Sentences with phrase «martial arts movies as»

The massive success of The Karate Kid remake has no doubt contributed to the resurgence of tournament - based martial arts movies as well, but let's not forget, The Karate Kid remake also had the power of Will and Jaden Smith behind it.

Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is turning her back on martial arts movies as she is still suffering from injuries she received on the set of Crouching...

Not exact matches

The glorification of violence as a means to solve conflict is everywhere in our culture and I was that lame person that couldn't stand mixed - martial - arts battles and railed against video games and movies that depicted war or crime as an adventure, even arguing we are «a generation of virtual sociopaths.»

As in, there is an endless stream of 12 - year old kids and you had to dispatch them one at a time like in a martial arts movie.

The movie is an obvious parody of sword - and martial - arts wuxia movies, but it also serves as an invitation to young audiences, who may find that Po's antics have sparked an appetite for the more grown - up pleasures of movies like «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon» or «Curse of the Golden Flower.»

Claiming some genuine martial arts movie cred, this chapter features some voiceovers from not only Jackie Chan returning as Furious Five member Monkey, but Jean Claude van Damme as the Chinese alligator, Master Croc, who, like his alter - ego, who can drop into a vicious split at the drop of a yuan.

And Stephen Chow had Kung Fu Hustle, a giddy tribute to old martial arts movies that took almost as much inspiration from Bugs Bunny cartoons.

Especially as the action shifts from the Company of Dwarfs and Bilbo, over to Gandalf's own semi-solo adventure then to various battles between elves and orcs which act as a sort of martial arts zombie movie on the side.

Director Kevin Chu was like the head coach leading out his Most Valuable Players (MVPs) to court, and explained that the idea for Kung Fu Dunk was actually established some 13 years back when filming martial arts movies such as Shaolin Popey (Shao Lin Xiao Zhi, starring Jimmy Lin), when he thought about whether martial arts could be combined with a ball game like basketball.

As Run The Jewels pulses on the soundtrack, we also get new shots of the movie's cast — not just title character Chadwick Boseman, but also his friends and enemies — in action, facing off with swords, guns, and good - old mystically powered martial arts.

Hunting Bourne are a group of CIA spooks who travel and fight Bourne alone, which is about as smart as a group of enemies taking turns to fight the hero in a martial arts movie.

by Bryant Frazer If Prachya Pinkaew's 2003 Ong - bak became a worldwide hit partly on novelty value — star Tony Jaa was a new face, and Muay Thai was sufficiently under - represented in martial - arts movies to come across as a fresh new fighting style — then Chocolate is a logical next career move for the director.

Daggers, however, is director Zhang Yimou's follow - up to the callowly beautiful Hero and, like that movie and a number of others (Ashes of Time, Bride with the White Hair, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill, Zatoichi, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, and, in a way, Goodbye Dragon Inn), it belongs to a martial arts / art - house genre of films by hip young directors upgrading genres they loved as teenagers - «martial arts plus.»

The martial arts plus movie, like the Spaghetti Western, the neo-noir and the collected works of Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers exists as not as a genre in itself but as a response to, subversion of or homage to a previously established genre.

Haywire, an action movie starring mixed martial arts champion - turned - actress, Gina Carano as black - ops contractor Mallory Kane, starts off promising enough.

WHY: It seems a little unfair to refer to «Enter the Dragon» as Bruce Lee's masterpiece, because he was just starting to hit his stride at the time of his unfortunate death, but it's definitely one of the best martial arts movies ever made.

There are so many automatic weapons and martial arts in this movie that it may as well be a G.I. Joe film.

The first time the movie cuts back to Callum in what amounts to a green - screen room, ghosted images of the flashbacks swooshing around him as he embodies his ancestor martial arts moves, it's a neat effect.

But the story's fundamentals are solid, and the battles between this village of kung fu experts and an army of 19th century technophiles are so good that the inevitable sequel (already in the works) will be welcome, as will the future martial arts movies that Taichi Zero might inspire.

I think everybody once has thought about learning martial arts as a kid by watching his movies.

The movie begins on that island, Themyscira, where strong - limbed women spend their lives in martial - arts training in preparedness against possible invasion — there appear to be no local industries, so this is as good a way as any to use the time — and where everyone seems to speak with an unplaceable accent (Spanish?

Questions are chucked out for martial arts, leaving the cranial aspects of Morgan unexplored as it all warps into a humdrum shoot - em - up resembling the hundred other lab creature movies we've already seen before.

In some bizarre casting, RZA shows up as blind martial arts master Blind Master (the G.I. Joe series was never very subtle with its character names), bringing the rapper's charisma-less movie career to a new low by drudgingly rattling off exposition like a screen between video game levels.

Most of the violence in Jackie Chan movies involves martial arts routines that are precisely choreographed and rehearsed time and time again (as seen in the outtakes that usually accompany his films).

Also joining the cast is Chilean martial arts action star, Marko Zaror (Machete Kills), as Zolo, an Aztec warrior trained in hell, and iconic horror movie maven Tom Savini (From Dusk Till Dawn).

One of the many joys of a good martial arts movie is that there are actual characters and something of a plot, as well as well choreographed martial arts expertise.

«Simply imagine a crime movie as deeply layered as The Departed or Goodfellas and then add some of the most viscerally thrilling martial arts to ever hit the screen.

The visuals are incredible — this is the most eye - popping Marvel movie ever, and the magic, here visualized as precise, geometric runes performed as a martial art, is stunning.

Plus, having worked in the action movie industry in Hong Kong for the last 15 years as both an actor and martial arts choreographer on over 35 film and television productions afforded me not only the skill set to confidently film a kung fu movie, I have also worked with many people who were close with Bruce and shared with me many of their anecdotes.

Some of the game's success can be attributed to the fact that its release came at a time when America was infatuated with martial arts, thanks to the boom of»80s action movies such as The Karate Kid.

Either as a white man mouthing the words to the underground soul classic» Is it because I'm black» «hollow bones» (2001), or being taught how to make art by the deceased martial arts star Bruce Lee in «emotional content» (2003), as The White and Black Minstrel (2007), or seeking enlightenment in kung fu movies and anime as The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim (2004 - 08).