Good Movie Fight Scenes - where?

I recommend checking out “Walking Tall” with The Rock. There’s a number of fight scenes in there and from my memory most of them are fairly long camera shots (relatively speaking). He wrecks a casino and then the final fight scene is pretty damn good too.

Seriously Askia, I think your tunnel-vision with race poltics doesn’t play into this. “Danny the Dog” sounds like a movie about a DOG. For the kind of movie that the marketing people wanted to push it as- That is pretty much the shittiest title second only to “Flowers: The Musical”. The mainstream action movie audience that goes to Jet Li films in America like titles that sometimes make no sense but still have an aura of “badassness” to them.

Unleashed is actually a pretty fitting title for the movie but Danny the Dog is a more artistic choice.

I think the fight scenes in the first Transporter were the most satisfying fights on film in a long time.

Very different enviroments, no banter, just gritty.

Get you some!

Badassed titles like Letter To Daddy, The Tuxedo, Shaolin Soccer, The One and the *Rush Hour * series? :stuck_out_tongue:

Given the other marketing changes I’ve noted in post #56, I still think the changes made were mainly PC-sensitivity driven. I will note for the record I also now believe in addition to that there were concerns about marketing the film to give it a “better” name.

More proof: This site is a nice one stop-observation post of the myriad of chronological changes this movie has gone through in its marketing to different cultures from itys debut to the DVD release. For example, the site echoes partly something I’ve been saying: in China it’s very bad form to call someone a dog, so the movie THERE is marketed under a *third * name, “The Tiger Is Out Of The Cage.” Also, if you look at the evolution of the posters, you can see EXACTLY what I’m talking about in terms of toning down direct references to Danny being treated as a subhuman. Morgan Freeman’s image is added to two different posters – and let’s face it Morgan Freeman’s name and image is a huge draw – and suddenly with no explanation is quickly withdrawn.

The guy who designed this page notes for another movie poster, “A lot of Chinese fans of Jet Li got very upset after seeing their big hero being collared and stepped under someone’s foot.” So you can see where the posters were changed AGAIN, and he adds, “The collar is gone.”

Also check out the differences in trailers. In the French and Hong Kong trailers Bob Hopkins comes off more explicitly vicious, abusive and racist than he does in the US version. In the US version, clips show Jet Li’s character as less vicious and more childlike. More “humorous” segments are shown, more time is spent in Morgan Freeman’s home with his adopted daughter.

Tuxedo is a comedy… Shaolin Soccer a comedy. RUSH(!) Hour… an action comedy.
Seriously those are your examples?

Try looking in the genre that Unleashed/Danny the Dog were more related to.

Cradle 2 the Grave, Kiss of the Dragon, Rise to Honor, Bulletproof Monk,

Unleashed actually even ties into the dog motif. “UnLEASHED”

james Caan correcting his brotherinlaw in the Godfather.