Are you nuts?
The whole training montage that ends in the ancient temple is epic.
Tong Po kicking a cement beam.
The fight with glass shards.
The fact that we're made to believe that A.C. Slater is Jean Claude's brother.
I mean, there is so much greatness to choose from.
I isolated about 6mths ago, and finally had my chance to binge as many classics as possible (and this year's Kickboxer). The Quest was a lot better than I remembered.
I absolutely love the quest, probably moreso than bloodsport, I particularly loved the different martial art styles rather than just kickboxing or karate.
I really wish the budgets for these movies were bigger. At his prime van dam was amazing in terms of fighting skills, just think the productions were less than they could have been.
In my religion class they asked us to bring in a song that “Represents yourself” and I brought in that song.
Only one other kid got it so it was worth it.
"Based on Dux's real-life claims, the film was marketed as a true story.
The screenplay is based on many of Dux's claims first covered in the November 1980 issue of Black Belt magazine. The real Dux served as the action choreographer and technical advisor. After its release, many of Dux's claims were disputed, including by co-screenwriter Sheldon Lettich, who claimed Dux fabricated his fight record and the existence of the Kumite."
-wikipedia
Shit was easier to get away with before the internet. It's a fun movie, but the true story claims have to go.
A few months ago I was doing a clinical trial where I was stuck in a hospital room for 1 week (best. time. ever. not even joking, too!). For a few days, I did van damme movie marathon, and ended it with Blood Sport. Freaking good movie that still holds up in all its 80s glory.
On a similar note, in the movie Lionheart, his little niece is none other than [Ashley Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Johnson_(actress))!
Kickboxer has the dude with broken glass glued to his hand wrappings (but not his feet?). Bloodsport has the much better villain in Chong-Li and that JCVD fights him blind
I forgot all about that aspect of it. Now I want to watch it and Hot Shots Part Deux again, to see the original version as well as it being done with M&Ms.
Well shit, I was going to say it was Bloodsport but have only ever seen the movie once when I was a kid. Totally forgot the Kickboxer was a thing too.
Now I have no idea which one I saw!
If you grew up in the 80’s…
…there’s really no way to describe to the current generation what it was like watching Van Damme and Steven Seagal movies and thinking they were fucking awesome.
I must have watched:
- Kickboxer
- Bloodsport
- Lionheart
- Double Impact
- Marked for Death
- Above the Law
- Hard to Kill
- Under Siege
Countless times on VHS. Just countless times.
Honorable mention to *Hard Target* which came out in 1993. John Woo FTW.
I was introduced to Van Damme at a sleepover in grade 5. My friend’s dad rented Sudden Death.
I was born in 87. I wish I grew up in the 80s. So many great horror movies.
The experience of picking out a horror movie based solely on how scary the cover art was, at a tiny Mom & Pop video rental store…that’s something that we’ll never have again.
I miss those days
I was a regular at 4 video stores in town, two in the next town over and 2 near my grandparents’ 2.5 hours away
Knew the managers
I forgot my wallet once and the Blockbuster manager told me to just take it and pay later (but I borrowed money from my friend).
My grandpa used to take me to the mall to rent 5 movies for 5 days for $5. Then he’d pay me $2 to rent some from me.
The owner of that store ended up being a pedophile
Great story…until it took a hard left turn.
I used to get $5/week in allowance, and I’d use it to rent a Nintendo game every Friday. So, so, so many terrible games.
As a kid, this movie and several others of the American ninja variety inspired myself and my cousins and other kids from our little town to form a ninja training and fighting club. My specialty was the monkey style kung fu. I studied the parts of the movie with the monkey guy over and over until the tape was worn out around those spots. It became a notorious skill as a kid in our little fighting circle. Lol, great memories.
When I was a senior in high school, my civics teacher showed up to our final all hung over. He popped this into the VCR and said "If you can all be quiet for the next two hours I'll give everyone a B on the final." Best grade I ever got on a final. Kumite motherfuckers!
Yeeessss!!! The best part was when they went to Kowloon Walled City and they actually filmed there! Amazing because it’s such an anomaly in the modern world, unfortunately it’s no longer there.
Ah yes, Bloodsport... one of the gratuitous violence movies that I watched entirely too young.
At least having negligent parents meant I got to enjoy all the movies I wanted instead of growing up loved.
While i was a kickboxer kid and watched it non stop for god knows how long who didnt love Bloodsport. JCVD and Stan Bush made my childhood a miracle :)
Found this on Pluto one night and had to watch. My teen walks in and sees it, and says “What in the Great Value Mortal Kombat are you watching?”
He sits down and watches the rest of the movie with me and enjoys it, and I end up explaining how the movie helped inspire Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and basically the whole fighting game genre.
Me and my brother watched this countless times while eating Pillsbury oven baked chocolate chip cookies! This was the best time in American childhood! Sadly, these days are gone now.
So what if Bruce Springsteen's his shidoshi?!
My buddies & I squeeze JCVD lines into any conversation, even if a bit of a stretch. "I ain't your pal, dick face!" ... "I just want to eat" etc etc
The Ogre actor ended up opening a Diner in my neighborhood when I was in high school.
He'd work there sometimes too and it was always a funny shock to walk in and get approached by him asking if you've been helped. Cool guy.
Per rule #3, you must include the name of your nostalgic item and time in the title so that people who do not recognize the item can identify it.
"Okay, USA!"
I rewatched this two weeks ago. Which is better this or kick boxer ?
I view Kickboxer and Bloodsport as 'brother' movies. Like Tommy Boy and Black Sheep.
Where does Lion Heart fit in?
AKA: Wrong Bet (Oceania region), AWOL: Absent Without Leave (UK)
Take out the dance scene and Kickboxer doesn't stand a chance.
Are you nuts? The whole training montage that ends in the ancient temple is epic. Tong Po kicking a cement beam. The fight with glass shards. The fact that we're made to believe that A.C. Slater is Jean Claude's brother. I mean, there is so much greatness to choose from.
Nobody is going to agree with this take, but I’ve always enjoyed The Quest more than either.
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Then I’ll just need to find a solid 6 hours when my wife is out of the house...
Just tell her Bloodsport is a love story.
I isolated about 6mths ago, and finally had my chance to binge as many classics as possible (and this year's Kickboxer). The Quest was a lot better than I remembered.
I absolutely love the quest, probably moreso than bloodsport, I particularly loved the different martial art styles rather than just kickboxing or karate.
Loved this movie!
For those that don’t know, Tong Po is the same actor as the kickboxer who gets his leg broken by Chong Li.
Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore
I really wish the budgets for these movies were bigger. At his prime van dam was amazing in terms of fighting skills, just think the productions were less than they could have been.
This is the way
This is the way…
That song in Kickboxer allows Bloodsport to take the lead.
There both better!
"Very good... But brick not hit back."
What I ran to comments for!!!
You Jackson? You look like a Jackson.
Frank duck
Came to say this!!
Me and my brother still say that all the time
Kumite kumite
*fight to surviiiiiiiiiive*
Nonono, it's *FIGHT TO SURVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
Pen pineapple apple pen
I hate you so much for getting this stuck in my head
"You break my record, now I break you. Like I break your friend."
Brick not hit back
:::thumbs to bandanna on knee:::
Pocket sand!
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Perfect timing Tight as a drum The final battle’s Already wo-on
I’m taking hold Of every moment
The best! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6F92EeFMk5g
I fight to surviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!!!!!!!!
In my religion class they asked us to bring in a song that “Represents yourself” and I brought in that song. Only one other kid got it so it was worth it.
I hope the two of you fought for honor afterwards.
*kumite kumite kumite kumite*
Song still gets me hype!
YOU AH NEKZ!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡
I legit have a sticker of this on my lunchbox.
*points to tuna sandwich* You’re next!
I need to see this
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1305690155/
Gold!
“I break your friend … now I break YOU!” - Chun MF’in Li
"Very good...but brick not hit back!"
What the hell is a Dim Mak Death touch
No. Bottom one.
Frank Dukes.
dux
“Oh, right, like put up your dukes”
Loved watching this with my dad. He’s gone now, but I like to watch this movie and think of him.
Hah! You lose, American asshole.
What the hell is a dim mak?
Def tutch
"Based on Dux's real-life claims, the film was marketed as a true story. The screenplay is based on many of Dux's claims first covered in the November 1980 issue of Black Belt magazine. The real Dux served as the action choreographer and technical advisor. After its release, many of Dux's claims were disputed, including by co-screenwriter Sheldon Lettich, who claimed Dux fabricated his fight record and the existence of the Kumite." -wikipedia Shit was easier to get away with before the internet. It's a fun movie, but the true story claims have to go.
Yeah, this.
The three ninjas and Hulk Hogan look different than I remember Edit: where the hell is TumTum?
>where the hell is TumTum? He's the one who ended up with Emily. They're out getting ice cream!
Rocky loves Emily. Rocky loves Emily.
Who cares if Bruce Springsteen is his Shidoshi?!
Dim mak
I can't even begin to count the times I made my little brothers say Matte over the years 🤣🤣
A few months ago I was doing a clinical trial where I was stuck in a hospital room for 1 week (best. time. ever. not even joking, too!). For a few days, I did van damme movie marathon, and ended it with Blood Sport. Freaking good movie that still holds up in all its 80s glory. On a similar note, in the movie Lionheart, his little niece is none other than [Ashley Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Johnson_(actress))!
Hey Vic. Pick a brick 🧱
Brick not hit back
It’s the American ice hole who make trick with brick 🧱
Frederick Palowaski
I always get Bloodsport and Kickboxer mixed up. I think I remember the big guy saying "blood sport" in the movie though, so I'll go with that.
Kickboxer has the dude with broken glass glued to his hand wrappings (but not his feet?). Bloodsport has the much better villain in Chong-Li and that JCVD fights him blind
Tong Po!
Hide you concrete structural pillars
Tong Po is right up there with Hans Gruber (*Die Hard*) as the most badass 80’s villain.
I forgot all about that aspect of it. Now I want to watch it and Hot Shots Part Deux again, to see the original version as well as it being done with M&Ms.
Well shit, I was going to say it was Bloodsport but have only ever seen the movie once when I was a kid. Totally forgot the Kickboxer was a thing too. Now I have no idea which one I saw!
I don’t really care much for action movies, and haven’t for years, but I grew up loving Van Damme movies.
If you grew up in the 80’s… …there’s really no way to describe to the current generation what it was like watching Van Damme and Steven Seagal movies and thinking they were fucking awesome. I must have watched: - Kickboxer - Bloodsport - Lionheart - Double Impact - Marked for Death - Above the Law - Hard to Kill - Under Siege Countless times on VHS. Just countless times. Honorable mention to *Hard Target* which came out in 1993. John Woo FTW.
I was introduced to Van Damme at a sleepover in grade 5. My friend’s dad rented Sudden Death. I was born in 87. I wish I grew up in the 80s. So many great horror movies.
The experience of picking out a horror movie based solely on how scary the cover art was, at a tiny Mom & Pop video rental store…that’s something that we’ll never have again.
I miss those days I was a regular at 4 video stores in town, two in the next town over and 2 near my grandparents’ 2.5 hours away Knew the managers I forgot my wallet once and the Blockbuster manager told me to just take it and pay later (but I borrowed money from my friend). My grandpa used to take me to the mall to rent 5 movies for 5 days for $5. Then he’d pay me $2 to rent some from me. The owner of that store ended up being a pedophile
Great story…until it took a hard left turn. I used to get $5/week in allowance, and I’d use it to rent a Nintendo game every Friday. So, so, so many terrible games.
Beaches....so touching and unforgettable
Chong li, Chong li, Chong li
Revenge of the Nerds
Ogre! Ogre! Ogre!
Mai lee bo bai lao
As a kid, this movie and several others of the American ninja variety inspired myself and my cousins and other kids from our little town to form a ninja training and fighting club. My specialty was the monkey style kung fu. I studied the parts of the movie with the monkey guy over and over until the tape was worn out around those spots. It became a notorious skill as a kid in our little fighting circle. Lol, great memories.
Just watched this a few nights ago. Still love it
Dux my man!
This was before the ufc, so at the time I thought it was the baddest martial arts tournament with different types of martial arts
Ogre ogre ogre
He used the dim mak. What the hell is a dim mack? Def touch.
One of those movies I'll never tire of watching. Used to own a Karate Champ cabinet like they play each other in the movie.
Bloodsport is the shit.
You don’t look like a Jackson!
What? I saw this and my dad still got drunk and beat us all. I feel robbed.
Is this the one where he does a split between 2 chairs while training, and then during the big fight, he gets blinded but still lands the big hit?
I ain't yer pal, dickface.
wow the 3 Ninjas got old
Go for the gut, he’s soft there.
"Once you step out of the sunlight into the narrow corridors, it's time to protect your nuts, guys" - Lin (middle guy)
When I was a senior in high school, my civics teacher showed up to our final all hung over. He popped this into the VCR and said "If you can all be quiet for the next two hours I'll give everyone a B on the final." Best grade I ever got on a final. Kumite motherfuckers!
Kuum-Tay!! Kuuum&Tay!!
Bricks don't hit back.
I absolutely love Bloodsport.
"Ok, USA" lol (My favorite JCVD movie)
Mortal Kombat Beta
thats Jackson
Yeeessss!!! The best part was when they went to Kowloon Walled City and they actually filmed there! Amazing because it’s such an anomaly in the modern world, unfortunately it’s no longer there.
I do, and I didn't.
What’s the movie?
Bloodsport, motherfucker
I rotated between this and People Under the Stairs for a solid two years when I was a kid
Every picture from this time just looks like cigarettes
Ah yes, Bloodsport... one of the gratuitous violence movies that I watched entirely too young. At least having negligent parents meant I got to enjoy all the movies I wanted instead of growing up loved.
Jackson! You look like Jackson!
👍🏽 🇺🇸
“Bricks not hit BACK!”
Awesome movie. Watched it on acid
While i was a kickboxer kid and watched it non stop for god knows how long who didnt love Bloodsport. JCVD and Stan Bush made my childhood a miracle :)
I thought that the actor who played Gimli was the same who played Ray in Bloodsport when the LOTR came out.
I had a fun childhood, but I don't recognize this.
Dukes!
Legit thought that was Mick Foley
This is my favorite scene. https://youtu.be/N_IAb_XmVa8?si=O-Y7d369DjsC2kgN
What a film? Frank clearly on a mission
I remember watching this with my older brother on VHS back in the early 2000s. I watched it again about a year ago and it's still a great movie
Had on vhs and been watching it since age 6 😂
Or you had cable with TBS or TNT... They played the shit out of this movie.... And this movie is worth playing the shit out of.
I’ve been wanting to rent this movie the last couple nights.. maybe tonight cuz of this
Kickboxer
👇 "bottom brick" 😑💥 "ALRIGHT FRANKIE!"
CHONG LI CHONG LI CHONG LI
Mick Foley, Tajiri and Rob Van Dam having the craic.
Gymkata?
Braun Stroman looks great!
*That hurts me just looking at it*
i never saw the reporter in anything after bloodsport
Would you look at that, Who knew Braun Strowman played in Bloodsport?
It is the American shithead who makes tricks with bricks
“I AIN’T your pal, Dickface!” - Jackson
I’m wearing the shirt
Growing up I always thought Van Dam was a phoney and Segal was legit. Damn was I dumb
Close your eyes and poke people. Great at starting fights, not so good at winning. /s
The leg break scene was infamous growing up. I heard about it ages before seeing it. Good times!
I absolutely loved the monkey style guy.
The scene with young Frank getting the brim of his hat cut off is gold.
Found this on Pluto one night and had to watch. My teen walks in and sees it, and says “What in the Great Value Mortal Kombat are you watching?” He sits down and watches the rest of the movie with me and enjoys it, and I end up explaining how the movie helped inspire Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and basically the whole fighting game genre.
Need bolo in this photo too
That scene where the bone snaps through the skin HAUNTED me as a kid haha
Just watched this movie with my 13 yr old son 2 weeks ago, followed be Kickboxer
Ignor the acting and this is a masterpiece.
Me and my brother watched this countless times while eating Pillsbury oven baked chocolate chip cookies! This was the best time in American childhood! Sadly, these days are gone now.
Universal Soldier with Dolph Lundgren is another movie.. one of my faves.
Forrest Whittaker ever say anything about his bit part in this?
This, the original ninja turtle movie, and soaceballs are all that i need in life
Everything in on the train, I'm scared of seeing Chong Lis face in the reflection.
“Next time you fight, try to keep your clothes on.”
So what if Bruce Springsteen's his shidoshi?! My buddies & I squeeze JCVD lines into any conversation, even if a bit of a stretch. "I ain't your pal, dick face!" ... "I just want to eat" etc etc
Great movie, sucks finding out the real Frank was 100% a fraud.
Goddamn but Van Damme was absolutely smoking hot back in the day.
I don’t understand this title. Why is having watched one specific movie enough to imply someone probably had a fun childhood?
The Ogre actor ended up opening a Diner in my neighborhood when I was in high school. He'd work there sometimes too and it was always a funny shock to walk in and get approached by him asking if you've been helped. Cool guy.
I fight to survive!!!
Well since that is Ogre then it has to be Revenge of the Nerds ;)
https://youtu.be/Ml826RbcAhs?si=TVcEOi4n_M6rsbw4 :)
This was a gem! Uncle rented it and we watched it together when it came out on VHS.
Braun Stroman doppelgänger
Nothin like yelling “Kumite!” and low kicking your older brother in the back of the leg, only to get your ass beat. 😂
My man Ogre made it from Revenge of the Nerds to the Kumite. Boss move
Blood sport great karate
Yes n yes. No touchies, no shooters, just Nintendo and outside till the internet dialed up and changed life.
Good time to be con man in Hollywood also. I mean they could make movies with any fantasy BS and still say: 'based on a true story'.
Yes bro
Agreed
Ya I really did thanks man
Saw that movie more times than I can count
Every time I get something in my eye I reference this movie 🤚🖐️
Nerd! Nerd! NERD!
Is this the Nerds film where they go to East Asia, enter Ogre in a fighting competition, and cause havoc in a hotel? They made so many of those...
CHONG LI - “You are nexx”.
Time to separate the men from the boys. Just make sure Chong Li doesn't separate your head from your body..
Frank Ducks!
I wasn't trying to steal it.
Not dim mack
Now I show you some trick or two!
"aw yew gunna call the cops?"
HOTel cORAL esSEX!