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- From: jangi@hilbert.coe.northeastern.edu (Shrirang Jangi)
- Subject: Re: Brandon Lee Movies
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.232044.25071@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
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- Organization: Northeastern University
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:20:44 GMT
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- In article <nahilgendorf.51@honors.uoregon.edu> nahilgendorf@honors.uoregon.edu (Nathan Hilgendorf) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.151437.22340@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> jangi@hilbert.coe.northeastern.edu (Shrirang Jangi) writes:
- >
- > <stuff deleted>
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- >>"Once Upon A Time In China" I and II are some of the most exciting kung fu
- >>movies I have seen in years. There are a lot of lousy ones out there, even from
- >>HongKong, but these two certainly stood out from the rest. Part 3 of this
- >>series is already done and Tsui Hark is shooting Part 4 in Beijing right now,
- >>although Pt. 4 won't star Jet Lee. And yes, this is much better than the
- >>recent Jackie Chan movies. His Double Dragon (name?) was awful and "Police
- >>Story 3" was very disappointing. His new movie "City Hunter" is currently
- >>showing but I haven't seen it yet. But watch for any film by Tsui Hark for
- >>creative fight scenes (eg. "Swordsman II"). BTW, all the movies mentioned
- >>above are from HongKong, which IMHO makes the best martial arts movies right
- >>now.
- >
- >True, Hong Kong does make the best martial arts movies. I saw Swordsman II a
- >while ago and thought it was actually pretty poorly done, which surprised
- >me, since Once Upon a Time in China I and II were awesome. Oh well...
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- I agree that neither Swordsman I or II is as good as Wong Fei Hong, but I
- think that the floating rotating sword of Jet Lee and the concept of "sword
- chi" in Swordsman II are visually stunning. BTW, Swordsman III is already out.
- I don't know if that's the English name or not but the main character is
- Eastern Invincible. Jet Lee is not in this one.
-