I remember someone posted about three years ago on here talking about how when you put the disc in, it's like your traveling back to.....something. I can't recall, but it seems that fans of this movie have a lot of passion, and I've always admired that, so I'd love to read why you like this film.
shareI was born in the 90's so "missed the train" so to speak, but I saw the movie a few years back and thought it was excellent. I couldn't relate too much since the movie was "super 80's" lol.
I still liked it none the less and would like to have it in my personal DVD collection.
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What happened happened and can't happen any other way
My brothers and I watched this a lot when we were kids.
It's one of those films you grow up with and enjoy.
It's a great movie many of us grew up with. It's also a great homage to Bruce Lee!
shareMy brothers and I watched this a lot when we were kids.
It's one of those films you grow up with and enjoy.
One of the reasons is surely Vanity at the height of her sexiness. 26 years old and all woman. And that wink she tips Leroy as she's driving off in the limo (the first time their eyes meet)....well, put it this way. Think if you never tasted ice cream before in your life, and suddenly somebody gave you a great big scoop of caramel swirl. It's that good.
The Falcon flies
Because Sho'nuff rules the frickin' Earth!
Yes - while growning up and watching this film, I always rooted for The Shogun of Harlem.
"The Shogun is back on the scene, and the Shogun is the master!"
Even then I thought it was and still is corny BUT because I was a tape cassette and record buying teenager in 1985, madly in love with the New York Hip Hop media explosion as it was continuing and this movie still had some link to it, although more subtle.
"You know, my name..."
The eye candy. Tiamak and Vanity are two of the most beautiful people who ever starred in a movie together. I was a young kid in the 80's and my sister was a teenager. I remember her and her girlfriends talking about the fine new guy that was in some movie that they had just seen. When i finally got a chance to see it I watched it over and over again. I must have watched this movie a hundred times before I really paid attention to the story. The movie itself was a bit corny but Tiamak, still FINE.
Before trying cookies for the first time, Cookie Monster's name was Sid.
The climax is actually one of the most macho, manliest, just plain BAD lines in the history of film.
"Who's the one and only master?"
"I am."
My facial hair grows an extra half inch every time I watch that scene.
i was 10 when this came out, the peak of my interest in bruce lee/martial arts/etc. i liked the film for the martial arts aspect...i thought the music and characters were really cheesy tho. still, it was a big part of my childhood and i watched it on vhs frequently. if it were to be on tv at any given time, i'd still watch it.
"He must've thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?"
I have a very odd history with this film. Shortly after my parent's divorce, although my dad got custody of me and my sister, he self admitted to a psychiatric ward. Since he was a Navy petty officer, in Virginia, the Navy found a family that my sister and I could stay with for the summer.
This was a defining experience in my life because the majority of my relatives are racists and I grew up in a racist environment. I was 11 and my sister was 6, and we were placed in an African American family for the summer. Having been, up to that point, surrounded by racists, this was a beneficial experience to both of us at such impressionable ages to experience life with an African American family and successfully remove ourselves from the horrible method of thinking we were previously exposed to.
Having said all of that, the god daughter of the lady we were staying with, Roshanda, really loved "The Last Dragon." It had just recently been released on VHS and we rented it over and over.
Whenever I watch this movie, I experience the dynamics of my life at the time. I grew up in a racist family and was now living with an African American family and learning that the racists were wrong. I was watching this movie about a guy who means well, but has absolutely no true understanding of Asian culture. And this movie was just drenched with 1980's culture. In the later half of the decade there was a huge martial arts craze, there was break dancing, there were gangs, there was fighting, there was a terrible Cyndi Lauper ripoff, bad music, people who used only one name...
I dunno. Maybe I give the movie too much credit, but it takes me back to that time. and I love the 80's and even though it was scary living with a family I didn't even know, I remember how important the experience was in making me who I am today. And whenever I watch this movie, I can feel like I felt that summer and I like that feeling.
When I first watched it as a child, it was mainly because of Taimak. Currently I enjoy the film because of its originality. The storyline was interesting, the cast and the lines were memorable, the music and dancing was fantastic.
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When did it become okay to be less compassionate towards each other and glamorize pointless things?