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ZeroPrimal posted:I've been binging through the Shaw Brothers stuff on Netflix. My two favorites are: The Crippled Avengers and The Kid with the Golden Arm. I really love that stilted fighting style. Anything with any of the Venom Mob is a must-watch. You have good taste.
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Check out Masked Avengers if you like seeing people get skewered with tidents, boiled with slimey green acid shot out from walls, and through the stomach by a circular doorway with camera aperture style blades. https://youtu.be/So2nBT4COlk G-III fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Oct 25, 2015 |
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Masked Avengers is on Netflix too, one of the really nice shaw-scope versions that started showing up last month (and that have occupied most of my free time).
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Okay, ID a movie for me: a good guy kungfu student and his friend are surrounded by a circle of kungfu students who trying to kill them with giant bamboo poles. Standing on their shoulders is another circle of bad guys. They bend their poles and release them like projectiles, which hit the good guys /and then bounce back to the bad guys. The good guys fight back, and at one point the take the body of one of the bad guys and surf around the room fighting the bad guys while standing on his chest.
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Remulak posted:Masked Avengers is on Netflix too, one of the really nice shaw-scope versions that started showing up last month (and that have occupied most of my free time). I absolutely love the final fight in Masked Avengers. All the clanging will give you a headache but it's a surprisingly mean and gruesome movie for Shaw.
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Steve Yun posted:Okay, ID a movie for me: a good guy kungfu student and his friend are surrounded by a circle of kungfu students who trying to kill them with giant bamboo poles. Standing on their shoulders is another circle of bad guys. They bend their poles and release them like projectiles, which hit the good guys /and then bounce back to the bad guys. The good guys fight back, and at one point the take the body of one of the bad guys and surf around the room fighting the bad guys while standing on his chest. I want to say The Evil Cult (or Kung Fu Cult Master, or one of its other half dozen names) but I'm not certain. It sounds like something that would fit right in with that film, at least.
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I should add I think everyone was bald, and I'm tempted to say it was Jet Li.
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It's Cult Master
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potatocubed posted:I want to say The Evil Cult (or Kung Fu Cult Master, or one of its other half dozen names) but I'm not certain. That's the one that doesn't have an ending. They run after the main villain the movie just stops. Like they ran out of footage. It owns.
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It's been forever since I've seen it, but I loved how ridiculous it was. I should watch it again.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:It's Cult Master Nope, everyone was wearing shaolin-style robes and were bald in the movie I'm thinking of. Also, said scene was indoors. Cult master is full of long flowy robes and long hair
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Steve Yun posted:Nope, everyone was wearing shaolin-style robes and were bald in the movie I'm thinking of. Also, said scene was indoors. Is it Tai Chi Master? Not sure about the policy here re: linking full movies on YouTube, but if you find it (or have Netflix) it's about 16 minutes in.
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Snowman_McK posted:That's the one that doesn't have an ending. They run after the main villain the movie just stops. Like they ran out of footage. It owns. Believe it or not, Kung Fu Cult Master was based on a book from a popular wuxia novel series that began in the 1950s. It followed the plot of the book fairly closely. Wong Jing was planning to make sequels based on the rest of the books but the film didn't do well enough. There are fan translations of the novels floating around.
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Clipperton posted:Is it Tai Chi Master? Not sure about the policy here re: linking full movies on YouTube, but if you find it (or have Netflix) it's about 16 minutes in. Yes, that's it! Thanks!
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There was a movie mentioned earlier that I've missed on a re-read, some clip where a bunch of ninjas combine into a giant super ninja. It's not Duel to the Death, that's the reverse. Actually, now I'm not sure if they were ninjas.
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You might be thinking of Holy Weapon with Michelle Yeoh. The combination scene occurs at 1:32:30.
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Could be Duel to the Death https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HeXZ9Q0UmAA Boinks fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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Nov 17, 2015 01:54
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This could be an interesting disaster: Yuen Woo-ping, Tsui Hark remake Miracle Fighters
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I'm all for it. I love that movie and there's all kinds of crazy stuff you can do now.
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Any excuse to repost this...
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The last thing I remember Yuen Woo Ping directing was "True Legend" which was loving awesome. I'm for this.
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So apparently Netflix are producing a sequel film to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as a Netflix original film? It's titled Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny and stars Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen. The trailer music is um....spectacularly awful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdhvxJZDqzU Given that CTHD was probably responsible for me being interested in wuxia cinema (I stumbled on to it at a local arthouse movie cinema back before I even knew what wuxia was) I hold a very strong fondness for it. This trailer does not fill me with hope for a sequel on anywhere near the same sort of level.
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As a person who loved the unpretentious madness of Tsui Hark and proper balls to the wall HK stuff, I couldn't stand CTHD. So humourless. I'm p. against obvious wirework in general tbh, and I think it's kind of telling that the people bringing life back into the genre are old school in their choreography.
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DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:As a person who loved the unpretentious madness of Tsui Hark and proper balls to the wall HK stuff, I couldn't stand CTHD. So humourless. When's the last time you watched it? I wonder if you'd feel the same way now.
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Sodomy Non Sapiens posted:So apparently Netflix are producing a sequel film to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as a Netflix original film? Can't hear the music here at work to judge, but that seems particularly heinous considering how gorgeous the score in the original is.
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It looks exactly like a kung fu movie. There's a forest, guys in masks. It all checks out. This is probably going to be a kung fu movie. BTW, Holy weapon, goddamn. I'm just 15 minutes in and it's already profoundly insane.
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is great and Michelle Yeoh is a treasure.
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Wizchine posted:Can't hear the music here at work to judge, but that seems particularly heinous considering how gorgeous the score in the original is. It's a very, very bad remix of Bad Moon Rising by Creedance Clearwater Revival hoarsely whispered through a thick vocal filter. No, I don't know why either.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is great and Michelle Yeoh is a treasure. These statements are both true.
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I was bored and watched Kung Fu Hustle, it is infact a good movie and worth a watch.
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Abu Dave posted:I was bored and watched Kung Fu Hustle, it is infact a good movie and worth a watch. Kung Fu Hustle is a Goddamn treasure and each year that passes without the rumored sequel pains me.
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Wizchine posted:Kung Fu Hustle is a Goddamn treasure and each year that passes without the rumored sequel pains me. are any of stephen chows movies good? i'm not really a fan of wire fu so i always ignored him
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Abu Dave posted:are any of stephen chows movies good? The Journey to the West movie he did a couple years ago was one of the most tonally baffling movies I remember watching, it kept switching between slapstick comedy, horror, wushu, romance, and drama, usually with no warning, and character actions and motivations do the same. I enjoyed it for how batshit crazy it was, but I don't recall a lot of martial arts, and all fight scenes involve tons of low budget CG. Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer are awesome.
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Abu Dave posted:are any of stephen chows movies good? Yes. Add God of Cookery to that list as well. You don't really watch Stephen Chow movies for the kung fu, though.
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Shaolin Soccer is a wonderful film.
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What about King of Beggars? I've seen the others (minus the Cookery one above) and the kids LOVED both Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle (Qiu Yuen has got to be my favorite Hong Kong actress like, ever).
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Ill check em out thanks guys.
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Oracle posted:What about King of Beggars? I've seen the others (minus the Cookery one above) and the kids LOVED both Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle (Qiu Yuen has got to be my favorite Hong Kong actress like, ever). And to echo Thaddius - Journey to the West has some great laughs but it makes no sense.
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I also like his older Journey to the West adaptation starring Chow.
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Are Chow's From Beijing With Love and The Royal Tramp I & II any good? I own them but haven't watched em.
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