[quote]PB Andy wrote:
I loved Jackie Chan’s earlier stuff.
Legend of the Drunken Master
Equilibrium (I consider this a combat movie)
Iron Monkey
Unleashed
Ip Man
Rumble in the Bronx (YES!!!)
Supercop was awesome.
Now I just want a Jackie Chan marathon on TV.[/quote]
x2. Do you remember Armour of God and Police Story 1,2,3 ? I think Supercop = Police Story 3.
I like Jackie’s earlier stuff too. Especially the Shaolin movies and where he represented one school (Snake for e.g.) vs another (Crane, Tiger, Eagle etc). All dubbed into English from Cantonese. Awesome stuff.
Kickboxer and Bloodsport have to rank up there. BPT is right - they are both cheesy by today’s standards. Heck, JCVD is the King of Cheese. He was good in No Retreat No Surrender too.
Bruce Lee’s Fists of Fury, Enter the Dragon were awesome too.
I want to say Best of the Best as well, maybe the original version.
Hell’s Windstaff. Hands down the best non-Shaw brothers kung fu movie I’ve ever seen. I like the review from the Amazon link; pretty much what I think.
Watch it. BUY IT. For me, it was easily as entertaining as Ninja Assassin.
You know what? Find every video from the Wu Tang collection, as well as the Shaolin Dolemite Presents line. Almost every one of those movies are among the best non-Shaw kung fu productions from the 70s.
It was the first combat movie I ever saw, I was pretty young so naturally everytime I saw it I was ready to fight anything. Same goes for Rocky 3 and 4.
The protector is my favorite so far, I hope Tony Jaa starts doing more movies. I saw Ong bak 2 recently and it was not as good as the previous 2 I saw with him. There were a lot of cool scenes but this was the most memorable.
I would definitely echo Yojimbo and Zatoichi (both the modern version and the original were equally good), but as far as “movies that make me want to start a fight” go, OLDBOY is pretty high up there.
Ichi The Killer would get my vote for some of the coolest fatalities.
[quote]JT778 wrote:
From what I remember Jet Li’s Kiss of the Dragon was a pretty damn good one[/quote]
My favourite martial arts movie by far. Easily.
When he kicks the pool ball at the pilot with the uzi. Awesome.
I second ‘The Warriors’ too. That film definitely made me want to fight.
When I was about 9 years old ‘Karate Kid’ made me want to fight. Ended up kicking my 6 year old brother square in the face so I’m adding that to the list.
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
The protector is my favorite so far, I hope Tony Jaa starts doing more movies. I saw Ong bak 2 recently and it was not as good as the previous 2 I saw with him. There were a lot of cool scenes but this was the most memorable.
YOU sir are dead on. About time someone said it. Ong Bak was good but roughly made, and the triple re-plays after a while got on my nerves. Ong Bak 2 (Tony Jaa’s first attempt at being a director) was to drawn out.
The Protector was his best work. Fast, Violent gave you many of those jump in your seat put your hand over your mouth while you yell “Holy Sheeeeeeeet what the hell was that” moments and no wire work or CGI just straight up violence.
[quote]JT778 wrote:
From what I remember Jet Li’s Kiss of the Dragon was a pretty damn good one[/quote]
My favourite martial arts movie by far. Easily.
When he kicks the pool ball at the pilot with the uzi. Awesome.
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Good choice. This scene has always stuck with me since I had watched the movie before I started lifting… so the black dude seemed like the most gigantic BAMF a guy could fight and exactly what I wanted to look like.
The way they filmed it was nice, too. I’ve always had a soft-spot for scenes with a more “blue collar” approach to combat - where the moves aren’t as artistic and fancy (no swordplay on treetops or whatever) but they give you the sickening feeling that any of those shots would knock your head off in real life.
Probably why Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes going at it in Undisputed gets me wet every single time.
The office fight with the twins was also kick ass, so props for bringing this up. I had forgotten all about it and will have to watch it again.
“Kiss of the Dragon” had some of my favorite martial arts choreography . . . but it was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Two movies, it seemed, were happening at the same time: a semi-compelling story of an out-of-jurisdiction law officer taking down a corrupt foreign bureau, and a martial artist fighting against a whole country of bad guys.
Some how, these two awesome movies got drunk and tried the forbidden sex position “Ear Canal Impregnation of the Retarded Unicorn,” producing this piece of shit.
Again, all the fights were excellent. JL and the hooker chick had ZERO chemistry, and only one motherfucker in the whole flick spoke more than two words of clear English. Hell, Jet LI, the most accomplished dramatic actor in the cast, only speaks two words: “Hi” and “Ya.” Everything else sounds like crickets fucking in my brain.
Someone needs to splice all the fights together, edit out the non-action sections, and release it on dvd and uStream as “Jet Li Fucks People in the Face with Violence.”
