Was this the first, good Western Martial Arts movie, starring a westerner?
Before this, the standard was had Roadhouse with Patrick Swayze and his gay ballerina kicks.
Was this the first, good Western Martial Arts movie, starring a westerner?
John Gray
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Jaxon Perry
It's Ironic that the movie is also about a Westerner being a better martial artist than a Chinese dude.
Josiah Gomez
im pretty sure the original karate kid was released before this one.
Xavier Flores
Define good.
William Jackson
I FIGHT TO SURVIVE
Charles Ward
Karate Kino is GOAT
Jeremiah Long
JCVD is the real deal bro.
Chase Ortiz
Exactly, the martial arts in karate kid was a fucking joke. beyond joke.
Christopher Torres
Implying that JCVD couldnt destroy the top 3 Chinese marital artists at the same time. He would KUMITE the SHIT out of those fools.
Ian Gutierrez
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
Landon Adams
It's a classic film but let's not go overboard here. The soundtrack is fucking terrible and the acting and dialogue are crap. The martial arts are video-game tier. Part of what makes it so great is that it isn't great, it's cheesy and fun.
Elijah Jackson
That scene where Mister Miyagi takes out those punks was pretty good.
Jace Barnes
Lmao truth, but I love that movie tbQh
William Campbell
>Was this the first, good Western Martial Arts movie, starring a westerner?
Nah, that was Kickboxer. Jean-Claude's better martial arts film.
James Scott
Billy Jack.
Luis Hughes
No, this is.
Bentley Thompson
Starring a westerner, otherwise Enter The Dragon and The Street Fighter are the OGs.
Robert Garcia
most embarrassing awful shit ever made
Caleb Foster
but Bruce Lee is the star of that one, baby
William Brooks
Theoretically, Bruce Lee was a Westerner, born in San Francisco.
Colton Campbell
AHEM
Henry Phillips
You know darn well what he means and he means white people
David Gomez
This movie was boring. Kickboxer was cheesy, but fun. Lionheart tops them borh though.
Isaiah Martin
>He hasn't seen Death Promise
Ryder Brooks
Not mentioning Chuck Norris. I thought this was the Internets.
>forced vengeance
>lone wolf mcquade
>silent rage
All kino
Charles Bailey
Would Rocky be considered a martial arts movie, or would people make the distinction betwen martial and martial sports movie here?
Colton Anderson
HolUP! What about Cannon movies like American Ninja and shit like that? that was before bloodsport no?
Austin Johnson
boxing isnt a martial art per say...
Connor Gomez
Actually Last Dragon predated Bloodsport by 3 years.
White people always taking credit for Black inventions
Luis Harris
I consider boxingkino different than KinoFu
Zachary Gomez
>gay ballerina kicks
>Jean Claude was literally a ballerina before acting
Gabriel Morris
KEK that poster
oh man I miss the 80's
Liam Russell
Chucks movies weren't martial arts movies. Just him beating people up and shooting guns.
Brody Wright
you wouldn't say that to my face
Nathan Bennett
He was actually a decent fighter. But he didn't want to mess his face up so he stopped with a 18-1 record.
Brody Perry
loved the movie, but Ralph Macchio was the most uncoordinated looking kid I have ever seen.
Charles Martinez
its the "karate kid" not the "karate master"
John Morales
Do you think they banged IRL?
Kayden Morris
It would have been nice if they didnt cast someone who looked like a 12yr old girl when they fought. Even with all the "training"
Caleb Cooper
I know right? Ralph Macchio was actually 22 irl when filming that too
Jace Bennett
Even if you say boxing counts for "martial arts film" purposes, the movie doesn't have nearly enough fighting to justify the label. It's not really that much about boxing, either.
Austin Thompson
A wild challenger appears.
Jose Garcia
How deep into rabbit hole are you willing to go?
Pretty good.
Ryan Baker
Okay. A movie about martial arts. A literal good one. Starring an American. That would be David Carradine in the pilot episode of Kung Fu (inb4 pilots don't count as movies faggot) It was a good movie by itself and was about a Westerner that didn't need a TV show.
Jack Wright
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Daniel Cook
how is tv film, though. Was the pilot a stand-alone and then they decided to make it a show?
Blake Kelly
>Was the pilot a stand-alone and then they decided to make it a show?
Pilots episodes often had limited cinematic releases as well back in the 70's. Often pilots had pretty high budgets and following episodes had much worse production values, especially if show was effects heavy.
Joseph Kelly
She would've been dumb not to.
Jayden Reyes
Ohh cool. Thx, user
Brody Walker
This sort of makes me think how many of these B-movies on TV I watched before discovering Asian martial arts movies through the net.
Josiah Richardson
yes
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Cooper Morales
It is fucking shame that Remo Williams didn't get sequels. Pulp books are fucking great.
Leo Gutierrez
This was a good old racist 80's movie
Justin Richardson
>The soundtrack is fucking terrible
Your goddamn bullshit opinion is fucking terrible.
Henry Jenkins
Fight to Survive is on my playlist.
Hacksaw Jim Duggan's brother and based Jean Claude were pretty damn good in it, as well as the guy that played Chong Li.
Isaac Ramirez
So Frank Dux was a ninjitsu master irl huh?
Kayden Cooper
>fastest knockout in Kumite history (3.2 seconds)
lol
Thomas Brooks
Agreed.
Bruce Lee was born in the US. He was an American citizen, and of his 5 movies, this one was Hollywood, not Hong Kong.
Josiah Morales
the song in this one is GOAT
Essential training montage core
Chase Ross
This movie was on WGN or TBS at least one time a week for the entire 1990s decade