Comments on: ‘Ip Man’ B.O. success spurs sequel

By: bitoy

bitoy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:49:08 +0000

cool movie, great choreography!…no flashy moves. does anyone knows of a wing chun academy in the philppines?hehe

By: zarma

zarma — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:16:13 +0000

Tie : all we see in this movie is a master of Wing Chun who is forced to beat Japanese fighters. That’s a big difference with what you just said.
In that, Ip Man is not a man of violence. But he’s not a man of art either. He was one of the last masters of a martial style whose only philosophy is to destroy the opponent the quickest as possible.
Wing Chun is no art. It’s Kung Fu, Chinese Boxing, whatever you want, but its finality is to win the fight without being hit and without giving the possibility to your opponent to raise again and carry on the fight.
In that, it’s not that different to many other martial styles… but Wing Chun was not made for films.
And as a Wing Chun student, I can say that what I saw in the Ip Man movie is much better than what I saw in Prodigal Son. Less flashy maybe, but more real.

By: Tie

Tie — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:34:40 +0000

In response to David and Logic

Am not saying Wing Chun as a martial art is bad or nothing. I have a lot of respect for all types of fighting styles. What i am saying is that IP Man the movie (not the actually Ip Man) was no good.

If we look at movies like Fearless and Fist of Fury they deal with the same issues that happen in China, but yet they are far better than IP man the movie.

I understand the movie was about Ip man, but doesn’t explain how he learned it or why he was so good. All we had in this movie was a master of wing chun who beat Japanese fighter’s. I would like to think that IP Man was a man of art not violence.

In reference to Donnie Yen, he might have studies the Wing Chun style but the was no realness to the fights

By: david

david — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:42:26 +0000

i think the last fight scene was true ip man did get hit 3 or 4 times but youv got to know that wing chun is constent defence and ip man was the top wing chun master so hard to hit and hardly gets hit in the film at all..top film 10/10

By: Boo Boykins

Boo Boykins — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:29:53 +0000

They need give Fan Siu Wong his own movie. Stone Age Warrior and Riki-Oh were fun, but he deserves a real push now. He is a beast in this movie.

By: logic

logic — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:10:47 +0000

sorry xin long that last post was in response to Tie

By: logic

logic — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:08:07 +0000

First off xin long the fight scenes were great and real wing chun moves were applied by donnie yen such as bon sao, pak sao, tan sao and others. The reason it doesnt go deep into the philosophy of wing chun is because it was focusing on ip mans life and the major events that was going on around the time of ip man that effected him and others. when you make a movie you must put things in it that everyone can relate to and that will attract people other than those interested in the arts or wing chun practitioners such as myself but just the common person.also donnie yen practiced chi sao and the dummy form with ip chun for the movie to really make it seem believable

By: Tie

Tie — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:12:48 +0000

I watched this the other day, and all i have to say is that it lacked in everything. Crap story, fighting and ending.

The story made no sense, it didnt explain the philosophy of Wing chun like The Prodigal Son or Warriors Two.

The fighing lacked in terms of really showing Wing Chun, they didnt show the style in full and how it counters different styles. It looked more like Donne yen’s style of directing than Sammo..

The end fight had no buzz, the fight was too 1 side and bias. Fair enought Ip Man good but hes no Wong Fei Hong!

Very, vert Poor movies

On the plus side there is only 1 good fighter in the who movie and thats the Lioa fighter

By: Xin Long

Xin Long — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:42:04 +0000

atleast it doesn’t meantion jay chou. Lol

By: Killer Meteor

Killer Meteor — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:27:49 +0000

“The first Ip Man is really good from choreography to decent story and acting, but it’s BO success is also largely due to its political correctness, in which the Chinese master beat the crap out of Japanese invaders. There are reports where the Chinese audience clapped at least 3 times during the fight scenes between Donny and the ten Japanese students.”

Well, little has changed. The same happened on the original release of Fist of Fury