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El Gallinero Gros posted:IIRC, Drive was supposed to be a vehicle for Stallone and Chan. Yes it was . Steve Wang also directed one of my favorite Us HK-Style parodies... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkgW62owQBU Kung Fu Rascals... Guest Starring Les Claypoole from Primus as the Sheriff of Ching Wa County!
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Yes it was . Steve Wang also directed one of my favorite Us HK-Style parodies... I sorta wish Stallone and Chan had gone through with it. I don't know if it would have been good, but it likely wouldn't have been boring.
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# ? Jun 21, 2014 17:03 |
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I stumbled on this while wasting my time on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxjRM9Ospto Wheels on Meals, I wonder why I never watched or even heard about this movie, has someone seen it? Angry Lobster fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Jun 22, 2014 |
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Oh god yes. One of the best Chan's. Benny the Jet is awesome and Sammo plays sleazy so well.
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# ? Jun 22, 2014 20:07 |
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Also if you enjoyed the cartoon Ninja Turtles you'll get a kick out of any of the food truck scenes.
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# ? Jun 22, 2014 22:09 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Oh god yes. One of the best Chan's. Benny the Jet is awesome and Sammo plays sleazy so well. Wheels on Meals has the crazy fight with Urquidez, right?
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# ? Jun 22, 2014 22:11 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Wheels on Meals has the crazy fight with Urquidez, right? One of the two. They rematch in "Dragons Forever"
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# ? Jun 22, 2014 23:13 |
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Snowman_McK posted:One of the two. They rematch in "Dragons Forever" Is Dragons Forever the one where Sammo is special needs?
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# ? Jun 22, 2014 23:38 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Is Dragons Forever the one where Sammo is special needs? No, that's "Heart of Dragon" Or at least, it was in my local video store. That one ends with Chan fighting through a construction yard
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# ? Jun 23, 2014 00:14 |
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Just finished Wheels on Meals, it's amazing and also incredibly cheesy, I happen to know Barcelona pretty well and seeing it's locations on a Hong Kong Kung Fu movie was weird as hell. The final fight of Jackie Chan is pretty crazy, really entertaining movie
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# ? Jun 23, 2014 01:59 |
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Angry Lobster posted:Just finished Wheels on Meals, it's amazing and also incredibly cheesy, I happen to know Barcelona pretty well and seeing it's locations on a Hong Kong Kung Fu movie was weird as hell. The final fight of Jackie Chan is pretty crazy, really entertaining movie Told you
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# ? Jun 23, 2014 03:01 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Is Dragons Forever the one where Sammo is special needs? There are, like, at least 10 movies where Sammo Hung plays such a character
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# ? Jun 26, 2014 04:22 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:
No, he's an arms dealer, and Jackie Chan is the world's least convincing lawyer. Also everyone is a kung fu master. EVERYONE.
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# ? Jun 26, 2014 04:30 |
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And it has some of the most painful looking falls I've ever seen a stunt team do. I am constantly amazed nobody broke their back during filming.
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# ? Jun 26, 2014 06:44 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:And it has some of the most painful looking falls I've ever seen a stunt team do. I am constantly amazed nobody broke their back during filming. Yuen Biao? As I was talking about earlier in the thread, it seems like he had a chip on his shoulder in terms of taking falls. Also, in a Jackie/Sammo/Biao film the only stunt players are the anoymous mooks as I understand it. The stars (Stars?) are doing all of their own. Edit: oh, there was this fall - fuckin ow Oracle posted:No, he's an arms dealer, and Jackie Chan is the world's least convincing lawyer. Also everyone is a kung fu master. EVERYONE. Doesn't Sammo's character suffer a concussion and become, uh, "special needs" though in the film? moller fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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Oracle posted:No, he's an arms dealer, and Jackie Chan is the world's least convincing lawyer. Also everyone is a kung fu master. EVERYONE. Didn't Bolo Yeung play a lawyer in some movie as a bit part just to be something other then huge henchman ?
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# ? Jun 26, 2014 12:26 |
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CeeJee posted:Didn't Bolo Yeung play a lawyer in some movie as a bit part just to be something other then huge henchman ? I just imagined him in court, and during the "Please rise for the honorable judge (insert name here)", doing his "YOU!" point at the opposing counsel, then doing his pec dance thing.
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# ? Jun 26, 2014 12:36 |
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moller posted:Edit: oh, there was this fall - That's the one!
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# ? Jun 26, 2014 22:11 |
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If you ever wanted to know what it's like to watch a Voltron like creature be formed out of 6 women who are supposedly adult virgins, you can such an experience by watching "Holy Weapon" (1993). Adult Female Virgin Human Voltron end fight scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0jCmDWVYw Full Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3xO4jufacE I think I need to go to a doctor and get checked for permanent brain damage. G-III fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jul 31, 2014 |
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There has been no talk of this classic. Ninja Bachelor Party A touching story of love, Robitussin addiction and Martial Arts. It stars Bill Hicks, Kevin Booth, and David Johndrow. It was filmed throughout Austin, Texas, and Houston, Texas, over the course of ten years due to the producers not taking the project seriously. It showcases a good deal of the cliche fight scenes from kung fu movies.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 03:23 |
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G-III posted:If you ever wanted to know what it's like to watch a Voltron like creature be formed out of 6 women who are supposedly adult virgins, you can such an experience by watching "Holy Weapon" (1993). Thank you! I've been looking for this movie since I caught the last 30 minutes of this movie on TV many years ago. Oh god, it is as insane as I remembered
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 07:09 |
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Gonna jump on the Jackie Chan bandwagon to mention the last fight between him and Bradley James Allen in Gorgeous. It's half fight/half comedy but it's probably my favorite Jackie Chan fight ever because of how fluid it is. The movement between the two are just mesmerizing. Also I love gentlemanly spars. Bradley James Allen was part of Jackie Chan's stunt team for a while, and apparently is currently working on Ant Man. That's pretty cool.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 20:18 |
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I've been on a crazy movie frenzy this last week, I've watched in rapid succession Dragons forever, Police history, Project A and Snake in the eagles shadow, among others. Of all of this, Project A is in my opinion the best, it has a constant, frenetic pacing (without dropping in the middle of the movie), decent soundtrack, decent acting, Sammo and Yuen Biao being funny without being too much hammy or awkward (looking at you, Dragons Forever) and a not too bad plot. The action is really good, with an incredible stunt (that clock homage to Safety Last!) and the entire bicycle chase is really amusing. The only drawback is it doesn't have a memorable villain/fight like Benny Urquidez in Wheels on Meals/Dragons Forever. Easily my new favorite Jackie Chan movie
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Angry Lobster posted:I've been on a crazy movie frenzy this last week, I've watched in rapid succession Dragons forever, Police history, Project A and Snake in the eagles shadow, among others. The sequel has a dumb, insanely confusing plot (I've seen it twice and still don't what it's about) but has some of his absolute best stunt sequences.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:We can't talk about Sammo, Yuen and Jackie being raised by opera school without talking about the great film Painted Faces, which is a dramatization of their school days with Sammo playing the headmaster. Please talk more about this, just noticed it.
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# ? Aug 14, 2014 01:13 |
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Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2amnQoGbB0
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# ? Aug 14, 2014 02:31 |
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I'm rather fascinated by the fact that all these obscure (at least to western eyes) hong kong action movies from the 80s and 90s are basically plastered up on youtube. I've had a good opportunity to blow my brains out with some of the craziest poo poo I've ever seen. One movie that simultaneously impressed and horrified me was "Iron Angels." A movie that starts out as a light hearted action comedy that all of a sudden explodes into this ultra violent and almost disturbingly dark movie that has people getting outright murdered in terrible ways. The whole thing builds to a vicious fight scene between Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima that is quite the site to see. A bit of wire work is involved but these two women are absolute martial arts beasts. Trailer: http://youtu.be/HHANUdGtZ4A End Fight Scene: http://youtu.be/XT3MlF9Zua0 Full Movie (really awful English dub): http://youtu.be/S_bnmb_OIM0 G-III fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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Yeah iirc a lot of those studios folded and the distribution rights/ownership are up in the air, and copyright was a pretty fast and loose thing back then as it was.
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Oracle posted:Yeah iirc a lot of those studios folded and the distribution rights/ownership are up in the air, and copyright was a pretty fast and loose thing back then as it was. I'd imagine some of the studios that snatched up the films are gone, too. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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Shaw Brothers was notorious for selling multiple 'exclusive' distribution deals to VHS production houses back in the 70s and 80s.
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# ? Aug 14, 2014 16:43 |
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What's with all the footage of kittens in the final fight in Return of the Dragon?
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# ? Aug 18, 2014 03:49 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Please talk more about this, just noticed it. He talks about it plenty in his his autobiography, which I no longer have. But I believe his stepdad (?) went to Australia and basically sold him to Peking Opera training school, where he met Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung and a few other friends. They've known each other since the age of 7-8 years old, which is adorable except for the fact that they were basically like the property of a finishing school until they were teenagers.
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# ? Aug 18, 2014 03:57 |
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And you can find and watch it in an obviously copied from VHS format complete with pretty crappy English subtitles on youtube. I don't even think its files, there's just no way of disentangling rights to it. I mean its up on YouTube for jah's take. The autobiography in question is called Jackie Chan: My Life and is a pretty standardly sanitized autobiography. My 8 year old loves to read the early chapters over and over again to the point the book is falling apart.
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# ? Aug 18, 2014 04:30 |
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It's posted eight or so posts up.
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Anonymous Robot posted:What's with all the footage of kittens in the final fight in Return of the Dragon? Rome is famously inhabited by tons of feral cats, especially within some of the monuments and ruins. Maybe Lee was trying to use them as some kind of audience?
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# ? Aug 20, 2014 01:35 |
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I'm throwing my hat into the ring with some favorites I haven't seen mentioned here yet... The Mr. Vampire movies (Lam Ching Ying owned them all) and Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind Police story II Shanghai/millionaire's express - featuring everyone in Sammo Hung's rolodex not named Jackie Chan Do the Razor Hanzo movies belong in this thread as well?
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# ? Aug 25, 2014 03:52 |
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I love Millionaire's Express. Sammo Hung Yuen Biao Rosamund Kwan Kenny Bee Phillip Ko Lam Ching Ying Billy Lau Lau Kar Wing Richard Ng Richard Norton Yukari Oshima Cynthia Rothrock Shih Kien James Tien Eric Tsang Jimmy Wang Yu Dick Wei Wu Ma Bolo Yeung Yuen Wah Yuen Miu Johnny Wang Teddy Yip One of the all-time dream casts, and the movie is great too. The Trailer rocks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX9IiYgvcBU
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# ? Aug 25, 2014 05:47 |
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brocked posted:Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind This is one of my all-time favourites, it's just so goofy! Sammo gets tricked into fighting a vampire (twice!), Sammo fights his own possessed hand, Sammo gets possessed by the Monkey God, there's a wizard duel, hopping vampires, slapstick comedy and more incredible kung fu!
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# ? Aug 25, 2014 21:09 |
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brocked posted:Do the Razor Hanzo movies belong in this thread as well? Personally I would lean towards no, because Hong Kong cinema and Japanese cinema are so different. Hanzo is a detective - do Three Seconds Before Explosion and A Colt is my Passport belong here? If we take the thread title literally, what are Hanzo's martial arts? He fights with a rube goldberg style bathroom full of traps and his well-trained information extracting endowment. He also has that jitte with the chain hidden in the handle but he uses that like twice in the three films. That being said, I dunno if there's a Japanese cinema/crime cinema thread anywhere on CD. I heartily recommend the trilogy to almost anyone, especially people who have seen some Zatoichi films. The legendary actor Shintaro Katsu who portrayed the blind masseur and friend of the downtrodden and outcast in 20-some films and multiple television series stars as Hanzo, a period detective. Picture every "loose cannon who gets results" crossed with a little James Bond and you're halfway there. The other half is sexual torture. Hanzo uses sexual torture both to purify himself of the corruption that he sees in law enforcement and as a primary means of persuading (female) witnesses to testify. I can't really explain this any better without it sounding weirder than it already does. One weird rape trick discovered by a hardboiled cop - corrupt government officials hate him! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e90sdrDNW0 Video is not safe for anywhere, really. (I love the self-satisfied grin as he pounds himself with the club)
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Any description of Razor Hanzo is not complete without mentioning the awesome fuzz tone guitar soundtrack.... Really, it's like a cross between Dirty Harry and Sweet Sweet back set in feudal Japan.... And I guess I'll still discussing it now... Now who's got some Karen Mok movies for me to watch?
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