No, it's not an internet related movie! ehhe

Howdy!

Any fans of chinese martial arts movies?  If you are and have not seen it yet, check out IP Man.  I saw both it and IP Man 2 (which was poor and disappointing, the original raised the bar too high maybe?) at the Mayfair a few weeks ago.  The first IP Man is a great movie, never mind a martial arts movie; it's got good humour at the beginning, great drama later and some very awesome martial arts combat scene.  My wife is not a fan of these types of movies (and I guess, I'm not a fan but I do have an appreciation of them) and she really loved it.

Anyway, it seriously kicked butt and I can't recommend it enough; one of my all-time fav, though granted, it is a short list, I haven't seen that many!

Although a couple of moves may fall into the "impossible", it's not really a wire-fu movie, much more grounded in reality. It's based (very loosely) on the early life of the guy who thought Bruce Lee.  VERY loosely based, but still a great entertaining movie... Chinese propaganda aside (some minor but "key" re-writing of history I think eheh)

I'm curious if anyone has seen it; and what you thought of it.  I think because of how the story was put together; it's certainly crosses over beyond the typical martial films I've seen before.

note:  there are some pretty brutal (ie: realistic violence) action scenes; I've very surprised the chinese sensors didn't ask to have it toned down. I must be behind the times when it comes to their censorship! .  Anyway, keep that in mind if because of this post you want to check it out and have little ones around.

I also enjoyed Ip Man, and was disappointed by the sequel. I tried several other Donnie Yen movies and didn't like any of them. Really the only other great martial arts movie I can think of at the moment is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon which is in a class by itself.

, I've only seen a couple of MST's, but the only one I REALLY liked was "This Island Earth".

For those wondering, the producers of IP Man 2 decided to steal many storyline ideas from hollywood classics such as Rocky II and Rocky IV; I'm talking about lifting scenes right from these movies, especially Rocky IV.  If you're going to rip off the Rocky movies, why the hell would you pick #4???  They went from art to thrash with one sequel and they wonder why Donnie Yen said "it's my last IP Man movie", stating it's because of "over saturation".

Wow, it looks great!



I really enjoyed Kung-Fu Hustle; hilarious (listen for the pinball sound effects!)



Shaolin Soccer is good too:

woah, that ip man movie looks very good!

let's see if i can d/l it...