I kid you not. I found this attached to a jiffy bag ...

[GK]

I have yet to see a Jackie Chan movie that wasn't terrible.

[Mechanical Menace]

Police Story is an undeniable classic...

Only if you like that sort of thing. Not everybody finds clowns entertaining.

[Mechanical Menace]

Have you seen it?

Yup.

There isn't much clowning around, just lots of acrobatics and a fair bit of fighting.

What do clowns do? Acrobatics and pretend fighting. But I'l admit I just don't like Jackie Chan, I haven't seen a single thing with him in where I don't feel as if he's trying and failing at being funny.

It's like modern action movies only less stupid and fake.

I personally don't think lower quality production means less fake in a movie, and neither do I count failing at doing stunts properly as impressive. Fighting in newer movies is depicted much more realistically (if still in the realms of fantasy) than Jackie's style and the point of stunts is to do something that looks dangerous safely.

But this is all down to opinion, I prefer Donald Yun-fat. That man can actually act and isn't just a "dancer turned action star without bothering to learn how to act."

[GK]

Yes, if you've seen ten minutes of Jackie Chan you've seen all twenty thousand hours of Jackie Chan.

[miguelvp]

Yes, if you've seen ten minutes of Jackie Chan you've seen all twenty thousand hours of Jackie Chan.

Nah, I will say that about Benny Hill, Jackie Chan takes at least 12 minutes

[Mechanical Menace]

Fighting in newer movies is depicted much more realistically (if still in the realms of fantasy) than Jackie's style and the point of stunts is to do something that looks dangerous safely.

LOL, yes movies these days are much more realistic. 

Choice of fighting styles depending on setting is, and there's plenty of movies that haven't fallen into the "have everybody jumping around like morons" or "every move has got to look stylistically perfect" mould. In every other way they are no more or less realistic. Even the superhero movies now have more realistic fighting than any Rush Hour has managed.

[GK]

Fighting in newer movies is depicted much more realistically (if still in the realms of fantasy) than Jackie's style and the point of stunts is to do something that looks dangerous safely.

LOL, yes movies these days are much more realistic. 

Choice of fighting styles depending on setting is, and there's plenty of movies that haven't fallen into the "have everybody jumping around like morons" or "every move has got to look stylistically perfect" mould. In every other way they are no more or less realistic. Even the superhero movies now have more realistic fighting than any Rush Hour has managed.

This discussion is becoming daft.

I think Chuck Norris could whip Jackie Chan's ass.

[zapta]

Saw this today.... Couldn't help but post it in this thread.

I really wish you could have. Yet another example, of someone who can't use a comma properly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

[Mechanical Menace]

Rush Hour was pretty awful, but you can't even begin to compare it classics like Project A or other movies of that era.

For every classic from the back end of Hong Kong cinema being unique you bring up there are 100 films that were shittier than anything that would get made by a production company nowadays. Just go through Golden Harvest's back catalogue and see how many flops they had compared to successes, and that was in days before reviews got around so easy and people were more willing to waste money on a bad movie at the cinema.

Of course the fighting was over the top, but it was also more realistic

Depends on the style of movie and who's making it. Less films use a style of martial art that was meant purely for show any more, they seem to just bastardise real styles to make them more showy lol. Jackie's style was invented purely as entertainment, it's practitioners like Jackie are mainly dancers for Peking operas and to me that's more obviously fake than say someone adding extra flair to some historical or modern composite martial art. I can admire it as dancing but can't take it as seriously as I can Wolverine :/

and didn't rely on wires

Agree that gets overused, but it's not in everything.

or effects

Debatable, I'd say it relied on lower tech effects, choice camera angles etc.

or the god awful shakey drunken camera that modern films are always afflicted with.

Agree again that gets overused, but it's not every film by any means.


Honestly while the 80s had some great things to offer most of it was shite and we have better average quality nowadays, especially in movies and TV.

[rolycat]

If we are going to be breaking out the Latin then maybe it is time to agree that de gustibus non est disputandum, at least for personal movie preference.

[n45048]

To be grammatically correct, the use of the Latin term ad hominem doesn't actually include a hyphen, even when used as a phrasal adjective. Additionally, it should be written as "an ad hominem..." since ad hominem begins with a vowel.

  You're welcome.

[zapta]

Aim high.

[n45048]

 

[rsjsouza]

Wow. And there goes one more new forum user (the OP's first and last posts were on Feb 20th)...

[Red Squirrel]

Haha what are the odds I got a similar package too.



Maybe it's next door to the Hung Wong Lo factory.     

Have to admit though, lot's of nice stuff from China on ebay.... the same items from the US ask ridiculous amounts of money for shipping when items from China are often free shipping.

[zapta]

Wow. And there goes one more new forum user (the OP's first and last posts were on Feb 20th)...

That was Mr Ding Dong himself, trying to get attention to his business.

[n45048]

Mojo, we get it, you're offended or at the very least not a fan of this thread. But the majority of us don't care and appreciate a giggle and a bit of harmless banter. You've made your views clear in this thread and others. Perhaps it's time for you to think: "Can I add to this discussion in a meaningful way?" If the answer is no, don't click post. You and a few others have already made a rather negative impression on this forum, so please, just consider what you're posting so the rest of us don't have to scroll through pages of petty back-and-forth crap to get to the good stuff.

Also, Happy Mardi Gras! :-D

[SeanB]

China has a list of approved first names ans approved last names. If it is not on the list you cannot be registered as Chinese, so you will get only certain names. The Western version however is going to be a choice, either a homophone ( now banned as it is a pun) or any chosen name. That it is written Ding Dong is likely only a coincidence to the original sound of the Chinese name itself.

You get the same here in Southern Africa, where the name you are called often has very little resemblance to the name written on the birth certificate. If you think Dave has problems with European names think how he would do trying to pronounce some proper Indian, Pakistani or Gujarati names. Even I have problems, and I live here.

[Mechanical Menace]

Well, if you are going to name your kind after an internal combustion process, I suggest "Stirling".

Stirling are external combustion engines...

And whatever you do, avoid "Two Stroke" however cool your think 500CC GP bikes were, or even worse "Wankel"...

 

[SeanB]

I knew a guy with the surname Mackenzie. He could not speak more than 5 words of English, and was not Scottish.

[blackbird]

They have also found their way to my mailbox...   

[MadTux]

Seems like Mr.Ding Dong friends had a plane crash recently 

[zapta]

Seems like Mr.Ding Dong friends had a plane crash recently 

They got these names from the government.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/ntsb-intern-blamed-for-prank-names-of-flight-214-pilots-broadcast-by-ktvu-100025/

[MadTux]

They got these names from the government.

This only shows how dumb some journalists are. They need to think critically and ask questions about unclear things and don't believe every bullshit they hear. After the second funny name they could have  called NTSB and ask another guy if the names are correct or don't even publish the names at all. 

[Towger]

You also have to take into account that they pick funny names as a joke: