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My recent buys:
Men From The Monastery. IVL
Fighting Fool. IVL
Kid With A Tattoo. IVL
Boxer From The Temple. IVL
Seven Grandmasters. Tokyo Shock.
Tom Yoong Goom. DD
Seven Swords. DD
This is Kung Fu. 55th Chamber.
I don’t get out much, you know:(
I don’t get out much either:)
I recently bought Project A2. Great movie, good priced DVD.
Another one I got was Best of the Best 2. The movie isn’t that great but Fox put some awesome special features on there.
I also got this DVD called Everyone is Kung Fu Fighting and it has 9 short home movies. The famous Prison Warz is on there along with a few other great shorts. The special features are amazing and the Stunt People caused me to burst out crying with laughter.
[QUOTE=jethro;758439]I don’t get out much either:)
I also got this DVD called Everyone is Kung Fu Fighting and it has 9 short home movies. The famous Prison Warz is on there along with a few other great shorts. The special features are amazing and the Stunt People caused me to burst out crying with laughter.[/QUOTE]
I got that DVD, too. I liked the Kwoon and The stuntpeople best. very Funny.
You seen Contour yet?
Just ordered mine from the stuntpeople site. It rocks!!! If only Hollywood made action films that good!
Hey, I am the terror known as Morgoth on the Stunt People site. I don’t do stunts, but i love to watch movie clips.
I also got a few Fusian titles.
King Of Kings- Joseph Kuo- 1969- freaking awesome movie
Eight Immortals- 1971- great movie. Much better than I expected.
Whirlwind Knight- unwatchable.
Oh, and I have not seen Contour. I am kind of new to these home videos.
[QUOTE=jethro;758442]Hey, I am the terror known as Morgoth on the Stunt People site. I don’t do stunts, but i love to watch movie clips.
Do you post on kung fu fandom also?
that name is very familiar
morgoth on the fandom and Stunt People site and Amazon.
Gorthu at the kfc site.
What abotu you?
I will have to check out Dragon Den. I love Kung Fu Fandom. That is one hell of a knowledgable bunch over there.
recent purchases
Hi all,
Today I bought a few things:
Magnificent Butcher.
I have heard this is great, yet never saw it, as far as I can recall.
Haven’t watched it yet.
The Guy With Secret Kung Fu.
Bruce Lee From Beyond The Grave.
These were a buck at Wal-mart.
Haven’t seen these either.
Non MA stuff I got was:
The Incredible Hulk, Original TV Premiere.
Robot Vs. Aztec Mummy.
More Wal-mart buck DVDs:
Doublecross On Costa’s Island(with Franco Columbu).
Laserhawk(with Mark Hamill).
Later,
Chosen One
I just scored a custom neck for a strat-birdseye maple with an ebony fingerboard, and abalone inlays-sweeeet! (114.00 on ebay) I’m gonna slap it on a mahogany (transparent red) strat body with some hot strat pickups, a floyd rose, and have one kicka$$ axe for under 400.00 .
oh yeah, nice movies.
I got the Dragon Dynasty release of Last Hurrah for Chivalry, even though I already own the original Fortune Star release, simply because I wanted to see the Fung Hark-On and Lee Hoi-San (Li Hai-Sheng) interviews. I know it’s been a lot of years since the old-school kung fu movie era, but I was a bit surprised how old especially Fung Hark-On appears in the interview. IMO, this movie is the best wuxia flick, and definitely John Woo’s best movie, though it lacks a Hollywood budget.
I have not yet bought the new release of Drunken Monkey, but that’s way up on my list.
Non-martial arts-wise, I picked up the original Halloween. Mainly because it reminds me of my high school years, as it was originally released when I was in 10th grade.
Oh, BTW, the Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy; I remember seeing that as a kid. It’s actually a patchwork film, and as I remember, the mummy footage was lifted from another old Mexican film, Attack of the Mayan Mummy.
You got a gem right there with MAgnificent Butcher Kungpowmaster. Story isn’t that great, but the fights are some of the best I have ever seen.
Bunch of stuff
Hi all,
Well, I got a haul this weekend.
Of martial arts interest, I got:
Drunken Dragon(Rarescope).
The Lost Swordship(Rarescope).
The Octagon(Trinity).
A Force of One(Trinity).
9 Deaths of the Ninja/Kill Point(BCI).
Mr. X/Ninja Connection(BCI).
Ninja Thunderbolt/Invincible Hero(BCI).
Bionic Ninja(Alpha VHS).
You know I love those Tang/Lai Ninja flicks.
Non MA is:
When Worlds Collide(Paramount).
IT! The Terror From Beyond Space(MGM).
Screaming Skull/The Giant Leeches(Elite).
Black Candles/Evil Eye(Deimos).
Terror of Frankenstein(Image).
Frankenstein '90(Anchor Bay).
It’s Alive/It Lives Again/It’s Alive 3(Warner Bros).
Bronx Executioner(Dollar).
I love sci-fi and horror, esp Euro.
Not a bad haul. All found on sale, averaging about $6 each release.
The Chosen One
LOst Swordship is an awesome movie. Check out Elimination Pursuit if you get a chance. Dark swordplay madness. Do not take any hard drugs before watchign Elimination Pursuit, you will probably die. LOve and Sword is another GREAT movie. Roc Tien Peng is the man.
You will probably like Drunken Dragon more than Lost Swordship. Rarescope is the way too go if you want some really wacky stuff with your martial arts flicks. And I just remembered where I have seen the hero from Drunken Dragon. He is in Shaolin Blood Mission. He is a very good performer and he does a really painful looking stunt in Drunken Dragon.
Yesterday I picked up Kid From Tibet. I remember an interview with Yuen Biao where he said he thinks this is the best action he has ever done. I can’t wait to see it.
Yesterday I picked up The City of Violence.
At first I almost felt buyer’s remorse, which did not abate after the first couple of fights. But as the movie progressed, I found myself liking it more and more. The cinematography is excellent. The story, not completely original, but with interesting enough characters.
It’s pretty clear there are aspects of this film that were inspired by Kill Bill Vol. 1, Tony Jaa’s The Protector, and possibly some Jackie Chan movies. Even so, this film was able to separate itself enough, and IMO, the final fight was far better than that in Kill Bill. The two main stars clearly were doing their own fights/stunts. The first half I thought, “How many ways and times can you do a spin kick, anyway?” The finale, alas, includes more brutal surprises.
This is only the second of the new wave of Korean films that I really liked (the other being The Host). Most of the rest I personally haven’t found as great as advertised.
stuff I watched
Hi all,
I recently viewed some of the newer stuff I got.
Bionic Ninja was great. A Filmark Production. It was well done, and very happy with that. I don’t care what anyone says, no one can do Ninjas better than IFD and Filmark.
The Octagon/A Force of One. These were very good too. Very enjoyable. Old school Chuck at his best. The red hooded Ninja in the Octagon reminded me of Darth Vader in a way, his character/role. Story was similar to American Samurai.
9 Deaths of The Ninja. Uh, this movie at 1st watch was very bad. I sat through it about an hour. I’ll try and give it another shot sometime. But this movie seemed really bad, and not at all like I was hoping, as I really did like Revenge of the Ninja with Kosugi also.
Mr. X. This was great, in a wacked out way. Some say this is a Godfrey Ho movie, and he does have an acting role in it. It has Joe Lewis starring, whom I am not familiar with, I guess he was a Karate world champ. The movie is newer Lewis and Ho parts mixed in with a shoot em up blood bath Chinese mafia story. I liked it.
Drunken Dragon. This was a blast. Crazy action, and crazy gizmos. But it made me think this was a part of something bigger? But it was very enjoyable just for it’s craziness.
Chosen One
kungpowmaster:
Drunken Dragon was its own movie. (I saw it in Taiwan when it was first released in '85). It is a really fun film. Its basic style was inspired by an earlier Golden Harvest-released film that was directed by Yuen Woo-Ping, The Miracle Fighters and its various spinoffs.
I liked A Force of One when it came out. I’m familiar with a lot of the locations, because it was filmed in the city I live/grew up in. Chuck was more fun then. As for the big ninja henchman in The Octagon, he was played by Richard Norton, a very good martial artist in his own right (who also played the Australian henchman in the same film).
Oh, and I recently bought another DVD, Dragon Heat. a Dragon Dynasty-released title. It stars Sammo Hung, Michael Biehn (Terminator, The Abyss), and Maggie Q. Or that’s who are advertised.
Personally, it was a big disappointment. The real lead characters are a group of Interpol agents played by young actors who look more like pop idols. I dunno, but I wasn’t impressed with the slow-mo spinning/prancing/gun posing of the idols. Sammo Hung has a couple of fights, but they are not choreographed or filmed well at all. Nothing at all like his fights in SPL, which was shot the same year. Michael Biehn has a sizeable role, but Maggie Q, billed as a major player in the film, has barely anything to do as a villain/sniper. Chin Kar-Lok was the martial arts choreographed, but it would have been better if they’d used Sammo Hung himself. Sammo’s two fights against the Korean leader of the terrorists would have been much better, but instead, the fights seem flat. I think the film tries too hard to be stylish.
Don’t forget about Bronson Lee (I can’t remember his JApanese name). He was WAY underused in Octagon, but he did show some nice sickle skills. And I have to say I personally think A Force of One is one of Chuck’s worst movies. It’s not like any of his movies are great or anything, but some are decent. I thought Forced Veneance was a little above average. Lots of good cheesy lines in that one. “Never let your girl handle your piece.”
And I saw Sammo’s fight from Dragon Heat where he uses a big chopper on youtube and I think the editor was on crack. totally unwatchable. I will never ever watch that movie. Not even if someone payed me.