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Greatest martial arts films of all time.
Watched Way of the dragon tonight, certainly works better without the dubbing as does descend into a unintentional comedy at times when watching it dubbed. One of my favourite martial arts films simply because it has Lee and Norris on screen together, two people like many i am sure i have huge respect for, for many reasons. List your favourite martial films and reasons why?
Police story - The film that introduced me to Jackie Chan, and led me to watch his back catalog. Phenomenal ability, films such as Drunken master, Meals on wheels, Project A blew my mind as a kid. Remember watching a documentary with Chan, Samo Hung and Biao Yuen on the rigorous training they had when at Chinese opera school. Truly incredible talents with incredible ability.
Special mention to Armour of god must have watched this film hundreds of times, love the fight sequence with the Amazons. How many times Chan got injured during filming of this film is testament to his death defying nature.
Police story - The film that introduced me to Jackie Chan, and led me to watch his back catalog. Phenomenal ability, films such as Drunken master, Meals on wheels, Project A blew my mind as a kid. Remember watching a documentary with Chan, Samo Hung and Biao Yuen on the rigorous training they had when at Chinese opera school. Truly incredible talents with incredible ability.
Special mention to Armour of god must have watched this film hundreds of times, love the fight sequence with the Amazons. How many times Chan got injured during filming of this film is testament to his death defying nature.
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Game Of Death (reconstructed)
Drunken Master II
Tai Chi Master
Wing Chun
Ip Man
Who Am I?
Armour Of God
Way Of The Dragon
Pretty much anything Jackie Chan is the best for me.
@creasy not sure if i have seen Hard Boiled was that Chow yuen Fat? excuse bad spelling.
A film that sticks in my mind and only remembered it now, only watched it once was The praying Mantis think it was the first Martial arts film i watched.
Remember that film and also Showdown in little Toykyo with Dolph Lundgren, Brandon certainly had the charisma of his father tragic loss again with Brandon. I recall Lees daughter was a competitive fighter?
Nico at the time had a impact and watched Seagals earlier films. Remember having a huge poster of Nico on my ceiling, crikey!
@Creasy47 i have seen it though only once, think my next retrospective is revisiting Hong Kong cinema.
Not quite in the same league though have a
soft spot for Remo unarmed and dangerous,
the film tried though not watched it for
twenty years.
Please watch his older films, specifically the two I mentioned by John Woo. They aren't so much martial arts, I'd say, as they are gun ballet. So many excellently choreographed bloody fight scenes. The finale in 'Hard Boiled' is about half an hour long of just pure gunfighting and explosions that are really well done, including a nice two-minute straight shot of walls being destroyed and windows being blown out as bad guy after bad guy are gunned down.
@fire_and_ice, yeah, back in the Day Seagal had a few gems. Marked For Death had his best fight scenes IMHO. On Deadly Ground is my personal fave because of Michael Caine.
Lol the running on water and dodging bullets i remember, though they tried to do it seriously. Film had heart ill give it that. What ever happened to Fred Ward? That film i suppose preempted the eastern cinema explosion by several years.
I remember Jackie Chans first attempt at Hollywood The protector.
Forgot about marked for death, Rastafarians?
Back to Chan think my favourite western movie he made was Rumble in the Bronx, think its the right movie the hover craft sequence was impressive. Need to revisit some of these films.
Also Naked gun 33 and a third, oh and forgot about tremors. The Matrix certainly brought it to another level in western culture, removing the cgi aspects. Can't help have respect for Keanu, the Chateu scene in reloaded really does emphasise the amount of training he put in, great scene.
Black Dynamite - great movie Michael Jai White kicks ass in that film, great on many levels that film.
Anything that promotes positive self belief is good, my mantra is bouncebackability, lovebackability and stepbackability.
The first Karate Kid film was good, never watched the remake.
You don't need to, and you will, in fact, feel better knowing that you haven't. Part of my soul died watching that film. Jackie Chan is a poor imitation of Pat Morita at best, and a downright insult all the rest of the time. And he's the best part of the remake.
From the last years, you have to see Ong-Bak and The Raid. Great.
Was debating which i prefer Bloodsport or Kickboxer, think Bloodsport simply because Bolo is in it.
THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN
MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE
FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH
THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN
THE DRAGON MISSILE
FIVE DEADLY VENOMS
BLOOD OF THE DRAGON
SHAOLIN VS. LAMA
Amsterdam Connection (2 rival drug gangs , one of the boss is Bolo)
Kung Fu vs Mafia (Lee Kun of Bruce Lee fame , this also takes place in Ams)
Kidnap in Rome
Ninja Strikes Back (great Rome scenery and I like the conflict between Le and Jang Lee , 2 buddies turned against each other , Sakata as the villain. Bolo should've had more screen time though)
Enter the Game of Death
Man of Iron
The Tournament (Carter Wong and Mao)
Fate of Lee Khan (Feng Tien as some kind of prominent prince who visits an inn)
One Armed Boxer (Shaw Bros was a bit bummed GH "borrowed" their "one armed" concept)
Chinese Boxer (Wang Yu and Lo Lieh)
Le's deadly fingers (cool to see Lee's "first lady" Miao in it , again Lieh as the baddie)