Hooray for Kung Fu!

[Gerry]

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."

[Andrew]

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!

[Dr. Freex]

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.

[Gerry]

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?

[Andrew]

> 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

[Dr. Freex]

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.

[Scott]

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.