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ne1 luv kung fu films whether it be classic, newage 'matrix'y kinda stuff, wire-fu, etc |
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sure i loved jet li in the kiss of the dragon and bruce lee is a legend |
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best fight scenes on film are with Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo & Sanjura Why? Blink and you miss 'em and they're "realistic" Bruce lee is CRAP! I put him with van damn, norris and the rest. Ego-headed nonsense. For pure style "the legend of Su fayook" is amazing, but fantasical. I've never seen a desent, "real" one! It'd be so easy to do it without the slo-mo wire stuff and still have ya go WOW. I know, i've trained for 6 years with the best!!!! |
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Drunken Master is the best kung foo flic I have seen. Summary...... Jackie chan experiments with this new form of kung foo.... very unorthadox teqnique where alchohal is used to losen up the mind and the body..... what a great movie |
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Return of the Drunken Master is a funny one. Johnny Chang as a fugitive acupunturist :) |
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Jet Li's pretty cool--I like Black Mask and Fist of Legend a lot, and also Twin Warriors. Iron Monkey is good, too. |
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Jackie Chan flicks are usually entertaining, too, but they tend to get a little repetetive/boring. The Legend of Drunken Master and Shanghai Noon are probably my two favorite of his. Who Am I? was pretty good, too. I like the fight sequence towards the end where he fights the tall then white guy and the asian guy on top of the building. |
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Jakie Chan ...repetetive/boring ..... no way hose he is my hero! |
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kung-fu movies are some of the greatest movies ever made,when the cheography is good,its amazing what they come up with. I love what they can do with wires,Iron monkey on top of the fiery poles,twin warriors is way other the top,fist of legend is brilliant[yuen woo ping is a master]as well as once upon a time in china,the last hero in china,drunken master etcetc... there even better when your stoned,i used to hate city hunter[sure its cheesy,tacky,stupid]but me & my friends were in hysterics watching it stoned. the american stuff is shit though[hollywood kung-fu],apart from the matrix,drive was alright as well,I seen a french film called the brotherhood of the wolf,which surprisingly had some kung-fu[as well as a cgi monster]. I recently watched a movie called kung-pow,an american piss take[full of special fx,the main charecter is inserted into old kung-fu movies,re-dubbed]avoid this movie as its a head fuck.some good ideas but the only good bits is a matrix inspired fight with a cgi cow,and a deleated scene,where he takes out the bad guys with his erection!! |
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I thought you were talking about the record label KUNG FU run by the VANDALS Joe Escalante, that has put out films; That Darn Punk and Fear Of A Punk Planet. |
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I love Shaolin Temple. |
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Kung Pow! |
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Not really Kung fu, but very funny... |
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my favourites would have to be: fist of fury fist of legend iron monkey drive armour of god the one (yer i no the kung fus crap but it still is one of the coolest recent films) the matrix brotherhood of the wolf police assasins (wotch it stoned + ull b in hysterics but the fight scenes at the end r amazin 2) i also hav: city hunter police story island of fire way of the dragon body weapon kiss of the dragon battlecreek brawl the big boss purple storm black mask twin warriors hitman once upon a time in china i hav 2 get project a, drunken master, snake in the eagles shadow, police story 2 and the legend of fong sai yuk as well as many others 2003 is gonna b a great year for kung fu movies (im mainly tlkin about the hong kong ones). check out stuff like the princess blade, the legend of zu + even stuff like shaolin soccer looks quite cool |
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Everyone should watch City Hunter movie starring Jackie Chan..... One of the funniest films I have ever seen (Jackie playing the part of Chun-Li at one point!!) and the fight/action scenes are breathtaking!! |
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That was brilliant :D Jackie Chan kicks ass ;) |
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yeah.....Iron Monkey's class! Remember "Monkey Magic?" AND Tom Jenkinson's "Drunken Style" is great.........the choreography! |
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Mystery of Chessboxing Come on you can't call Bruce Lee CRAP! Commercial maybe but he was f*cking good! |
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Bruce Lee was a true master....he lived & breathed Jeet-Kun-Do... Jackie is much more exciting now as he is more fo a showman & brucey was purely a poser (sorry but he was in his newer films). He still remains as the greatest Martial Artist of our generation but sadly is remembered mostly for Enter the Dragon (which is sooooo overplayed it is dull as buggery now)! |
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Jackie Chan is gay |
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Is that why you hate him? Are you prejudice against homosexuals? |
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bruce lee is low quality man. I believe everything in that "Dragon: brice lee story" film and he was an absoulte asswipe....not a single endearing qulaity about the guy. A kid who wanted the american dream and made up a amrtial art that suited the punters..... the Britney Spears of martial arts he was. I want the Squarepusher of martial arts films...but he don't exist! |
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I'm not serious about Jackie Chan. He's OK. I'm not homophobic, just childish. Bruce Lee was an arrogant git yeah, but he had skillz. |
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He did have amazing skills, but he was so grounded! Jackie is everywhere at once and can take on more than 1 guy at a time (unlike Lee in his films.........although who knows what he woulda been like if he'd tried huh?) |
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wot do u mean bruce only took 1 at a time. hav u seen fist of fury! he takes on like 30 guys or sumthing. that sed tho. i like jackie chan coz he is really inventive with props + stuff. i dont like jackie chan coz i h8 his slapstick ways + crap comedy. bruce lee woz a poser but he had real emotion wen he fought. b4 he bcame an actor he used 2 go + mug ppl + get in proper kung fu street fights. jet li is good but is the keanu reeves of kung fu (ie pretty boring 2 watch wen hes not fighting or doin sumthing kool). if there woz sum1 who combined jackie chans inventiveness and bruce lee's presence then we wud hav 1 of the greatest martial arts legends of the day |
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they exist, man. Except you'll never see em in films. Its not "the way".... ...i seen 'em ....they're.....japanese......originally ...some are ...irish.......heh heh s h i n o b i (They invented 'inventiveness') |
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I am the conglomeration of them both......minus all their good stuff anyways! |
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hong kong phooey woz always good |
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you have to have respect for jackie chan,some of the stuff he pulls off is amazing[too many stunts to list].bruce lee looked like he had power in his fights [and those nunchaku`s].Jet li is brilliant as well,how can you not respect these men. I would like to see Donnie yen in more films,he was amazing in iron monkey and once upon a time in china 2. I have all the films already mentioned :) mr hack,get drunken master,project a and snake in eagles shadow,they`ve got some brilliant action[drunken master being the best].the legend of fong sai yuk is alright,watch it stoned as it has a brilliant/long fight running along an audiences heads :D,the sequal is alright[nothing special]. no ones mentioned crouching tiger,hidden dragon,hehe what do you lot think of the 2-hand gun[gun-fu]movies like hard boiled,the killer,the god of gamblers etc etc.? |
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donnie yen is gradually breaking through. he woz ok in blade 2 + he is directing/producing? a swordplay film called the princess blade which looks really cool. i hav hard boiled which is wicked + obviously i have 2 get the killer soon. i hav other stuff mainly through hong kong legends such as purple storm, 2000AD and other stuff. in his day john woo woz a genius in his element but now hes fairly burnt out. u watch hard boiled + then broken arrow or sumthing. wot happened? |
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you DONT have the killer??!!,its probably better than hard-boiled[arguably],the final shoot-out in the chuch makes it an all time classic.I know what you mean about the new john woo movies,apart from face off,there all shite really. I have a lot of the Hong Kong legends movies[purple storm,beast cops and a lot of the films already mentioned]but whats 2000ad like,almost bought it when it came out,there was another film as well[cant remember the name]it was yuen woo ping,set on a boat[2-disc dvd]and was wondering whats that like? |
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red wolf.i aint seen it but it looks pretty kool. 2000AD is cool. better than purple storm. |
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Has anyone else seen Stormriders (Feng yun xiong ba tian xia)?? Is what Final Fantasy movie shoulda been (as it says on the 2dvd box & I totally agree!!) |
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for anyone interested.... stormriders was alright as i remember,been a while since ive seen it. the last hero in china has some brilliant fighting[jet li chicken kung-fu],and also does anyone know if they made a sequal to the evil cult? |
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Yuen Wo Ping ----------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- AKA: Big Eyes (Nickname), Yuen Woo Ping Profession: Action director, actor, director, producer, writer Born: 1945 (Guangzhou, China) [ Filmography ] Coming from an industry hailing nearly as many action directors as celebrities, Yuen Wo Ping has distinguished himself as one of the best and certainly most recognizable Hong Kong action director in the world. Born in Guangzhou in 1945, Wo Ping was the eldest of twelve children belonging to famed actor Simon Yuen Siu Tin. Siu Tin was trained in the Peking Opera and had found work on a long running series of films chronicling the exploits of Wong Fei Hung, a Chinese folk hero. Having trained Wo Ping in Peking Opera, his father introduced the young man to producers of the series who gave Wo Ping work during the '60's. As kung fu films gained popularity in the early '70's, Wo Ping migrated to Shaw Brothers who used him in small parts and as a stuntman in such films as The Chinese Boxer (1970) and Duel of Fists (1971). Mad Killer (1971) became Wo Ping's first official film as action director, a position that was highly regarded in an industry dominated by action-oriented films. The film was directed by Ng See Yuen who went on to found Seasonal Films, an independent production house where Wo Ping would eventually direct his first feature starring a relatively unknown actor named Jackie Chan in Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978). Yet, it was the following film entitled Drunken Master, also starring Jackie that truly propelled both men into mainstream success. Wo Ping went on to work for Golden Harvest who was emerging as the leading movie studio in Hong Kong where he would work with other budding stars like Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao on The Magnificent Butcher (1979) and Dreadnought (1981). In 1979, Wo Ping formed the Wo Ping Films Company whose first project was The Buddhist Fist (1979) which co-starred Siu Tin who appeared in many of his son's film |
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often as an elder drunken boxing master or mischievous beggar. The next milestone in Wo Ping's career came in 1984 when he wisely cast a talented young martial artist in Drunken Tai Chi. Donnie Yen Ji-Dan had become his protégé after being discovered two years earlier. His experience with Wo Ping would lead him to become a notable international action director himself. In the meantime, Wo Ping featured him in several increasingly sophisticated action films set in modern times. Then a revival of classic martial arts film led by director Tsui Hark in the early '90's brought the all three together in Once Upon a Time in China II (1991). For the next five years, Wo Ping redefined Hong Kong action by creating increasingly elaborate fights employing wires and imaginative choreography that more closely resembled his former Peking Opera roots than much of the Chinese boxing that Bruce Lee once made popular. Iron Monkey (1993) stands as perhaps his best film from this era and certainly an excellent example of his kinetically fluid style of action. Having already gained cult status among genre fans and new wave filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, it came as little surprise that the Wachowski brothers, themselves fans of Hong Kong cinema would tap Wo Ping's skill in creating their vision of an action comic book come to life in The Matrix (1999). The film's tremendous success, coupled with a growing interest in Hong Kong film after Jackie Chan's successful Hollywood entry led to the creation of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), directed by Ang Lee. By matching the epic fantasy elements of Lee's favorite Chinese swordplay films from his youth with a Western aesthetic, Wo Ping was able create a uniquely dramatic and breathtaking series of action sequences that general audiences worldwide could identify with. By effectively showing what even actors not trained in martial arts are capable of, Master Yuen Wo Ping continues to push the boundaries of action cinema. With sequels to The Matrix, a Quentin Taran |
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By effectively showing what even actors not trained in martial arts are capable of, Master Yuen Wo Ping continues to push the boundaries of action cinema. With sequels to The Matrix, a Quentin Tarantino project entitled Kill Bill, and continued work in Hong Kong currently on his plate, Wo Ping will continue to prove that martial arts cinema is truly an art form worthy of its Chinese roots. |
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I advice anyone up here interested in good quality kung fu movies to check out : 'born invincible'. It's an oldie but goody! I must have seen that movie hundreds of times in my youth. A day watching it, always ended in me and my mates streetbrawling outside. TIGERSTYLE |
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MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILOTINE THE STREETFIGHTER (STARRING SONNY CHIBA) |
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is crying freeman good? i loved drive. admittedly mark dacascos looks like a bit of a dork but drive woz so cool. the fights were like in the matrix only faster and more inventive. is crying freeman ne good. its by the same director of brotherhood of the wolf and that woz ment 2 b good. (im talkkin about the live action crying freeman, not the anime btw) |
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The mivie is actually very good.....not very 'Martial Arty'....more like a John Woo film than anything but the fights at the end are kewl.....! |
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crying freeman is alright,better then you might think,brotherhood of the wolf is better,although it doesnt know if it wants to be a kung-fu/action movie or a period drama,or a horror,or a big budget sfx movie. i watched the one[jet li]and very dissapointed just a bunch of cool effects,nothing else:( kiss of the dragon and romeo must die are better,shame i was expecting something special. |
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does anyone know anything about the new tarentino movie,yuen woo ping & sonny chiba are doing the fight scenes,so it could be something special. |
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The actual art of kung fu is completly different from films, almost like two different styles altogether. I like watching the odd kung fu flick, it's just fun. |
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I'd also like to point out that these guys are fantastic martial artists and performers, they've fucking entertained me with their knowledge but... there is no possible way they could be said as the greatest martial artist. There are mant great but never a greatest IMO |
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