Comments on: Dirty Ho (1979) http://www.kungfucinema.com/dirty-ho-1979-9138 Screen Fighting News & Review Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:25:39 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nigel Clarke http://www.kungfucinema.com/dirty-ho-1979-9138/comment-page-1#comment-14387 Nigel Clarke Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:42:40 +0000 http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=9138#comment-14387 Good review... I enjoyed this movie, but as you mentioned it is really an appetizer. The fighting sequences were executed well though. Good review… I enjoyed this movie, but as you mentioned it is really an appetizer. The fighting sequences were executed well though.

]]> By: jiujitsu77 http://www.kungfucinema.com/dirty-ho-1979-9138/comment-page-1#comment-14384 jiujitsu77 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:40:07 +0000 http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=9138#comment-14384 "Lau was never big on strong narrative or meaningful drama and DIRTY HO is probably one of the best examples. Yet far from being a fault, this allows us to focus on simply enjoying the fighting spectacle in its many forms."<br><br>It's funny you say this. That was one of the things i came to conclude recently while watching this. Lau's films (to me at least) are comparable to that of Lucio Fulci's....in a sense that narrative takes a backseat to the film's well executed main attractions (ala the beyond) “Lau was never big on strong narrative or meaningful drama and DIRTY HO is probably one of the best examples. Yet far from being a fault, this allows us to focus on simply enjoying the fighting spectacle in its many forms.”

It's funny you say this. That was one of the things i came to conclude recently while watching this. Lau's films (to me at least) are comparable to that of Lucio Fulci's….in a sense that narrative takes a backseat to the film's well executed main attractions (ala the beyond)

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