Member Iron_Leopard Posted February 4, 2020 Member Share Posted February 4, 2020 This may have already been discussed but I just saw this for first time. https://amp.scmp.com/sport/martial-arts/kung-fu/article/3039722/donnie-yen-confirms-ip-man-4-will-be-his-final-kung-fu Didn't Jet Li say the same thing about Fearless? Clint Eastwood is the only one who stuck to his guns. Unforgiven WAS his final Western. Donnie will be back doing kung fu movies again at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted February 4, 2020 Member Share Posted February 4, 2020 Depends if by kung fu he means traditional martial arts or action in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Ah_Tao Posted February 4, 2020 Member Share Posted February 4, 2020 13 hours ago, Iron_Leopard said: This may have already been discussed but I just saw this for first time. https://amp.scmp.com/sport/martial-arts/kung-fu/article/3039722/donnie-yen-confirms-ip-man-4-will-be-his-final-kung-fu Didn't Jet Li say the same thing about Fearless? Clint Eastwood is the only one who stuck to his guns. Unforgiven WAS his final Western. Donnie will be back doing kung fu movies again at some point. I dont believe him at all. Ip Man 3 was supposed to be his last and then a couple of months later, a leaked image for Ip Man 4's poster comes out at the Cannes lol. Ive said this on instagram too and people got mad of course. He shouldnt stop right now, it would put him up there with the rest of the action stars... Jackie Chan making poor film upon film, Jet li making mediocre action movies, only to name a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member sym8 Posted February 4, 2020 Member Share Posted February 4, 2020 I think he will carry on making action films but as for full blown Kung fu movies not so sure.He will be 57 later this year and his body has taken a lot of abuse over time and lets face it age does catch up.Just hope he doesn’t go down the same road as Jackie Chan and make films one after another without the quality we were used to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member CT KID Posted February 12, 2020 Member Share Posted February 12, 2020 Yeah I think he will continue to do martial arts action scenes in modern movies but not anymore pure and traditional martial arts movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member chen lung Posted February 12, 2020 Member Share Posted February 12, 2020 I like the Ip Man films, but everyone and their gran is playing him; it is the gift that keeps on giving for the Hong Kong film industry.😋 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Rodolphe Dux Posted February 12, 2020 Member Share Posted February 12, 2020 50 minutes ago, chen lung said: I like the Ip Man films, but everyone and their gran is playing him; it is the gift that keeps on giving for the Hong Kong film industry.😋 For sure I don’t know who will play ip man next, probably Eric Tsang. 🤪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member HyperDrive Posted February 13, 2020 Member Share Posted February 13, 2020 He should go into choreography then if this is truly his last film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member JackieRome Posted February 13, 2020 Member Share Posted February 13, 2020 The thing I've never understood is why he wastes his time (you can see he's getting older) making bad movies instead of thinking about making a sequel to Spl or Flashpoint. Maybe he's aware that those movies are unparalleled. From what I've understood over the years, action movies with silly comedy inside (I think you've got Jackie's movies too) that only makes the Chinese people laugh, are better at the box office instead of great action movies in the strictest sense. Maybe only Ip man is good. The rhetoric in these movies is terrible but the action scenes are always great. actually only the first chapter is really good. Special Id could have been the movie we've been waiting for for years but it wasn't, even though it has a great ending fight. I remember when i approached Donnie during the Venice Film Festival (he presented legend of chen zhen) i told him with my usual english embarrassed, that the fight with Collin Chou was among the greatest fights ever. he replied: "then you'll see tonight at the screening and you'll be satisfied"; actually i wasn't satisfied because the editing of chen zhen broke the best fight scenes of that fanciful and rhetorical movie. Luckily with Wu Xia and Kung Fu Jungle he made it up to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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