Stars in Rewind: YouTubing the Top 10 Jackie Chan Fight Scenes
Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Stars in Rewind
Jackie Chan has been leaning hard on cheesy American comedies and adventure flicks recently, but of course that's not how he made a name for himself. The video above won't have anything new for Chan and Hong Kong martial arts aficianados, but to everyone else it's a great reminder of what he used to be capable of. I hadn't seen many of these scenes before (and hadn't even heard of Chan playing Chun Li in a Street Fighter spoof), and while the clips are short and the voiceover is at least as annoying as informative (watch for mild foul language), it's still a really nifty best-of. If you're not intimately familiar with his filmography, this will give you some Netflix recommendations.
You know, it's common knowledge that Chan is renowned for doing his own brutal stunts, but if you haven't seen his older stuff, it's hard to conceptualize how brutal they were. I had never run across this video's pick for the #1 Chan fight scene -- the climax of Dragons Forever -- and OOOOOOW! Just watching it is painful. If you want a more detailed view of Chan hurting himself through the years, there's this older compilation of the actor's best stunts from the same YouTuber.
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5-08-2008 @ 1:12PM
treqie said...
Oh, my, god. Foul language. WATCH OUT!
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5-08-2008 @ 2:21PM
Erik Davis said...
The voiceover is pretty annoying, but I now want to see a bunch of these films. That Street Fighter parody looked wonky -- what in the world was going on there?
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5-08-2008 @ 3:10PM
Akbar Fazil said...
Erik, the rest of the movie is SOOOOOO not worth it just to see the Street Fighter parody. Basically during a fight with a bad guy, Jackie gets slammed into a Street Fighter machine and the game transfers into him and it comes to life. Oh the pain there. The movie is easily one of Jackie's worst films.
I have to say that is a great list. Dragons Forever is definitely overlooked.
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5-08-2008 @ 4:12PM
treqie said...
Oh, my, god. Mild foul language written in BOLD. Fuck me sideways. Yeah, I said it. :o
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5-08-2008 @ 8:58PM
Spyder said...
The narrator I believe is "the angry nintendo nerd" and cursing is sort of his thing. He reviews the most frustrating games of yester-year and curses the entire time. Most of the time its pretty funny.
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5-08-2008 @ 10:07PM
NamePending said...
Benny the Jet...
Hey that was that guy from Grosse Point Blank!
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5-09-2008 @ 10:58AM
jeffus said...
Benny the Jet has been John Cusack's kickboxing trainer for some time. He also played one of the ghosts in 1408.
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5-09-2008 @ 11:02AM
Eugene Novikov said...
Why does John Cusack have a kickboxing trainer? Just for fun?
5-09-2008 @ 12:58PM
John said...
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