Favourite Kung Fu star.

[versus]

I voted for Sonny Chiba then id say tony jaa.

[Red_Rapids]

Except Tony Jaa wouldn't be considered "Kung-Fu". He's a Muay Thai Kickboxer.
Van Damme is a kickboxer also, and a shitty actor.

[spiritual boxer]

I chose Gordon Liu. The reason being that out of all of the nominees, only Bruce Lee and Gordon Liu were actual Kung Fu practitioners. The reason I didn't chose Bruce Lee, eventhough he is one of my favorites, is because towards the end of his journey, Bruce didn't believe in designated styles, and believed that the evolution of martial arts is not to be bind to one particular style. Though this is an interesting theory, I believe that the title of Kung Fu was created to represent the many different styles that it has under its belt. This is the reason why I chose Gordon Liu, because he is the only one on the list that still practices actual Kung Fu, and also is the only one who has direct martial arts lineage to the great Wong Fei Hong.

[versus]

Yeh sorry i mean martial arts actors, i saw derailed with Jean Claude Van Damme it was really really shit.

[Red_Rapids]

Van Damme is actually still making movies?

[Raven]

Originally posted by Redrapids@Dec 22 2005, 12:50 PM
Van Damme is actually still making movies?

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i dont think so, i think the last film he made was Universal Solider 2

[versus]

This film i watched was like 2 years old.

[JohnShaft]

Van Damme's most definitely still churning out the movies. Just look at his IMDB, a film or two pretty much every year.

For my shame I was a fan of Van Damme in his early years. And by early I'm talking Bloodsport/Kickboxer, in other words, before most of you kiddies were born. :D
He was (obviously) never the greatest actor. In fact, like Arnie, he's always been and will remain horrible in that department. I still class Steven Seagal as by far the worst action 'actor' though.

Bloodsport/Kickboxer were quite fresh at the time I thought. Though I'm sure compared to films in the East then they weren't. It was just that they brought Martial Arts kicking ass movies to the West.

And yeah, he'd be better of retiring, but then how many actors could be added to that list?...

[Raven]

ive always kinda enjoyed van dammes movies, Universal Doldier remains my fav tho :D
tho i started to hate his films after Street Fighter, that was unforgivable

[JohnShaft]

Originally posted by Raven@Dec 23 2005, 09:54 PM
ive always kinda enjoyed van dammes movies, Universal Doldier remains my fav tho :D
tho i started to hate his films after Street Fighter, that was unforgivable

Yeah I agree on Uni-Sol, I think it was his best. I was pretty eager to see that one before it came about. Though I always preferred Dolph by a mile. Mostly because he plays darker roles than Van Damme ever did (or was ever capable of doing). See it at the cinema I wanted badguy Dolph to kick Van Damme's ass at the end, but you just knew, being Hollywood, it wasn't going to happen...

[Bloody Mary]

I voted for Bruce Lee. He's my Heroooo!

Watch-aaaaa oooaaaaahhhh!

[versus]

I recomend Sonny Chibas the killing machine its the best film for bone crunching martial arts, the gore scenes are gona make you sqeam.

[iloveskunk]

Had to go with Chow Yun Fat for "The Killer" was alot better than most martial arts films in that era :P
And what the hell Bruce Lee getting 50% he does not deserve that with the nosies he makes you just wanna turn his crap off.


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[feral cat]

Originally Posted by iloveskunk

Had to go with Chow Yun Fat for "The Killer"
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? but it's not a martial arts movie and He's not really a martial artist, although he's a great action star and the killer is one of the best in it's genre.

I pick Carter Wong, always makes me smile when you pop on some old school kung fu with Carter very talented martial artist as well.

[versus]

Bruce Lee is a fucking god lol i love Sun Chien the scorpian venom and his fantastic kicking abilaties and same with another taekwondo champion Alexander Lo Rei.