Anyone seen Dragon Tiger Gate,

or Shinobi Heart Under Blade, or The Protector, or Meltdown? All these are good movies. Protector of elephants!

 

nope. srry.

 

I saw the proctector. It was pretty good movie. I like the Muai Thai fighting style he uses.

 

Yeah, me too. Although his normal kicks and punches were a bit odd looking he could do some amazingly clean jump kicks and arm locks. I wish I could be that skilled. Yeah, I'm a martial arts nerd I actually look for technique. Although capoeira is basically useless in a fight like wushu I loved that bit. It just looked freakin' cool. The cool thing was he could do alot of stunts. Brings me back to long nights up watching Dragons Forever. Good times.

 

Yeah, pretty much any fighting style that requires too many flip to do a basic thing is pretty useless. His kicks and puches did seem a little off to me but that is the marital arts side talking. But at least then didn't over do the over exgarrated kicks and punches that in a normal fight you could take advantage of, but for a martial arts movie I was pleased with most of the fight scenes.

 

Same. It had it's martial arts movie feel, but the fights weren't totally outrageous. He looked like if the enemy did those things it could work. But, that;s just me. I'm all for wire-fu but sometimes it's nice to go back to the basic semi-realistic stuff.

 

Wire-fu is more a visual martial arts type movie. More story driven and more fluid type of fighting and well more like dance fighting. It is nice though every now and then to see a "traditinal" martial arts movie. Even if the story wasn't the greatest in the world.

 

Meltdown, Shinobi, Dragon Tiger Gate. All generally wire-fu types.

Meltdown was a good Jet Li movie. The sequences were more in between wire and kung-fu. My favorite part was the Bruce Lee impersonators fight.

Shinobi Heart Under Blade was more like Shaolin Soccer than anything else. It was heavy on special effects but I likes the action and story line.

Dragon Tiger Gate was all wire-fu. But the dude could kick. It was fun to watch even though it wasn't technical at all. Compare it to Kung-Fu Hustle.

Yeah, I love my movies. If you like this type of stuff you should take a look.

 

Well being a general movie fantic I do my best to see all types of martial arts movies and other genres.

I bought a Brue Lee imersonator film a couple of days ago for laughs....well my mejor amigo and I got our laughs. It was too bad to even describe.

 

Know what was too bad to describe? Hero dubbed. Seriously, I watched it on TV and it made even the most serious scenes seem ridiculous. BTWI think Ang Lee said something along these lines about Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Kung-Fu movies are more like musicals now. But instead of singing and dancing when you feel something, you kick ***.

 

That is why I like watching Kung-fu movies in there native language. It adds more to what it going on and I don't have to worry about if they truly got the translation correct. I can sit back and enjoy the film. Granted I don't know what they are saying but that is how I like my kung-fu movies subbed.

 

Yeah. I can understand minimal japanese and cantonese. But, not enough to get by or even close to that. But like you said it keeps a lot of the intent in when it's watched in it's original language.

 

Yeah the only asian movies I can understand in their native language without subtitles is Korean.