ok so it might not be a typical family watching film, but i grew up watching this film with my dad and it never bothered me or gave me nightmares or anything. It has now become an absolute favourite of mine and i make my fiance watch it over and over again when we rent it constantly from the video shop. I have to buy it...this film and of course kickboxer, another family favourite. The music throughout these films are awesome. Such feel good films and who doesnt love to watch jean claude van damme in that leotard. haha.
Absolutely awsome return to form. This title seems to be the original character in Kung Fu 50 years on. The grasshopper is is still kicking it big time!
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One of my top three favourite old-school wild martial arts films.
This is Jackie Chan when he was at his best. Some humour, but sparingly used. Thankfully little of that annoying slapstick that pervades many of his later films. (Good for you if you like that, but I don't. Well, not in a martial arts film!)
This film is up there with classics suich as Snake in Eagle Shadow (Jackie Chan), Iron Monkey (Rongguang Yu), Magnificent Butcher (Sammo Hung), Buddhist Fist (Shun-Yee Yuen), Tai Chi Master -aka Twin Warriors- (Jet Li), and a few others.
Some sources provide a badly editted cut. But other than that, this is excellent chop-socky.
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Being a huge fan of Tia Carrere,and to enjoy a good old fashioned tale,were the reasons I bought this film.Dolph Lundgrun and Brandon Lee take on some really nasty Japanese Yakuza.The film doesn't take itself seriously though.I enjoyed it a lot,and loved the scene where the good guys get tortured,and have to rescue the gorgeous Tia from a burning end!Just enjoy it!
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It's gotta be said that this film is a Hollywood gem. There is wonderful chemistry between the two actors playing the hero and his older mentor, Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. The differences in the two characters play off against each other perfectly from the moment that Miyagi reveals his secret karate skills when Daniel is getting a terrible beating, by leaping a fence like a twenty year old and laying waste to the main villain and four of his friends in less than twenty seconds.
Daniel Larusso is a young guy in his late teens who is moving to the LA area from the east coast with his mother, following the death of his father. He is a troubled teenager, wracked with low self-confidence, and finding it difficult to get over the loss ... Read More:
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It's gotta be said that this film is a Hollywood gem. There is wonderful chemistry between the two actors playing the hero and his older mentor, Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. The differences in the two characters play off against each other perfectly from the moment that Miyagi reveals his secret karate skills when Daniel is getting a terrible beating, by leaping a fence like a twenty year old and laying waste to the main villain and four of his friends in less than twenty seconds.
Daniel Larusso is a young guy in his late teens who is moving to the LA area from the east coast with his mother, following the death of his father. He is a troubled teenager, wracked with low self-confidence, and finding it difficult to get over the loss ... Read More:
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Alot of people call PS 1+2 The high points of JC's career, I on the other hand think differently.
Now that is not to say they arent good films, I just feel that they dont pack the same punch as JC's other films like Project A and rumble in the bronc's.
There are breathtaking stunts in the PS films but they are spaced out by some lengthy dialogue and some to be honest quike poor acting from the cast, now I know that it doesnt really matter with a JC film because the action is superb, but the PS films try to take themselves too seriously
and this seems to sap the life out of some of the scenes.
I know that alot of people will probably dissagree with what I just said but I myself am a big fan of JC and I just found ... Read More:
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Alot of people call PS 1+2 The high points of JC's career, I on the other hand think differently.
Now that is not to say they arent good films, I just feel that they dont pack the same punch as JC's other films like Project A and rumble in the bronc's.
There are breathtaking stunts in the PS films but they are spaced out by some lengthy dialogue and some to be honest quike poor acting from the cast, now I know that it doesnt really matter with a JC film because the action is superb, but the PS films try to take themselves too seriously
and this seems to sap the life out of some of the scenes.
I know that alot of people will probably dissagree with what I just said but I myself am a big fan of JC and I just found ... Read More:
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Nearly twenty years old.
Not much of a story, but the matches are very good indeed. James Earl Jones plays the coach of a team setting out to take on five of Korea's best in a sort of mixture of martial arts.
There are loads of emotional, weepy and thoroughly soppy moments, but nevertheless it is a film that maintains ones interest throughout.
The Koreans are a joy to watch. I certainly would not have wanted to go up against them.
A very good effort.
A must-see for any fan of tae kwon do.
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When I purchased this dvd I could either not afford or even find classes in Wing Chun, therefore I went looking for very good, and above all affordable, material that I could learn a little bit from.
This dvd by Goh is in my opinion the best option if you cannot attend classes, for whatever reason.
The dvd starts with some warm-ups and syllabus training, then goes into detail of the Sil Lim Tao form, followed by applications; all individual steps in the sequence have an application attached to it - which is illustrated in this video- so you can easily see the logic of the techniques clearly, instead of second guessing the form.
Many dvds I have come across do not show what application the individual steps have.
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