Member dyenboy Posted September 25, 2008 Member Share Posted September 25, 2008 As the title says, name your favorites for best martial arts flick this year. I have seen quite a few and only a couple came to mind Flashpoint DOA (very surprising) anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mark187 Posted September 25, 2008 Member Share Posted September 25, 2008 For 2008 so far, it's been The Forbidden Kingdom and Chocolate. Ip Man, although I haven't seen it, I'm sure will be one of the best this year, if not the best. also, if Ong-Bak 2 comes out this year like it was supposed to, it will likely be one of the year's best as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kowloon Posted September 25, 2008 Member Share Posted September 25, 2008 Yip Man ..i'm Sure At 1000% It Is The Best Of Best. K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Delirious Posted September 25, 2008 Member Share Posted September 25, 2008 red cliff. Wirefu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member doug maverick Posted September 26, 2008 Member Share Posted September 26, 2008 red cliff is not a martial arts film, and its not a wirefu film either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Chinatown Kid Posted September 26, 2008 Member Share Posted September 26, 2008 Flashpoint gets my vote with honorable mention for Chocolate. I haven't seen DOA yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mark187 Posted September 26, 2008 Member Share Posted September 26, 2008 Kowloon, have you seen anything from Ip Man besides the promo footage? that's all I've seen, but from that alone I can tell it will be awesome! Flash Point is definitely on the top of my list from last year's best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Xin Long Posted September 26, 2008 Member Share Posted September 26, 2008 Forbidden Kingdom. Well its the only martial art I have seen in cinemas this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member GwaiLoMoFo Posted September 26, 2008 Member Share Posted September 26, 2008 DOA (very surprising) I was suprised with this one too, suprised it was sooo bad! I figured with Yuen Kwai involved it would be decent, boy was I wrong. And didnt "Flash Point" come out last year (2007)? Im pretty sure I had my DVD last year. I'll go with "Forbidden Kingdom", what the hell else has been released this year? I havent seen Chocolate yet, and cant really vote for anything that hasnt even been released (ie Ip Man, OB2). Not alot of MA flix this year (thus far), I'll have to give "Kung Fu Panda" runner up...ha ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Morgoth Bauglir Posted September 26, 2008 Member Share Posted September 26, 2008 Yeah DOA was disappointing for me too. I expected better action. But I did like Kane Kosugi's 2 fights, and also the fight between Jamie Pressley and the black guy. The thing that really disappointed me was Colin Chou vs Eric Roberts. that's one of the worst fights I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yi-Long Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Kung Fu Panda, although CGI, has great fight-choreography. No kidding. The angles are good, the fights are 'cool', and they also ue the medium to their full advantage. Again, not kidding. Kung Fu Panda is the first great 'traditional' martial arts in years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Alex Posted September 26, 2008 Member Share Posted September 26, 2008 Kung Fu Panda, although CGI, has great fight-choreography. No kidding. The angles are good, the fights are 'cool', and they also ue the medium to their full advantage. Again, not kidding. Kung Fu Panda is the first great 'traditional' martial arts in years. i would cosign this, def my front runner as strange as that sounds chocolate was good, but not quite as good as expected forbidden kingdom wasn't nowhere near as bad as i expected, but still not great aside from THE FIGHT flashpoint didn't have enough action, if the intensity of the last 20 mins was spread throughout it would've been the best pure-action movie in ages can't really think of what else came out this year looking forward to yip man, legendary assasin and transporter 3, and of course ong bak 2 if that even exists anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member blue_skies Posted September 26, 2008 Member Share Posted September 26, 2008 Yeah DOA was disappointing for me too. I expected better action. . Same here. I expected much better action and felt very disappointed by it. Anyway DOA certainly wasn't from this year. As for my pics of the year I will have to wait wait until I've seen chocolate, the rebel and any other titles released on DVD before New year's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted September 26, 2008 Member Share Posted September 26, 2008 Flash Point definitely gets my vote for Yen's impressive MMA-style choreography. I do have a feeling Ip Man is going to top it though and I've heard Chocolate is really good as well, so I'll have to see it. I'm also curious to see how Coweb does, its like HK's answer to Chocolate (sort of) and I saw some brief glimpses of the fights and they look pretty good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member June Posted September 27, 2008 Member Share Posted September 27, 2008 Alex +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member GwaiLoMoFo Posted September 27, 2008 Member Share Posted September 27, 2008 Flash Point and DOA are both 2007 (last year) films, thought this was best MA films of 2008 thus far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Chinatown Kid Posted September 27, 2008 Member Share Posted September 27, 2008 Flash Point and DOA are both 2007 (last year) films, thought this was best MA films of 2008 thus far? It might have come out theatrically in 2007 but I didn't see it till the summer of 2008 on the DD disc, so it's the best MA movie I've seen this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LoBo Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 Forbidden Kingdom. ________ Lexus Hs Specifications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Morgoth Bauglir Posted September 28, 2008 Member Share Posted September 28, 2008 Yeah action wise Ong Bak 2 should be the best. I haven't heard any updates for awhile, but I don't check around, I just look here for info. Anybody heard anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member The Amazing Psycho Per Posted September 28, 2008 Member Share Posted September 28, 2008 First, I strongly doubt Ong Bak 2 will be out this year, from what I know, it's still shooting (When Jaa came back not so long ago, the movie was only 80% completed). Second, there is noooo way Forbidden Kingdom ranks as one this year's best. What, because of that 3 minutes fight between Jet and Jackie? Give me a break... Third, the year is not over yet and there are still a couple of movie who could compete, espacially since this year has been pretty quiet until now... Fourth, I saw The Loot for the first time this year for the first time, does it qualify? Fifth, to me, Mirageman was the best 2008 released MA flick so far... Not that the choreography is out of this world (even though it's pretty good stuff), but it's overall an excellent and entertaining flick that you guys should seek out. That's about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TheGrimReaper Posted September 29, 2008 Member Share Posted September 29, 2008 I'm looking for Ong Bak 2 and The Legend of Ip Man - the rest are ok I think... The Forbidden Kingdom was pleasant surprise for me, considering that it could be much worse... Too bad that Stephen Chow delayed Kung fu Hustle 2, I was hoping to see it by the end of this year Chocolate was a good example for me in the tradition of Ong Bak - although too dragged at a time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member wackiechan Posted October 8, 2008 Member Share Posted October 8, 2008 Flash Point definitely gets my vote for Yen's impressive MMA-style choreography. I hope that it doesn't bother you all if I say this, but based on what I remember, after seeing "Flashpoint" earlier this year in a theatre, the movie was a slight letdown. I kind of remember not really liking the fight scene at the end. It seems like the fight scene should've shown kung fu instead of MMA. I kind of remember somebody on this message board saying that "Chocolate" "...has just about one of the dumbest stories that I've ever heard." I guess that's because I read that the story has to do w/ the main character eating chocolate, and learning martial arts from watching movies starring Bruce Lee and Tony Jaa. "Kung Fu Panda" was just okay. For other movies, wasn't there one that was released in HK earlier this year starring Sammo Hung, Danny Lee, maybe Wu Jing, and some other famous HK actors and actresses? I read that it did just okay at the HK box office. I think that there's also "Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon", although that might be more of a war movie w/ some martial arts, but I could be wrong. I haven't seen "TK:RotD", I've only read a little bit about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TheGrimReaper Posted October 15, 2008 Member Share Posted October 15, 2008 @wackiechan: Three Kingdoms (to me) was a disappointment - wuxia style, but nothing out of the ordinary there, The Empress and the Warriors was also of poor quality although Donnie Yen was there, Red Cliff is something else - really promising picture and it will have a second part too... Chocolate was ok for me - but now the Thai cinema should concentrate on a bit of a diversity in their recent pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member edher_M.A. Posted October 18, 2008 Member Share Posted October 18, 2008 why so many people are voting for Ong Bak 2 or Ip Man? those movie aren't even out yet and you are already saying they are going to be the best of the year?? based on trailers, come on, wait until the movies come out and then vote. The people who hype this movies are the same that later start to complain about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member blue_skies Posted October 31, 2008 Member Share Posted October 31, 2008 I've just seen The Rebel and so far it's my favourite martial-arts film of this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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