Best movie ever?

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36th CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN!

Ive got it.
Its quite a good film, depicts the temple quite well. But unfortunately its the old,“You killed my father! I will avenege his death by killing everyone in the film”.
This is also the only MA film I’ve seen when, as soon as he has learnt Shaolin, he does get hit once. He literally takes on an army of atleast 200 men at the same time.
It gets a bit silly, but heh! If you know Shaolin, it makes you feel damn good bout yourself.
OH! and I’ve gotta say that Lethal Weapon 4 was the worst MA-ish film I’ve seen. Good film, but Jet Li getting killed by them 2!?
Ha!
K.

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I would have to say that Seven Samurai is one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen.

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Who mentioned Hard Boiled??

Very good pick.

Ryu

judo legend, Masahiko Kimura

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It’s pretty obvious most people who don’t do martial arts at all will find martial arts movies boring as heck. I, personally, don’t like football at all, and movies about football bore the hell out of me.

My favorite kung fu film is Shaolin Martial Arts, an old Shaw Brothers movie. My other favorites include: The Victim, The Kid From Kwangtung, Disciples of Shaolin, Heroes Two, He Has Nothing But Kung Fu, Kid With the Golden Arm, etc. THese are all old-school.

Iron Monkey is cool, but I thought the final fight on the poles was very lame. I realize the newer kung fu movies pretty much all have flying around, but that pole scene was way overdone and not very well thought-out, IMO, especially considering the earlier fights were more creative.
Jim

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I remember seeing a very old black and white movie that was about a samuri worrior and aat the end about 50 soldiers killed him with bo and arrows…i dont know what it was called but it was in japanees and had the words of what they were saying at the bottom…I was realy into it.And this was before i even took martial arts.

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What about…

1)Shaolin Arts of Snake and Crane w/Jackie Chan(especially the opening scene)
2)Fearless Hyena also w/Jackie Chan
3)Master Killer
4)Either of the Drunken Master Movies
5)Shaolin Wooden Men also w/Jackie Chan
6)Tai Chi Master

Ok I guess I just think Jackie Chan is the Shiznit!

Fu-Pow

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Kurosawa!

Thanks to rogue who was the first to mention any Kurosawa films! I just recently saw Ran and Seven Samurai on my dad’s Beta, and I can say they are some of the best movies ever. Of course, I also liked Crouching Tiger, as well as the great fight scenes from Drunken Master 2.

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I’m glad to see that Fu-Pow mentioned Master Killer. That’s my favorite oldschool kung fu flick. As for the new ones, I’d definetly have to agree with everybody else: Crouching Tiger, Fist of Legend and Enter the dragon. I’ve also become a big fan of kung fu dvd’s due to their far from enthralling plots. :rolleyes:

“The way lays claim to no merit, therefore merit never deserts it.” - Lao Tzu

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Hey Rogue:

I’ve always liked Last of the Mohicans for it’s blade fighting scenes, especially the end of the movie. I also liked Gibson’s tamahawk/knife work in “The Patriot”.

Have you ever heard of “By The Sword”? It’s a fencing movie with Eric Roberts as one of the leads. The main characters have a duel with live blades in the end that is one of the coolest sword fights I’ve seen on film.

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Best Movie

The movie I like the most is “Iron Monkey” this movie has a good story and some great martial arts.

Greetings Wong Fei Hong

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I just saw the movie crouching tiger hidden dragon. In my opinion it is the best movie ever made. I havn’t seen a lot of kung fu movies so i can’t compare it to other good kung fu movies.

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Watchman! “By the Sword” is my favorite movie. Not just MA related, but my favorite film. Where on earth can I rent it?? I can’t find it anywhere, and only see it on TV. It’s wonderful.

Crouching Tiger was good, but the best ever?? Guys it is kind of a normal kung fu movie if you watch a lot from Hong Kong and Taiwan don’t you think?

Ryu

judo legend, Masahiko Kimura

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Hey Ryu, “By The Sword” is really hard to find. They had it in the local Hollywood Video for a while, but pulled it for some reason. I finally had to break down and buy it off of Amazon.

It is a good flick, isn’t it?

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fav’ movies

I agree with a lot of the other pix on here, mostly the old school stuff. I STILL haven’t seen Crouching Tiger yet. The previews were all flying, and everyone was hyping it so much, that any interest in it kinda morphed into resentment. I’m beginning to doubt that I’ll EVER see it.

On a side note, I had heard a lot about how good Iron Monkey was supposed to be, and it stars my favorite HK actor (Donny Yen). When I bought it, and finally saw it; I was more than a little disappointed.

Here are my pics that DON’T disappoint (me at least), and I watch all the time:

Five Venoms: Avenging Warriors of Shaolin, Killer Army, and of course The Five Deadly Venoms. Anything from them is good.

Jet Li: The Shaolin Temple Series, The first 3 Once Upon A Time in Chinas, Fist of Legend, Tai Chi Master, My father is a Hero, Bodyguard from Beijing, Fong Sai Yuk 1

Chen Kwan Tai: Iron Monkey 1 & 2 (the original), 3 Evil Masters, Return of the Five Deadly Venoms, just about anything from him is awesome.

Gordon Liu: Shaolin vs. Wu Tang, Master Killer, also had one good one with Chen Kwan Tai. Liu had some of the best, but also some of the worst (in my opinion): Liquid Sword, Warrior from Shaolin, Shaolin Drunken Monk

Li Yi Min: Maybe not all that famous, but in some good flix 7 Commandments of Kung Fu, 7 Grandmasters, Mastery of Chess Boxing

Jacky Chan: Almost everything from him is good, except maybe Fantasy Mission Force, Island of Fire, and some of his other Modern ones. Definitely check out Georgous.

Ti Lung: In a ton of good films, one of my fav’s was Wu Tang Clan.

Samo Hung and Yuen Biao: They were in lots of good movies without Jackie. Ie: Knockabout, Dreadnaught, the Odd Couple, and the ever famous Magnificent Butcher.

Other honorable mentions:
Flying Guillotine,
Chinese Ghost Story,
Dragon from Shaolin (aka Yuen Wu Long- 1&2, with these 2 funny kids)
Seven Blows of the Dragon (chika-chika chaa)
5 Fighters from Shaolin
Da-Mo Master of Zen
Ghost Dog

THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER:
<H1> SIX STRING SAMURAI </H1>

Hope that wasn’t too long he

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Wow you spent a long time on that didnt you…

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fist of legend enter the dragon and drunken master 2…crouching tiger was good but those are classics

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Six string Samurai was great! =) Man I have forgotten some of the good ones…

Watchman,
Amazon huh? Hmm I might have to do just that.
Yeah it was a great film. Very philosophical as well actually.

Ryu

judo legend, Masahiko Kimura

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I don’t understand all the hubbub about “Enter the Dragon” or any other Bruce Lee movie. The fight scenes in all of them are pretty lame.

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Martial Joe, I think the movie you’re talking about is “Throne of Blood.” It’s Kurosawa’s retelling of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”…and very well done I might add. Chilling and atmospheric.

K. Mark Hoover

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Budokan, can you explain more about it…Maybe it is.Whats are some of the big events in the movie.I may remember them.