Bruce Lee Rip-offs Galore!

[Kory]

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.

[jimmyd]

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)

[Neon Noodle]

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!

[Yaddo42]

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).

[mazlum]

hi bruce i always wanted to see u. idont know y they killed u but i know it was the amircans

[mazlum]

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???
>