If you know me, you know I’m a fan of “covert” fight scenes. Scenes where two people are fighting but they’re both pretending that something else is going on. This one from Dreadnaught (1981) is one of the best.

By the way, the guy that choreographed this scene, later went on to choreograph The Matrix films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill.

AALIYAH & JET LI - Try Again (2000) Dir. Wayne Isham

BRUCE LEE - Enter The Dragon (1973) Dir. Robert Clause

Made this a couple days before I saw Kung Fu Panda 4. This cover song is AWESOME. The movie itself is… well …. It’s… a movie.

I just imagine Po leaving to fight the Chameleon and he realizes he’ll be with Tigress and he's going to miss her and SHUT UP I STILL BELIEVE IN THIS SHIP AFTER ALL THESE YEARS OKAY

(Ngl, for a second, part of me was like "TENACIOUS D SHIPS THESE TWO OMG!!" because the video Tenacious D posted covering this song on Instagram was captioned "STILL BELIEVE 🐼🐯”.)

Sorry i needed to repost my drawinf as it never appeared anywhere for me…. I redrew crane, added Mantis and so on and so forth

Also im gonna be so honest i dont like how my art never reaches the right audience properly like the recognition here works perfectly fine and im proud of how far ive improved with my drawigs but when kt comes to tiktok and insta….

The Black Dragon Ron van Clief

Via Pinterest

Omg…

Tai Lung.

Great fight between two giants of martial arts cinema!

Lau Kar-leung VS Lau Kar-wing in Legendary Weapons of China

I hate it when people try to compare Tai Lung and Tigress’s upbringings as a way to emphasize how evil he was because like, you can’t just do that! It doesn’t make sense to compare these two vastly different characters!

Tai Lung, from what we’ve seen, was literally raised with the assurance that he IS the dragon warrior. That he is this strong person training to handle this great power (dragon scroll). He bases his ENTIRE IDENTITY on being the dragon warrior, his entire WORTH. And shifu feeds into it!!! His father, his mentor, his everything basically, doesn’t try to warn him against this unhealthy mentality because he’s just as blind to it.

I personally headcanon that Tai Lung’s extreme reaction to being denied the dragon scroll was partly because of shifu’s reaction. He’s just been told, after training his entire life for this moment, that it was all for nothing and after looking to his father for guidance, he instead gets this look and a turned back. Instead of his father, THE PERSON WHO RAISED HIM FOR THIS, comforting him, he gets rejected.

You can’t just compare that to Tigress’s character, who is raised and trained beside others with the POSSIBILITY of being the dragon warrior.

Come stile di vita proprio.

BRUCE LEE

Chinese vampires are known as Jiangshi and they’ve been a massive part of martial arts cinema for decades now. Here’s a fight scene from one of the rarer Jiangshi films, Son of the Vampire (1986)

There are some amazing bumps and wire-assisted stunts in this one.

El primer y segundo capitulo de Tales of Spring, ya esta disponible en Wattpad. con el permiso de la creadora puedo subir los capitulos en la plataforma, Que emoción! no olviden dar su apoyo!

Link: https://www.wattpad.com/1412904260?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading_part_end&wp_uname=Mabel_CAT3&wp_originator=4nIG7kRBsljyyWHMHPPvGgSP4ydVBCVW9juMd1Jvyh2od%2B6P1J7cwJO%2FB2D4i%2B5pdzILJtr9mVQ6FR1Y4P73hsL0I4x90QAiDrxvEwgd6tKRCQ6xwXd%2BMnoTWRqFwJPz

Human Tai Lung! Added own head canons to his design

Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) Review

potential spoilers ahead...

For starters, I don't think this was a movie that needed to be made. It is not much of a story, if it qualifies at all. the whole thing feels more like an (overly)extended episode of one of the series rather then it's own movie. And was either poorly paced and slow or it was just straight up boring.

Now for an actual explanation. Starting with a community of Goats was a great idea, but I will admit the only reason I think that is because I love goats and am easily bought. Showing Tai Lung attacking the goats with the shots framed to make it difficult to see that he's actually covered in scales instead of fur is an awesome way to introduce the audience to the new villain, even if the execution wasn't great. The lighting and lack of emphasis make it difficult to notice and make out those details. And it isn't explained until later in the movie, after you know who the Chameleon is, when Po finds Tai Lung's footprints that slowly shrink into Not Tai Lung Footprints(TM). Throughout the movie the Chameleon never feels villainous, even as she is doing the Big Bad Thing and in the final fight. It makes it difficult to see the stakes as real and as ultimate as its supposed to. I do really like the consistency of the scales every time she shapeshifts, it looks cool and is a fun way to showcase shapeshifting visually.

Po has no real development in this story. He's supposed to be learning how to teach and not approach every conflict with violence. In the entire movie we see him teach the fox, his sidekick prisoner trainee person, ONE thing, and attempt diplomacy(if you can call a single line that is not entirely non-aggressive that) twice, failing both times. At the end of the movie its treated as though he has become the spiritual leader he begrudgingly set out to become, but in reality nothing changed and there was no lesson for Po, or anyone really including the audience, to learn from the adventure that was had. Jack Black (the god that he is) was great, but this doesn't feel like a movie about Thee "Kung fu Panda". The other movies all have Po going on adventures that teach about believing in yourself, creating a family, self confidence, and more. This movie's lack of clear message and hope feels like a major let down from such a positive children's series.

As for the fox, I didn't like or care about her at all. She was annoying, and I know that's Awkwafina's shtick or whatever, but you can't expect anyone, even young kids, to like or care about the annoying criminal that shows no redeeming qualities until the last ~40 minutes with that quality being questionably redeeming. She meets Po when he catches her stealing and she does nothing but cause problems and be annoying from then to the point where (Surprise!) she double crosses him. She only fights on his side in the end because of the classic reasoning, she didn't know anyone would get hurt. Things are classic for a reason, but here it all feels extremely superficial and cheap.

Shout out to literally every scene with Li and Ping, Po's goose and panda dads respectively. They were, and are, hands down the best scenes in the entire movie. They're the only times I actually had fun watching the movie and it would've been greatly improved if the movie was just a buddy adventure between them and not everything else.

They definitely suffered for the lack of The Furious Five. Even the in universe explanations for where they were were flimsy and bad. Its clear DreamWorks just wanted a quick, cheap, easy money maker and weren't willing to shell out the money for the voice actors.