Dragon Lord

early jackie chan movie sure is... early jackie chan movie. it's good that he had these playgrounds to test out what would later take much better shape, this one in particular an extremely proto-legend of drunken master. the only part of note that sets it apart from just about every other kung fu movie at the time (and that didn't invite me to a catnap) is when they play extreme hacky sack. it's one of those things where it almost feels like blatant showboating what the human body is capable of in theory. in theory, communism works. read more

i don't really know what to say about dragon lord... in some ways i liked it. the sports competitions and the fight at the end were all good. but...in some parts i was so bored that i almost turned it off to pick it up later. the comedy was a bit too zany and some parts did go on for an awfully long time. some of this might be because the jokes are lost in translation...i don't know, but what i do know is that dragon lord won't be high up on my rewatch list. read more

el jovencito confuso jackie chan vive una vida despreocupada en su pueblo practicando las versiones más extremas y acojonantes del rugby y el fútbol que verás jamás, y aunque su padre, que es el chino con la cara de chino enfadao más enfadao que verás jamás lo pone a estudiar, jackie piensa que pa' qué va a estudiar si a el lo que le apasiona es repartir mantecaos. así que se pasa el día con su primo el tolili y sus amigos maricón y tontico del dojo de su padre, zascandileando por el pueblo y persiguiendo las faldas de muchachita china calientaporongas a la que jackie le quiere enseñar "el... read more