VIDCLIP: "I'm through talking" - mashup of fight scenes

A well-done mash-up of 98 movies fight scenes in less than 5 minutes.

My friend "Youngblood" commented on this vid:

it touches on things we already know and can relate to. triggers past memories ie watching these past movies; elicits our emotional response to them. it incorporates music in that theme which also takes us some place we've been. sensory stimulation is married by these. there is some kind of a primal thing going on also, taking us other places internally imo. it also asks something from the viewer, to interact with it. to guess which movies. so the viewer feels a part of it, not just being force fed. plus it is just well made.

I'm not afraid to admit to you all that I'm geeky enough to try to ID all the movies used. As a matter of fact, here's the first 31 seconds:


TIME          MOVIE
0:00-0:12   Over the Top ?
0:13-0:14   Gladiator ?
0:15-0:15   300 
0:15-0:16   Indiana Jones - Which movie ?
0:17-0:17   Ong Bak 2
0:18-0:19   Ip Man 1
0:19-0:20   Kill Bill 1
0:21-0:22   Fist of Legend
0:22-0:23   V for Vendetta
0:24-0:25   Karate Kid 1
0:25-0:26   Game of Death 1
0:26-0:27   Chinese Connection
0:27-0:28   Fist of Legend
0:28-0:29   Bloodsport
0:29-0:30   Matrix
0:30-0:31   Ip Man 1

Want to add to the list? Come on, you know you want to :)

Enjoy! 

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FIGHT SCENE: Timecop - Jean Claude Van Damme vs James Lew (Flexible Weapons)

A digression from the Thai arts related entries. I was flipping the channels and watching a little TV with my kids on this wet, dreary Sunday. I came across Jean Claude Van Damme's movie Timecop. It happened to be the scene where James Lew and a few other bad guys were in JCVD's apartment and out to kill him. Sorry all, I cannot find a Youtube of the scene in question.

James Lew brandished 2 knives at the outset of the fight and JCVD was lucky to get to his kitchen to arm himself with a knife. James Lew went at JCVD and JCVD was able to parry/block with his knife all of Lew's attacks. That's Hollywood for you LOL.

Lew ended with just 1 knife at a certain point. JCVD dropped his kitchen knife and on the sofa he eyed his shirt or a towel. In the blink of an eye, Lew lunges in with his knife and JCVD grabs the shirt and wraps up the knifearm and proceeds to beat up Lew.

Cool scene in that I am interested in Flexible Weapons and/or Improvised Weapons. I guess it has to do with my idea of looking into the myriad functional self-defense aspects with Improvised Weapons being a big part. One of the most obvious uses of a jacket, shirt, towel or even a bandana is its flailing aspects. With the flailing aspects of clothing, check out some Indonesian and/or Malaysian Sarong fighting aspects. In addition to flailing, the sarong may be used for takedowns, locking or choking. Although taking the time to tie the sleeves of a jacket or shirt to make it like a sarong may not be the wisest course of action in a self-defense situation that has gone to Code Red. With the bandana, the Filipino Martial Arts has utilized it for knife disarms. Check out James Keating's videos on it.

After Timecop, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall came on. That's a great movie for discussion some other time :-)

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FIGHT SCENE: Bloodsport - Paco/Muay Thai

Continuing with my Thai style posts, remember the Jean Claude Van Damme movie, Bloodsport?

At the time, Bloodsport seemed like a great movie, well the fight scenes. I don't know if it's me or what, after watching that clip, I was not sure why I thought it was good, let alone great LOL.

Here's JCVD as Frank Dux vs Paco:

Good or cheesy? This may be one to chalk up to "not as good as I remembered" LOL.

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FIGHT SCENE: "Oldboy" Hallway Fight

One of my favorite fight scenes. Not only does it feature a mass attack, lead pipes, hammer, it is in a narrow hallway and IMO, the best part is its use of pure boxing. It's a 3:42 clip, right about the 1:41 mark, the protagonist uses pure boxing to defend himself against 20 or so guys. The boxing ends about 2:50 or so.





Enjoy!

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FIGHT SCENE: "Tom Yum Goong" - Tony Jaa vs 50 guys

I finally saw the movie Tom Yum Goong aka The Protector recently. Review forthcoming. As I watched the movie, I was already pretty hyped from the action scenes. When I got up to the penultimate fight scene, I was on a pure adrenaline high! There were only a few other times when i watched a fight, movie fight, or martial arts instructional which gave me such a rush of adrenaline, I literally couldn't sleep that night! It's late, I should be sleeping shortly, my brain is shutting down, but what comes to mind besides Tom Yum Goong is the first UFC and when I watched the first Dog Brothers instuctional series! All left me so high, I couldn't sleep!!

This scene is described on the net as Tony Jaa vs 50 guys. I don't know if it really was 50 guys, when I have time I will count them LOL What gave me such a rush was seeing how Tony dispatched most of the bad guys with armbreaks, some with legbreaks, and some various other ways...but predominately they for the most part had their arms broken.





Enjoy!

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FIGHT SCENE: Auren Poitrimoult's Green Hornet fan film

Here is a link to Black Belt magazine's interview with the director of this fan film:

Aurélien Poitrimoult: Kato and the Green Hornet Get Ready to Sting Again!

Enjoy!

p.s. I wonder if the Hollywood version with Kevin Smith directing will be any good? Hope the action scenes will be just as good as this fan film's.

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