly the worst in the series, and not a very good film at all. Gordon Liu barely appears until the second half, and the story is a pointless waste. An insubordinate kid who is no better at the end than he was at the beginning?
The last 20 minutes are fairly exciting, but I was so exhausted from boredom from the first 70 minutes that it didn't matter. Oh well.
― San Te, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Five Element Ninjas is highly recommended by me. holy fuck.
oh and finally got around to seeing Police Story with Jackie Chan. by far the most entertaining thing of his I've seen.
― San Te, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mkl9rtttoghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gTkUcXGF_Q
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"Duel of the Iron Fist" or the duel now playing in widescreen on youtube. David Chiang is fucking cutting motherfuckers.
This is a bad video copy of the trailer, go halfway through to the knife fights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moRBZVZKn3U
this is part two of just some fighting here. intrigue and violence etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRwgb0fyWDI&feature=related
― stupid stupid stupid (Zachary Taylor), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Finished the Mr Vampire set (which features 2-4 and a spinoff, the series is actually bigger than this), I think the 3rd and 4th film's were the better ones but I didn't love any of them. But the 4th was quite creative with the slapstick. The last film was probably the worst and seeing a little bat's face wincing while being squeezed hard was more unpleasant for me than the snake and chicken deaths I've seen in hk films.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 23 October 2023 21:43 (seven months ago) link
Difficult to pin down what counts as the series, since there's no continuity and personnel also varies. There's a by all accounts terrible Mr.Vampire 1992, and the last one in the set wasn't released as a Mr.Vampire film originally.
Important Cinema Club did an episode on these recently and they mentioned there's some dour hopping vampire film from the 00's (I think?) that's not any good but does have the novelty factor of having a lot of the iconic actors from the series play down on their luck slobs in an apartment complex.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 09:25 (seven months ago) link
are these martial arts films? I suppose. I've sung 2's praises before but the long scene where everyone pretends to be in slow motion is Buster Keaton-worthy.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 09:26 (seven months ago) link
they mentioned there's some dour hopping vampire film from the 00's (I think?) that's not any good but does have the novelty factor of having a lot of the iconic actors from the series play down on their luck slobs in an apartment complex.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 10:25 (yesterday)
That's Rigor Mortis and its generally considered good, I enjoyed it, a bit cgi heavy but not boring, worth a try for sure. The guy with the glasses from Mr Vampire 1 and 4 is in it and he hadn't been in movies since the early 90s. Kara Wai is good in it too.
I expected that the Mr Vampire box set would have one of the two The Gods Must Be Crazy crossovers, but neither is there. One of the stranger crossovers I've heard of, The Gods Must Be Crazy series was a big hit in Hong Kong, I tried the first film and I didn't get far, I found it extremely patronizing.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:02 (seven months ago) link
Guy with the glasses is Anthony Chan Yau, he directed a film called My Americanized Wife, I've always found HK films quite funny when they portray Chinese people from America or England.https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9L3hkB0vor8Yk8yGDTRFhuSd0dP.jpg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:11 (seven months ago) link
lol amazed both by the fact you thought they'd include a The Gods Must Be Crazy crossover and your generous assesment of it as "extremely patronizing"; just a total garbage franchise, omnipresent for a few years in my childhood.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 21:39 (seven months ago) link
I thought that was the 4th and 5th film in the series. I watched like 20mins of The Gods Must Be Crazy before I turned it off. That might be the earliest I've abandoned a film that I sought out (on streaming admittedly). I had never heard of it until I read an hk horror film guide.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 21:53 (seven months ago) link
I confused TGMBC with the George Burns "Oh, God" movies and was very confused for five minutes
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 22:19 (seven months ago) link
i gotta say i really loved watching this essay... anybody have any recommendations along these lines?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-tQUzZTVCw
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:15 (six months ago) link
Inspector Wears Skirts was kind of okay but the poetry line "why do my hairy legs always walk towards you?" was inspired. Kara Wai looks glorious with that hair.
I didn't even finish Beach Of The War Gods but was amused how the trailer boasts about having an all-male cast. I thought the novelty value of male action heroes would have worn off by the early 70s.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:55 (five months ago) link
Beach Of The War Gods rules. Hilariously ends with our intrepid heroes doing a war crime.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 14 December 2023 10:55 (five months ago) link
Can any of the heads or here help me out?Years ago (mid 90s?) I saw a kung fu flick (a hisorical setting) where the hero had a secret technique, but every time he used it, he got more feminine... it was mostly played for laughs, and by the end of the film his part was played by a woman... Can't remember the name... any ideas?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 14 December 2023 11:24 (five months ago) link
at first i thought it was Clan of the White Lotus, but Gordon Liu's character was never played by a female at the end
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:26 (five months ago) link
...that's not it, but that's a good one..
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:35 (five months ago) link
ppl on a different forum suggest Swordsman II?
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:49 (five months ago) link
....don't think that's it either... I think I would've remembered if it had Jet Li in it... looks like a good one though...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 15 December 2023 03:28 (five months ago) link
is it this one?
http://tarstarkas.net/2014/06/fight-for-survival-review/
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 December 2023 07:25 (five months ago) link
"In this film, Polly’s character Shih Pu Chuan sets out to recover 10 books stolen from the Shaolin Temple, each volume teaching one kung fu technique, and each technique has been mastered by the respective theif of that volume. But, if you only learn one of the kung fu skills, your body soon begins to modify itself based on that kung fu skill. Thus, the guy who learns to extend his arms has permanent long arms. The guy who stretched his legs looks like he’s walking around on stilts. The woman who stole the Positive Kung Fu book turns into a man, and the guy who stole the Negative Kung Fu book turns into a woman."
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 December 2023 07:26 (five months ago) link
Not it, but that sounds worth a watch...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 15 December 2023 10:22 (five months ago) link
Let's keep them coming folks, we're mapping out a subgenre here!
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 15 December 2023 10:24 (five months ago) link
...yeah, I had no idea there'd be this many (or any) near misses...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 15 December 2023 11:30 (five months ago) link
can't believe that wasn't it tbh i thought i'd nailed it, yes this is obv a genre
― Honnest Brish Face (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 December 2023 09:43 (five months ago) link
....anyone seen this "Fist of the Condor" flick from Chile?
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 7 January 2024 12:19 (four months ago) link
Korean Film Council just dropped this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg6_yPMn9Js
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 11:46 (four months ago) link
ah well. it's Returned a Single-legged Man: 2, Korean martial arts cinema from the 70's.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 11:47 (four months ago) link
So Close would have been a lot better if it wasn't striving to be so modern, it's a very post-Matrix film and (songs aside) the soundtrack is completely generic action movie stuff. Still kind of liked it, I had never seen Karen Mok in anything before, she is in an action trio with Shu Qi and Zhao Wei.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 11 March 2024 21:56 (two months ago) link
I don't tend to enjoy what little I sample of chinese pop stars but has anyone here heard much Karen Mok? She seems to be insanely popular, one of her concerts set a world record that I don't understand.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 11 March 2024 23:42 (two months ago) link