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oohhboy posted:Man of Taichi was a weird as hell pro China movie that ends in a Ki attack and a villian whose final words are equally weird. It even promotes poor behaviour as a virtue in China. The fights are pretty terrible as they are overly choreographed, go on for way too long and the protagonist almost never take any damage of any kind. this is a wrong opinion. the weirdness is worth it 
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:this is a wrong opinion. the weirdness is worth it Yes and no. There isn't enough weird to sit through the movie. A super cut yes. It is extra baffling as Kenau directed himself . Thankfully unlike a lot of other director/actors he has knowledges he sucks at directing. The half aborted cop story is a massive chunk of evidence this movie when wrong.  Him screaming is good stuff.
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Fojar38 posted:how does this compare to ip man in terms of nationalist trash IP man is 99.999% made-up bullshit. It makes U-571 seem like thoroughly reviewed academic journals in its accuracy. Kung Fu has never been anything but a niche circus act. Whenever you hear about a Kung Fu master it's always his ability to do something really oddball. Like balancing on thumbs, grabbing things really quickly, or some sort of endurance feat (holding something at arms length, balancing, etc.). Almost never anything that actually translates into fighting like they would like you to believe. Whenever you do see some "Kung Fu" master fight, it usually ends up with them being hilariously beaten in under a minute, they are just doing a choreographed fight, or fighting a literal nobody who has also been paid to take a dive. Also if you do see a Kung Fu guy win a seemingly legit fight, he's not actually using it, just punching and kicking like every other MMA fighter. Also Bruce Lee was an actor, not the world's most lethal person.
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Blistex posted:Also Bruce Lee was an actor, not the world's most lethal person. True, but he was also in insanely good shape and had a well rounded background in Eastern and Western martial arts, such as boxing and fencing. His choreography also included elements of Judo, so he at least knew that existed and that it was effective. So lumping him in with other Kung Fu masters is a bit erroneous. His Jeet Kun Do style was supposed to be a more practical version of a traditional martial art and there have been some successful MMA guys to come out of those schools.
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Atlas Hugged posted:True, but he was also in insanely good shape and had a well rounded background in Eastern and Western martial arts, such as boxing and fencing. His choreography also included elements of Judo, so he at least knew that existed and that it was effective. So lumping him in with other Kung Fu masters is a bit erroneous. His Jeet Kun Do style was supposed to be a more practical version of a traditional martial art and there have been some successful MMA guys to come out of those schools. 
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Atlas Hugged posted:True, but he was also in insanely good shape and had a well rounded background in Eastern and Western martial arts, such as boxing and fencing. His choreography also included elements of Judo, so he at least knew that existed and that it was effective. So lumping him in with other Kung Fu masters is a bit erroneous. His Jeet Kun Do style was supposed to be a more practical version of a traditional martial art and there have been some successful MMA guys to come out of those schools.
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Yep. And that's how the triads killed him. Sent an assassin to kill him with the Touch of Death
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I'm a Triad. AMA
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Dr.Radical posted:Yep. And that's how the triads killed him. Sent an assassin to kill him with the Touch of Death Bruce Lees death had nothing to do with triads. He Michael jacksoned his way off. took a prescription drug from someone who shouldn't have given it to him and had iirc heart failure in a celebrity swank pad simplefish fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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Aug 9, 2017 04:25
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The amount of salt that comes oozing out of internet warriors every time Lee's name comes up is pretty strange considering he spent half his life de-mystifying styles and secret technique hocus pocus and popularizing a practical mentality with a strong emphasis on physical conditioning that basically played precursor to the MMA poo poo that's all the rage these days. (It was a painkiller -> allergic reaction -> edema combo what done him in)
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Budohead posted:The amount of salt that comes oozing out of internet warriors every time Lee's name comes up is pretty strange considering he spent half his life de-mystifying styles and secret technique hocus pocus and popularizing a practical mentality with a strong emphasis on physical conditioning that basically played precursor to the MMA poo poo that's all the rage these days. he used a bunch of western and japanese martial arts which contributes to the salt especially since western and japanese stuff tends to actually have practical use that chinese stuff doesn't
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simplefish posted:Bruce Lees death had nothing to do with triads. He Michael jacksoned his way off. took a prescription drug from someone who shouldn't have given it to him and had iirc heart failure in a celebrity swank pad
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I should have been more clear I meant specifically the phenomenon I've seen several times over where a bunch of goons burst into a thread huffing and puffing and tripping over each other to inform anyone who will listen about how much Bruce Lee totally sucked rear end and how a mediocre MMA fighter could totally whoop him. Like the idea is to dispel all those nasty myths and legends while ignoring the fact that those got made up by nerds after he died anyway and that the guy himself, for the time especially, actually held mostly reasonable and realistic viewpoints. e: Like he greatly admired Muhammad Ali and openly admitted he wouldn't have stood a loving chance against him, not exactly the MO of a chinar kung fu master Budohead fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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Bruce Lee was pretty good, and did some cool stuff, but he didn't exaggerate his talent, that was all other people. He could probably kick some serious rear end, but his modesty of "yeah I couldn't beat that professional fighter at his peak" is that realism and demystification mentioned earlier. Which begs the question, did Bruce Lee belong to "Good China", regular China, or America in terms of "he's our people"?
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He was a Taoist, although I'unno how devout or whether he was into that horseshit mysticism that came when after the Dao De Ching was published.
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Mistle posted:Which begs the question, did Bruce Lee belong to "Good China", regular China, or America in terms of "he's our people"? He was a Hong Kong-American and held dual citizenship and died during the Mao era in the PRC where he probably would've been executed by the state for appearing in movies.
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Mistle posted:Which begs the question, did Bruce Lee belong to "Good China", regular China, or America in terms of "he's our people"? Quarter German, born in the US, raised in HK, so absolutely not a true Chinese in their eyes. Until he got super famous -- now appears in child form at the end of Chinese propaganda films
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I saw a video of him lighting matches in the air with a pair of nunchucks with strikers on the ends, that was pretty neat.
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Aug 9, 2017 06:42
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I saw a video of him playing ping pong with nunchucks.
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Aug 9, 2017 06:48
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I saw a video of guys playing ping pong with they dicks.
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67 and still making love posted:Watched the first one a few days back as per thread's recommendation, some top-grade inferiority complex on show. http://i.imgur.com/MgNmief.mp4 Relin fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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Budohead posted:I should have been more clear I meant specifically the phenomenon I've seen several times over where a bunch of goons burst into a thread huffing and puffing and tripping over each other to inform anyone who will listen about how much Bruce Lee totally sucked rear end and how a mediocre MMA fighter could totally whoop him. This is all I was saying. There's nothing mystic about him. He believed in hard work, a broad education, and doing a million crunches and situps every day. Plus he was realistic about his own abilities. That's a decent legacy in my opinion.
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Fojar38 posted:he used a bunch of western and japanese martial arts which contributes to the salt especially since western and japanese stuff tends to actually have practical use that chinese stuff doesn't Karate? The Dane Cook of martial arts?
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Last time I looked at economic growth of China they're still at like 7%. Only a matter of time until they surpass the United States. I don't know why people like Fojar are denying the inevitability of China.
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https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/chinese-boy-pees-on-elevator-control-circuit-ends-with-boy-hospitalized-with-grave-injury.553287/
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Karate? The Dane Cook of martial arts? Hello
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Karate owns and kyokushin is a legit and particularly brutal combat sport
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/chinese-boy-pees-on-elevator-control-circuit-ends-with-boy-hospitalized-with-grave-injury.553287/ Didn't see the twist coming.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Karate? The Dane Cook of martial arts? Judo and Aikido are p good, although a little limited in scope.
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Most places: Person 1: "LOL, look at his/her face, he/she looks like a pig. Seriously. They look like a farm animal. Look at the fat round pig!" Person 2: "How could you say something like that? That is so horrible. My God, you're such a rude person!!!" China: Person 1: "LOL, look at his/her face, he/she looks like a pig. Seriously. They look like a farm animal. Look at the fat round pig!" Person 2: "Heh, you're right, he/she does look like a pig. What a big pig! Hahaha." I would blow Dane Cook posted:https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/chinese-boy-pees-on-elevator-control-circuit-ends-with-boy-hospitalized-with-grave-injury.553287/ Ehhhhh? EDIT: What is that forum about? Haier fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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All this talk about NK bombing Guam, and people regurgitating the "China doesn't want a million refugees across their borders." Like, China has enough men to just stand there and hold hands so nobody gets in. They also don't care to shoot them. What's the big deal? I don't see how this refugee thing is even an issue for China.
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Atlas Hugged posted:This is all I was saying. There's nothing mystic about him. He believed in hard work, a broad education, and doing a million crunches and situps every day. Plus he was realistic about his own abilities. That's a decent legacy in my opinion. "Ololololoooo China, it's all poo poo", is the thread's reflex. In the 50s HK had a pretty active bareknuckle scene, people did that as a pasttime. Dimissing everything out of hand because it has something to do with china or chinese people is loving stupid.
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JaucheCharly posted:"Ololololoooo China, it's all poo poo", is the thread's reflex. 
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I saw a ping pong show
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乒乓乒乓🏓️
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Trump is too much of a pussu to start anything with NK anyway.
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https://m.slashdot.org/story/329747 Chinese chabudao HTTPS certificates no longer accepted, took long enough...
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Haier posted:All this talk about NK bombing Guam, and people regurgitating the "China doesn't want a million refugees across their borders."
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plumpy hole lever posted:I saw a ping pong show Are those real?
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Relin posted:i've heard of their victim culture before, and now i wonder how the hell is hollywood going to appeal to this bizarre cultural aspect Laughable threats to a much more powerful country and re-fighting the Vietnam war where you get to win? I don't think Hollywood is gonna break a sweat.  
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