847. The Wild Warriors Two of 1978 review!

This is an excellent movie.  I wish Sammo had made one about Choy Li Fut!

398. Wing Chun (1994) review

            This movie rocks, it has for over 30 years.  Just watch it.

Butterfly Swords

 Here is a clue for today's Shaolin Saturday movie- though it is only peripherally related to Shaolin, much like last week's movie was barely related to Shaolin.  Still, if we only review movies that have Shaolin in them, that would be really boring after a while, right?  So this one has legendary origins from Shaolin, but there are a lot of stories about the origins of this style.  Someone really should have written this stuff down way back when.  These are one of two weapons most associated with the style, though.

Enter the Dragon's Fashion Sense

Some friends of mine were talking about the 100 movies their teenage boys should see before they got too cool for such things.  These tend to be the classics from at least 30 years ago. One of my many fine suggestions was for Enter the Dragon (1973).  I named many other fine movies, Casablanca, The Muppet Movie, Zorro and more.  Most of them were unjustly disregarded but the philistines, but this one was not.  I was grateful for that small favor.

an episode of the Green Hornet

called "The Preying Mantis". There's been tons of talk about this new GH movie (starring *ugh* Seth Rogen, though the pics don't look bad, actually) and it made me want to watch some of the tv series.

this happens to be one of the better known episodes, since GH and Kato take on a tong in a protection racket scheme. so there's a Chinese Connection (sorry, couldn't resist) here as well, which had to be something pretty rare on US tv back in the mid 60s, don'tcha think?

anyway, the new evil leader of the Tong is none other than Mako, who would later become a sidekick for Conan. he actually gets the drop on Kato and dumps our hero into a trashcan. now that's going all out for the story!

his style is the Mantis Fist, which is an actual kung fu style. I wonder if Bruce coached him, as he gets the hand position to looded like it should. there are a few more martial arts battles in this episode, including some with the traditional weapons. which is ironic, since Bruce's style (at the time), wing chun, only has the staff as it's main weapon.


here's almost the end result of the last battle, though you know our hero is the victor. it's a pretty brief skirmish, though I once saw a stripped version of the episode which left out the entire battle leading up to this. sometimes editors baffle me. still, it's a fun episode to watch, as are all of them, since they only had 26 in the series.

here's hoping that what almost promises to be a fiasco of a new movie coming out that someone gets the rights to this cleared up and out on legit DVD.