As I wondered aimlessly through the video store, i thought to myself, "What a night for a B-movie!" So I searched, and searched.........and searched, and there it was, the movie I was looking for, 'Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave'. The title itself was enough to pull me in. So I watch it.......cheap Bruce Lee look-alike, poorly choreographed fight scenes, poorly timed sound effects, and a wrestling ring in the middle of a junkyard. Yes! It was a bad movie! Oh, i couldn't help myself from laughing. Anyone here seen any of the other various Bruce Lee ripoffs, or really poorly made kung-fu flicks???
I just bought "fist of fear,touch of death" at the dollar store. It's sopposed to be about a karate tournament to decide who Bruce's successor will be,plus a documentary of Bruce's life,which is all lies. I'm not going to explain it all here because my keyboards broke and I'm using a webtv remote to write this,which takes forever. This is the worst of the Bruceploitation films,but it will make most b-movie fans laugh their asses off. If you look it up at imdb.com and click on "video clips" it will give you a few links to sites where you can download it for free. It's so bad,it has to be seen to be belived!
Yeah, Bruce Lee only made five movies really worth seeing as the martial arts master he is so fondly remembered as which were Fists of Fury, The Chinese Connection, Return of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon, and Game of Death. Other then these films which are often named under different titles so you might want to check imdb for alternate titles to these films the majority of the rest of "his" films have very little of him in them, but are often redeemable only for their often unintentional comedic undertones.
Is the Bruce Lee the only actor to be exploted this much? Those bastards!
If there is one movie it is my life's goal to track down and see, it's the ultra-elusive "Bruce Lee vs. Ilsa in the Devil's Triangle."
Is the Bruce Lee the only actor to be exploted this much?
Marilyn Monroe?
I saw one where some doctor invented 3 bruce lees. "Clones of Bruce Lee". Yeah he was sort of like Tupac, people felt it was okay to completetly rip him off after he died.
I've read about one called "The Dragon Lives Again." The plot involves Bruce Lee going to hell and having sex with all the devil's brides. The devil sends an incredible cast of villains (James Bond, Clint Eastwood, The Exorcist, The Godfather, Emmanuelle, and others) to fight him. Oh, and Bruce becomes friends with Caine from "Kung-Fu" and, believe it or not, Popeye the Sailor.
Look, if you don't believe me, look this up in a search engine somewhere. It's a real movie.
I remember back when they were trying to turn Jackie Chan into Bruce Lee... it didn't work so well.
Daniel Johnson wrote:
"Yeah, Bruce Lee only made five movies really worth seeing as the martial arts master he is so fondly remembered as which were Fists of Fury, The Chinese Connection, Return of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon, and Game of Death."
Yes, and even GAME OF DEATH is a rip-off because a stand-in wearing sunglasses appears in place of Bruce Lee for most of the movie. Bruce had died, so they pieced together whatever footage they had of him and then filled in the parts they needed to end up with a complete movie (Ed Wood must have been impressed). So, there are actually only 4 1/2 real Bruce Lee movies.
Did'ya ever see his "New Fist of Fury." That was Jackie Chan's biggest Bruce Lee rip-off.
did anyone see that amc documentary on lee with the last eleven minutes o the game of death? oh man oh man!!! you havn't see a fight scene untill you see bruce lee fight karhem abdul jabar!! what an awsome scene that was!
jimmyd:
Yeah that was a great fight. The two other fights before that were really cool as well. A guy that used weapons and a guy that knew Judo.
just a techincal note but the second guy wasn't using judo he was using akido, just a simmiler but diferent perticular art thats all
Sorry, you're right. I remember he threw Bruce around a lot and I knew that he knew Akido but Judo came into my head first and I wasn't thinking.
I started to watch a similar one, but I just couldn't. It's too hard to watch Jackie when they didn't let him BE Jackie.
i only happend to know that it was akido scine i happen to be a student of th art.
by the way i happen to be looking for fantasy mission force, not a bruce lee flick but it has a small jackie chan rol. and may be the wierdest movie ever made ( it features "general' ab lincon getting abducted by japaness nazi's? in canada during world war II)
The guy who fought Bruce in Game Of Death on the 2nd (3rd?) floor with the Nunchucks was Dan Inosanto, one of Bruce's long-time students.
That was a great movie, loved the gigantic footprint left on Bruce's chest!
I have one of those "Kung Fu Mania" box sets that Wally World had for sale a few years ago ( it was a gift). Despite having images of bruce lee all over it, it contains not one legit Bruce Lee film. Most are Bruce Le films instead, there's also a documentary about the real Bruce, and a clip tape made up of promotional material (badly aged/damged film quality) for "Enter the Dragon" and clips of some of his other movies and fleshed out with trailers for other martial arts movies (including one of the Lone Wolf and Cub films). It seems to be similar to the box set Dr Freex describes in his recent review of "Young Bruce Lee", but my set has five films, not four, and doesn't have YBL. I've seen one of the other fake Bruce Lee films in the set on late night TV a few years ago (the local station couldn't afford many late night films and would rotate the same four or five films over and over - they eventually began to show the 1992 Peter Weller crap film "Sunset Grille" as many as six times every weekend whenever they had to fill two hours - but I digress). I haven't had the courage to watch the rest of the set yet.
Jimmyd, if you want odd Jackie Chan flicks try "Jackie Chan is The Prisoner/Island on Fire/The Burning Island". It's another film he made for/with Jimmy Wang Yu. It also stars Sammo Hung, Tony Leung, and Andy Lau; and manages to boldly ripoff whole scenes from "Papillion", "Cool Hand Luke" and even "The Wild Geese". And I do mean boldly, it would be hard to claim spoof or homage on some of these, although I did like their take on the "Lucille" scene from CHL (hot babe alert in that scene).
On the audio commentary for yet another movie with Jimmy Wang Yu I heard the the commentators point out that Jackie appears in Jimmy's movies since Wang Yu gave him one of his first big breaks, and feels he owes Jimmy a debt so he turns up in films like FMF to pay him back. The commentators also pointed out that most of Jackie worst or weakest movies were these ones he made to pay back Jimmy Wang Yu (who used to be a fairly big HK action star himself in the 60s and 70s).
hi bruce i always wanted to see u. idont know y they killed u but i know it was the amircans
hi bruce i always wanted to see u. idont know y they killed u but i know it was the amircansLuke wrote:
> As I wondered aimlessly through the video store, i thought to
> myself, "What a night for a B-movie!" So I searched, and
> searched.........and searched, and there it was, the movie I
> was looking for, 'Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave'. The
> title itself was enough to pull me in. So I watch
> it.......cheap Bruce Lee look-alike, poorly choreographed fight
> scenes, poorly timed sound effects, and a wrestling ring in the
> middle of a junkyard. Yes! It was a bad movie! Oh, i couldn't
> help myself from laughing. Anyone here seen any of the other
> various Bruce Lee ripoffs, or really poorly made kung-fu
> flicks???
>