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Thread: Mortal Kombat Koming back to the big screen!
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Old 10-06-2011, 07:39 PM   #10
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Dude, do you watch martial arts movies? Yea that fight was cool but man your missing out on a lot of awesome fight scenes in Asian movies and I wouldnt even compare that Mortal Kombat fight scene to anywhere near the top echelon of other fight scenes i've seen.
I second this. And I don't want to get into a big debate about how Jon Bones Jones can beat Bruce Lee, or how TKD and BJJ is better than kung fu or whatever. When it boils down to choreography, Asian movies win. On screen, the best fights scenes I've ever seen featured stars like Donnie Yen (who helped produce the best fight scene in Highlander Endgame with Adrian Paul, who himself is a fellow Hung Gar practitioner), Yuen Baio, Tony Jaa, Billy Chow, Jet Li, young Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Lee Hoi Sa, <insert Asian name here>. The choreographers are also just way better. Yuen Woo Ping, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen. Shit, just look at the Matrix. If Yuen Woo Ping can make Keanu and Fishburne look like kung fu experts in the Matrix, can you imagine what he could do with Mortal Kombat?

Not to say that people who aren't Asian don't produce good fight scenes in martial arts movies. They're usually relatively unknown actors to North American audiences, guys from Europe like Gerard Gordeau. When I want to see something real, like MMA, I usually watch UFC. I used to like PRIDE better because the fights were so mismatched and unpredictable but oh well. When I want to see a martial arts movie, though, man I can't even compare something like Bloodsport or Mortal Kombat to Ip Man or Magnificient Butcher. I really don't care much for MMA movies, either. Watching people PRETEND to do MMA is insanely boring unless it's old Japan UWFi, Pancrase and RINGS. They somehow made it entertaining.
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