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Love me some Seinfeld. Once I can afford it I wanna start collecting dif series and stuff that I like. Including all of the seasons of Seinfeld.
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Wrath Oskvro wrote:Love me some Seinfeld. Once I can afford it I wanna start collecting dif series and stuff that I like. Including all of the seasons of Seinfeld.

How about Friends? Have there been any newer edition box sets for that series?
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Not sure dude. :p Never got into Friends. Alongside Seinfeld though a few of the things I wanna collect for are..Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Who's Line Is It Anyway, and all of Bruce Lee's movies individually since all the box sets they've released for him suck. One of them they put Game Of Death II on it but not Enter The Dragon? BLASPHEMY. Game Of Death II isn't even a Bruce Lee movie. -_-

Oh last but not least I want Watchmen: Ultimate Cut.
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Wrath Oskvro wrote:Not sure dude. :p Never got into Friends. Alongside Seinfeld though a few of the things I wanna collect for are..Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Who's Line Is It Anyway, and all of Bruce Lee's movies individually since all the box sets they've released for him suck. One of them they put Game Of Death II on it but not Enter The Dragon? BLASPHEMY. Game Of Death II isn't even a Bruce Lee movie. -_-

Oh last but not least I want Watchmen: Ultimate Cut.

If it doesn't have Enter the Dragon, then what's the point?
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added €400 of ink to my body this weekend ;)
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Wrath Oskvro wrote:...and all of Bruce Lee's movies individually since all the box sets they've released for him suck. One of them they put Game Of Death II on it but not Enter The Dragon? BLASPHEMY. Game Of Death II isn't even a Bruce Lee movie. -_-
Game of Death 2 is fucking amazing though. Cheesy as fuck but a damn good laugh as far as fun action films go. Much better choreography than the films made when he was alive (directed by Ng and Sammo so it will have) and has Hwang Jang Lee as the baddie, and he's just as cool as Bruce let's face it (much cooler actually imo). There's a bit where someone fights a 'lion' and it's so fake I don't know whether the props department could only get hold of a really shit costume or supposed to be that ridiculous. Apparently they were going to have a stuntman fight a real lion but thought it was too dangerous at the last minute!

Don't be one of 'those people' that just say it's rubbish without seeing it because they think it's somehow dissing bruce's rep. It's a slick film.

The only 'proper' bruce lee film I'd rather watch these days than GoD2 is Fist of Fury. The rest have their moments (like the face off with Chuck Norris) but are generally pretty ropey overall as the genre hadn't refined it's conventions yet. Enter the dragon was well produced but became just a fairly boring attempt at james bond with nunchaku. Shame they made that instead of finishing Game of Death 1.
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:p So GoD 2 is so bad it's good then?

And despite the choreography, I dislike people milking his name for all it's worth. What Hollywood did to the original Game Of Death also thoroughly pissed me off. The ONLY good parts in that movie were the end where it showed real Bruce Lee footage. The rest of that film was crap. I understand he died before the movie was finished, but he already had the plot written out and everything. They should have just continued it from what he had.

Also I'm a Bruce Lee fan for more than his movies. I have the most respect for him as a Martial Artist and philosopher. JKD turned my life around and changed how I view everything.

Lastly, it's supposed to be a Bruce Lee collection, and Game Of Death 2 is not Bruce Lee. Enter The Dragon is.
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On another note..ever seen The Clones Of Bruce Lee? That one's definitely pure cheese but DAMN it's entertaining. I also love how it's clearly a satire of all the Bruce Lee look alikes.
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Nah never seen the clones film. The point you make about liking bruce lee more than his films pretty much sums it up though. Game of Death 2 is a good kung fu film. I'm a big fan of the genre, have seen hundreds of the films, and Game of Death 2 is better than a lot of them. It's by Golden Harvest, has a decent budget (by that I mean they actually built a set instead of filmed in a woods), good cast and crew and the plot actually makes sense!! It's a tighter, and probably better made, film than all of Bruce's apart from Enter the Dragon (as you'd expect as that was by Warner Bros. and isn't a real HK kung fu film really anyway). If GoD2 is 'so bad it's good' then so are all Bruce's other films.

Game of Death 2 always gets reflexively dissed by the army of bruce worshippers who seem to care for some reason that they used about 2 minutes of his footage in it, but the people that actually like kung fu films generally consider it to be a pretty decent film. You should try it. Well, unless your just buying the films as bruce lee souvenirs rather than buying cool films to watch anyway.
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Wrath Oskvro wrote:
And despite the choreography, I dislike people milking his name for all it's worth. What Hollywood did to the original Game Of Death also thoroughly pissed me off. The ONLY good parts in that movie were the end where it showed real Bruce Lee footage. The rest of that film was crap. I understand he died before the movie was finished, but he already had the plot written out and everything. They should have just continued it from what he wrote.
Perhaps they milk his name because there are people like YOU who buy all his stuff just because he did it rather than the quality.

I don't really care that they used his name in a few films. Out of all the crappy posters, books, t-shirts an other junk hawked in his honour I'd say they were some of the better things to come out of his exploitation.
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Keyword: His stuff. o_o That's the main point I was trying to make. Game Of Death 2 is not a Bruce Lee movie, so it shouldn't be in a Bruce Lee collection just because they put his name in the credits.

As far as his books go, the fighting method books he actually played a role in writing along with his friend, Dan Inosanto. There are some of his books that he had absolutely no say in but the few that I read are for the most part written by him. Tao Of JKD for example he started writing himself and huge majority of that book is from his own personal notes.
Killer French Bread wrote:Perhaps they milk his name because there are people like YOU who buy all his stuff just because he did it rather than the quality.
^Also that makes you come off as rather aggressive. Calm down all I'm doing is stating an opinion.
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