What things did you promise to learn?

[Trekker4747]

Other than there's more than one cheesy martial-arts centric movie from this era being riffed on inside of a week?

[CJones]

Other than there's more than one cheesy martial-arts centric movie from this era being riffed on inside of a week?

What's the other one?

[Trekker4747]

Miami Connection.

[CJones]

I learned that, not only is it possible to catch a fly with chopsticks (Karate Kid already taught us that), but that you should then continue to eat with those chopsticks. Nobody will even care.

[Trekker4747]

Eh, he did kinda shake and wipe them off.

I learned that it's worth dying and killing for in order to keep living in your crummy tennament asp apartment ran by slum-lords.

[TriffRax]

I learned that when he wasn't trying to seduce Thumbelina, Mr. Digger was fighting for the rights of tenement residents in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Check out IMDb if you think I'm making this up.

[MerryWanna]

I learned that rats will immediately start eating someone if you put a bag full of them over someone's head, and not become panicked and run away when the bag becomes loosened.

[MerryWanna]

I learned that it's worth dying and killing for in order to keep living in your crummy tenement apartment ran by slum-lords.

It wasn't about that...that was the beginning of things, but it was made repeatedly clear by the Asian guy's inner monologues that it was all about revenge over them killing his dad for being a tenant agitator.

[MerryWanna]

Miami Connection.

That one's not from the early 1970s. That's another 1980s film, obviously really copying the whole 'Miami Vice' look and feel.

[The Lurker]

The music and aesthetics definitely mark it as an 80s film.

[Compound]

Other than there's more than one cheesy martial-arts centric movie from this era being riffed on inside of a week?

This era? They were made a decade apart.


And no, this doesn't feel like an 80s film. It feels grim and gritty like pretty much every other New York City based movie did during that era. It's like saying Serpico and Beverly Hills Cop feel the same.

[The Lurker]

Other than there's more than one cheesy martial-arts centric movie from this era being riffed on inside of a week?

This era? They were made a decade apart.


And no, this doesn't feel like an 80s film. It feels grim and gritty like pretty much every other New York City based movie did during that era. It's like saying Serpico and Beverly Hills Cop feel the same.

Yeah my comment was more directed at MarryWanna's response.

[Trekker4747]

I learned that one of the conspirators in this movie looked something like MST3K Sci-Fi Era Kevin Murphy (namely one of the Romans when the SOL went back in time) intermixed with Yakov Smirnoff and, I dunno, a birthday-cake made in his likeness by a really terrible cake-decorator in a really terrible bakery.

As for my comment above on likening this movie to Miami Connection, I mis-judged the "era" of this movie from the preview clip, compared to what little I've seen of MC.  They both seemed to be within a decade of one another but arguably in the same "era spirit" but after watching this whole movie it's a lot more 70s than late 70s/fading into the 80s.

Still, I'd argue the two movies are mostly in the same "vain" as they're both product-samples of their respective decades while being centered around the martial arts.

[ManUnderMask]

I learned that it's possible to commit first degree murder and let witnesses see your face and never face any legal consequences whatsoever.

[CJones]

I learned that it's possible to commit first degree murder and let witnesses see your face and never face any legal consequences whatsoever.

At least in the one scene where there are actually any cops, they make a point of not killing anyone right in front of them. They do it behind them instead.