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May 27, 2017, 10:22 PM
redstone
Easy,
Blood Sport . . . JVCD was the ultimate for me:
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May 27, 2017, 10:24 PM
Ronin1069
Perfect Weapon is one of my faves....here is my all time favorite!
With this being a close second....
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May 27, 2017, 11:21 PM
patw
Sho Kosugi got me interested in the martial arts. I enjoyed "Revenge of the Ninja".
May 28, 2017, 12:18 AM
Nickelsig229
Being 10 or 11 in the mid 80's I would watch USA network's kung-fu theater every Saturday. They would play 2 some times 3 kung fu movies in a row. I would sit in front of the tv with some pillows and kick the living shit out of them with my karate chops and side kicks.
I got punished weekly for breaking stuff on the tables and making to much noise. Once I did some kind of flying jump kick right into my sister who came walking through the door way. I don't know how she is still living because that was one of those deadly monkey paw tiger claw praying mantis kicks. Her heart was supposed to fall out of her mouth and blood poor from the pores in her skin according to the movies.
Even with all the punishment it never stopped me from being glued to the tv for kung fu theater.
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May 28, 2017, 12:30 AM
kkina
This unbelieveably cheesy B-flick was the reason I took up shotokan karate. Ultra-cool back then, I now find the fight scenes with the main star all but unwatchable (those with the real black-belted support characters like senseis Stan Schmidt and Norm Robinson are still good).
Pretty much all of the ninja movies: American Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, Enter the Ninja, etc. Even the TV series starring Lee Van Cleef...I think it was called The Master.
Perfect Weapon was a favorite of mine, too.
I liked the early Steven Seagal movies, like Above the Law, Hard to Kill, and Under Siege. I don't know if they'd be considered "goofy," though.
Of course, we can't leave out Big Trouble in Little China.
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May 28, 2017, 02:29 AM
LastCubScout
quote:
Originally posted by Ronin1069: With this [Kickboxer] being a close second...
I'll always have a soft spot for Kickboxer. My buddies and I in the late '80s traveled into the city to see a double feature of Kickboxer and Night of the Demons. We had a blast. I miss fun cheesy exploitation double features like that.
In the '90s, the UC Theater in Berkeley would have Hong Kong Thursdays where they would show a double feature of '70s to '90s HK films. I saw a ton of martial arts films there - a bunch of Jackie Chan, Jet Li, John Woo, etc. I could be in the foulest of moods and HK Thursdays would just blow the gloom away. I remember loving Sword of Many Lovers, Green Snake, Chinese Ghost Story, The Heroic Trio, and especially 1985's Yes Madam with Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock back when Cynthia Rothrock was doing cuh-RA-zy stuff and not her later boring straight-to-VHS martial art flicks.
I also had my celebrity crush on Brigitte Lin-Ching-Hsia, so I ate up all her martial arts movies, like Swordsman 2 & 3, The Bride with White Hair, and Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain. One of the most hilariously hokey ones was 1993's Black Panther Warriors. Loved that one!
May 28, 2017, 02:33 AM
Prefontaine
Nobody has mentioned Chuck yet? Wow.
I'd add The Karate Kid, cuz cheese.
Kill and Kill again I saw in the theater. I got busted by my mom. I wanted to see it bad (I was 7) so I had to pull some moves to see it. Bought a ticket for some kiddie bs out at the same time, and snuck in. It was awesome until I came out and she had been waiting, and was pissed, figuring out my stunt.
If it was a martial arts film in the 70's, 80's or 90's I've seen it. 80's I was big into martial arts. Ended up studying Tae Kwan Do for years, Kung Fu, and a few others but not long enough to master anything in them. Worked with a Bokken, nunchaku, kusarigama.
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May 28, 2017, 03:31 AM
BurtonRW
quote:
Originally posted by Prefontaine: Nobody has mentioned Chuck yet? Wow.
Because the OP is asking about "goofy" films, not cinematic masterpieces like Mr. Norris' films. Duh.
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May 28, 2017, 04:49 AM
Opus Dei
This is what happens when one takes themselves too seriously.
This..this is majestic.
May 28, 2017, 06:10 AM
XinTX
quote:
Originally posted by henryarnaud: Of course, we can't leave out Big Trouble in Little China.
First one I thought of. Johnny Shitcase did a review of that one (I can't seem to find it any longer) that is classic. Almost as good as his review of ZARDOZ.
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May 28, 2017, 08:34 AM
ruger357
It was a great time to be a teenager. Seagal, van damme, speakman, swartzenneggar...
