What do you think of these movies?

[falkor]

1) Disciples Of Shaolin
How would you compare the choreography to:
Challenge Of The Masters
Boxer Rebellion
Savage Five
Heroes Two
Shaolin Martial Arts
? Would you say the fight scenes in Disciples' is above any of those?

2) Delightful Forest
What did you think of this film overall?

3) Magnificent Wanderes
Would you say its really that bad? Did you get through it alright? How would you rate the choreography in isolation; are the fight scenes comparable to other Venoms efforts?

4) Master Of Kung Fu
How would you rank this among the early 70s Shaw Brothers bashers? Would you say its a classic or damn right terrible film, or somewhere in-between?

Please share your opinions on any of the above you have watched.

[Markgway]

Delightful Forest
What did you think of this film overall?

Didn't care for it.

Magnificent Wanderes
Would you say its really that bad? Did you get through it alright?

I don't think it's unwatchable.

Master Of Kung Fu
How would you rank this among the early 70s Shaw Brothers bashers? Would you say its a classic or damn right terrible film, or somewhere in-between?

Neither classic nor tragic. It's a good, solid film and Ku Feng stars as Wong Fei-Hung.

[SamuraiDana]

1) Disciples Of Shaolin


2) Delightful Forest
What did you think of this film overall?




DELIGHTFUL FOREST was interesting to me primarily because of its connection to the classic Chinese text, "The Water Margin." It tells the story of Wu Song, the famous "Tiger Killer" who later joins the 108 Bandits. DELIGHTFUL FOREST (1972) tells the part of the story that comes after the events told in a later Shaw film, TIGER KILLER (1982). But it precedes the events of THE WATER MARGIN (1972) and ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS (1973). Ti Lung plays Wu Song in all four of these movies.

Here's an IMDB review of DELIGHTFUL FOREST:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068821/

Two other Shaw movies, both called THE AMOROUS LOTUS PAN (1964, 1992) tell part of the story as well.

[Iron Boat]

Disciples and Delightful Forest are must have, pass on Magnificent Wanderers

[Endsang]

1) Disciples Of Shaolin
How would you compare the choreography to:
Challenge Of The Masters
Boxer Rebellion
Savage Five
Heroes Two
Shaolin Martial Arts
? Would you say the fight scenes in Disciples' is above any of those?

I'd rate Disciples quite low compared to Chang Che's other Shaolin movies, but the choreo is pretty much on the same level as the movies you listed. Not much greater or worse.

2) Delightful Forest
What did you think of this film overall?

Liked this one alot. Best one in that particular storyline in my opinion, and I'd say it's a must see among Ti Lung's movies.

[KUNG FU BOB]

[QUOTE=falkor;79071]1) Disciples Of Shaolin
2) Delightful Forest
What did you think of this film overall?
QUOTE]

I'd have to rewatch DISCIPLES before I comment. It's been a long, long time since I saw it. But I love DELIGHTFUL FOREST. Ti Lung is fantastic in this, and I really dig the final bloody fight. I highly recommend this one.

[KyFi]

I first saw Magnificent Wanderers before the Celestial remasters, and at the time I thought it was laughably bad. But having seen SO many more Shaws since then, I find the remastered Magnificent Wanderers fairly entertaining. I mean, it's got the big stars, the same Shaw sets, costumes, cinematography, music, plot, etc. as all the Shaws of the era. But it does seem like the action scenes are unusually lame for a Shaw movie made at that time. Don't buy it for the fight scenes (although some of the trampoline stuff at the end is kind of neat).

[peringaten]

I honestly believe Disciples Of Shaolin is the finest all-round film Chang Cheh ever made; in turn I think it perhaps the finest kung fu film I've ever seen, one of the only to truly enamour me longstandingly. Chang Cheh's masterpiece.

[ironfistedmonk]

Disciples of Shaolin is a top film, choreo wise it's not as good as Challenge of the Masters, on a par with Heroes Two and Shaolin Martial Arts, better than Boxer Rebellion and Savage 5 IMO

Delightful Forest was a good film IMO, lots of the usual Chang Cheh bloody action and I quite like the Water Margin stories.

Magnificent Wanderers is poor, the action is really lame, the cast is wasted, nowhere near the regular Venoms movies actionwise

Master of Kung Fu was OK, nothing in it to make it stand out above any other bashers.