Ya do what you gotta do.
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Things I gotta do in order of priority
Train kung fu
watch kung fu/ Samurai movies
talk about kung fu
eat
sleep
work
clean the house
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Master Killer - wow.I'm in love.....:o
Guess this is a sore point for me because I don't really have a favorite martial arts movie because they all seem so unrealistic in the fighting techniques used.
So that being said, I'd have to say my favorite martial arts movie (it's a war movie so not really martial arts at all) is Saving Private Ryan because it had the most realistic fighting scenes I think have ever been filmed.
I think it's just a case of not thinking about the reality and enjoying the action. There's a certain amount of that in all films- ie historical re-enactments they will never be entirely accurate. Wonder if historians feel the same ?
Yeah, they take a lot of license with history, stories, a lot of things in movies.
I really try to ignore the action in martial arts movies because it just ruins it ... the one I disliked the most was 'The One', though, because Jet Li's bagua and xingyi are both just abysmal.
I really think that if you saw a movie like Fist of Legend or Shaolin vs. Lama you would get more of a sense of fighting on screen. If you watch a movie like Ninja in the Dragon's Den, you will see they try to keep the fight going for as logn as possible. When they can do that and still make it look somewhat realistic, it makes it all the more fun.
You should check out like zatoichi movies I guess. The fights in those movies are really short.
Having just finished Masterkiller , there is no way I could ever stop watching kung fu movies. I think it's possible to watch the films and disassociate them from "real life" kung fu, and not to think about them not doing it correctly. That's the thing about all films, they are never going to be completely true to life .
The only way I can watch a movie like 'The One' is by ignoring his moves, and even that is pretty hard when he does his circle walking.
It's especially bad when he's doing his version of xingyi Zuan Quan, and the form is only a few moves anyway, and he does like 2 moves, and then he forgets the 'next move' (which is a turn around, BTW).
Some movies with a lot of wire work are so outrageous and unbelievable that you don't have to worry about it, where they do really weird things, like super-spinning spears, jumping 3 feet in the air, then gliding like 100 feet towards the opponent, all that sort of stuff. Like Crouching-Tiger, Hidden Dragon, you don't have to worry about their martial arts moves at all. (Although that was all grade-A wushu. LOL).
I think the recent wire work movies are good, but I much prefer the "old school" movies .