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You mean this track? That's part of the original film, though they took it from an album by the German krautrock band Neu!
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Samuel Clemens posted:You mean this track? That's part of the original film, though they took it from an album by the German krautrock band Neu! Yeah, the soundtrack in general just sounded different from other movies of it's ilk and era, so I figured it was like that one time I rented a copy of Nosferatu except all the music was replaced by a metal band. I love me some crazy soundtracks.
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Spatulater bro! posted:I watched The Flying Guillotine on Netflix. Really awesome movie. I wish Netflix had the Chinese audio as an option Heroic Trio has Anthony Wong guillotining it up as a minor villain.
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Mantis42 posted:
THIS IS THE ONE! The lovely knockoff with a hobo that I watched while drunk and high at a party in college!
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Btw, I just finished Five Element Ninjas and its everything this thread promised and more. What an insane thrillride of a movie, Chang Cheh at his absolute best.
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Jimbot posted:You know one of my favorite aspects of the old kung fu films are the titles. Films just aren't called that any more. Marksman of the AR-15 at 1000 Yards Easy doesn't quite put asses in theaters
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Man, everyone talks about the last fight in Drunken Master 2, but I love the fight under the train with Lau Kar-leung. Just watching it makes my back hurt though. Is Jackie Chan officially retired from traditional kung fu movies? The last thing I remember seeing him advertised in was The Foreigner which, uhhhhh...
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He was in Kung Fu Yoga last year. Never saw it.
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I know he said he's done doing crazy stunts, not sure if that extends do doing more martial art films.
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Kung Fu Yoga is kinda hilarious Chinese propaganda and doesn't have much good Kung Fu action, but the bad guy does have Bollywood physics on his side and it's fun to watch
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Also he's doing another Rush Hour, apparently.
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He's currently making a movie with John Cena, also. How's the selection of Kung Fu on Amazon Prime? El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Aug 25, 2018 |
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Aug 25, 2018 03:50
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I haven't had Prime in a while but IIRC they have basically all the Shaw Brothers movies. Or at least all the ones on the Celestial Pictures website: http://shawbrothersuniverse.com/shaw-brothers-classic-film-collection/
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Unfortunately most of them are English-dub only for audio
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I watched Vampire Cleanup Department over the last couple nights and it made me very nostalgic for some Lam Ching Ying jumping vampire flicks
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How's the selection of Kung Fu on Amazon Prime? Watch Wheels on Meals. They have a bunch of Sammo/Yuen Biao movies at the moment - Dreadnaught, Magnificent Butcher, Prodigal Son, Knockabout, Eastern Condors. Also Five Element Ninja & 36th Chamber of Shaolin. Edit: Oh, most/all of them are dubs. Ouch. Watch Wheels on Meals and Dreadnaught anyway.
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Excellent news https://twitter.com/Eurekavideo/status/1035165758232436736
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Oh, hell yeah! Wait, aren't there six films?
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It does seem a bit arbitrary, it might be because the first three films are the only ones both directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jet Li. edit: The link actually says the set includes the final film Once Upon a Time in China and America as a special feature, so it officially has all the films in the series with Jet Li. Nroo fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Sep 9, 2018 |
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I can't believe I've been sleeping on Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain all these years. It's everything I ever wanted out of fantasy cinema.
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Mantis42 posted:Btw, I just finished Five Element Ninjas and its everything this thread promised and more. What an insane thrillride of a movie, Chang Cheh at his absolute best. Five element ninjas loving owns owns owns. I got to watch a film print at the new Beverly for a Shaw brothers retrospective The only weak parts were the bad girl ninja who was undercooked and I felt the initial opposing team (the one who got beaten by the good house) were pretty useless. Just getting owned constantly
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There really needs to be a remaster and blu-ray release of The Swordsman Trilogy. Prop horses cleft in twain in 1080p.
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Nroo posted:There really needs to be a remaster and blu-ray release of The Swordsman Trilogy. Prop horses cleft in twain in 1080p. Swordsman II is one of my favorite movies ever.
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What are the good classic Michelle Yeoh martial arts movies? The only ones of hers I've ever seen aside from Crouching Tiger are the bad ones she did with Cynthia Rothrock. Is Wing Chun supposed to be good?
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pospysyl posted:Is Wing Chun supposed to be good? Wing Chun was fun, IMO, definitely worth a digital rental. Michelle kicks the butts of a bunch of creeps, etc.
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pospysyl posted:What are the good classic Michelle Yeoh martial arts movies? The only ones of hers I've ever seen aside from Crouching Tiger are the bad ones she did with Cynthia Rothrock. Is Wing Chun supposed to be good? Wing Chun is loving awesome.
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Wing Chun is great. You should watch Supercop right now. Then you should watch both Heroic Trio movies, because they're bananas. She's also in Taichi Master (or Twin Warriors). I have a soft spot for Yes Madam, and you're reminding me that I haven't watched enough of her early stuff. This is where I mention that Cynthia Rothrock want great in her part of Millionaire's Express (Shanghai Express), the Kung Fu version of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
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She's great in Righting Wrongs (aka Above the Law) as well, where she co-stars with Yuen Biao.
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I feel like any movie with Yuen Biao is somehow underrated
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Neo Rasa posted:Swordsman II is one of my favorite movies ever. It's incredibly good. pospysyl posted:What are the good classic Michelle Yeoh martial arts movies? The only ones of hers I've ever seen aside from Crouching Tiger are the bad ones she did with Cynthia Rothrock. Is Wing Chun supposed to be good? Hey now, Yes, Madam! is by no definition of the word "bad" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh8KnmRvqd0 Michelle Yeoh also stars in its psuedo-sequel Royal Warriors which is also great, AND streaming on Prime. Nroo fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Sep 10, 2018 |
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brocked posted:I feel like any movie with Yuen Biao is somehow underrated Agreed.
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brocked posted:Wing Chun is great. You should watch Supercop right now. Then you should watch both Heroic Trio movies, because they're bananas. She's also in Taichi Master (or Twin Warriors). I have a soft spot for Yes Madam, and you're reminding me that I haven't watched enough of her early stuff. Yeah, Heroic Trio and Executioners are both loving bonkers. They used to play them on one of the cable channels (TNT?) all the time when I was growing up with little stinger interviews with Michelle Yeoh, so I have a soft spot for them. Is there a name for the kind of weird spinny fight choreography in those movies? I don't think I've ever seen another movie with that style, but there's a lot of kung fu and wuxia stuff from that era I've never seen.
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I love wuxia films but sometimes I feel a little guilty about how many HK stuntmen have had to die for the sake of my entertainment
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RichterIX posted:Is there a name for the kind of weird spinny fight choreography in those movies? I don't think I've ever seen another movie with that style, but there's a lot of kung fu and wuxia stuff from that era I've never seen. When used well (e.g. I just rewatched Jet Li's "Fist of Legend" and I'm pretty sure it's used a bunch there) it doesn't necessarily get in your face unless you're looking for it, it just enhances the fighters' natural speed. In that Yes, Madam clip it seems a bit overdone (to my non expert eyes) because it is in your face and hard to ignore - it starts to get into Charlie Chaplin territory. If you just meant extraneous twirling/flipping/spinning...no idea. I bet somebody out there has a way of ranking MA films based on how many times the fighters present their back to the enemy 
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I love that fight.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:I love wuxia films but sometimes I feel a little guilty about how many HK stuntmen have had to die for the sake of my entertainment
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Coaaab posted:What are the actual figures on that? Every time I see someone land on some stairs or the edge of a table I just assume they're dead
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In the long and tragic history of Chinese civilization, Golden Harvest ranks behind only the Taiping Rebellion and the Great Leap Forward in body count.
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I’ve been told that the incredible stunt work on late 20th-century Hong Kong was an interesting side effect of free high quality health care. Somebody gets busted on-set they don’t care, they get free healin’ and are back to work a few days/months later. Please don’t fact-check me.
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Remulak posted:I’ve been told that the incredible stunt work on late 20th-century Hong Kong was an interesting side effect of free high quality health care. More like an interesting side effect of the last gasp of traditional Chinese opera resulting in a bunch of classically (read: horrifically abused) trained young men with certain... unique skills and a terrible eating habit being desperate for any work they could get.
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