Jackie Chan: Search And Destroy

Jackie is the Buster Keaton of our age. Buster Keaton was so called because he was well known for Bustin' peoples noses. SO direct parallel their.

Its a bit of a pity that now Jackie is getting old he is starting to enter his Hollywood career. If they had got hold of him ten years ago we would never have had End Of Days. Still even Shanghai Noon is top comedy fun - though Police Story am be his best.

Search any film where he plays a character called Jackie. Destroy the Jackie Chan crtoon series. Why?

― Pete, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Drunken Master, Rumble in the Bronx

Destroy: Rush Hour, Mr. Nice Guy, Supercop

― Jeff, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bed bound with flu, partner hires video to cheer-me-up. Only in art- house box I find JC's 'Rumble in the Bronx'. JC single-handedly taking on the Bronx's baddest biker-gang. Chan can't act, the plot was pitiful with this wierd semi-dubbed dialogue. Yet the slapstick fight-scenes were hilarious, and strangely beautiful. Most entertaining.

― stevo, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

rumble in the bronx was great because it was filmed in vancouver, british columbia which explains the sparkling clean tree-lined streets of the bronx and the rocky mountains in the background.

― fritz, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The end of Rumble in the Bronx is weird. (If you haven't seen it yet look away now) Why do they have to run over the baddie in a hovercraft on the golf course?

― Jonnie, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i loathe wheels on meals

― ARR-SOLE, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love DRAGONS FOREVER. And as for Buster Keaton:

― Kodanshi, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

D'oh - that middle one should run:

― Kodanshi, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://static.wired.com/kino/95/34/feature/stuff/tea.time.or.bust .b.gifJust forget it...

― Kodanshi, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: DRUNKEN MASTER II! Clearly.

Destroy: Umm. Even the painful ones have a grain of worthiness, so I don't know.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Destroy: An Allan Smithee Film, where him 'n' Sly Stallone 'n' Whoopi Goldberg are the stars of the film within the film. I suspect he only did it to meet his idol Stallone.

He was filming around here recently, and I turned up and stood in the rain for a half-hour to get a glimpse of him. I genuinely can't think of another star I'd do that for.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gorgeous is the closest he's come to making an irredeemable movie (it's a romantic comedy, for God's sake), but the female lead in it is so cute and silly in the best way. She saves it. But I've enjoyed basically every other Jackie Chan movie I've seen. Favs: Rumble in the Bronx, Who Am I?, Shanghai Noon.

― palpable, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search: Cannonball Run and its sequel, obviously. Also the Bruce Lee movies where he worked stunts. His prop fighting is right up there with

Let's try that again. Search: Cannonball Run and its sequel, obviously. Also the Bruce Lee movies where he worked stunts. His prop fighting is right up there with Sabu (only with less of an air of pathos/gravity). Perhaps he is to Sabu what Arnold is to Sly, a cartoonish parody of the violent soul. I don't like the comedy bits at all.

― Kris, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Search : The ones with the friendly uncle or female figure that keep slapping him. Or Drunken Master.

― Mr Noodles, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Forget the flicks, he's truly immortalized now: http://www.xbox365.com/ktalk/995990548,46063,.shtml

― Jason, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've always been partial to Wheels on Meals, myself.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the porrno 'amour of sod' is better, jerkie is gngbngd by sammo hung's lost tribe - would i lie

― nu recruit at langley, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think there's been a few Jackie Chan computer games by now. I remember one called stuntmaster. Plus the appearance of Schmackie Schman in Tekkens from 2 onwards.

― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― monkey, Saturday, 29 May 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

destroy: this man

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 29 May 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Search - The Young Master, Dragons Forever, Police Story series, Snake in the Eagles Shadow, Project A... basically all the classic Hong Kong films from the late seventies to the late eighties.

Destroy - Battle Creek Brawl, Rush Hour et al... Jackie in Hollywood is not quite the same, and really destroy City Hunter as it is pap.

His Category 3 debut, Island of Fire, is just kind of mediocre.

Jackie still rules.

― CRW (CRW), Saturday, 29 May 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/08/09/arts/10rush-600.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 August 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/images/_38671001_holding.jpg

― kingfish, Friday, 10 August 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

where is the LOVE for fantasy mission force?

― Will M., Friday, 10 August 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

I love that insane film.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 August 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Man, Rush Hour 3 is a shitty movie.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 13 August 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=rushhour3.htm

they spent $140M on this thing

― kingfish, Monday, 13 August 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

search, the movie where a whole scene shows him trying to eat his noodles at his desk while answering numerous telephones.

― Ste, Monday, 13 August 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

"Man, Rush Hour 3 is a shitty movie."

Yup.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 13 August 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

"only with less acrobatics than previous Chan pictures."
...
"As with the earlier movies, musical numbers are highlights. Tucker starts the movie with a rendition of Prince's "Do Me, Baby," and Chan's best moment is when he joins Tucker in a performance of Roberta Flack's "The Closer I Get to You" at a French night club.."

These movies sound shit

― Ste, Monday, 13 August 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Jackie sez... my US movies suck.

http://www.cinematical.com/2007/10/01/jackie-chan-thanks-for-watching-my-movies-american-suckers/

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Jackie was kinda screwed when he came to America - there was no way he could go the Chow Yun Fat route and make a bid for dramatic leading man/"serious actor" status, and he couldn't stay behind in HK and continue working as he had in the past.

The first Rush Hour is okay.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 1 October 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jackiechankids.com/images_2/Sun_sushi_1.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 February 2008 10:44 (seventeen years ago)

from Subway Cinema (Asian film in NY) newsletter:

Jackie Chan's grim, downbeat crime film, THE SHINJUKU INCIDENT, opens this weekend at the Loews on the corner of Third Avenue and 11th Street. It's not a perfect film, but it's a big, expansive saga telling the tale of a Chinese immigrant in Japan becoming a crimelord. No stunts from Jackie this time - he's just acting as hard as he can.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 February 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

Completely forgot how bad Rush Hour was when I saw it for $5 at Safeway. I bought it for my kid, who likes the cartoon and Police Story and Forbidden Kingdom.

Now all week his line has been "Can you understand the words coming out of my mouth?" : (

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 4 February 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

nice turnout for Police Story last night at Lincoln Ctr, which has 4 amazing set pieces: two cars crashing through a hillside village (app ripped off by Bad Boys 2), JC dangling from an umbrella hooked onto a bus, a fight where he and the baddies fly into and out of cars, and the celebrated mall finale w/ broken glass everywhere.

I like him in comedic mode when he's mugging and getting hit in the face w/ cakes by angry women too.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:25 (thirteen years ago)

NYC retro in June, incl ("sold-out") personal appearance:

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/the-jackie-chan-experience

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 May 2013 13:53 (twelve years ago)

I need to know why Tombot hated City Hunter.

Jackie speaks at Lincoln Center:

http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/jackie-chan-video-chinese-zodiac-new-york-asian-film-festival

― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 04:22 (twelve years ago)

did you see city hunter, morbs??

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 11:10 (twelve years ago)

no! it's playing at this fest on Weds but doubt I will go that night, esp as it is on YT in its entirety (w/ hilariously bland English dub of JC).

― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 14:09 (twelve years ago)

it's great, i must have watched it 10x as a kid. pure hk slapstick

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 14:11 (twelve years ago)

Really jealous of people who get to attend that - anyone catch Miracles?

― etc, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 09:02 (twelve years ago)

Peppers are your friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4mQ-4FgqYE

― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 11:20 (twelve years ago)

I had no recollection that a Blake Edwards hide-in-the-doorways farce breaks out in the middle of Project AII.

― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 14:42 (twelve years ago)

https://newrepublic.com/article/152848/painful-price-becoming-jackie-chan

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:02 (six years ago)

never read anything about your heroes or people you even vaguely like.

― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:21 (six years ago)

I still quite like him after reading that - as it says its quite sad.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:04 (six years ago)

Get in those orders for the forthcoming @Criterion release of Jackie Chan's Police Story/ Police Story 2, with liner notes by your single favorite living writer, me: https://t.co/OWVI7Md2nF
— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@NickPinkerton) January 15, 2019

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:45 (six years ago)

Sorry, Vice artice, still it's all correct.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqkn5/heres-why-jackie-chan-is-really-unpopular-in-hong-kong

― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:13 (five years ago)

Obviously Jackie Chan rules. But I watched Police Story 3 with my nephew last night, the first time I'd see it in over 30 years, and aside from a handful of stunts (of course) it just didn't hold up as well as I remembered it. He's charming, those stunts are cool but the movie was kinda an incoherent/convoluted mess, lol, like it was missing a few scenes or something (I saw the original cut). Police Story 1 held up much better on a recent rewatch, as did (more or less) Armour of God 2, though that one is pretty dumb (by design) and dated.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 December 2025 22:31 (two weeks ago)