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Title: Hooray for Kung Fu! Post by: Gerry on March 13, 2001, 03:34:50 PM Great review of THE BUDDHIST FIST, Andrew! Thanks for the laughs. I especially loved the sound clip of "Left hand Buddha palm, right hand Buddha Fist! Hya, huh, hya, hya."
Title: Thank you Post by: Andrew on March 13, 2001, 08:25:41 PM I've been dying to get an old school kung fu flick reviewed for a while. Every month (or so) a strange malady afflicts me. I'm forced to pull some crazy martial arts flicks off my reference shelf and watch them (or buy a couple of new ones to enjoy).
My latest purchase was "The Invincible Kung Fu Trio" and it wasn't nearly as much fun as I remembered. Not terrible, but The Buddhist Fist was a whole lot of joy. Andrew Furious Buddha! Title: Re: Hooray for Kung Fu! Post by: Dr. Freex on March 14, 2001, 07:56:04 AM Ah, kung fu! Sweet, sweet kung fu!
A lot of the Yuen Woo Ping - choreographed stuff from this period played essentially the same, i.e., there's a plot in there somewhere, but never mind that, here's another cool fight scene! I especially like the bizarre assassins that keep cropping up in these movies - in Buddhist Fist, it's a fortune teller who kicks your ass with the I Ching materials. In a movie like Dreadnought, it's a tailor who is constantly trying to kill Wong Fei Hung while fitting him for a new suit, measuring tapes and shears whirling through the air. I kinda wish real life was like this, but I'd probably wind up being the guy that eats the chess pieces. Title: Re: Hooray for Kung Fu! Post by: Gerry on March 14, 2001, 11:42:03 AM Dr. Freex wrote:
> kicks your ass with the I Ching materials. In a movie like > Dreadnought, it's a tailor who is constantly trying to kill > Wong Fei Hung while fitting him for a new suit, measuring > tapes and shears whirling through the air. > > I kinda wish real life was like this, but I'd probably wind > up being the guy that eats the chess pieces. Plus it would make buying new clothes a lot more dangerous! But on the bright side, at least you would have a nice new suit to be buried in, right? Title: Re: Hooray for Kung Fu! Post by: Andrew on March 14, 2001, 09:06:30 PM > I kinda wish real life was like this, but I'd probably wind
> up being the guy that eats the chess pieces. You're kinda that same shape too. Oh! And old! You're certainly old enough to be that guy! Andrew Title: Re: Hooray for Kung Fu! Post by: Dr. Freex on March 14, 2001, 10:56:13 PM Andrew wrote:
> You're kinda that same shape too. Oh! And old! You're > certainly old enough to be that guy! And I have a stick. And I will be shopping for a strategically placed wineskin. I do, however, seem to bathe more often than he did. ......Whippersnapper. Title: Re: Hooray for Kung Fu! Post by: Scott on March 18, 2001, 01:45:45 PM I always liked the Kung Fu movies were someone must get revenge and there is a big fight at the end were somone dies, but before that the hero must go through special training to improve his skills. Those are my favorites.
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