The One And Only Martial Arts Thread!

[Guest Lethargic]

If anything RE-opened the doors in the 90's for martial arts to be back in the U.S. mainstream it was the Matrix, not Rumble in the Bronx. Rumble in the Bronx had about the same amount of impact as a fart in a hurricane. Jackie Chan didn't become a mainstream star over here until Rush Hour, before that he was just a novelty act with a small cult following. Sure, Bronx was a slightly surprising hit, but after that, none of his solo movies did a thing until he made Rush Hour. Even after Rush Hour, if he's not being paired in some buddy comedy like Rush Hour or Shangahi Noon his movies don't do a thing.

[Guest PORNFAQ]

no no no...I will at least agree that Rumble in the Bronx re-invigorated Jackie's career and introduced him to most fans in the US. It was Rumble that made it possible for him to do a movie like Rush Hour in the first place.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Lathargic, quit talking out your ass. Both RitB and Supercop were modest hits. Operation Condor made back the feeble cost to release it and most of the HK films did well in the US. Rush Hour simply let the average film watcher in on the secret it was unsuprisingly a box-office smash.

[Guest Lethargic]

The only person talking out of their ass is you, you know, the person that is ignoring 20 years of martial arts movies and saying that it began with Rumble in the Bronx. I never said Bronx wasn't a modest hit. It did pretty good. I just don't know if it did as well as they hoped seeing as it came with months and months of pre- release publicity on every friggin show on television. But after that movie every single one of his movies dropped and dropped and got less and less popular up until Rush Hour. You claim that this movie brought kung fu into the mainstream, what were those movies? I didn't see ANY kung fu movies come out after Bronx besides those 4 or 5 Jackie movies that usually made less money than Juwanna Mann before their releases just started going direct to video. I wouldn't call movies that make around 12 million dollars "mainstream", that's a loyal cult following. You know why there weren't a bunch of mainstream kung fu movies released after Bronx's success? Because kung fu had nothing to do with it. The non-Jackie fans that went to see it, didn't go for fights, they did it to see him jump across alley ways and do the stunts. Because that's what the movie was sold as. For months leading up to it he was going on all those TV shows and showing clips of him falling down and getting hurt. The movie was marketed as a 90 minute episode of Jackass. It wasn't until the Matrix brought the wire style into it that martial arts really came back into mainstream movies. Now every single action movie has some sort of kung fu/wire fight scene in it. I'm not saying Jackie Chan didn't have a part in it, he did. But it wasn't just HIM and it sure as hell wasn't Rumble in the Bronx. Of course, I guess saying all this to somebody who thinks Bruce Lee was only popular here because he died and that there wasn't any mainstream martial arts movies in the U.S. between 1973 and 1995 is rather pointless. Comical though, very comical.

[Guest the saiyan prince]

i like dragon the bruce lee story crouching tiger hidden dragon also rumble in the bronx

[Guest DVD Spree]

DRAGON?!?!?

 

Don't even start me on that piece of shit. There isn't ONE true scene in that entire fucking "film".

[Guest Karnage]

DRAGON?!?!?

 

Don't even start me on that piece of shit. There isn't ONE true scene in that entire fucking "film".

I heard there were a lot of inaccuracies in that movie.

[Guest DVD Spree]

That would be an understatement.

 

That film is a tragic, tragic piece of crap that does nothing but tarnish Bruce Lee's truly awe-inspiring legacy. It's just amazing - the guy had a pretty fascinating life, so why the hell did they need to make up all this shit? It's not like he didn't have enough real life challenges or fights, but hey, I guess I'm just the dumb internet guy and not a Hollywood honcho snorting coke and making movies.

 

The irony is that Game of Death '78, in all it's mutilated glory, is a far more accurate representation of Lee's life, since they at least used the real funeral footage, so there's at least one true scene in there. Bruce and Brandon are gonna take care of some serious shit when these assholes make it upstairs.

[Guest Karnage]

Anyone ever saw a movie called "Kung Fu: The Punch Of Death"?

I think its a Fong Sai Yuk movie and I saw it for 6 bucks by itself or 20 bucks in this 10 pack and want to know if its worth picking up.