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2y4life
03-19-2007, 04:03 PM
I was going to do 10 but couldn't pick just 10 so I was going to do 20 but I cut it down to 15.

Here's my list and this is based off a life time of watching martial arts films. It's all based on overall stroyline, martial arts style, and the actual fight sequences. And yes, I own them all. My library does consist of over 80 vhs tapes and 60 dvds of martial arts movies alone. Here's the list:

-Druken Master (w/Jackie)

-Iron Monkey (Donnie Yen)

-Fist of Legend (Jet Li)

-Enter the Dragon (Bruce Lee)

-Big Boss (Bruce Lee)

-Ong Bak (much better than Tom Yum Goong as Ong Bak was more realistic).

-Hero (Jet Li)

-Once Upon a Time in China Series 1-3(Jet Li)

-Seven Samurai isn't really a martial arts flick but whatever. Awesome shit. (Kirosawa)

-Shaolin Temple (Jet Li's first)

-Fist of Fury/Chinese Connection (fuck that, any Bruce Lee film)

-Snake in the Monkey's Shadow (Hong-Yip Cheng, John Cheung)

-Shaolin Master/Master Killer (Gordon Lui)

-Five Deadly Venoms (Sheng Chiang, Phillip Kwok, Feng Lu)

-Best of the Best (Phillip Rhee) (This movie was very good and for the last scene alone, it was worth it. Single best martial arts sequence in any American-made/shot movie ever)

I decided to include one non-Asian film which was Best of the Best because it really does deserve to be on this list. All the rest are Chinese films with the exception of Seven Samurai. And no, I'm not Chinese or Japanese lol. Yeah, I left out CTHD but I'd keep it in top 20 though. There are a few other that deserve to be in top 20 but like I said, these are what I felt deserved to be in the top 15. If you haven't seen any of these films and like martial arts films, go do yourself a favor and watch them all. Yea, it's actually 17 films because of the trilogy of Once Upon a Time but whatever, it's my fuckin list:raiseeyeb

bunz
03-20-2007, 10:39 AM
What about "Drive", awesome fucking movie. Bodyguard from Beijing(Jet Li) and Shanghai Affairs(Donnie Yen) are also both really good.

The_Canadian
03-20-2007, 07:09 PM
it really I'm not Chinese or Japanese lol

I thought white people pretended to be black, not asian

2y4life
03-20-2007, 07:50 PM
I thought white people pretended to be black, not asian

Lol, just like how Canadians pretend to be Americans.:wave: .

navid
03-20-2007, 08:06 PM
the protector sucked ass.

SPIRIT FORGES
03-21-2007, 08:25 AM
I was going to do 10 but couldn't pick just 10 so I was going to do 20 but I cut it down to 15.

Here's my list and this is based off a life time of watching martial arts films. It's all based on overall stroyline, martial arts style, and the actual fight sequences. And yes, I own them all. My library does consist of over 80 vhs tapes and 60 dvds of martial arts movies alone. Here's the list:

-Druken Master (w/Jackie)

-Iron Monkey (Donnie Yen)

-Fist of Legend (Jet Li)

-Enter the Dragon (Bruce Lee)

-Big Boss (Bruce Lee)

-Ong Bak (much better than Tom Yum Goong as Ong Bak was more realistic).

-Hero (Jet Li)

-Once Upon a Time in China Series 1-3(Jet Li)

-Seven Samurai isn't really a martial arts flick but whatever. Awesome shit. (Kirosawa)

-Shaolin Temple (Jet Li's first)

-Fist of Fury/Chinese Connection (fuck that, any Bruce Lee film)

-Snake in the Monkey's Shadow (Hong-Yip Cheng, John Cheung)

-Shaolin Master/Master Killer (Gordon Lui)

-Five Deadly Venoms (Sheng Chiang, Phillip Kwok, Feng Lu)


dude!! this is a fucking awsome list (Snake in the Monkey's Shadow) (Druken Master) awsome!!!

One armed boxer 2, flying guillotine.
Shogun Assassin.

personal favorites

2y4life
03-21-2007, 01:19 PM
dude!! this is a fucking awsome list (Snake in the Monkey's Shadow) (Druken Master) awsome!!!

One armed boxer 2, flying guillotine.
Shogun Assassin.

personal favorites

Thank you!!! Finally someone with some martial arts knowledge. Anyhow, if I did my top 20, I would've included Master of the Flying Guillotine as well as CTHD but this was only my top 15. But yea, Master of the Flying Guillotine is another martial arts classic. I left one off the list.

Best of the Best (Phillip Rhee, Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones). That was the 15th movie on the list. I left it out and only have 14 movies. I'll fix it.

SYCink
03-21-2007, 07:35 PM
Lol, just like how Canadians pretend to be Americans.:wave: .

Why the hell would someone Canadian, want to pretend to be American.