KUNG FU MOVIES

[shaolinstylee]

Glad to hear you watched it, it took me two times to remember which bro was which.

[feylahn]

If you want kung fu movies and lots of them, we found (and bought) a collection of 50 kungfu movies on 12 dvds from Big Lots ($20)

It has classics with actors such as Bruce Li and Sonny Chiba, and titles such as Street Fighter, Return of Street Fighter, Sister Street Fighter, Killer of Snakes Fox of Shaolin, etc.

Many many hours of kungfu movie fun

[zachsan]

Just watched The Protector. Easily one of the most absurd movies I've seen, but it contained possibly the Greatest Line in the History of Cinema:

"YOU KILLED MY FATHER! AND STOLE MY ELEPHANT!"

(This thread may be three years old but it never left my heart.)

[doc]

Go see Tropic Thunder.

Absolutely hysterical for a Ben Stiller movie.

[liutangsanzang]

Just watched Kung Fu Panda.

I thought it is not too violent for a gongfu movie, u dont see no dead or blood. Quite beautiful and philosophical: give up control, the empty scroll...

I wont mention that after Sun Wu Kong, the great dragon warrior is still a vegetarian because u r gonna tell me that pandas eat insects and that i m preaching again and highjacking a thread because gonfu movies have nothing to do with veg, which is the case in most gong fu movie, like an unquestioned habit pattern that transmits itself and does not consider the Shaolin tradition...

Om mani pedme hung

[zachsan]

Just watched Kung Fu Panda.

I thought it is not too violent for a gongfu movie, u dont see no dead or blood. Quite beautiful and philosophical: give up control, the empty scroll...

I wont mention that after Sun Wu Kong, the great dragon warrior is still a vegetarian...

He must think about other things sometimes. I mean, he has to... right?

[liutangsanzang]

Hope this on topic of Kung Fu movies.

One default to Kung Fu Panda is how the evil one is treated. I ve seen this default in many kung fu movies and seems to me a misunderstanding of Sakyamuni teaching about how to deal with criminals as we find in the Angulimala sutta.

The evil one, Tai Long, is put in jail, in a position where he cannot move for 2o years.

I think it is rather cruel and not very mind changing. Why the Sifus dont try to change his mind?

That would be more coherent with the angulimala sutta, where the buddha teaches a murderer what is the dhamma.

In many gongfu movie, not to mention american movies, the solution is to kill the evil one. In a reincarnation view that does not solve much and only brings the problem to another life. This view that killing solves the problem is even more tragic in reality and bring to such absurdities as the israelian army.

Om mani pedme hung

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