Donnie Yen: My movie can beat up your movie!

I don't give a damn about $, dominance, all I know is Ong bak is hugely overrated, and that The transporteur sucked big time (lame action, horribly filmed, Besson style...what's with Besson outside France? This guy has produced almost only bad bad bad bad bad movies...and Banlieue 13, come on, that was so bad...).

But I wanna see Danny the dog, that's for sure...

By the way, the fight between Jet Li and Donnie Yen in Once upon a time in China 2 is pure genius, 1000000 times better than all Ong bak. That's not just my opinion, that's a fact!!!!!!!!!

I'm pretty sure Wilson Yip (who has done some AWESOME work in the past with Bullets Over Summer, Bio-Zombie, and Juliet in Love) is in charge of this one, and not Donnie. I'm not a fan of Donnie's directing either.

Donnie's credited as action director, working with long time collaborator Kenji Tanigaki..if it wasn't for his online blog, few people would have known how shooting early on was going.

Damn, hit post before I wanted to add that his directing needs work...seems to fall short on his quest to tell a story. Can't comment on filming techniques, I know shit from shinola when it comes to that, but the overall pkg fails to deliver story-wise..too many disconnects happen.

MY GREETINGS TO ALL OF YOU

Im Dugi and I practice Jeet kune do [kung fu] for a long time. I like very much kung fu movies and masters of kung fu. also I see ong bak for my first time and he is very nice,after chinese kung fu masters. but best of the best is only one man!!??? his name is BRUCE LEE !! not just for martial art, but for everything!!

sincerely from
DUGI
Kosovo
www.taodugi-junfangungfu-chn.com

Dear oh dear, this has certainly rubbed people up the wrong way.
Axleu, you think OUATIC 2 is better than ong bak! Seriously, its typical of what most movies in that time period where like, gravity defying leaps, bordering on flying, whilst I enjoyed the Yen Li fight, its not the best work of either artist. Li surpassed all previous offerings with Fist Of Legend, his best work in my opinion. And Yen is right in a way, ong bak is amazing, but it is formulaic and would be rubbish if not for the action scenes. Ja is fantastically talented athletically, but didnt choreograph the fights, where as yen has done both. Ong bak was huge breath of fresh air for the industry, but I think SPL will be fantastic, Yen is known for his self confidence, but he has backed it up on film. We need new innovative ideas, or the martial arts movie will fall back into the Van Damme era, badly scripted, badly directed but with a few good fights, we need more, and Yen is offering more.
And another thing, both the Transporter and Banlieue 13 are excellent action movies.

My comment is all of them Jet Li, Jacky Chan ,Donny Yen or Panom Yeerum (Ong Bak ) are the best on there actions skills.
Just Ong Bak is the brand new film original film from theiland and thai style it is some thing is difference so what ever.( PS I hate chinese but i like chinese film and I am pround to be thai)

In SPL, I saw the old fat guy and the skinny jerk flighing together make me laugh 'coz of its stupid moves for 40 seconds. This movie is very bad and we should not spend any cent to this sucker, besides, donney yen sucks!!!

Hello everyone

I truly enjoy kung fu movies when they have great choreography like IRON MONKEY, FIST OF LEGEND, etc. The thing I would personally like to see is the combination of talent in filmation. You need martial arts masters to choreograph fight scenes, but you also need to have film masters to tell a great story like was done in SHAW SHANK REDEMPTION, as well as great cinematography masters. If this isn't done, then we'll continue to see sub par kung fu films. Another thing that I think should be done is the elemination of wirework in martial arts films. To me, the "high jumping" special effects ruin a fight scene. A fight scene is so much better when there are little or no special effects involved. Of course you need to have certain wirework involved for safety reason, but short of that, a fight scene is more captivating when it seems real. I can't stand it when people fly in the air or walk on water or jump from the ground to a roof top. It turns the fight scene into a comedy. I could understand having it if it's a film like KUNG FU HUSTLE, but when it's a story that is supposed to serious, "wirework" should not be used if possible. The fight choreography should be more than enough.

How's it going everybody -

I truly enjoy kung fu movies when they have great choreography like IRON MONKEY, FIST OF LEGEND, etc. The thing I would personally like to see is the combination of talent in filmation. You need martial arts masters to choreograph awesome fight scenes, but you also need to have film masters to tell a great story, like was done in SHAW SHANK REDEMPTION, as well as having great cinematography masters to show the best views possible. If this isn't done, then we'll continue to see sub par kung fu films. Another thing that I think should be done is the elemination of wirework in martial arts films. To me, the "high jumping" special effects ruin a good fight scene. It's like having a tastey meal and then biting into a frozen piece of meat. A fight scene is so much better when there are little or no special effects involved. Of course, you need to have certain wirework involved for safety reasons, but short of that, a fight scene is more captivating when it seems real. I can't stand it when movies show people fly in the air or walk on water or jump from the ground to a rooftop. It turns the fight scene into a comedy. I could understand having it if it's a film like KUNG FU HUSTLE, but when it's a story that's supposed to be serious, "wirework" should be kept to a minimum. The fight choreography, if it's done well, should be more than enough. Regarding Donnie Yen, he should stick with the fight choreography team he was involved with in IRON MONKEY, without the wirework, of course, and he needs a talented movie director. Donnie Yen is an amazing talent himself. He just needs to surround himself with the right people. His production team should identify talented directors of movies that actually do their job storywise and try to arrange for Donnie to work with them if possible, but that's just my opinion.

Fist of Legend set the bar.
Ong Bak raised it much, much higher.
Tom Yum Goong breaks the action bar and throws it in the bin.
They are after all only movies, not rocket science.
But thats just my opinion.

"And another thing, both the Transporter and Banlieue 13 are excellent action movies."

No.

"Axleu, you think OUATIC 2 is better than ong bak!"

Yes.

Dear Man

I am labi from kosova, I practick kung fu, I am going to the str. TAO, I like, Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Jacki Chan,etc.actors chines kung fu, because there are very good actors.

My webe site is labi-kungfu.com maybe is close because for a problem... my email is. labi_120@hotmail.com

Thank so much for intersting for kung fu and for love Chines.

with respect : Labi

On be half of people here, we are really enjoyed seeing donnieyen's movies and we are big.....fans and hope Yen will be play leading role in the movies that he makes .

HELLO

Im Dugi and I practice [kung fu] for a long time. I like very much kung fu movies and masters of kung fu. also I see ong bak its good,after chinese kung fu masters!. but best of the best is only one man!!??? his name is BRUCE LEE !! not just for martial art, but for everything!!also best place for martrial art and movies is only China [wudang and shaolin and great hua mountain [taoists].also i think this; who think it is better of any chinese masters, i suggest him to go in Wudang or shaolin to try fighting!!. also who think its better of chinese movie masters, i have question for him; which are Jackie chan, Bruce lee and Sammo hung?? [No comment forever] !.
kind regards for very best fan of CHINA in the world

DUGAGJIN [DUGI] dugi_china@hotmail.com
from KOSOVO !!