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Shaolin Drunkard

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There are some good fight scenes and a good story in this one along with widescreen and 5.1,but it shoots itself in the foot with that way over the top asian film humor,dont get me wrong I like alot of the comedy/Kung Fu films just not this one becouse they go to far not taking the film itself serious.If you want some funny Fu get "drunken master"the new or old one there both great or Snake in the eagles shadow.I cannot recommend Shaolin Drunkard.

This is an early example of director Yuen Woo Ping's work. The video quality is superb(widescreen),although I would recommend getting the DVD for an additional 5 dollars.It is LOADED with extra features that the VHS doesn't have.

all i have to say is this is the movie that hooked me on kung fu... and ive never seen a better one. the flaming hand fight scene, the ring fight scenes, GODDAMN this movie is good. also check out the sweeeeet handshake. if you see it email me and tell me what you think of it

With that being said, the subtitles are black outlined, so why they took the effort to put them on, I don't know. You can only watch the movie in english, but the subs don't come. There isn's a ton of hand to hand type stuff in this, so the subs aren't that distracting, but the fact they are there pisses me off. If they advertised this as an english version with good chinese subtitles, hen I guess someone who knows cantonese characters will enjoy this, other than that, they serve no purpose. So you have been warned of the subs.

Now onto the movie--really good, but taoism drunkard is better. This movie has very good performances my everybody, decent sroryline, and really weird monster stunts. If you like funny movies and UNIQUE experiences in general, this movie is for you.

I was very pleased with the content of this DVD both on screen and the extra feature materials.The transfer quality is superb for both sound(5.1) and film(widescreen).The movie itself is an earlier work of Yuen Woo Ping,and it holds up nicely.The extras are plentiful-previews(18 of them),cast and crew bios with alot of bonus clips for each actor(too many to count),and alot of Wu Tang Clan extras-live performances,interviews,etc.Also a couple of behind the scenes featurettes.Overall a very good buy. I would also suggest the following-Fearless Master,Snake Shadow Lama Fist,Kung Fu of the 8 Drunkards and Incredible Kung Fu Master,which are all under the Wu Tang Clan series.

I recently ordered this movie from Amazon hoping to watch this wonderfully bizarre piece of kung fu again. It is one of my favorite martial arts movies that I haven't seen in years. Well, they got the cover right, but the dvd in the sleeve was a dvr of Shaolin Drunk Fighter. Wrong movie and not even a legitimate copy. Close but no cigar.

Shaolin Drunkard is a lost 70's classic, choreographed and performed by the Yuen clan, and directed by Yuen Woo Ping, who was later famous for his choreography work on Drunken Master, The Matrix Trilogy and the Kill Bills. Although this is one of my favorite Hong Kong films of all time, this is not what one would expect from a Hong Kong kungfu comedy. It's not that there aren't many amazing fights, it's that the film is also full of slapstick comedy, chinese magic, mythological fighting techniques, a little bit of wire work, and an insane soundtrack full of 70's analog synthesizer effects. If you don't enjoy silliness, taoist magical mayhem, blood drinking sorcerers, and a demented love interest, this film may irritate you. I love all of the above, so this was right up my alley. An essential for fans of the Yuen Clan's masterful work. Unfortunately, I cannot find any versions of this film with the original audio and original laguage, only english overdub.

I had the same problem as someone else who said that the disc would skip and pause and play at random, and when trying to access special features it would make a low beeping noise and just shut off.

The part of the movie I did see was okay, it's just too bad that it started acting up when it was about to get really good. If the movie alone is available possibly not presented by the Wu-Tang Clan or Ground Zero, I'd give it a go.

This is for products only! Morons! Anyways! I bought a
copy of Shaolin Drunkard by Ground Zero Ent. Man, GZ Ent. are a
bunch of uneducated mongoloids! This copy I got, the DVD would
keep pausing and playing over and over again! And when you
upload the extras, these squares would appear out of nowhere and
the DVD will stop playing! So word to the wise, don't get the
Ground Zero version copy, not unless you're one of those people
who are easily amused by train wreck products!

The movie itself is like Miricle Fighters and Taoism Drunkard!
Alot of weird crap with some nifty kung fu and Cantonese humor!

This movie is horrible, not at all what the box sets it out to be, i was mad as hell when i got done watching this film. Only should be seen by real martial arts film fanatics, cause there the only ones that could get something out of it.

bad movie