Snake and crane arts of shaolin

Love this film opening. One of Jackies very earliest films.
Poor quality but just before Hong kong legends ended they released a new range called Ultrabit editions, not as good as normal releases but still cleaned up.
These titles were from the very early Loi Wei movies to Jackies Fearless Hyena, I bought Dragon fist on ultrabit was the best it ever looked.
Will have to buy this on Ultrabit.

Love this opening starts of with jackie with a spear doing a form(love the move where he throws the spear in the air does 2 punches then back kicks the spear to catch it) then he fights 2 guys who have spears.
All this then the movie starts!
Enjoy

The first 2 thirds of the film is great then it gets a bit dull and the ending is so so bad. Snake and the monkey shadow all thw way!

Hello all you armchair kung fu fans,
It's great to see you're posting these clips and sharing your thoughts on them. I don't have many kung fu films in my collection, but if i did, i think i might not practice very much, prefering instead to sit down and 'learn' kung fu from the dvds/films/videos
Keep posting these threads, keep watching the dvd's, but remember this, "There is no substitute for real practice". With this in mind, you could combine the two by holding your stances whilst watching them
Go on, you know i'm right
MikeX

Monkfit Master wrote:The first 2 thirds of the film is great then it gets a bit dull and the ending is so so bad. Snake and the monkey shadow all thw way!

Never seen this film but just looks like another taiwanese copy of snake in the eagles shadow and drunkem master.
But I can relate to having seen this as a young boy, not seen snake and crane arts for a long time just ordered a copy on dvd.
I think HKL has spoiled us with mandarin/cantonese soundtracks and subtitles as the improove the viewing no more goofy dubbing.

FARR wrote: keep watching the dvd's, but remember this, "There is no substitute for real practice". With this in mind, you could combine the two by holding your stances whilst watching them
Go on, you know i'm right
MikeX

Bloody hell these films run over 90mins

griswold wrote:

FARR wrote: keep watching the dvd's, but remember this, "There is no substitute for real practice". With this in mind, you could combine the two by holding your stances whilst watching them
Go on, you know i'm right
MikeX

Bloody hell these films run over 90mins

Then your stances should be reasonably strong then eh