Continuous Kungfu/Martial arts movie thread

[Tommy Bunz]

Yeah Exiled is awesome.

[illuminati_guy]

i liked vengeance

this new one looks dope as fuck

[Spartan]

Is this any good?

[drizzle]

vaguely remember this coming up once in a while as one of those funny curios, but never seen it myself. i wouldn't shell out for an expensive dvd but if its cheap then might be worth it

[drizzle]

http://twitchfilm.com/2012/12/ronnie-yu ... blood.html

good trailer, looks somewhere between a kungfu movie and a proper historical epic

[Cash Rulz]

http://twitchfilm.com/2012/12/ronnie-yu ... blood.html

good trailer, looks somewhere between a kungfu movie and a proper historical epic

Damn sure looks good. Name is hilarious tho'.

[drizzle]

this is out in bootleg form and out of nowhere it's infinitely better than it has any right to be

All traces of the exploitative sleaze that separated the OG 1992 Naked Killer from other girl with guns movies are totally scrubbed here, even more so then in the fairly chaste 2002's Naked Weapon. The focus in this version is 100% on the action, and that's where the real awesome surprise is. I expected hot bitches sailing around on wires (ala Naked Weapon), but that only makes up for about 30-40% of the movie, tops.

The rest is Sammo Hung, his proteges and a couple of pretty capable bad guys whooping each others ass in in a surprisingly great fashion. The choreography isn't the brutal stuff of Raids and Ong Baks, it's more like a very good version of the styles used in latter day Jet Li and Donnie Yen movies, ie stylized acrobatic moves tastefully augmented with some wires and undercranking. The best part is how much of it features Sammo himself, an odd contrast to many higher profile movies where he barely does a full fight scene. In its best moments this movie becomes his own one-man Expendables - people make fun of his age and fatness and then in the next scene he dispatches some bad guys with bloody abandon.

Another very pleasant surprise here are the subtle but obviously intentional homages to classic kungfu movies. They're not done in the the overt heavy wink-nudge way that QT and RZA default to. No Shaw logo on the screen, no music ques, nothing like that. But if you pay attention you notice stuff like one group of bad buys wearing outfits from Chinese Super Ninjas, and how the final fight is a direct reference to something from Master Of The Flying Gulliotine. Somebody was obviously having some really nerdy fun with the production, and the result is infectious.

[Cash Rulz]

When you say "bootleg" do you mean CAM version?

[drizzle]

no, bootlegged thai dvd

it's a little obnoxious because the thai subs are burned into the print and the english ones have to go over them. but it's a minor gripe

[drizzle]

Finally, a proper review of WKW's The Grandmaster

key points:

Because, of course, for all its melancholy musing and forlorn contemplation, this is a film about martial artists and The Grandmaster is one hell of a beautiful kung fu movie.

Action choreographer Yuen Woo Ping repeatedly dazzles us with his intensity and imagination, staging a number of standout fight sequences throughout the film that are captured exquisitely by Philippe Le Sourd's ravishing cinematography. Screen legends like Bruce Leung Siu Lung and Cung Le push Tony Leung to the limits of his newfound prowess, while Zhang Ziyi and Zhang Jin are also thoroughly convincing fighters on screen. But the staging of the action in The Grandmaster is a far cry from the kung fu in Wong's last martial arts venture, 1994's Ashes of Time. That film instilled a magical quality into its action, coupled with that blurry slo-mo camerawork Chris Doyle favoured at the time. In The Grandmaster, we see everything, and the fights themselves are shot almost as elegant courtships, dictated by ritual, ceremony and mutual respect, or when Zhang's character is involved, a breathless sensuality that only heightens the tension between opponents

...
In The Grandmaster, Wong Kar Wai has crafted the best-looking martial arts film since Zhang Yimou's Hero, and the most successful marriage of kung fu and classic romance since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and is more than deserving of that film's measure of international success.
.....
That said, audiences primed by the Donnie Yen/Wilson Yip collaborations who approach this film looking for another dose of nationalistic breast-beating and old-school chop socky action stand a good chance of leaving disappointed.

http://twitchfilm.com/2013/01/review-th ... p-man.html

i'm fucking hyped

[drizzle]

http://www.youtube.com/user/kingofkungfu2002

a minor gold mine here

dude has full streams of the widescreen versions of China O'Brien 1 & 2, some rare girls with guns movies and a whole bunch of fight scenes cut out from movies that you would only watch for the fights to begin with

[agony]

http://www.youtube.com/user/kingofkungfu2002

a minor gold mine here

dude has full streams of the widescreen versions of China O'Brien 1 & 2, some rare girls with guns movies and a whole bunch of fight scenes cut out from movies that you would only watch for the fights to begin with

[AWAE]

some rare girls with guns movies

[drizzle]

http://twitchfilm.com/2013/01/tony-jaa- ... -army.html

pretty fucking sweet trailer

bollywood has some history of dabbling with martial arts, especially in the 80s, so it's not an entirely strangeto see something like this coming from there. as long as there's no singing it could be really dope. the luchador faceslam in the end was grand

[Lid]

gtandmaster is out, no english subs yet tho

[drizzle]

another ip man movie, this one from teh guy who did the surprisingly solid Ip Man 3: The Legend Is Born aka the unofficial prequel to the 2 'official' Ip Man movies with Donnie Yen

[Rabbi Jihadovich]

I'm looking for a movie that i saw when i was about 7 years old. I remember it was about a dude who was an unbeatable fighter with his left leg. Then he was captured by the bad guys, got his left leg broken and almost driven to insanity inside a wooden cage, where the jailers would bang sticks on it. Eventually he got out, learned to use his right leg and went on an ass whooping spree. If you happen to know the name of it, please let me know.

[drizzle]

against all odds and better judgements, Keanu's Man Of Taichi is actually looking like a pretty decent cheeseball tournament flick

raid dude all up in that bitch too

[Cash Rulz]

Are the english subs out for Grandmaster yet? I've been holding on to this movie for months now and I'm not even trying to watch until I can understand everything going on.

[drizzle]

i have a subbed bootleg so they must be

subs are about B-B+, not perfect but good enough to get most of the philosophical stuff across. which is actually most of the dialogue that isn't directly about fighting

love the shit out of the movie. if it focused a bit more on being a pure kung fu movie and didn't have passages of pure Wong Kar Wai-ness, it could've been a top 5-10 kung fu movie of all time. no joke. my jaw didn't leave the floor for the first 45 mins. after that it starts getting a bit more talky and moody and metaphysical. still sums up phenomenally overall.

[Cash Rulz]

i have a subbed bootleg so they must be

subs are about B-B+, not perfect but good enough to get most of the philosophical stuff across. which is actually most of the dialogue that isn't directly about fighting

love the shit out of the movie. if it focused a bit more on being a pure kung fu movie and didn't have passages of pure Wong Kar Wai-ness, it could've been a top 5-10 kung fu movie of all time. no joke. my jaw didn't leave the floor for the first 45 mins. after that it starts getting a bit more talky and moody and metaphysical. still sums up phenomenally overall.

I can deal with that being that I actually like joints like Hero. Did you cop a DVD or a download?

[drizzle]

dvd bootlegs

if you liked hero you're in for a treat, it's the best thing of the kind since that one. that's actually the only movie I can think of to compare it too. and as far as the action this is actually better - much more hard hitting, there is more real fighting and very little wire work. it's like the artiness of Hero combined with the action of Fist of Legend

[Cash Rulz]

website for DVD purchase please?

[drizzle]

if you feel brave:

http://www.yesasia.com/us/the-grandmast ... /info.html

otherwise

www.walktochinatownandfindabootlegspot.com

[Cash Rulz]

I gotta go to NYC this weekend. Do they still have the store off 8th Ave or is there another spot you go to?

[drizzle]

RIP Lau Kar Leung, damn shame

[Cash Rulz]

RIP Lau Kar Leung, damn shame

RIP Indeed.

[drizzle]

http://twitchfilm.com/2013/07/donnie-ye ... ailer.html

damn son the Raid lit a fire under Donnie Yen's ass like Ong Bak did 10 years ago

[Crappy Pants]

http://twitchfilm.com/2013/07/donnie-ye ... ailer.html

damn son the Raid lit a fire under Donnie Yen's ass like Ong Bak did 10 years ago

Looks fucking great!

[drizzle]

Meanwhile, apparently The Raid did not light a fire under Tony Jaa's ass but Fast & Furious 5 and 6 sure did

http://twitchfilm.com/2013/07/watch-the ... ong-2.html