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Jackie Chan vs. Benny The Jet

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4I5bNg8Kik
Wow! This is the BEST martial art duel of ALL TIME, in my opinion! They move fast as hell, and Jackie is definitely in his prime. It's so awesome when Benny puts out the candles with a lightning fast kick.


What is your number one favorite martial art fight of ALL TIME?

Pick just your #1
 
Yeah that's an amazing fight.

Iirc Beni didn't know how to hold back (since he was used to fighting for real) and a lot of the hitting was real. Wouldn't be surprised if this is true because there was a lot of legit looking pain on Jackie's face numerous times.

Jackie's fight against the little guy in Gorgeous is pretty awesome too.
 
Can I count the entire factory sequence in Drunken Master 2 as one long fight?
 
Nisa65 said:
Final fight from Drunken Master 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oFBlM_o8zc

Easily the best fight in a martial arts movie as far as I'm concerned.

Arguably Jackie's best film too.
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Scenes like this and Police Story are what happens when Jackie has a bad experience in Hollywood or someone tells him that you can't push Kung fu movies further.

In other words, someone in Hollywood needs to insult Jackie Chan so he can show the children how to make a fucking fight scene.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
Scenes like this and Police Story are what happens when Jackie has a bad experience in Hollywood or someone tells him that you can't push Kung fu movies further.

In other words, someone in Hollywood needs to insult Jackie Chan so he can show the children how to make a fucking fight scene.
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Haha, true.

Jackie makes Battle Creek Bawl in US, gets discouraged with Hollywood, goes back home and makes Project A, revolutionizing action cinema.

Jackie comes back to America and ends up making The Protector, hated it, and goes back home to revolutionize action cinema again with Police Story.

With Drunken Master 2, it's his own Hong Kong industry that said period kung fu movies were too abundant and overplayed, especially with the wuxia craze back in the 90s, but makes it anyway and blows everyone away.
 
HomerSimpson-Man said:
Haha, true.

Jackie makes Battle Creek Bawl in US, gets discouraged with Hollywood, goes back home and makes Project A, revolutionizing action cinema.

Jackie comes back to America and ends up making The Protector, hated it, and goes back home to revolutionize action cinema again with Police Story.

With Drunken Master 2, it's his own Hong Kong industry that said period kung fu movies were too abundant and overplayed, especially with the wuxia craze back in the 90s, but makes it anyway and blows everyone away.
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Exactly. Someone needs to insult his honor again. Like, the worst insult to his honor ever. Because I want to see his response.
 
TrAcEr_x90 said:
I know you said martial arts, but I always loved this fight scene. I feel its a really well shot and executed scene. Closest to movie realism I've scene..

Crying Fist fight scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yT23rwYcEg
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Loved this movie. Probably the only movie ever to make me feel conflicted about who I wanted to win in the end. You have two protagonists built up on equal footing and then they go at it in the end.

This is the kind of Korean movie I wished people saw...not Oldboy....
 
Jokergrin said:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4I5bNg8Kik
Wow! This is the BEST martial art duel of ALL TIME, in my opinion! They move fast as hell, and Jackie is definitely in his prime. It's so awesome when Benny puts out the candles with a lightning fast kick.


What is your number one favorite martial art fight of ALL TIME?

Pick just your #1
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I keep replaying 1:52, and I cannot comprehend how a person pull off a kick like that with such ease and familiarity, it's like walking to him.
 
Jokergrin said:
wheelsonmeals_x.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4I5bNg8Kik
Wow! This is the BEST martial art duel of ALL TIME, in my opinion! They move fast as hell, and Jackie is definitely in his prime. It's so awesome when Benny puts out the candles with a lightning fast kick.


What is your number one favorite martial art fight of ALL TIME?

Pick just your #1
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Jackie was outmatched and kept getting hit. Then he just rubs his wounds and he becomes a better fighter while his opponent slips. Benny the Jet should have won this one, fair and square, within the first minute.
 
Instigator said:
Jackie was outmatched and kept getting hit. Then he just rubs his wounds and he becomes a better fighter while his opponent slips. Benny the Jet should have won this one, fair and square, within the first minute.
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He sat down and rethought his strategy.
 
Sound design in old martial arts movies always takes me out, it's just so poor lol. :P

And man I don't know if it's really my number one fight but right now I'm thinking about Donnie Yen vs 10 karatekas in Ip Man. It's not just gorgeously choreographed but unlike most martial arts fight there's a lot of emotional impact as well.
 
Freshmaker said:
He sat down and rethought his strategy.
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Yep. It's not that Benny was slipping, it was simply because Jackie's character took a different approach to the fight. Jackie went in all aggressive in the fight in which Benny was getting the better of him, and said it to himself he wished he trained more, so he did what he would do, he cooled his head and treated it like a friendly spar. Jackie an took any space between them to sike Benny out and just came off more relaxed versus how heated he was coming into the fight. Jackie switched from being all aggressive to completely sizing Benny up, he started dodging and counterattacking more, throwing fakes to see how Benny would react, messing with Benny. Jackie's rising heel kick as a counter at 1:52-3 in the video is incredible.

The great thing about this fight is that it's not about completely dominating one side, it's about how both fighters react to each other because they are so well matched. I love it so much, the rhythm and flow of the fight, the back and forth game of hits, counters, and movement, sizing each other up. It's only when Jackie finally got one good clean hit into Benny's face with that right kick to left punch combo that it was winding down, which took a lot of work to get to.

It really is probably the greatest martial arts fight ever.
 
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