I remembr watching that movie as a kid, and being totally blown away by the skateboard scene… brilliant!
Yeah, Bo, I’ve seen
Cannonball Run
but that was such an ensemble cast (and really, how much of it is actually focused on Jackie?) that I wouldn’t say it was “a Jackie Chan movie”, but instead “a movie with Jackie Chan in it”.
Anyone read his autobiography (link here)? I read it when it first came out in paperback, and thoroughly enjoyed it. A lot of it made me go :eek:, though.
And unless I’ve somehow missed it, I would absolutely adore if someone got his old films, restored them and got decent dubbing, if not subtitles. Hell, pay him to go back and do his own voice (after hearing it, I hate hearing random people dubbing his characters; it’s just wrong).
I have “Half a Loaf of Kung Fu” on VHS. My God, is it horrible quality (and it’s not like I taped it from a friend’s copy of a copy of a copy). Shot on video which has horribly degraded, but at least it’s subtitled (I’m a language geek and love hearing movies’ original languages when at all possible). Unfortunately, the subtitles are white with no outline, and most of the time they’re on a light tan or near-white ground. :smack: They’re also off-center, more like halfway to the right, so you often miss the second part of sentences. Oh, and the Chinese subtitles are on top of the English ones, and often the subs get so low you can only see the Chinese and the top half of the English ones.
Because of these things, most of the time I had no clue what was going on! I was still able to enjoy the awesome fight scenes (and the hilarious moments), but damn, that was one confusing movie! I’d kill* to have that movie restored to (near) crystal clear clarity, with good subtitles (or very good dubbing).
Yep, that was the first I saw of Jackie Chan on screen.