Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

[Drunk Monk]

A new Netflix doc everyone said I should see.  It's okay.  Great if you don't know anything about the history of Kung Fu cinema.  Kinda been there, done that if you do.  Three friends are in it, Matt Polly, Philip Ng and Eric Jacobus.  Way too much Ric Meyers.  Not enough Phillip, or Sammo, or Scott Adkins, and they missed some good points that they seemed to be leading to about YouTube and India with Eric.  Totally missed what's happening in PRC now.  A bit too heavy on the blaxploitation and focus on some obscure film there because the filmmaker was a talking head.  The last two bits about Oz and Africa were interesting.  I wish they'd credit all of the movies that they included in clips.  It was a bit too big of an undertaking really.

[Greg]

I thought it was pretty good. I was very happy to see Polly. I thought the tie-in to Hip Hop and Black culture was very interesting. But yes, there was a lot of that thread. They could have talked about Jackie and Sammo more. But that could be true about any of the threads they explored. Except the Hip-Hop thread.

[Drunk Monk]

This one was better - http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=6556

But they've retracted that already off YT due to copyright violation. Not sure where you might see it now.