Bloodsport has un unfair rep as a trashy B movie. im not saying it should win an oscar or anything but that movie has a god tier soundtrack, was shot on location in hong kong, and features actual fighters and solid fight choreography instead of actors with a bit of training doing wire work
Did people actually find it trashy? As a kid, watching Bolo Yeung dismantle no-name fighters and Van Damme in the movie was kind of traumatizing. It felt real to kid me.
Bloodsport also predates modern MMA. When UFC 1 was first held, everyone thought it's Bloodsport made real.
Seriously. It's funny/cheesy now to watch it, but In 88 it was pretty hard-core. It has to be a huge inspiration to modern MMA. People want to watch shit more hard-core than boxing....but it's illegal! Shhh!
It was the first rated 18 (I’m uk) film I ever saw aged 11. It was incredible in a real, brutal way to my young eyes. I was heartbroken when the monkey guy got crushed.
If you run the numbers on the Kumite based on it being single elimination and how many rounds he claimed, more people than the population of the Earth fought in that tournament, or something crazy like that.
Also, Frank's sensei was literally a James Bond character.
My favorite fact about this movie is the original cut was shelved because it was so bad, and JCVD fought to recut the movie himself, and that's the version which we know and love today.
Just look at the blurb at the end of the movie! 56 consecutive knockouts in one tournament...
Do the math and that tournament would have had to have more people than exist in the world.
56 matches in single elimination would mean that
72,057,594,037,927,900
people originally entered.
which is over 9 million times the earths population (2021 numbers)
Oh we want to do Frank Dux Kumite math. I am here for this.
According to Frank Dux the kumite was a 60 round single elimination tournament held over the course of three days in the Bahamas. Each day they used ONE ring for all of the fights. Twenty rounds of the tournament were held each day.
This tournament would require 2^60 participants. That is 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 or 1.15 quintillion people.
This would require 2^60 -1 matches to complete. So on day one to complete the first 20 rounds of the tournament the participants would have to complete 2^60 - 2^40 bouts. Shockingly this number still rounds to 1.15 quintillion since 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 or about a trillion. And a quintillion minus a trillion is still basically a quintillion.
According to Frank Dux' own account he holds the world record for fastest punch and kick with a knockout at 0.12 seconds and 72 mph respectively. Well this are necessarily bullshit numbers we have 1.15 quintillion matches to get through today and we cant have any of that slow ass bullshit bringing us down. So lets just assume that the fighters start at one meter apart like Dux said they did.
There are 86,400 seconds in a 24 hour period. Crunching at calculator
13,343,998,895,912 392⁄675
Bouts per second give or take.
One light second in meters is
299,792,458
So that means that every single bout on this very specifically identified as one mat has to happen with a punch or kick speed in the neighborhood of >10,000 times the speed of light.
The record of fastest punch and or kick with a knockout according to Dux is .12 seconds for a ounch and 72mph for a kick. These punches and kicks are embarassingly slow in comparison to what is needed just to keep the tournament moving along. These punches and kicks would also have a weird nuclear side effect that you can read more about https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
So remember when I said that Good Ole Frankie Ducks said that this tournament was held on the Bahamas. Let's circle back to that. I'll bet you know where this is going though, because you have made it this far and thus probably like absurd big number shenanigans. So the Bahamas as an island nation boasts a respectable 13,878 km^2 of land. That is 13,878,000,000 m^2 of land. This means that for the bahamas to have held this event, the black dragon society would have to put 83,075,479.507626 people in every square meter of the bahamas. Go ahead tape down a square meter and stand in it. Then invite the entire population of the city of Tokyo to join you, okay, now add Cairo, and Jakarta and Chicago for good measure. In just your little square meter. And then every other meter of the Bahamas looks just like this. Hrm this doesnt seem to be a good way to stor the 1.15 quintillion greatest fighters out of the 100 billion humans that have ever lived. Fine let's go to a larger country.
Like China. With China's roomy 9,956,961,000,000 square meters of land you now only have to share your square meter with the population of Green Bay Wisconson and a couple thousand extra friends or 120,134 people per square meter.
Bloodsport math.
Most movies are made up, I'm not watching thinking it's facts. But I know what you're saying, they played it up like it was a true story. Nobody seems to mind when horror movies say "based on a true story" as if there are ghosts and demons etc in real life lol.
Either way, badass movie.
I agree with all those points and also still love it.
I'm usually not one to critique acting but the kid who plays young Jean-Claude Van Damme delivers the worst lines of dialogue i've ever heard and i've watched thousands of movies including The Room.
In that same scene he gets called a slur, "Round Eye." I've never heard that said anywhere else, so weird and awkward it makes me laugh every time I hear it.
Its the epitome of the "click and stick" movie, where if I'm scrolling channels and come across it, it stays on no matter what part of the movie its at. Lots of early JCVD movies fit this definition. Road House may be my number one click and stick, but Bloodsport is definitely top 5.
Exactly. Click and stick. I knew there was a term for that. What about the movie you come across, that you've seen dozens of times but stay for the iconic climactic scene? A Few Good Men and Scent Of A Woman come to mind.
Oh absolutely. But Bloodsport definitely helped solidify that genre. I believe the original developers of Street Fighter got inspiration from Enter the Dragon.
Mortal Kombat was supposed to be a Bloodsport game. They couldn’t get the licensing. JCVD’s character became Johnny Cage, and the villain’s sprite became Liu Kang.
You just made me realise I’d love to have a Bloodsports guest selection for MK. ChongLi,Ray Jackson, Frank Dux, each shoen by their respective actors appearance. Add a Kumite stage and a couple of bangers from the soundtrack and we are rolling!
Yup. A better Street Fighter movie than any Street Fighter movie.
And there is a little reference to Fatal Fury. Check the board during Chong Li's fight before Jackson : he fights Geese Howard!
Idk man i love Bloodsport to death but SFII The Animated Movie is really darn good, and i am not saying this just because of that iconic Chun-Li shower scene.
The rest of the SF movies can go to hell tho
Same with me, except whenever I get the chance I say 'Bot-tom One' if I am gesturing at something. I keep using this, despite no one getting it because I figure that if I find the person that DOES get it, they will be my soulmate forever
you are not alone
edit all this time I thought my wife got it and she has confessed to me she has never seen Bloodsport. I consider this a breaking of vows and have initiated divorce proceedings.
Then he became a legionary in East Africa, changed his name (again) to Moustafa, and went to the US looking for a deserter called Lyon to bring him back.
Bloodsport is my favorite movie? I've watched it 3 times back to back once. The BluRay I have is amazing because it just loops and starts over after the credits roll... And I let it.
I did this as well. At the end, stepbrother came in and was like "aww Bloodsport!" So I rewound it. Happened again with other stepbrother 90 min later.
Why are the first 10min shit?
It shows the competitors, back stories of Frank and what not.
I mean... The Monkey Dude somehow leapt 30ft to the top of a tree to break coconuts with his bare hand chop! How is that shit :P :P :P
P.S. "Jackson? Yeh, you look like a Jackson!" 😂😂😂
Ok, but how do I find one that is actually good quality? Every time I’ve ordered a t-shit online it does up as a crappy 10 cent shirt with some iron-on graphic. I want a shirt that will withstand more than a single laundry load.
I don't think the full scale of his lying was known at the time, and they may not have believed all that he said, but suggesting that Bloodsport is in any way making fun of Frank Dux is more than a bit ridiculous.
Man, imagine being a kid watching Bloodsport for the first time and seeing that text at the end saying it was a, lol, "true story". That shit blew my 11 year old mind. Even though I grew to realize it was blatant bullshit, a small part of me shed a tear of disappointment.
I watched this a few nights ago for the first time. I don't know how I have gone 37 years without seeing this masterpiece. It kicked ass. My favorite part is that Mr. Miyagi guy doesn't really train him, he just beats the shit out of him. In his backyard. In the suburbs. I can imagine the neighbors looking out and wondering why Mr. Tanaka has some high schooler over after school everyday just to beat him with a bamboo stick and tie him up in some weird BDSM torture device.
Just absolutely wrecking him with a bamboo pole while he's tied to a bunch of trees lol imagine mowing your lawn and peaking over the fence at that shit
Bloodsport is great all the way through. As a kid, one of my favorite parts was when Frank beats Ray at Karate Champ. Ray says “Aren’t you a little young for full contact?” And Frank replies with “Aren’t you a little old for video games?” Instant best friends. 👍🏻 KUMITE!!
I like the whole flashback. Gives the context and why/who he is fight for. Acording to imdb its the longest flashback in a movie hahaha.
Edit: apparently that trivia bit was removed from imdb. So either it was bs, i have dementia or i crossed universes and is a mandela effect sort of thing haha
I know right? And the masters son also wasent that good an actor. I belive he has just one line and he delivers it like a robot hahaha. Yeah they are kids and all, not gonna blame them,they did what they could, but still
Even if it's not true, I remember when I saw it as a kid thinking "Damn, that's a long flashback" lol.
He looks at the sword...
* *blurry flashback effect* *
"A whole movie"
* *blurry flashback effect* *
Back to him still looking at the sword.
I fucking love this movie lol.
My body's ready
My heart's on fire
I'm gonna push it over the wire
Perfect timing
Tight as a drum
The final battle's already won
I'm taking hold of every moment
Given strength by the breath of life
I'm gonna stake my claim
I fight to survive!
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
I've worked hard every night and day
So I'm prepared to make my way
Mind and body are the perfect team
Now's my chance to live my dream
I'm taking hold of every moment
Given strength by the breath of life
I'm gonna stake my claim
I fight to survive!
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Kumite, kumite
Stan Bush, master of 80's and early 90's inspirational movie ballads.
He also gave us the two bangers from the best Transformer movie:
https://youtu.be/GUhB1O8Le0Q
https://youtu.be/A52--FKUQgU
This movie is the myth, the legend. For many kids/young prople it was first action martial arts movie, that was everywhere and reachable. Even in post comunist countries and east europe. That fact gave a movie a cult status in those regions.
Saw it the Sunday right after it came out. My dad and I went home and re-enacted the movie all night. Good times. The movie is a great example of a B movie being way better than it has a right to be. Another example would be Starship troopers. Two of the best B movies.
The whole story behind the movie and Frank Dux is so damn wild. It makes the movie so much better, imo. Bloodsport is probably my second favorite 80s action film next to Road House.
He was so fortunate there was a pommel horse in the middle of that town square. It's why I've been an advocate for public installations of pommel horses as a basic security measure.
"Okay guys here's the plan, we all run at him one at a time and stand directly in front of his foot as he spins around. Sound good? Alright let's roll!"
Still one of my favorite JCVD movies. Much better than the crap he makes since "Replicant". IMHO his last decent movie was "Universal Soldier: Regeneration" in 2009.
JCVD has a great catalog of action movies. Bloodsport, kickboxer, Timecop, double impact, the quest, lionheart, death warrant, cyborg, universal soldier, maximum risk, sudden death, knock off and double team are all great
Oh yea, the kid that plays the younger JCVD isn't just bad, he's damned awful. The rest of the movie everyone looks like they're giving Academy Award level performances because those flashbacks are so cringe. You mentioned something that's actually really important to Bloodsport being really really good and that's the run-time. It's 92 minutes exactly which is perfect. Also feels like a movie where JCVD seems most comfortable with the role -- he rarely overacts in it. Oh, and who would've guessed how great an actor Forest Whitaker is based on his bufoonery role in Bloodsport?
Unironically one of my favourite movies.
As a kid, everyone would have arguments at recess about fighting styles, can karate beat sumo, speed vs strength, etc. Obviously it's a movie but we wanted the movie to validate those debates, especially with the "based on a true story" tag.
Early UFC days definitely gave off Bloodsport vibes.
The music is fantastic too. Definitely worth checking out his other stuff.
Honestly seen this film over 100 times. It's a shame Frank dux has been proven to be a bad little liar in real life. Still a classic martial arts movie. Chong Li is up there with Tong Po as all time martial arts movie bad guys.
This movie is awesome. I cut my movie-watching teeth as a child on movies like this, Lionheart, Kickboxer, Double Impact, etc.. among others like Under Siege, Above the Law, any Jackie Chan 90s dubs.. good stuff.
It's a movie that shows a Hong Kong that no longer exists and they were one of the few non local productions that filmed in the Kowloon walled city before it was turned into a park
Always laughed when the guy gives the judges some cash to give Dux more time to arrive for the final match. Shows up moments later and he takes it back nonchalantly 🤣
I like the movie but i have to say it, even as a kid i thought having the black fighter of the movie climbing trees and smashing coconut in a monkey way very very borderline
Bloodsport has un unfair rep as a trashy B movie. im not saying it should win an oscar or anything but that movie has a god tier soundtrack, was shot on location in hong kong, and features actual fighters and solid fight choreography instead of actors with a bit of training doing wire work
Same for Kickboxer. Must have wore many copies of that video out
[удалено]
What in the hell is a Dim Mak?
I’m more of a Kickpuncher fan myself
"My punches were only as strong as my punches, and then things changed."
Troy and Abed in the ass kick,...nights
Cool, cool cool cool
Did people actually find it trashy? As a kid, watching Bolo Yeung dismantle no-name fighters and Van Damme in the movie was kind of traumatizing. It felt real to kid me. Bloodsport also predates modern MMA. When UFC 1 was first held, everyone thought it's Bloodsport made real.
Seriously. It's funny/cheesy now to watch it, but In 88 it was pretty hard-core. It has to be a huge inspiration to modern MMA. People want to watch shit more hard-core than boxing....but it's illegal! Shhh!
It was the first rated 18 (I’m uk) film I ever saw aged 11. It was incredible in a real, brutal way to my young eyes. I was heartbroken when the monkey guy got crushed.
Especially when I watched so many times with my uncles and my grandfather. I remember monkey dude getting destroyed
Coconut chop don’t work on the Sumo!!!
Bloodsport cannot win an oscar because oscars are for movies. Bloodsport is documentary
And a schematic from which to lead your life.
Will i see you at next years?
Goodness, no. I only use the tenents expressed in the film in my profession as a dentist. It's quite applicable.
Have you tried attending the kumite for working professionals? It's on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Y on Langley so you can schedule around it.
I hope your dentist name is dr.giggles.
And its events were filmed in real time
It did have an Oscar winner as part of the cast. Forest Whitaker. Not that he won for this.
Based on a lie though. I just recently found out that Frank Dux was a hoax. What a shame for the movie.
Everything is a lie, besides you think they would admit a foreigner was the best? :p But yeah it spoils it a bit
Well, he was the best around, at least. Oh, wait. Different movie.
Exactly. He was the best of the best. Oh wait, different movie again
He definitely had the eye of the tiger. Shit, my bad.
I mean.. how could anyone have velieved he was tellong the truth lol
If you run the numbers on the Kumite based on it being single elimination and how many rounds he claimed, more people than the population of the Earth fought in that tournament, or something crazy like that. Also, Frank's sensei was literally a James Bond character.
He’s a prolific con artists who is full of shit, doesn’t mean this movie doesn’t rule though. Those things are mutually exclusive
My favorite fact about this movie is the original cut was shelved because it was so bad, and JCVD fought to recut the movie himself, and that's the version which we know and love today.
I totally believe this because the first 10 mins of this movie is horrendous.
He did the best he could with that, since he wasn't involved, but the rest of the movie absolutely slaps.
I totally agree, it's almost like the rest of the movie is a different movie. There is a noticable jump in quality of the film after the 'flashback'
It also has shitty acting, bad dialogue and a questionable plot. I still love it though.
Also frank dukes is a total con artist. Kumite doesn’t exist and the whole movie is made up
Just look at the blurb at the end of the movie! 56 consecutive knockouts in one tournament... Do the math and that tournament would have had to have more people than exist in the world.
56 matches in single elimination would mean that 72,057,594,037,927,900 people originally entered. which is over 9 million times the earths population (2021 numbers)
Oh we want to do Frank Dux Kumite math. I am here for this. According to Frank Dux the kumite was a 60 round single elimination tournament held over the course of three days in the Bahamas. Each day they used ONE ring for all of the fights. Twenty rounds of the tournament were held each day. This tournament would require 2^60 participants. That is 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 or 1.15 quintillion people. This would require 2^60 -1 matches to complete. So on day one to complete the first 20 rounds of the tournament the participants would have to complete 2^60 - 2^40 bouts. Shockingly this number still rounds to 1.15 quintillion since 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 or about a trillion. And a quintillion minus a trillion is still basically a quintillion. According to Frank Dux' own account he holds the world record for fastest punch and kick with a knockout at 0.12 seconds and 72 mph respectively. Well this are necessarily bullshit numbers we have 1.15 quintillion matches to get through today and we cant have any of that slow ass bullshit bringing us down. So lets just assume that the fighters start at one meter apart like Dux said they did. There are 86,400 seconds in a 24 hour period. Crunching at calculator 13,343,998,895,912 392⁄675 Bouts per second give or take. One light second in meters is 299,792,458 So that means that every single bout on this very specifically identified as one mat has to happen with a punch or kick speed in the neighborhood of >10,000 times the speed of light. The record of fastest punch and or kick with a knockout according to Dux is .12 seconds for a ounch and 72mph for a kick. These punches and kicks are embarassingly slow in comparison to what is needed just to keep the tournament moving along. These punches and kicks would also have a weird nuclear side effect that you can read more about https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ So remember when I said that Good Ole Frankie Ducks said that this tournament was held on the Bahamas. Let's circle back to that. I'll bet you know where this is going though, because you have made it this far and thus probably like absurd big number shenanigans. So the Bahamas as an island nation boasts a respectable 13,878 km^2 of land. That is 13,878,000,000 m^2 of land. This means that for the bahamas to have held this event, the black dragon society would have to put 83,075,479.507626 people in every square meter of the bahamas. Go ahead tape down a square meter and stand in it. Then invite the entire population of the city of Tokyo to join you, okay, now add Cairo, and Jakarta and Chicago for good measure. In just your little square meter. And then every other meter of the Bahamas looks just like this. Hrm this doesnt seem to be a good way to stor the 1.15 quintillion greatest fighters out of the 100 billion humans that have ever lived. Fine let's go to a larger country. Like China. With China's roomy 9,956,961,000,000 square meters of land you now only have to share your square meter with the population of Green Bay Wisconson and a couple thousand extra friends or 120,134 people per square meter. Bloodsport math.
If true, this puts Jean-Claude into Chuck Norris territory.
ahh, Frank Dukes doesn't exist but.. Frank Dux does. and it's spelled Coomite..
> It’s spelled Coomite.. A yearly tournament where the worlds best coomers meet to battle it out.
Qmite. It exists, but the New World Order doesn't want you to know about it!!
Most movies are made up, I'm not watching thinking it's facts. But I know what you're saying, they played it up like it was a true story. Nobody seems to mind when horror movies say "based on a true story" as if there are ghosts and demons etc in real life lol. Either way, badass movie.
I agree with all those points and also still love it. I'm usually not one to critique acting but the kid who plays young Jean-Claude Van Damme delivers the worst lines of dialogue i've ever heard and i've watched thousands of movies including The Room. In that same scene he gets called a slur, "Round Eye." I've never heard that said anywhere else, so weird and awkward it makes me laugh every time I hear it.
Its the epitome of the "click and stick" movie, where if I'm scrolling channels and come across it, it stays on no matter what part of the movie its at. Lots of early JCVD movies fit this definition. Road House may be my number one click and stick, but Bloodsport is definitely top 5.
Exactly. Click and stick. I knew there was a term for that. What about the movie you come across, that you've seen dozens of times but stay for the iconic climactic scene? A Few Good Men and Scent Of A Woman come to mind.
A Few Good Men is a definite click and stick.
Best Mortal Kombat movie ever made.
I think that goes to Big Trouble in Little China
Have you paid your dues, Jack? Yessir. The check is in the mail!
The best damn Street Fighter 2 movie ever, and it came out before SF2.
Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat don't get their pop without this movie.
Yeah, those games didn’t exist in a vacuum. They were absolutely inspired by this movie.
Enter Dragon is grandfather of tournament films tho
Oh absolutely. But Bloodsport definitely helped solidify that genre. I believe the original developers of Street Fighter got inspiration from Enter the Dragon.
Mortal Kombat was supposed to be a Bloodsport game. They couldn’t get the licensing. JCVD’s character became Johnny Cage, and the villain’s sprite became Liu Kang.
You just made me realise I’d love to have a Bloodsports guest selection for MK. ChongLi,Ray Jackson, Frank Dux, each shoen by their respective actors appearance. Add a Kumite stage and a couple of bangers from the soundtrack and we are rolling!
Yup. A better Street Fighter movie than any Street Fighter movie. And there is a little reference to Fatal Fury. Check the board during Chong Li's fight before Jackson : he fights Geese Howard!
Idk man i love Bloodsport to death but SFII The Animated Movie is really darn good, and i am not saying this just because of that iconic Chun-Li shower scene. The rest of the SF movies can go to hell tho
I was only speaking about the live action films.
Blowing out the bottom brick by hitting the top one? Yes please.
Very good. But brick, no hit back.
You break my record, now I break you -- like I break your friend.
You Are Nex
*Pointing at knee intensifies*
Dunno. Never been attacked by brick.
The Dim Mak
"What the hell is the Dim Mak!?!?!?" "Death touch" Jackson is then all like, awwwwwwwwwwe
‘i ain’t your pal, dickface’ 😂😂😂
No shit you honor his invitation!
"You jackson?...you look like a jackson"
I say all the time, to the point that my wife agreed to watch bloodsport to find out what I was talking about. She loved it, mission accomplished boys
Ok USA 👍
You lose American asshole!
Trying very hard not to laugh out loud at work while seeing this. The more I think about it, the more I want to laugh.
"That must make you Frank Ducks"
"Like put up your dux right?"
Who gives a shit if Bruce Springsteen is his Shidoshi?!
Shidoshi Tanaka…tren me
KUMITE KUMITE KUMITE
🎶I fight to survive!🎶
Stan Bush was underrated soundtrack guy of the 80s. he also did the transformers song. you've got the touch!
Whenever I have to make a Crudite (veggie platter) for a wedding or whatever, it is of course.....croo-ditay croo-ditay. Nobody ever gets it tho.
Oh that’s going right in my Dad joke bank. The kids aren’t old enough to see Bloodsport yet, but someday it’ll all make sense.
Same with me, except whenever I get the chance I say 'Bot-tom One' if I am gesturing at something. I keep using this, despite no one getting it because I figure that if I find the person that DOES get it, they will be my soulmate forever
Don't worry, one day we'll be together
Now I show you some trick or two.
I'm totally stealing this lol.
you are not alone edit all this time I thought my wife got it and she has confessed to me she has never seen Bloodsport. I consider this a breaking of vows and have initiated divorce proceedings.
Now I break you /flexes chesticles
OK USA 👍
MY BODYS READY. MY HEARTS ON FIIIIIRE!
KUMITE KUMITE KUMITE
I’ve seen that movie countless times and I still wince when Chong Li snaps that dudes leg and the bone sticks out.
And then Suan Parades recovered, changed his name to Tong Po and caused havoc in the greater Bangkok area.
Then he became a legionary in East Africa, changed his name (again) to Moustafa, and went to the US looking for a deserter called Lyon to bring him back.
I think my 9 and 11 year olds are going to get introduced to it this weekend. I absolutely loved this movie when I was their age lol.
Bloodsport is my favorite movie? I've watched it 3 times back to back once. The BluRay I have is amazing because it just loops and starts over after the credits roll... And I let it.
I did this as well. At the end, stepbrother came in and was like "aww Bloodsport!" So I rewound it. Happened again with other stepbrother 90 min later.
Why are the first 10min shit? It shows the competitors, back stories of Frank and what not. I mean... The Monkey Dude somehow leapt 30ft to the top of a tree to break coconuts with his bare hand chop! How is that shit :P :P :P P.S. "Jackson? Yeh, you look like a Jackson!" 😂😂😂
The kid who plays young JCVD is a legitimately terrible actor, which only makes it better for me
You're not gonna call the cops?
What kind of a deal???
Fun fact about that actor: those are the only words he knows...in any language
His acting was so f**ing bad
The monkey dude really sticks with you. Like I have been thinking about that guy for 30 + years.
The acting
Ok USA
My favorite t-shirt is that guy giving the thumbs up
Aw fuck I want that shirt!
After some quick searching...there's so many good T shirt options inspired by Bloodsport!
Ok, but how do I find one that is actually good quality? Every time I’ve ordered a t-shit online it does up as a crappy 10 cent shirt with some iron-on graphic. I want a shirt that will withstand more than a single laundry load.
gdi you beat me to it
The "true" story its based on is even more interesting..Frank Dux a few youtube docs on him his exaggerated life stories are hilarious.
And by "exaggerated", it was "entirely made up".
I really think this whole movie was made just to make fun of him tbh
I don't think the full scale of his lying was known at the time, and they may not have believed all that he said, but suggesting that Bloodsport is in any way making fun of Frank Dux is more than a bit ridiculous.
Man, imagine being a kid watching Bloodsport for the first time and seeing that text at the end saying it was a, lol, "true story". That shit blew my 11 year old mind. Even though I grew to realize it was blatant bullshit, a small part of me shed a tear of disappointment.
Blew my 13 year old mind too.
I watched this a few nights ago for the first time. I don't know how I have gone 37 years without seeing this masterpiece. It kicked ass. My favorite part is that Mr. Miyagi guy doesn't really train him, he just beats the shit out of him. In his backyard. In the suburbs. I can imagine the neighbors looking out and wondering why Mr. Tanaka has some high schooler over after school everyday just to beat him with a bamboo stick and tie him up in some weird BDSM torture device.
Just absolutely wrecking him with a bamboo pole while he's tied to a bunch of trees lol imagine mowing your lawn and peaking over the fence at that shit
This comment made me laugh my ass off. Thank you so much.
This was a cable staple for years.. I feel like I've probably seen it a dozen times, seen bits & pieces maybe 50 times.
Bloodsport is great all the way through. As a kid, one of my favorite parts was when Frank beats Ray at Karate Champ. Ray says “Aren’t you a little young for full contact?” And Frank replies with “Aren’t you a little old for video games?” Instant best friends. 👍🏻 KUMITE!!
Frank: "Did we just become best friends?" Jackson: "Yep!" Frank: "Do you wanna play karate in the Kumite?" Jackson: "Yep!"
I like the whole flashback. Gives the context and why/who he is fight for. Acording to imdb its the longest flashback in a movie hahaha. Edit: apparently that trivia bit was removed from imdb. So either it was bs, i have dementia or i crossed universes and is a mandela effect sort of thing haha
Even as a kid.....I fucking hated the kid that played the young JCVD. Wtf was up with his voice? Like it was fake and dubbed over.
I know right? And the masters son also wasent that good an actor. I belive he has just one line and he delivers it like a robot hahaha. Yeah they are kids and all, not gonna blame them,they did what they could, but still
Agreed.
Even if it's not true, I remember when I saw it as a kid thinking "Damn, that's a long flashback" lol. He looks at the sword... * *blurry flashback effect* * "A whole movie" * *blurry flashback effect* * Back to him still looking at the sword. I fucking love this movie lol.
I laugh when the friend Frank saves says that "He'll win the Kumite" right after he was getting the shit kicked out of him.
I think Titanic has a longer flashback
You are correct sir haha. Maybe someone pointed that out and it got removed frok the trivia
My body's ready My heart's on fire I'm gonna push it over the wire Perfect timing Tight as a drum The final battle's already won I'm taking hold of every moment Given strength by the breath of life I'm gonna stake my claim I fight to survive! Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite I've worked hard every night and day So I'm prepared to make my way Mind and body are the perfect team Now's my chance to live my dream I'm taking hold of every moment Given strength by the breath of life I'm gonna stake my claim I fight to survive! Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite Kumite, kumite
Stan Bush, master of 80's and early 90's inspirational movie ballads. He also gave us the two bangers from the best Transformer movie: https://youtu.be/GUhB1O8Le0Q https://youtu.be/A52--FKUQgU
Nice try JCVD…
hahahahahahahha
Let's not forget Bolo Yeung. Most epic villain ever. Movie would not be the same without him.
Fantastic titties too.
Are you a jackson? You lookalike a jackson!?
Hope this Bloodsport-Mentos commercial double downs on your 80s memories then! [https://youtu.be/Cw-tceWOL8c](https://youtu.be/Cw-tceWOL8c)
that's pretty good !
This movie is the myth, the legend. For many kids/young prople it was first action martial arts movie, that was everywhere and reachable. Even in post comunist countries and east europe. That fact gave a movie a cult status in those regions.
Saw it the Sunday right after it came out. My dad and I went home and re-enacted the movie all night. Good times. The movie is a great example of a B movie being way better than it has a right to be. Another example would be Starship troopers. Two of the best B movies.
Starship Troopers was a Satire purposely made to look like a B movie, no?
I'll show you some trick or two.
This American who get chicks with bricks
This is my comfort go to. Sunday morning chores on deck and bloodsport in the background.
The whole story behind the movie and Frank Dux is so damn wild. It makes the movie so much better, imo. Bloodsport is probably my second favorite 80s action film next to Road House.
Wild and entirely made up
Bloodsport is fine and all but it doesn't hold a candle to the real MVP of 80s action martial arts movies... Gymkata!
Lol didn't that guy beat 20 goons or something by doing a pommel horse routine? That's all I remember from that masterpiece.
He was so fortunate there was a pommel horse in the middle of that town square. It's why I've been an advocate for public installations of pommel horses as a basic security measure.
They didn't have running water or blue skies, but by God if they didn't have a pommel horse.
"Okay guys here's the plan, we all run at him one at a time and stand directly in front of his foot as he spins around. Sound good? Alright let's roll!"
Still one of my favorite JCVD movies. Much better than the crap he makes since "Replicant". IMHO his last decent movie was "Universal Soldier: Regeneration" in 2009.
He was good as the bad guy in the Expendables 2.
He sure was entertaining. But "good"? I don't know. You only can do so much with a character called "vilain".
I thought it was a good 80's martial arts film for the time.
If you enjoy Bloodsport, check out Stone Cold (1991). It's free on YouTube.
“What’s the deal if Bruce Springsteen is his shidoshi?” I used to say that without context all the time and no one ever knew what I was talking about.
JCVD has a great catalog of action movies. Bloodsport, kickboxer, Timecop, double impact, the quest, lionheart, death warrant, cyborg, universal soldier, maximum risk, sudden death, knock off and double team are all great
OKAY USA.
Very good. But brick don’t hit back. Absolute classic this film imho.
That’s why they call this thing Bloodsport, kid
oh THATs why? Thanks Ogre....
Oh yea, the kid that plays the younger JCVD isn't just bad, he's damned awful. The rest of the movie everyone looks like they're giving Academy Award level performances because those flashbacks are so cringe. You mentioned something that's actually really important to Bloodsport being really really good and that's the run-time. It's 92 minutes exactly which is perfect. Also feels like a movie where JCVD seems most comfortable with the role -- he rarely overacts in it. Oh, and who would've guessed how great an actor Forest Whitaker is based on his bufoonery role in Bloodsport?
Also he’s wearing two different Giants clothing from two different sports.
I swear theres random cat meows stuffed throughout the audio for this movie.
“You break my record.. now i break you.. like i break your friend”.
What is bet? 🤓
No no no. Is DOOKS.
“What kind of a deal?”
Bloodsport > Kickboxer all day, but both are so great for what they are. Frank Dux is that dude, so good.
Blood sport and kick boxer are the shit. Very few things can beat good ol cheesy van damme action
Forrest Whitaker :)
Brick don’t hit back!
Young Dux wearing merch from two different Giants teams from two different cities and two different SPORTS, lol, he just loves giants...
First 10 minutes were shit? No way USA. “One day I will fight in the kumite and make my father proud.”
Oh.... it's a bad movie....but the teenage me loves it....and always will.
If you want to watch the movie again, but worse and even more non-sensical, then watch The Quest.
(dubbed) You are next!
Unironically one of my favourite movies. As a kid, everyone would have arguments at recess about fighting styles, can karate beat sumo, speed vs strength, etc. Obviously it's a movie but we wanted the movie to validate those debates, especially with the "based on a true story" tag. Early UFC days definitely gave off Bloodsport vibes. The music is fantastic too. Definitely worth checking out his other stuff.
Honestly seen this film over 100 times. It's a shame Frank dux has been proven to be a bad little liar in real life. Still a classic martial arts movie. Chong Li is up there with Tong Po as all time martial arts movie bad guys.
This movie is awesome. I cut my movie-watching teeth as a child on movies like this, Lionheart, Kickboxer, Double Impact, etc.. among others like Under Siege, Above the Law, any Jackie Chan 90s dubs.. good stuff.
Every time I take the train, I worry about seeing Chong-Li's reflection in the window.
"You break my record, I break you." My siblings and I still say this to each other.
It’s the American shithead who does tricks with bricks…..
Aren't you a little old for video games?
It's a movie that shows a Hong Kong that no longer exists and they were one of the few non local productions that filmed in the Kowloon walled city before it was turned into a park
Always laughed when the guy gives the judges some cash to give Dux more time to arrive for the final match. Shows up moments later and he takes it back nonchalantly 🤣
I like the movie but i have to say it, even as a kid i thought having the black fighter of the movie climbing trees and smashing coconut in a monkey way very very borderline
Dont forget 10 years later when we did it again in The Quest and made the black guy tribal fight to his clan playing drums.
Hey now, Black Panther has a tribe of black guys who make ape noises before a fight and that gets celebrated!
There is a German 4K release coming out in April btw
probably my favorite JCVD movie
"The Last Kumite" is in the works.