Stars in Rewind: YouTubing the Top 10 Jackie Chan Fight Scenes
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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(Page 1)2. 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?
Posted at 2:21PM on May 8th 2008 by Erik Davis
3. 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.
Posted at 3:10PM on May 8th 2008 by Akbar Fazil
4. Oh, my, god. Mild foul language written in BOLD. Fuck me sideways. Yeah, I said it. :o
Posted at 4:12PM on May 8th 2008 by treqie
5. 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.
Posted at 8:58PM on May 8th 2008 by Spyder
6. Benny the Jet...
Hey that was that guy from Grosse Point Blank!
Posted at 10:07PM on May 8th 2008 by NamePending
7. Benny the Jet has been John Cusack's kickboxing trainer for some time. He also played one of the ghosts in 1408.
Posted at 10:58AM on May 9th 2008 by jeffus
8. Why does John Cusack have a kickboxing trainer? Just for fun?
Posted at 11:02AM on May 9th 2008 by Eugene Novikov
9. "The angry video game nerd" GIVE PROPS! And this blog did not give credit where credit is due! SO GIVE IT UP!
JAMES "THE ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD"!!!!
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Posted at 12:58PM on May 9th 2008 by John
1. Oh, my, god. Foul language. WATCH OUT!
Posted at 1:12PM on May 8th 2008 by treqie