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Yao Sing
The rich kids thing was another annoyance to me, just an excuse to show a big party scene with bikinis in hot tubs. Realistically how often does a new kid from a poor family immediately make friends with the upper class at a new school, plus winning over the rich hottie. Of course her boyfriend just has to be a POS low life so you actually want her to go with the "hero".
he wasn't the typical poor kid. He was popular from jump street because video of him kicking that dude's ass was all over the internet. I think they did good with that. Now, without that element, then yeah, his rise to popularity would have been way too unrealistic.
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Sorry for being such a downer on this film but it's just way too typical and formula based. I don't see the training scenes as anything exceptional, just regular gym type training. You must watch too many Shaw Bros. flicks or something.
exactly my point. Real gym training. Not the crap you see in other movies.
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No wire work but trick heavy bag gags as well as a few "flash" moves in the fight scenes. I think the MMA crowd needs to get off the mistaken idea that hitting a bag while working out or wrestling in a fight is cutting edge and a shocking sight to Martial Artists.
the bourne series had flash too. Heck, desh was a capoerista. it's still WAY less flash then any TMA movie you see today and most from yesterday. I actually think that was something the original karate kid movie did well with.
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Now I do recommend seeing the film to support low budet films and Martial Arts films. I'm sure there will be quite a few who will like it but it's just not very creative to me. The Karate Kid had a following, something I don't understand, and people love that film.
it did okay. It was 3rd at the box office, which and made like 9 million, which isn't bad for an MA movie, especially one which doesn't have a really big name as the main character.
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The MMA fanbase, of course, will cream over any type of submission attempt or close-up of a RNC pose. Just like the film I did with the Wing Chun guys that got wood over a series of chain punches in a fight scene. It all depends on your interests.
most likely. Heck, the WC guys on this forum creamed about WC apps that they saw in the ANIMATED star wars series on cartoon network...
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I like to see more realistic fighting but the bottom line is I go to be entertained and I wasn't really entertained by this film. It's a "made for profit, don't take any chances with creative influence" standard film. Predictable pretty much the whole way through.
can't really argue with that. Point is though, that the movie can break ground as far as MA fighting in films goes. Maybe it will signal an end to the matrix, crouching tiger crap that has been put in front of us for the past two decades or so.