Concerning: Bruce Lee's "Game Of Death"?!
Question: do you feel, as I do, that the producers may have actually felt their souls being licked by the flames of hell when they went ahead and made the movie using stand-ins and skill-less editing to support a sorry plotline?
Answers: do you feel, as I do, that the producers may have actually felt their souls being licked by the flames of hell when they went ahead and made the movie using stand-ins and skill-less editing to support a sorry plotline?
...I totally agree!!! The shoddy and conspicuous attempts to finish the film (...with dissimilar stand-ins, cardboard cut-outs, motorcycle helmets, etc.) only served to amplify the filmmakers last ditch attempt to greedily and exploitively milk the fame and the internationlly financial viability of the legend, that IS Bruce Lee...
...what's even worse, is that there's a film production company, who wants to produce an original martial arts story, starring Bruce Lee, by digitally 'reconstructing' him (check out the YouTube webpage, below); that's as cinematically sacriligious as one could possibly get, as this would no be a true piece of work by Bruce Lee...
...something I actually MIGHT be open to: Go back and digitally reconstruct and re-edit "Game of Death", with the original uncut fight footage (...one of the documentries about Bruce Lee, actually has this footage), and take this opportunity to perhaps digitally insert Bruce's visage into the scenes that were filmed (...and crudely made up) after his death; in this way, we can get a much more accurate visual representation of what "Game of Death" was intended to be...
I saw it last week first time. My lover has all Bruce Lee movie. I like Toshiro Mifune and Sonny Chiba best in martial arts. my lover say doubles bad but glad movie finished to finish collection.
True, it's not the best Bruce Lee movie but in my opinion, any Bruce Lee, is good Bruce Lee. The more, the better.
If nothing else, this movie spawned "Game of Death 2", which although also cuts in scenes of Bruce, has some of the best martial arts moves and action scenes I've ever seen on film.