Bruce Lee Rip-offs Galore!

[Luke]

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???

[Cooper]

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!

[Daniel Johnson]

    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.

[daveblackeye15]

Is the Bruce Lee the only actor to be exploted this much? Those bastards!

[Brother Ragnarok]

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."

[Fearless Freep]

Is the Bruce Lee the only actor to be exploted this much?

Marilyn Monroe?

[lester]

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.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

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.

[Kory]

I remember back when they were trying to turn Jackie Chan into Bruce Lee... it didn't work so well.

[The Burgomaster]

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.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Did'ya ever see his "New Fist of Fury." That was Jackie Chan's biggest Bruce Lee rip-off.

[jimmyd]

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!

[daveblackeye15]

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.

[jimmyd]

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

[daveblackeye15]

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.