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This is simply terrific.

There's 2 more parts, but I'm sure you can easily find them.

ugh.. it's late, and i'm supposed to be writing a paper that was due this morning. instead, i'm writing a journal entry, and basically doing anything else i can to stay away from it; procrastination is my forte.

the last two kung-fu movies were horribly bad, but in a terribly funny way.

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"Assault of the Final Rival" involved a 'rebel' like character who's power came from his all-awesome mullet thing. there was no real reason for him to have enemies, other than the fact that "He's weird, and has no friends" (REAL LINE FROM MOVIE).

one of the first battles in the movie had this guy as the enemy: Mr. Parosols are Intimidating. He got his ass kicked, 'nuf said.

eventually they cut off his hair, he freaks out, punches a bunch of people, and then after being pinched in the armpit, throws dirt in his enemies eyes and flys away. after that there's not another fight until nearly the end of the movie. at this point, the hero has grown his hair back and confronts his enemies yet again. one of whom uses a blanket as a weapon (yes, he gets his ass kicked too).

oh, also, the camera work was incredible.


the other one "American Chinatown" i haven't been able to force myself through yet. i'll leave you with this: you could go into your backyard with your mom's VHS recorder, your friends, and some ketchup, and STILL make a better movie than this.

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also, if you've never heard of Mark Mulcahy, I stress you to go have a listen: http://www.mezzotint.com/mp3/ 'We're Not in Charleston Anymore', is a damn great song.

Never trust an old man who tells you to meet him in a forest at night, get naked, and climb into a sack filled with snakes. You'll only get into a lot fo trouble later in life.

notes: this was actually a pretty good one, starring jackie chan. some of the bad guys were actually likeable rather than the usual, 'i hate you, die' type. one of whom had quite a unique character.

they all used rather silly fighting styles such as the fish (which required the puckering of the lips), the horse (accompanied by a whinny), and the hawk (involving a lot of swooshing sounds). i swear, one of the lackies could have been played by Jack Black, and stayed exactly the same.


one thing that really bothered me: no one had cracked fingers, nor were the words cracked, or fingers, even used in the movie.
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next up: Assault of the Final Rival

I was given this big ass collection of Kung-fu movies last year for Christmas. Between now and then I've watched only one of them, and that was "Enter the Dragon", which I didn't even watch all of.

So I've decided to finally buckle down and start watching the damn things, and figure out which ones I'd actually like to keep. To record which ones I liked I'm going to write one to two sentence reviews about each one.

First up: Master with Cracked Fingers.