4.0 out of 5 stars
Trailers Galore!, July 11, 2002
This review is from: Bruce Lee:Kung Fu Mania [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I'm a Bruce Lee fan, but ironically enough, it wasn't the clips of him that I enjoyed the most about this tape. (Like most Bruce Lee fans, I've already seen "The Green Hornet" & clips from his child-star days.)
What I enjoyed most about this tape was the trailers from several of the 1970's kung-fu classics. Their exploitive b-movie sales approach is hilarious!
I was also pleased to see the trailers from several of my favorite films put out by the Shaw Brothers. You get to see the trailers from "The 5 Deadly Venoms", "Duel of The Iron Fist", "Ten Tigers of Kwangtung", "The Flying Guilotine", "Killer From Shantung", "The Kid With The Golden Arm", "Five Masters of Death", "The Chinatown Kid", & many others. (I just wish they had the trailer for "Master Killer"!)
This isn't a feature film or a documentary in the conventional sense. It's a compilation tape. Some of the clips have lost their picture quality & they haven't been enhanced for full clarity (that's why I give it 4 instead of 5 stars), but it's still a comfortable & enjoyable expeirience nonetheless.
If you're a martial-arts fan & a collector of memorabilia, then this tape is definately for you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
MORE KUNG FU THAN YOU CAN SHAKE 3-SECTIONAL STICK AT!!, June 30, 2001
This review is from: Bruce Lee:Kung Fu Mania [VHS] (VHS Tape)
If YOU GREW UP IN THE SEVENTIES OR EIGHTIES ON A STEADY DIET OF BLACK BELT/KUNG FU THEATRE, THEN THIS IS THE TAPE FOR YOU! THIS TAPE IS FILLED WITH MOVIE TRAILERS AND SCENES FROM A WIDE RANGE OF MOVIES FROM THE SEVENTIES MARTIAL ARTS EXPLOITATION GENRE! YOU WILL WITNESS BRUCE LEE IN ACTION FILLED CLIPS RANGING THE ENTIRITY OF HIS CELLULOID CAREER:GREEN HORNET, BIG BOSS, WAY OF THE DRAGON,ETC. REMIND YOURSELF OF BRUCE LEE'S LEGACY BY VIEWING THE COUNTLESS IMITATORS TO HIS MARTIAL CROWN:BRUCE LI, LE,AND MORE! RELIVE THE WONDER OF THE CLASSIC SHAW BROS. CREATIONS SUCH AS "THE ALL POWERFUL WHITE HERMIT", "THE KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARM", AND THE INIMITABLE "FIVE DEADLY VENOMS"! DON'T WAIT. STEP INTO THIS VIDEO TIME CAPSULE AND REOPEN THE CURTAINS OF KUNG FU THEATRE THROUGH VIEWING OLD MEMORIES OR JUST MAKE SOME NEW ONES. OSU!
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Buyer Beware, August 24, 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: Bruce Lee:Kung Fu Mania [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is not a Bruce lee movie collection its 3 tapes with Bruce Li and Bruce Le and documentaries on Bruce. Just wanted to let the people know.The movies are very low budget too. Although I did enjoy there movie that was about bruce le they made him seem like a tough guy completley the oppisite of dragon a bruce lee story
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