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Title: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Eschaton on September 14, 2014, 05:30:40 PM: and a candidate for the best action movie of that decade too

also its on Netflix

-whiteman diving into asian honor? check

-niccas dying? check

- GOAT antagonist? check (http://i.minus.com/jBirOQoRVxMrb.png)

-hilarious flashback sequences? check

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnYDrs2ykcI
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on September 14, 2014, 05:37:58 PM: Internet classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_IAb_XmVa8
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 14, 2014, 05:52:38 PM: Well, I guess now I'll just have to go ahead and watch Bloodsport again.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 05:54:45 PM: Yes it is.

I can't cosign the best martial arts movie of the 80's, though. Especially with stuff like The Killer, Hard Boiled, Jackie Chan in his prime, The Prodigal Son, Yes Madam, My Young auntie but it's up there, and one of the few actually good Hollywood martial arts films alongside The Matrix, Karate Kid and its remake, Rocky series, and Undisputed series and maybe stuff like Million Dollar Baby.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 05:58:47 PM: Bloodsport probably IS the best Hollywood martial arts film. :obama
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 14, 2014, 06:00:12 PM: The Last Dragon is pretty legit, too, don't go forgetting about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYaDY8Zo2Gg
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 06:03:02 PM: The Last Dragon, I love it, but the choreography is lacking in typical Hollywood fashion, so while it's great movie - and one of my favorites, it's hard to put it over other martial films.

Wait. Given that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was co-produced by Hollywood, asia wins again. :tocry
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 06:07:13 PM: :kobeyuck
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 06:11:54 PM: Quote from: Esch on September 14, 2014, 06:08:33 PM
(http://i.minus.com/ibgHKzzPa4MAP9.gif)

:badass
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Madrun Badrun on September 14, 2014, 06:50:04 PM: funboys :lol
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Beezy on September 14, 2014, 06:54:07 PM: First time I'm hearing that term. :lol
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 14, 2014, 07:21:49 PM: Repeat slurs you've heard your grandpa use.

:dead
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 14, 2014, 07:40:21 PM: He's well versed in the Zapp Brannigan's Guide to Making Love at a Woman.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: toku on September 14, 2014, 08:24:39 PM: Nah, Bloodsport still the goat. Bolo plays a fucking great villain but the tall ass dude from Kickboxer is underrated:
http://youtu.be/xs0vCPWXbe0
http://youtu.be/JeL35cDGLyk

Bolo would destroy you in the ring, but this dude looks like he would go fuck your mother and sisters after he's done dismantling you.

that score, I should sample this shit.

One of the things I love about Kickboxer too is how they try to sell Van Damme as the good but not great sparring partnet at the start and how his buddy doesn't give a fuck about styles. "A kicks a kick, a punch is a punch" lol

The quickest way to defeat is to underestimate the ability of your enemies breh
spoiler (click to show/hide)
and not listen to your cornermanp
[close]
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: hampster on September 14, 2014, 09:00:04 PM: I've always been a Lionheart man myself
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 14, 2014, 09:05:22 PM: WTF, this isn't a universally accepted truth? I figured everyone knew this and thus no need for a thread.

Point me at anyone claiming otherwise.

:ufup
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 14, 2014, 09:50:53 PM: Quote from: Human Snorenado on September 14, 2014, 09:05:22 PM
WTF, this isn't a universally accepted truth? I figured everyone knew this and thus no need for a thread.

Point me at anyone claiming otherwise.

:ufup

yea. it's like someone making a thread titled "Die Hard is the best action movie of the 80s." Everyone knows that.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Himu on September 14, 2014, 10:04:49 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on September 14, 2014, 09:50:53 PM
Quote from: Human Snorenado on September 14, 2014, 09:05:22 PM
WTF, this isn't a universally accepted truth? I figured everyone knew this and thus no need for a thread.

Point me at anyone claiming otherwise.

:ufup

yea. it's like someone making a thread titled "Die Hard is the best action movie of the 80s." Everyone knows that.

naw
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Madrun Badrun on September 14, 2014, 10:06:42 PM: Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 14, 2014, 07:21:49 PM
Repeat slurs you've heard your grandpa use.

Next he'll be saying how the blacks in the NBA have nice buns like my grandma.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 14, 2014, 10:16:34 PM: smh @ Esch and Himu right now. Someone make a poll.

:ufup :ufup :ufup
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: chronovore on September 15, 2014, 12:05:26 AM: Let's not forget the magnificence of No Retreat, No Surrender!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfIzSy1Ckus
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Beezy on September 15, 2014, 12:46:21 AM: I FIGHT TO SURVIIIVE!!! :punch

http://youtu.be/uCYgQR5PEzA
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 15, 2014, 12:50:50 AM: Sorry PD, everyone knows Die Hard is the best Christmas movie... of all time.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on September 15, 2014, 01:07:34 AM: Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on September 14, 2014, 10:06:42 PM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 14, 2014, 07:21:49 PM
Repeat slurs you've heard your grandpa use.

Next he'll be saying how the blacks in the NBA have nice buns like my grandma.
Grandad: Why isn't [my sister] here today?
Dad: She's watching some movie with her friends. Said there were a couple cute guys in it she wanted to see.

(moment of bewilderment)

Grandad: You mean queers?
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: team filler on September 15, 2014, 01:41:24 AM: Quote from: chronovore on September 15, 2014, 12:05:26 AM
Let's not forget the magnificence of No Retreat, No Surrender!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfIzSy1Ckus
goat, impossible to find the U.S. version that i grew up watching doe.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: naff on September 15, 2014, 01:42:54 AM: Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 14, 2014, 07:21:49 PM
Repeat slurs you've heard your grandpa use.

:dead

Slur? Sounds more like real talk; Eschs gramps just had a funtime with the funboys

Always believed there were people who could do this, was a teen by the time i figured out it's impossible

http://youtu.be/RF6Xcbf7-Ug?t=46s
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: toku on September 15, 2014, 02:11:20 AM: Die Hard is great but I wouldn't call it greatest of the 80s. It's the greatest Christmas movie of the 80s though, for sure. Second greatest christmas movie of any period (behind a the 60s grinch cartoon). It isn't Christmas time if I haven't caught Grinch cartoon somwhere. Even if it's like on at a bar or something.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Momo on September 15, 2014, 02:14:36 AM: Quote from: Beezy on September 15, 2014, 12:46:21 AM
I FIGHT TO SURVIIIVE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCYgQR5PEzA

:rejoice
:rejoice
:rejoice :rejoice :rejoice
:rejoice
:rejoice :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Momo on September 15, 2014, 02:17:23 AM: ^if you center align those rejoice emotes, it's a dude doing the splits. None of those buttons on the posting action pane has ever worked for me though :hitler
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: chronovore on September 15, 2014, 02:18:27 AM: Quote from: filler on September 15, 2014, 01:41:24 AM
Quote from: chronovore on September 15, 2014, 12:05:26 AM
Let's not forget the magnificence of No Retreat, No Surrender!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfIzSy1Ckus
goat, impossible to find the U.S. version that i grew up watching doe.

Yeah, the whole thing is some weird mix of an action movie but feels like a Savage Steve Holland film -- another great creator lost with the end of the '80s... :'(
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 15, 2014, 02:19:10 AM: Funboys sounds like a Lil B led movement opposed to the #sadboys power structure.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: toku on September 16, 2014, 06:41:51 PM: This is now officially a JCVD appreciation thread (http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-movies-of-1994-pondering-the-time-travel-insanity-of-jcvds-timecop/)
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: naff on September 16, 2014, 07:14:05 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD3JUf9tbuY

:rejoice
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Beezy on September 16, 2014, 08:00:31 PM: All these years and I'm just now realizing that Stan Bush is responsible for Fight to Survive along with this classic:

http://youtu.be/A52--FKUQgU

:rejoice :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice :rejoice
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 16, 2014, 08:43:06 PM: JCVD was a really good movie, definitely not something I ever expected him to do.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: sarslip on September 17, 2014, 03:52:08 PM: Quote from: toku on September 14, 2014, 08:24:39 PM
Nah, Bloodsport still the goat. Bolo plays a fucking great villain but the tall ass dude from Kickboxer is underrated:
http://youtu.be/xs0vCPWXbe0
http://youtu.be/JeL35cDGLyk

Bolo would destroy you in the ring, but this dude looks like he would go fuck your mother and sisters after he's done dismantling you.

that score, I should sample this shit.

One of the things I love about Kickboxer too is how they try to sell Van Damme as the good but not great sparring partnet at the start and how his buddy doesn't give a fuck about styles. "A kicks a kick, a punch is a punch" lol

The quickest way to defeat is to underestimate the ability of your enemies breh
spoiler (click to show/hide)
and not listen to your cornermanp
[close]

As a kid, the dude from Kickboxer was a way scarier villain than Bolo, and the whole movie was way less campy, and more someone-could-have-their-head-explode-at-any-moment, than Bloodsport. But, Bloodsport is definetely the more entertaining and rewatchable of the two.

Depends on my mood, but I give the edge to Kickboxer cause it was the first R rated movie I've ever seen; bias. That being said my favorite side character in any of them is Ray Jackson in BS. "i ain't your pal dickface."
:lol

Quote from: Esch on September 14, 2014, 08:22:02 PM
:beli @ the chick ratting out the tournament to the cops, but staying around to watch the blood drenched drama of the finals.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/5020170317_776542bbd2.jpg)

Cynthia was a down ass bitch. That side boob.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on September 17, 2014, 04:56:20 PM: I love that Forrest Whitaker is in Bloodsport, and I love that he's in it after already being in Platoon, Good Morning Vietnam, and right before his starring role in Bird. Has he ever told stories about it in interviews? He can't not have something interesting to say about it.

also, holy shit are those latter day John Hyams Van Damme films f**king amazing. Essential viewing for action fans.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510JH31vS0L.jpg)
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: toku on September 17, 2014, 05:12:48 PM: Hyams Sr and Jr both been killing it. I've been telling people for a few years now but if you grow up on the action films of the 80s and 90s, theres a little bit of a classic action movie renaissance going on in the direct to dvd market. Michael Jai White, Scott Adkins, Hyams etc. all putting in serious work.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 17, 2014, 05:13:24 PM: Amazing movie ive seen many times.

Can we please add that emoticon from the op to our database? We dont have enough emoticons that mean business!
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Momo on September 17, 2014, 05:15:58 PM: :bolo
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 17, 2014, 06:10:21 PM: Kill your opponents and if you start to lose, throw crap in their eyes. #bolo
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 18, 2014, 01:36:22 AM: :bolo
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 18, 2014, 01:36:38 AM: :(
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: sarslip on September 18, 2014, 12:01:16 PM: Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 17, 2014, 06:10:21 PM
Kill your opponents and if you start to lose, throw crap in their eyes. #bolo

raises an interesting point, Tong Po wasn't tryin to cheat. He went the psychological torment, get inside your opponents head, route

"You bleed like Mylee! Mylee... good fuck!"

(http://i.imgur.com/lrWnOZt.png)

This scene was mindblowing.

Nothing unfair about it, because you both get to dip your hands in glass
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Rufus on September 18, 2014, 01:46:31 PM: Quote from: Esch on September 18, 2014, 01:40:18 PM
the eventual plan should be to replace all coli smilies with bore homegrowns
Aw yes. Some are going to be really hard to replace though.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: T234 on September 18, 2014, 01:49:39 PM: This is the Bore. We do not lose emoticons. But we must gain :Bolo
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 18, 2014, 02:13:46 PM: Quote from: Esch on September 18, 2014, 01:40:18 PM
i am 100% in favor of replacing :ufup with (http://i.minus.com/jBirOQoRVxMrb.png)

the eventual plan should be to replace all coli smilies with bore homegrowns

Amen

Bore home grown or nothing!
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: naff on September 18, 2014, 07:54:31 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on September 16, 2014, 08:43:06 PM
JCVD was a really good movie, definitely not something I ever expected him to do.

He comes across much better using his native language (surprise). that monologue scene blew my mind.....

really the whole film kinda blew my mind, so heartfelt, such emotion, JCVD revealing that true strength is not physical :ohhh
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: bork on September 18, 2014, 09:28:55 PM: :bolo

:)

But getting rid of the other one? No way.

:ufup
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 18, 2014, 09:29:27 PM: look at this mothafukka up here, adding smilies and shit

:bolo
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: bork on September 18, 2014, 09:31:50 PM: Hmm...need someone pointing down to complete it.

:ufup :bolo :umad
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: chronovore on September 18, 2014, 10:44:42 PM: Quote from: Esch on September 18, 2014, 01:40:18 PM
i am 100% in favor of replacing :ufup with (http://i.minus.com/jBirOQoRVxMrb.png)

the eventual plan should be to replace all coli smilies with bore homegrowns

Yes, please.
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: team filler on March 09, 2021, 11:54:01 AM: ::)
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 09, 2021, 12:15:34 PM: (https://i.imgur.com/DUKndi1.png)

same
Title: Re: Bloodsport is the best Hollywood martial arts movie of the 80s
Post by: MMaRsu on March 09, 2021, 12:47:42 PM: How come you couch him but not me?