What, do the Ip Man movies, the Tony Jaa movies and The Raid not count? Or do you specifically want a period piece with long flowing robes and the like?
The Girl from the Naked Eye is pretty damn good, though more of a "movie with MA in it" than an "MA movie", if you catch my drift.
I wanted to see that at the cinema but my friends were being lame. I should have manned up and gone on my own.
Yes. Yes you should. It was very good. I also enjoyed Girl from the Naked Eye, by the way. Jason Yee has been very badly overlooked.
Ong Bak Flashpoint Fearless Jackie Chan - Legend of The Drunken Master (the 90's version) Never Back Down!!!!!!!
Yes. Jeeja Yanin was fantastic in Chocolate. Pretty sure she did a follow-up (unrelated) about a Korean family of Taekwondo masters who move to Thailand. Can't remember the name. Too lazy to Google.
Donnie Yen's Ip Man series, SPL and Flashpoint. The Raid as mentioned (sequel just been finished) The thing is, MA films just like any other genre/entertainment based media has to move with the current interest (what makes people go "OOOhh looky). There is a reason why there are so many random MA movies in the 70s and 80s, is due to the high interest in "Oriental" culture, with a particular interest in Chinese Kungfu, hence the wire work and dodgy dubbing. The movies we like now, may be very dated in 20yrs time.
The Expendables series has got Jet Li, Jason Statham, and Randy Couture and (in #2) Chuck Norris and JCVD. So there's some fun hand-to-hand stuff. Of course, there's also a metric poop-ton of guns. And 'splosions. But for me, that's like saying "you can have your bowl of ice cream, but only if you have lots of melted caramel and whipped cream on top." Sign me up.
Van Damme's fights were very short in that movie, though. It seems a shame that they didn't make good use of having such an experienced movie-fu villain.
There were going to be even shorter - he petitioned Stallone to change the script http://www.hollywood.com/news/brief...-upsetting-stallone-over-fight-scene?page=all
Anyone seen "Man with the Iron Fists" ? {and you're right, I am too lazy to search the Film Review Section next door} I remember it seemed [the film] was getting ready to be released right around the time Cung Le KO'd Rich Franklin in Macau....:thinking:...Nahh...they wouldn't ...just coincidence... I figured the oddity of Russell Crowe as a major player in such a genre would bode either very well or very ill for it. I happen to see it a couple of weeks ago and picked it up. Still sitting shrink-wrapped in the yet-to-see section of our DVD case - along with "Tai Chi Master", "Resurrecting the Champ" and a few other forgot-we-had-ums. Is the 'Fu any good?
