Best Kung Fu Fighting Squences

[thehack904]

All right I ask all the Radites out there, tallying up all the fight sequences within a Kung Fu movie and then thinking about the movie as a whole. What Kung Fu movie has the best fight sequence, most creative fight or fighting style, and overall best Kung Fu movie due to all the fight sequences added up.

Best Fight Sequence - Entire roof top fight in "Who am I?" (Jackie Chan)
Most Creative Fight or Fighting Style - Legend of the Drunken Master (Jackie Chan)
Best Overall Kung Fu Movie - Master of the Flying Guillotine (Jimmy Wang Yu)

Honorable Mention - Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (Hilarious and Extremely original)

[illu45]

Hm... How about best Kung Fu Fight Involving weapons? I nominate the restaurant/storm fight scene in Fearless (Jet Li).

[evilbaby]

"Who am I" is a kung-fu movie? I'm going to assume that means this is open to any movie with martial arts in it.

Best Fighting Sequence - Chritian Bale vs Angus Macfadyen in the final scene of "Equilibrium".

Most Creative Fighting Style - Jet Li in "Kiss of the Dragon". Dude had like Fist of the North Star going on in that movie. And killed people with Accupuncture....so I'm never getting accupuncture because I'm afraid my head will explode.

Most Creative Fight - Married Masters vs The Beast in "Kung Fu Hustle"

Best overall "Kung Fu" movie - Enter the Dragon. Hail to the King baby.

[heyseuss]

All right I ask all the Radites out there, tallying up all the fight sequences within a Kung Fu movie and then thinking about the movie as a whole. What Kung Fu movie has the best fight sequence, most creative fight or fighting style, and overall best Kung Fu movie due to all the fight sequences added up.

Best Fight Sequence - Entire roof top fight in "Who am I?" (Jackie Chan)
Most Creative Fight or Fighting Style - Legend of the Drunken Master (Jackie Chan)
Best Overall Kung Fu Movie - Master of the Flying Guillotine (Jimmy Wang Yu)


Hell no best overall being Flying Guillotine. Good flick, but I could think of 30+ titles better.

[boink]

I'm going to go with Jet Li in Fist of Legend. (this is a remake of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury, also absolutely amazing)

Fist of Legend: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110200/
Fist of Fury: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068767/

[darthender]

Oh man, Fist of Legend was EPIC.

[njshadow]

The awesome scenes basically go like this.

Kung-Fu Hustle - The entire movie, awesome.

Oldboy - May not be considered Kung-Fu but the hammer scene is incredible.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Pretty much the whole movie.

The Protector (Ong Baak) - Great, great, great.

[thehack904]

Hell no best overall being Flying Guillotine. Good flick, but I could think of 30+ titles better.

What are the 30 other titles?

[heyseuss]

What are the 30 other titles?

Keep checking this thread, they'll be here.

In the meantime try Tai Chi Master, Tai Chi II, Legend Of Red Dragon, The Prodigal Son, Iron Monkey, Chinese Ghost Story(s), most Chan and Li. I'm not saying it's a bad film, it's just not as good as most others. The kung fu is fine, kinda dated, it's corny and hokey and not shot very well, special affects are what they are... it's more leaning towards schlockfu for me, than good kungfu flick.

I also wouldn't give best sequence to Who Am I, it was kind of standard Chan fare for what he was doing at that time, although that was a good fight.

And NJShadow, CTHD is too much wirefu. I also think Hero is better, an Flying Daggers for that matter.

[njshadow]

Oh yeah, I should have mentioned that if anyone hasn't seen Kung-Fu Hustle then you HAVE to see it! Don't even type anymore, go out NOW and check it out! :cool:

[boink]

Versus
Enter the Dragon
Fearless
Hero
Once upon a time in China (one and two)
Project A

[bruce-leroy]

Noobs:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jlF6g9rCRhA

[tsmith15]

I am not a fan of the kung fu movies (with some exceptions).

However, I love all Jackie Chan, and I like most of Jet Li's American work, as well as the Once Upon a Time in China series.

I am also a huge fan of Tony Jaa, although I felt his second film (The Protector) was too "Hollywood"; Ong Bak however was fucking amazing.

In terms of Martial Arts, and not Kung Fu, I like some newer movies like Never Back Down or Redbelt, and I am a HUGE fan of Parkour.

[heyseuss]

I am not a fan of the kung fu movies (with some exceptions).

However, I love all Jackie Chan, and I like most of Jet Li's American work, as well as the Once Upon a Time in China series.

I am also a huge fan of Tony Jaa, although I felt his second film (The Protector) was too "Hollywood"; Ong Bak however was fucking amazing.

In terms of Martial Arts, and not Kung Fu, I like some newer movies like Never Back Down or Redbelt, and I am a HUGE fan of Parkour.

Wait a sec, you thought Protector was too Hollywood yet you liked Never Back Down ?

Hope you've seen Banlieu 13 (B-13). Martial arts and parkour.

[trunolimit]

Hope you've seen Banlieu 13 (B-13). Martial arts and parkour.

i was just about to say district B-13 has some kick ass fighting in it. I love how acrobatic that dude is with his moves. the part where he is in the cage is my favorite.

And what is up with this protector movie. is it about that elephant? i attempted to watch it but i couldn't finish it because of how wak it was. yet everyone talks about it. maybe i should have a second look. are there multiple versions of this movie or something?

[tsmith15]

Wait a sec, you thought Protector was too Hollywood yet you liked Never Back Down ?

Hope you've seen Banlieu 13 (B-13). Martial arts and parkour.

Well each movie carried with them a completely different set of expectations. I was expecting The Protector to be as gritty as Ong Bak and instead had a scene where 40 people got at least one of their bones broken, while scoring at most 10 mild hits on the protagonist. The one great thing about that movie was the super long take of him running up the ramp dispatching dozens of thugs.

On the flip side, Never Back Down was obviously a paint-by-numbers teenage triumph movie with exciting fights in between childish verbal abuse and not-so-subtle "character development".

I bought Banlieue 13 after seeing it and having my mind blown in theatres. Fucking amazing. The bald guy from that movie was also in Live Free or Die Hard, but they didn't use him enough.

[heyseuss]

i was just about to say district B-13 has some kick ass fighting in it. I love how acrobatic that dude is with his moves. the part where he is in the cage is my favorite.


Cage??? I've seen that movie about 4 times and no cage scene is really coming to mind. And which dude? Bald dude is Cyril whateverhislastnameis, hardcore martial artists and stunt guy, first real time in front of the camera, and black haired guy is David Belle who invented Parkour.

And what is up with this protector movie. is it about that elephant? i attempted to watch it but i couldn't finish it because of how wak it was. yet everyone talks about it. maybe i should have a second look. are there multiple versions of this movie or something?

Yes, it's the one that's about the elephant. When watching martial arts movies though, you can't expect tooo much acting, or writing. Ya take what you get, in order to get some nice kickassness.

It's famous for 2 major scenes, this 2 part ridiculousnessfest -

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and this famous (supposedly record breaking 4 minute 1 take shot/scene)

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[tsmith15]

I forgot about that capoeira fight scene, so it does have a few good scenes. However, it's story was much weaker than Ong Bak's story, which I actually got invested in.

[absolutemayhem]

I'm a Jet Li and Jackie Chan fan, both obviously had great fights. But I found this searching youtube:

-MayheM

[absolutemayhem]

Sorry for the double post!

-MayheM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1cHynIXweE

[heyseuss]

Sorry for the double post!

-MayheM


Great find there Mayhem!!! I've seen every one of those films multiple times. #5 was filmed in my then hometown of Brisbane Australia and was shot in what was originally our cities Museum of Natural History. As a schoolchild I took tours through that place and been in that room he's in many times. Jackies ppl got it right after the museum was moved out into a modern building, but before they renovated or tore it down. I was working as a photographer for the casting agency that provided extras and stuff for First Strike, and I got all my friends in the Chinatwon scene.

I've honestly always thought that the end of Legend Of Drunken Mater is the most violent Jackie fight scene I've ever seen. I might go watch my VHS copy of that flick tonight.

Wheels on Meals has alot of badass scenes like that one.

BTW, in case y'all didn't know, Benny 'The Jet' Urquidez was the guy John Cusack fought in Grosse Point Blank and has been Cusacks kickboxing instructor for about 20 years. Remember him kickboxing in Say Anything? "It's going to be the sport of the futrue sir".

There's a dvd on netflix of an old 80's kickboxing match between Don The Dragon Wilson and Benny.... can't remember what it's called though.

[trunolimit]

drunken monkey was awesome.

when you said B-13 i thought you meant District B-13

this is the cage scene i was talking about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2IR_xwHzeo

that knee he gives that guy is amazing. the whole movie he's just so energetic and acrobatic. And it's actually a good movie, a bit of a cheese fest, but good.

apparently the whole thing is on youtube so if anyones interested watch it i'd like to see what the forum thinks.

[scootman]

if you haven't, watch Dragon Tiger Gate. great fights in there too. love Tony Jaa. if you can, see the trailer for Ong Bak 2.

[scootman]

oh, and Police Story with Jackie Chan. love the last fight scene

[neumann]

Heyseuss has some good taste in martial arts flicks.

Personally, I don't mind wire-fu. It actually makes a good warm-up for a kung-fu marathon, especially if you can't get in the mood, though I do love the down-and-dirty done-for-real fights as much, if not more. It really all just comes down to mood though, cause when you see a fight that's energetic enough and involving enough, in your mind that's YOU doing it. Sometimes you want to be light as air. Other times you want to just beat shit to a pulp.

And yes, I have a soft spot for Jackie Chan's stuff because of how well he uses his surroundings, the fight scenes are inventive.

Anyone here ever see a DVD called "Everyone Is Kung Fu Fighting?" There's two killer shorts on there, a comedic short "Crouching Waiter Hidden Chef" and the hard-edged "Prison Warz." Showed them to a friend of mine who loves kung-fu flicks (Ong Bak is constantly on a loop at his place) and he flipped out over them.

Chris

[darksyns]

I'm not a huge kung fu buff but I do love Ong Bak and Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. This scene is probably my favorite.

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[absolutemayhem]

I'm not a huge kung fu buff but I do love Ong Bak and Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. This scene is probably my favorite.


BADASS! You don't see the I.N.O.D (Intestinal Noose of Death) hold very often these days! Epic!

-MayheM

[proof]

Cage??? I've seen that movie about 4 times and no cage scene is really coming to mind. And which dude? Bald dude is Cyril whateverhislastnameis, hardcore martial artists and stunt guy, first real time in front of the camera, and black haired guy is David Belle who invented Parkour.



Yes, it's the one that's about the elephant. When watching martial arts movies though, you can't expect tooo much acting, or writing. Ya take what you get, in order to get some nice kickassness.

It's famous for 2 major scenes, this 2 part ridiculousnessfest -

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That first one is my favorite part in any martial art movie. It like the Kill Bill scene with the Crazy 88s, but no weapon and pure badass.

My Favs are:
MotFG
One armed boxer
5 Dealy Venoms
36th Chamber
Fist of Legend (Would get my vote for Best Film)
Way of the Dragon
Fearless
Drunken Master films
and of course Kung Fu Hustle

And Ong-Bak 2 looks f'in amazing.

EDIT: Don't know how I forgot abut IRON MONKEY, love it

[stubadub]

Drunken Master II is my sentimental favorite. I haven't seen it in a decade or so, so I'm not sure if it holds up. At the time we watched that final fight sequence pretty much daily.

I'm also a pretty big fan of Fist of Legend. That along with Once Upon a Time in China set me off onto Jet Li fanboyism.

[neumann]

Jet Li's awesome. Did you ever see this flick called "Last Hero in China?" I think that's the title of it, it's been a while, but it's a Wong Fei-Hung comedy with Li that basically ends with a bizarre "chicken versus earthworm" style fight.

Chris

[heyseuss]

drunken monkey was awesome.

when you said B-13 i thought you meant District B-13

this is the cage scene i was talking about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2IR_xwHzeo

that knee he gives that guy is amazing. the whole movie he's just so energetic and acrobatic. And it's actually a good movie, a bit of a cheese fest, but good.

apparently the whole thing is on youtube so if anyones interested watch it i'd like to see what the forum thinks.

Ahhh, jailcell=cage. District 13 and Banlieue 13 are the same movie.

[heyseuss]

Jet Li's awesome. Did you ever see this flick called "Last Hero in China?" I think that's the title of it, it's been a while, but it's a Wong Fei-Hung comedy with Li that basically ends with a bizarre "chicken versus earthworm" style fight.

Chris

Dude, I just f'n watched that 3 days ago. I thought that was Gordon Lui in the floaty red flower thing that lost to the Fe iHung's assistants Ah So and Ah Fu, in the doulbe maneuver, "tiger claw ans flying crane". If that was Gordon Lui, they wasted him. That was actually pretty funny, because the buck teeth guy that does 'flying crane' was saying, "oh please no, can we stop now", when the other one was yelling out " tiger claw and flying crane", because every other time they'd done it it didn't work.

Yes.... the chicken vs centipede fight *sigh*. THe whole idea that they fight during the lion dance is cool and I"ve seen it in many movies, but, this one was just weird.


That movie was pretty crap overall, some great stuff, a couple good fight scenes, but alot of 'too damn weird' stuff.

[trunolimit]

I'm not a huge kung fu buff but I do love Ong Bak and Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. This scene is probably my favorite.

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duuuuuuude that is the craziest thing i have ever seen.

[neumann]

Wow, Heyseuss and I found common ground. Awesome.

The weirdness of the flick was a big draw for me because it was one of the first non-mainstream kung fu flicks I was exposed to (to be soon followed by High Risk, the Once Upon a Time In China series, all that sweet stuff). Actually, I think I saw "The Duel" with Andy Lau before that and probably "Bodyguard from Beijing" as well.

Like I said, I think I got the cast wrong because it's just been so long.

Chris

[heyseuss]

Wow, Heyseuss and I found common ground. Awesome.

The weirdness of the flick was a big draw for me because it was one of the first non-mainstream kung fu flicks I was exposed to (to be soon followed by High Risk, the Once Upon a Time In China series, all that sweet stuff). Actually, I think I saw "The Duel" with Andy Lau before that and probably "Bodyguard from Beijing" as well.

Like I said, I think I got the cast wrong because it's just been so long.

Chris

The Last Hero In China was that director trying to make Once Upon A Time.

It was actually a pretty funny series of scenes of them discovering Po Chi Lam school had opened up next door to a brothel. And the pimps name was Maas Tar Wong, that was funny when ppl asked for Master Wong.

Remember the whole deaf poison for the kids and women and Jet Li took some of it to try and figure out how to make antidote,? well wtf was the point of that whole storyline, there was no need to have the whole deaf thing in it, it meant nothing at all, I was so confused. However, I was standing and cheering when the drunken boxing started, becasue there was no way, throughout the movie, to know that there was gonna be any drunken boxing in this movie.

Check out Kill Zone, modern kungfu flick with an ok story and great fighting. Donnie Yen vs (bad guy for once) Sammo Hung. Speaking of drunken boxing, Donnie Yen and Wong Fei Hung, he is Wong Fei Hung in Fist Of The Red Dragon and goes quite badass in the end when he gets drunk, more like druken kicking.

Wow, speaking of drunken boxing, I just found a film called Drunken Tai Chi


Never heard of High Risk but have heard of The Duel but just haven't checked it out yet. Bodyguard from Beijing is very average, one good scene maybe.

[neumann]

High Risk/Meltdown was this crazy low-budget rip-off/parody of "Die Hard" and a couple other American action movies with Jet Li as this ex-bomb squad cop who winds up being stuntman for a spoiled action star (Jackie Cheung playing an asshole version of Jackie Chan) who wind up in the terrorist-controlled building. I tell you, it made a lot more sense AFTER I had seen Die Hard for the first time (which was about a year ago, maybe). Corey Yuen did the fight work, and the film was also apparently the reason Jet Li and Jackie Chan didn't work together for years.

Oh, there was also this flick called "Contract Killer" (AGAIN with Li, I think) which made me laugh because once the main character becomes a hitman, all of a sudden there was this Pretty Woman scene where they were shopping for fine clothes and so on. I love weird moments like that.

Chris

[heyseuss]

High Risk/Meltdown was this crazy low-budget rip-off/parody of "Die Hard" and a couple other American action movies with Jet Li as this ex-bomb squad cop who winds up being stuntman for a spoiled action star (Jackie Cheung playing an asshole version of Jackie Chan) who wind up in the terrorist-controlled building. I tell you, it made a lot more sense AFTER I had seen Die Hard for the first time (which was about a year ago, maybe). Corey Yuen did the fight work, and the film was also apparently the reason Jet Li and Jackie Chan didn't work together for years.

Oh ok, I know it now, I avoided it on purpose.

Oh, there was also this flick called "Contract Killer" (AGAIN with Li, I think) which made me laugh because once the main character becomes a hitman, all of a sudden there was this Pretty Woman scene where they were shopping for fine clothes and so on. I love weird moments like that.

I remember that one. He was part of an organisation of conract killers, and they had meetings like unions and a boss handing out contracts. Then he fell for the girl who had a contract out on her and he had to defend her against his fellow, contract killers. Forgettable though.

[thehack904]

I have to say I am disappointed Dan didn't weigh in on this debate. I figure he would.

[neumann]

I have to say I am disappointed Dan didn't weigh in on this debate. I figure he would.

I think he'd want a few more pages so he can lay down an epic "THAT being said..."

Chris

[dannyt]

I feel like I already named my picks in a different threa a while ago.

But I DO remember laughing my ASS off at High Risk when the dude is pee'ing in a urinal and then the huge bad guy starts to pee next to him and his pee sounds WAY louder than the smaller guy....

...I was in high school...

[heyseuss]

I feel like I already named my picks in a different threa a while ago.

But I DO remember laughing my ASS off at High Risk when the dude is pee'ing in a urinal and then the huge bad guy starts to pee next to him and his pee sounds WAY louder than the smaller guy....

...I was in high school...

I just discovered a hilarious throw-away joke in Legend Of Drunken Master. In the scene whre Chans buddy challenges him to an exhibition fight in the middle of the market. The guy jumps his table and walks over to where Chan is talking to the snake girl about drunken boxing, there's people everywhere doing stuff. As he's making his way to Chan and the girl, he's pushing people and saying "out of my way", one person he pushes seems to be leaning over a huge bucket of water, washing something, and as he walks by, the camera stays on his back, but after the gentle shove, the person near the bucket drops off the side of the frame and theres a loud splash noise ans some water thown into frame from off camera. Seen the movie 10 times, and never noticed that before.