Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave (1976)
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The Stranger
Nomination Year: 2010
SYNOPSIS: Bruce Lee Does Not Appear In This Film, although Bruce Lea does. Nobody
actually fights back from the grave, though. That confused us for a bit
before we realized that the title was an outright lie (as opposed to the
usual subtle lie).
Some of the "high" points include:
Bruce Lea makes these weird noises when he fights. "Did Pac-man just die in the next room?" type noises. Although I blame that on the over-enthusiastic Foley artists. When Bruce (and the camera) are in one room, looking out through a sliding glass door, across a balcony, down at a woman walking on the far side of a swimming pool, and we can hear her shoes CLIP CLOP CLIP CLOPping clear as day ... that's too much Foley. Too much Foley in the fight scenes, too much Foley in the chase scenes, and I'm sure if we'd had any love scenes -- I'm sorry, my brain just shut off.
Wong (Bruce) arrives in America, but when he visits the dojo belonging to a friend, he discovers that the friend has just recently been killed by (apparently) The Village People. Seriously, he is told that his buddy was last seen alive in the company of "a Japanese, a White, a Black, a Mexican, and a Cowboy."
So he goes off in search of these men, and gets picked up by a waitress. This waitress is a lot like Daphne from Scooby-Doo, always getting into trouble, being beaten up, and so on. At one point, Wong has to nurse her back to health from the brink of death via a loving acupuncture sequence. He then borrows her car. It gets stolen. A parade randomly passes through. Finally (finally!) he has his showdown with The Village People.
The back cover reads "He eventually finds the bad guys behind it all, and they live to regret it." This is another blatant lie. All the bad guys behind it die pretty much right after he finds them. Nobody regrets anything. Except me, for watching the movie. And Amy, for watching it with me.
Some of the "high" points include:
Bruce Lea makes these weird noises when he fights. "Did Pac-man just die in the next room?" type noises. Although I blame that on the over-enthusiastic Foley artists. When Bruce (and the camera) are in one room, looking out through a sliding glass door, across a balcony, down at a woman walking on the far side of a swimming pool, and we can hear her shoes CLIP CLOP CLIP CLOPping clear as day ... that's too much Foley. Too much Foley in the fight scenes, too much Foley in the chase scenes, and I'm sure if we'd had any love scenes -- I'm sorry, my brain just shut off.
Wong (Bruce) arrives in America, but when he visits the dojo belonging to a friend, he discovers that the friend has just recently been killed by (apparently) The Village People. Seriously, he is told that his buddy was last seen alive in the company of "a Japanese, a White, a Black, a Mexican, and a Cowboy."
So he goes off in search of these men, and gets picked up by a waitress. This waitress is a lot like Daphne from Scooby-Doo, always getting into trouble, being beaten up, and so on. At one point, Wong has to nurse her back to health from the brink of death via a loving acupuncture sequence. He then borrows her car. It gets stolen. A parade randomly passes through. Finally (finally!) he has his showdown with The Village People.
The back cover reads "He eventually finds the bad guys behind it all, and they live to regret it." This is another blatant lie. All the bad guys behind it die pretty much right after he finds them. Nobody regrets anything. Except me, for watching the movie. And Amy, for watching it with me.
Kevin Hogan
Doo-yong Lee
Deborah Dutch
Jang Lee Hwang
Shô Kosugi
