I think that jackie chan holds a record (guiness book of world records) for most number of takes for one sequence. It was over 2000 if i remeber right. Ithink it was 2800ish but not sure.
2 really good ones Magnificent Butcher - Sammo Hung shows "Hung Gar" movie fu. Shows that even fat blokes like me can do kung fu..... Prodigal Son - "wing chun" with Yuen Biao/Sammo And one of my faves - 5 superfighters - not well known and a bit cheesy but very good pole and spear fights.
hey whats that jet li movie when he fights a bunch of people in one room and hes wearing all black the oponents are wearing the white karate shirt with the black samurai pants ( i think thats the aikido uniform i dont know the names)? i wanna kno the name and i cant find out
Shortfuse, If it's a recent film I think you may mean Kiss of the Dragon (2001) - With Bridget Fonda and Burt Kwook (Kato). If it's an earlier film of his, I don't know.
Ahhh...I just remembered he fought a lot of people in that one (KotD), then again he regularly fights a lot of people in some films (in one scene), isn't there one where he and his best friend get into a scrape with a bunch of monks, then he and his best friend get thrown out of the temple, then go off, fight on seperate sides of a rebellion, become enemies and Jet Li kills his best friend or something like that.
"Story of Ricki" This movie owns. If you need kung fu then Story Of Ricki will rock your world. It's like evil dead 2 meets Fists of Furry. 'nuff said. 8
Firstly, I would have to give another recommendation for 'prodigal son' extremely good choreography (or so I thought anyway!). Secondly, seeing as people are talking about Jet Li his new film 'Hero' is pretty impressive, even if only for all the arty camera work. The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk I & II are also pretty classic and I believe they star a young Mr. Li as well. And emm finally for sheer comedic value it has to be 'Born Immortal' about the invincible Tai Chi Master
Pedicab Driver (Samo Hung). Great Movie, that got it's Theatrical and subsequent Dvd etc re-release last year, originally came out in 1984ish...Fantastic unarmed and armed Fight scenes, gritty modern storyline and Samo.
Don't know if someones sugested this. Blad if fury. Looks like it's been funded by the chinese government. Their always going on about china, and china over them and stuff. PLus.It has teh best dubbed sammo hung voice i have ever heard.It's mostly wu shu stuff like most Hong Kong stuff.
Oh i forgot "Shaolin vs. Lama" thats another classic, it has some of the funniest dubbings ever plus its one of the most ridiculous anti-Tibet based things that I've ever seen... martial lama's, what next? Oh thats right bulletproof monk But it includes the 'Buddha Finger' technique so its worth seeing (that is S v L is worth seeing not Bulletproof monk, for the love of God dont make that mistake!)
"Five Deadly Venoms" has always been one of my favorites old-time kung fu flicks. I also enjoy any Jackie Chan film, simply because the guy does such interesting choreographies. For example, although the movie "Who am I?" was only okay, the fight seen on the top of the building made the movie great. Same with the ladder fight in "First Strike". "Rumble in the Bronx" had the fight in the street gang's lair... The killer ski and refrigerator shields…amazing! Jet Li is incredible, but I wish he'd lessen the wire stunts and show more of his natural ability. I’d rather watch a fight than look at him fly around roof tops. Yes, that’s all kool in moderation, but why add it when the guy is so incredible by himself. Like Jackie Chan said, “I don’t need special effects…I am the special effect.” -Sting
yeh i agree. Especially about the ladder fight. That was amazing.....didn't need the rest of the film.
Any film that overuses wires turns me off - so that counts out a lot of Jet's recent films. Only film that could get away with it was crouching tiger cos that was meant to be all magical, mystical etc etc However, Jet's Shaolin Temple is brilliant. No wires and some excellent unarmed/weapons fights. Jackie is good but I think Sammo is as good, if not better. I just think he lacks the recognition he deserves.
Theres a really good film which is all samurai sword fighting (anything with soni chiba as well) it was only made 2 or 3 years ago. They were showing it on sky movies recently. Can't remeber it's name Lots ofstory 9not great) but the directing is really cool and it doesn't look like a cheapy MA film.
