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Synonamess Botch posted:Thing about Chan is his best films aren't really martial arts movies. They all incorporate martial arts, but when I think of Jackie Chan I think of Police Story, Rumble in the Bronx, Who Am I, and then his later American films. I would never discount the inclusion of his earlier work on the genre (Drunken Master is basically required viewing), but Chan in his prime and at his best was the spectacle of stuntwork and choreography, with the martial arts serving to back those up. Traditional kung fu flicks are also thematically very different from the films he became famous for. I like his later films (Drunken Master II is a masterpiece), but I'm more partial to his early films. It just feels like there's more energy in the stunt work -- there's no question of fancy post-processing effects -- plus I'm with TrixRabbi that vastly prefer kung fu movies with a rural/historical setting. Snake In The Eagle's Shadow (1978) is probably my favorite Jackie Chan movie, it's not the flashiest or most spectacular thing he's done, but it's full of badassed fights, just the right amount of comedy, and is such a great example of the classic "bumbling apprentice gets abused and levels up to badass hero" template.
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