Cyberdevil 2014-02-11 12:26:26

Yeah, the third should be coming this year, and a fourth is planned already. :)

Haha, I see! :D Yeah I should probably do so as well, should also start doing automatic backups since I do have external drives to use, occasional ones are (lack of) habit. Do you keep flash game saves stored as well?

I usually get distracted by the net, usually by NG, but if my 'office' computer was powerful enough to run the games I like to play I'd probably get distracted by that too. :) Another good thing with having a weaker computer for everyday tasks is it's cheaper, saves power.

And a one and a two and a ching chong potato? lol no, just learned a new meme though. I don't count to potato either btw, before you ask. :P Definitely worth watching, and you haven't even seen the fights yet! It's Tony Jaa's first and best so far. For a while it seemed like he might become the new Jackie Chane/Bruce Lee/etc but since then he's just been making sequels... and stayed at a Buddhist temple for a few years. Hoping for more movies with him. No comments on the other two?

Indeed. Heh, terribly unsupervised grammar then? :P I think I'm more on the lookout for typos now.

Cyberdevil 2014-02-11 14:25:53

Indeed, I started saving flash saves way too late, need to replay plenty of old games from the start if I want to get some of the final medals. Which reminds me, I haven't made a backup of the %APPDATA% folder in quite some time...

Haha, it's like cellphones, always being able to go online... it's a pretty distracting finesse.

lmao yeah it is a bit much... close combat! I assumed that's how it usually is with wrestling though? :P Maybe you'd like some of Donnie Yen's more traditional movies, like Ip Man, heard of that? As for Flash Point, there are actually two movies with the same name, one from 2005 and one from 2007, both with Donnie Yen as main character. They're both intense, the other one even more so: http://youtu.be/FO0fzgy0ys8?t=1m53s

Sure, the final clip was a compilation of scenes from Wheels on Meals, another oldskool Jackie Chan movie, it's similar to Dragons Forever in how both of his old buddies Sammu Hung and Yuen Biao are in it too, Sammo is the fat guy, Yuen the really athletic one. Definitely a lot of fun, most of Jackie's old movies are like that, light-hearted action/comedy mixed with some pretty lethal stunts. Speaking of stunts btw: http://youtu.be/IBc7Di-jBVY

Oh, the ??? was for eh... element of surprise?

Cyberdevil 2014-02-11 18:53:59

It did? Did it say that they don't cry? I must've missed that part.

Cyberdevil 2014-02-12 06:19:48

The save feature is available on more games than you'd think! It's become such a common inclusion that most don't even mention it. Virtually all newer flash games with upgrade systems have save features, or at least virtually all of those with medals...

I'd probably have been a big fan if wrestling ever aired on TV over here, bought a few King of Cage (or something like that) DVDs a few years back, watched some clips on YT... The Wrestler was a pretty good movie too, inspiring in the tragic kind of way - but back to topic: he's definitely worth keeping track of! Should I be posting in more fight links here or do you lack the time to watch an abundance of such stuff? :P Haha, awesome, thoughts? I wouldn't say it's much of a cinematical masterpiece, but plenty of action.

Light-hearted Jackie Chan action/comedies worth checking out: Wheels on meals, Dragons Forever, Armor of God 1 & 2, Winners & Sinners 1-6, Rush Hour 1-3 and oh... can't forget about City Hunter! Found a trailer I hadn't seen before: http://youtu.be/3zNSJA7_m80

Hmm, number 6... ah, the Who Am I drop! Yeah that's pretty intense. The fight before that as well, for a while they're lashing it out on the very edge of the building.

Haha

Cyberdevil 2014-02-12 15:24:00

Alright then! :) Here's a few more. Didn't get an answer if you'd seen IP Man, but if you haven't then that's a must-watch. Donnie Yen plays Bruce Lee's grandmaster, detailing his time during the war. Plenty of amazing fight scenes but I'm thinking I shouldn't spoil the best ones. :P

http://youtu.be/v1Cb2d0ZUVs

And here's an older fight from Tiger Cage 2, Donnie Yen VS Michael Woods, the latter a martial artist I'd have liked to see more of, but he only starred in a select few movies during the 80s and then disappeared from the face of the planet. He always ends up getting killed in bizarre ways, probably because he seems unbeatable:

http://youtu.be/M75k1xAOVuY

And here's introducing Jacky Wu, another great martial artist who (like Donnie Yen) practices Wushu, amongst many other arts. You might recognize him from the previous knife fight with Donnie Yen. Scene from the movie Fatal Contact:

http://youtu.be/bvN-exkecK4

Aaand now for some more light-hearted stuff, here's some Jackie Chan Fights...

Who Am I: http://youtu.be/AJ5oaBWYzPk
Legend of Drunken Master: http://youtu.be/WEt4B1poOfM
Gorgeous: http://youtu.be/EECJepgBEkk

The City Hunter movie is supposedly based on the manga/anime, though I haven't read/seen either. It is interesting! :D I just learned through the trailer btw that one of the actresses is Miss Japan of the year. In Wheels of Meals one of the actresses is Miss Spain. :) She also appears in the Armor of God movie.

Haha, true that. Sounds like you're on a roll! I've been watching through some old HK action movies lately, think I've seen all the major ones but there are still plenty of hidden gems, like the In The Line of Duty series with Michelle Yeoh/ Cynthia Kahn: http://youtu.be/xJ5npU96RgM

Just a compilation btw, no specific fight ^ worth watching. Actually none of them are really that good, but if you like HK action then... this is what it's all about. If you don't, a lot of these movies probably seem like B-movies. Supercop 3 and New Police Story are definitely worth watching as well btw, from the Police Story series (Jackie Chan again).

IMDB list? Jackie's? Well you can't find some of the older ones, he actually started out a child actor before he became stunt double for Bruce Lee... but there's probably at least 50-60 findable ones to go through. :)

Cyberdevil 2014-02-13 09:55:14

Yeah, it has its intense moments. :) Not always: http://youtu.be/xg9Y6TkGiSA

That movie you're thinking of sounds a lot like Ong-Bak! This is how it starts (skip to around 2 minutes, bad video quality but just to see if that's the one): http://dai.ly/xjy8qm

Same movie that chase scene I linked to earlier was from, and there's a bar fight before and after that... though it's really more like a fight club.

Yeah, Legend of Drunken Master AKA Drunken Master 2 is great! First one's good but the second is light years ahead. As for Gorgeous, it's mostly a love story, with just two major fights where Jackie faces off against the only foreign guy in his stunt team, he goes by the name of Bradley James Allen and has since then pursued his own career. The guy Jackie fought against in Drunken Master 2 was his bodyguard at the time, Ken Lo. Here's a couple of others:

Fearless (Jet Li): http://youtu.be/iVuou-H9M4w
The Protector (Tony Jaa): http://youtu.be/tAOFO2MKaPU
The Protector (one more!): http://youtu.be/7itOtepsW9U

Well let me know what you thought! Well In The Line of Duty is a stereotypical HK action movie, so you have been warned! :D I guess the story's a bit of a slice-of-life soap opera kind in Wheels on Meals, it's like that in the Winners and Sinners movies too, and partially so in Dragons Forever. You'll get a lot of that if you venture into the HK world, but glad you appreciated it regardless! Benny the Jet (final fight with Jackie) is the same as in Dragons Forever in case... wait maybe I mentioned that already. The candle kick is all real btw, no trick behind it.

Cyberdevil 2014-02-16 10:28:03

First time I watched that chase scene I just couldn't stop laughing. :) Made me stay away from American comedy completely for a while, I've had some intense sessions of laughing hysteria with some foreign movies after that, before I got used to their style of humor. iP man, man! Ideas of a computer-technician fighting his way out of.... some crazy scenario pops into mind...

Even Jackie's acting? He doesn't ever really get serious admittedly (if you think he can't, some of his more recent movies disprove that theory) but when it comes to comedy I'd say it's a natural act. :) Glad you do! I'll probably soon start running out of it, but if you have any questions on the HK martial arts universe to which obvious answers aren't easy to find, don't hesitate to ask. :P

Fearless was a bit of a more mainstream movie than all the others mentioned, Jet Li really made a career (well I guess Jackie did too - eventually) overseas. Maybe you've seen movies like Danny The Dog, Cradle 2 The Grave, The One and Romeo Must Die? And did I mention he appeared in the Expendables too? A few Jet Li fights/movies worth watching:

Fist of Legend (a new take on the Bruce lee classic): http://youtu.be/kn13ts-rWiw
Shaoilin Temple (traditional style): http://youtu.be/fTIm8b9Rft8
Black Mask (grittier HK action): http://youtu.be/rP8rEbkWZbE

Yeah, The Protector's great! The sequel came out at the end of the last year too, another one worth watching though IMO the special effects they've started adding really decrease quality. That one also features the 'female Tony Jaa' JeeJa Yanin, here's a scene of her solo movie Chocolate (also known as Zen): http://youtu.be/Gcz3EM30U6U

Cyberdevil 2014-02-16 12:41:50

lol, would make for an interesting paradog though!

That's the/an alternative title yeah. :) The One is a favorite, features Statham too - who I'm a big fan of even though he aint Asian or anything! Might've been Expendables 2, I'm not sure who appeared in which one... but JCVD's in the second! He plays a killer villain. Haha, I get those memory leaks too.

Yeah I get what you're saying, with all the movies he's done in English the dialog is somehow a bit plain, for him personally it's not his main lingual commodity so that shouldn't be so strange.. but for the other actors... maybe he's the one writing the scripts btw. Or who knows... that's the reason I haven't recommended Mr. Nice Guy btw, dialog (and maybe acting) is terrible in that one! But the fights are pretty cool. Hmm, can't remember the Africa ending. Was that were it all started? yeah that Who Am I!!!!!!!! part was a bit cheesy.

More? Sure thing!! If you mean with JeeJa yanin, there's:

Chocolate again: http://youtu.be/v1hy6efhp4I
Chocolate once more: http://youtu.be/FrVvRkDxBaM
Raging Phoenix: http://youtu.be/2xaTcRP7rbU

( Chocolate is really the only really good movie she's in, all others I've seen were so-so )

And as for others, here's the initial fight from The Protector: http://youtu.be/25V_ZgIM5nQ

Aaand another great thai movie, Born to Fight: http://youtu.be/KFLeS5pa1TA

Note the above is a compilation of most if not all the main fights, so might have some spoilers!

Hmm, can't say that one rings a bell. I don't know any movie that ends with a chainsaw. :/

Cyberdevil 2014-02-17 10:09:06

Oh yeah, it all comes back to me now! Everything but that random promise hmm... might be time to re-watch this classic! :D Only thing I've probably seen a bit too many times is that rooftop fight... I watched his My Stunts documentary btw, and they had a large segment on this fight. During that kick scene Allen Bradley Junior actually acts a stunt double, since the Hollander (oh hey! maybe you know him?) who I don't recall the name of - had some trouble keeping up with the pace. There's a lot of work that goes into the flow of the fight, to make it seem genuine; like there is no time to stop or rest or evade attacks. Jackie Chan & co also hit each other for real, in difference from a lot of others, but they use tricks like flour and special shoes made of rubber to dampen the blows a bit/make it seem more intense. Oh, and during the filming of this movie BMW sponsored two cars, and they really used both of those as much as possible, filming from all angles; really capturing the mayhem. Not as big a budget as Hollywood flicks!

Haha, they're not win glasses! Never heard of cupping? It's a therapy used to increase blood circulation, where you heat up glass to create vacuums. Well maybe I wouldn't know either if my sister wasn't working with such stuff....

Agreed, first time I watched them I was impressed but looking back I'm kinda disappointed, her attacks don't really seem to have any power. Never noticed she doesn't use her fists though, I think she does during some fights... well Chocolate might be work a watch anyway, but the rest of them... nah. Yeah Born to Fight is a favorite. The main actor there, can't recall the name, has been in pretty much all the same movies as Tony Jaa has, with minor roles. I hope he makes some more solo performances! Hah, it's like the opposite of 300! No excess muscle, no green screen, no cgi, no wires, just straight-up action!

Cyberdevil 2014-02-18 18:12:26

Ah, that's the guy. Looks like he's been in quite a few action flicks I haven't seen yet... and a few I have seen that I can't recall seeing him in! Indeed. Only Swedish martial artist (in the movie biz) I know of is this guy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1940624/

And he's Asian. :/ Still in some pretty good movies though. Btw, Scott Adkins is another persona to keep track of, the recent 'Ninja: Shadow of a Tear' movie was great. Back in the day all the American Ninja/Samurai movies were a bit of a joke... buuuut times are changing. :)

Not sure if ALL the punches are real - if it looks like it hits then it probably does, but the kicks are much easier to dampen. Yeah, it applies to his older movies too (probably not the new Hollywood ones), it's a trademark of his that the action's usually as real as it looks (though they do use mattresses for falls, wires to pull the legs out from under people, partially saw furniture in pieces so it breaks easy, place coins under glass sheets so they break (the use plenty of real glass btw) etc - plenty of low-budget tricks).

Haha, getting kicked into a wall is probably painful even without the cupping. :) Well it feels better than it looks, might leave bruise-looking marks because the blood's drawn to the surface, but circulation definitely improves. lol, it's like the biological form of cupping. :P

Muai Thai has a lot of focus on elbows and knees, so... yeah, plenty of elbows. :) 300 was pretty cool btw, in case that comment below seemed to say something different. :P But seeing fights and stunts you know are authentic... there's something special about that!

Cyberdevil 2014-02-21 19:42:15 (Updated 2014-02-22 03:36:38)

So it's reached that point has it. :) I should be spending time on other tasks too, but do let me know if you watch some of these. I just saw Hitman (1998) yesterday, another great flick with Jet Li. Not much traditional fighting but plenty of action - and an intriguing plot.

In them Hollywood blockbusters its all fake, but there are still plenty of more low-budget movies being made where it's half-real. In places like Thailand and HK they're still working as they used to... on a lower budget, unintentionally hurting people every once in a while. :) Tony Jaa's first movies were made in the 2000s btw, and they're as real as they get.

Yeah, Jackie's only... 60 years old! Danny Trejos a decade older. :) Jackie looks older though, IMHO, probably all them injuries over the years taking their toll. I hope they both live long and make many more sequels though! Feels like a lot of great martial artists are growing old, and there aren't enough replacements... yet. :/