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Yeah probably, I didn't have any to replace it with so I just went with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah I wasn't expecting it to speed down at level 10, definitely possible to go higher on a good day, might actually go back and give it another shot!

Same! Even the small glass clip frames are just 4 bucks, but the cards look good in just about everything. Very happy with the Wolverine!

Oh wow Journey of the Doomed looks like it's going for a real "Masters of the Universe" vibe, I could be into this

Ray! Great to hear from you again! It's pretty much the best hoodie, at this point I can't remember if I took out the draw strings myself? None of my older ones made it through my kids' younger years unscathed, they probably ate it at one point lol

100%, my only regret is that I didn't start watching them sooner!

Mitch! Not high art or anything but I really enjoyed it through the lens of Hong Kong action, and again given the care put into it :) Re: Painted Faces you are correct, Sammo actually plays Master Yu Jim-Yuen, kinda excited to see him act that one out!

Hey 170 ain't nothing, and still a solid 155 or so ahead of me! Any others you'd put at the top of your list so far?

@@ryan_runs_ Just to name a few that weren't mentioned already: The Magic Blade 1976 Buddha’s Palm 1982 Bastard Swordsman 1983 The Lady Hermit 1971 The Enchanting Shadow 1960 (early "horror" film) Golden Swallow 1968 Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan 1972 The Tea House 1974 (love this one, but it os more a Drama/Crime film by Kuei Chih-Hung ) Death Duel 1977 The Sentimental Swordsman 1977 I love Chor Yuen films and Kuei Chih-Hung and Ho Meng-Hua and ... and and ... 🙂

Excellent, and some I haven't heard of yet!

​@@the3rdpillblog934you have some brilliant titles on your list. I think the toughest watches are the kung fu comedy films from 78 onwards, that aren't that funny (Fighting fool, Tigress from shaolin and Boxer from the temple to name but 3)that said they also made some great comedy movies.

@@mitchsfridaynightsongclub2594 Thank you. I am going now more or less chronologically through the films, and I am in the early 70s.

don't use them against me

Hey we can't choose who our guys are at such a young age, it just happens

​@@ryan_runs_ LOL very true. In my case the owner of my LCS knew McFarlane before he made it big, so I got to meet Todd a couple times at the store before he ever did Spidey. I to this day wonder if I'd be such a McFarlane fan if not for those early experiences I had meeting him/having my LCS owner say "isn't Todd great?" all the time. So very much a "it just happened" thing. 😊

That's maybe the ultimate example lol, I'd be a DIEHARD McFarlane fan for sure if that had happened to me!

Tons of fun as always Mitch!

I have no evidence to the contrary

Paul you are one of those people who helped me and guided me. Always good to hear from you and thank you for all your support.

I bet Silver Emulsion made up for it, I should've mentioned how in-depth his reviews are too, he really puts in the work!

There is a real irony to not being able to talk about those films in China. I am always up for a chat mister.

@@mitchsfridaynightsongclub2594 Always up for it myself, too. As for China, the Shaws didn't seem to make much of a dent culturally in the Mainland, though you could get the Shaw's light operas and historical epics like "Beyond the Great Wall". Locally, there had been a big trend of "Red Films" in the 60s which are fun to watch, stuff like "Third Sister Liu" which used the Yangshuo landscape beautifully, or "Loyal Overseas Chinese Couple" whose plot... can be predicted, painfully. They also did excellent TV adaptations of Water Margin, Three Kingdoms (REALLY good), and Journey to the West ("Monkey"), which gets played every summer like the Thanksgiving Twighlight Zone Marathon used to be in the States. But the Shaws were really focused on Hong Kong and outwards, and you can still feel that today.

All credit to Mitch, a man on a mission!

Sold!

Sincerely thanks for the insight, you're not wrong about the insanity! The catch-up episodes were a carryover from another film podcast I used to do where I had talked about them a bit already during the mainline show, but I had kind-of forgot that I did all four of those in 11 minutes?! I was probably a little too keen on making sure I hit every movie on the list instead of actually having some useful thoughts 😬 And yes, the entire list just continues the insanity, I came up in the 80s, really started moviegoing in the 90s, so there's more than a few on there that... don't necessarily hold up to any of the greats I've done episodes on so far. I still love watching the "bad" ones, but they do seem like the first ones I cut when it comes down to it (like American Ninja most recently), so I'd say it's unlikely both of those Bloodsports get an episode, for instance. I've been told "you can't watch them all!" and I think that might be accurate. Maybe.

At this point that's good to hear, I'll put it with the handful of movies that I've shaved off the list here and there, and there are plenty of questionable ones on the list still to keep me busy 😬

Thanks for watching! And for the indirect recommendation, I'm finding departures can be pretty interesting all on their own, this one very much included. And you have correctly called out the scene where I really started examining my feelings about the music, although the songs themselves I'm merely "fine" on, I think it's mostly the use (and over-use) that I found a bit more difficult. I will say it has a certain charm to it though, some of the goofier bits it seemed to work a bit better.

Can't argue that it sits apart from every other Lau Kar-leung movie I've seen so far, which still isn't a lot, but enough that it stands out for sure. I do think the action, choreography is on par though, I don't know if I saw this in a vacuum I'd be able to call out Lau Kar-leung's touch but it's still a notch above. I'm probably somewhere between you and Paul then, not my favorite or my least favorite, but glad I watched it and would still recommend!

Mitch! Good call on Disciples, I should've thought of that, I mean LKL is no stranger to spinning A LOT of plates with his films for sure, while Sammo seems like he'll just go ahead and let them spin out of control for the entire last act of his movies lol. Alright I'll hit you up and we'll get something on the books, looking forward to it!

Happy to help!

Yes, I'd say as long as you have a spot to put the clamp there's no reason why it wouldn't work with whatever you got!

@ryan_runs_ yeah I'm currently looking at a few and alot of people are saying that it works mainly with the desk and I was looking at the ASUS ergo arm and it looks pretty nice

Just realized from looking through those photos/videos -- the last time all three of us (you, me, and Matt) were in person together at PAX was 2016. 🤯 2017 Matt wasn't there, 2018 I wasn't there, and 2019 was again without an Amberg.

That's WILD, I didn't even consider it so I guess I wasn't really lookin (re pax in 21 and 22). Re everything else: thanks! It really was kind of an eye-opener this year, the money is always such a big deal that I feel like I have to maximize every second, turns out that didn't have as much to do with getting up at 7 am as I thought it did. 2016 sounds about right, pretty much PAX tag after that, maybe someday we'll get the band back together :)

Happy to help!

Not sure if this is going to help but... mine can. Either direction. Hard to say what the issue might be without looking at it but it should be able to!

You're welcome!

Roughly 2 5/8 by 5 1/4 inches

@@ryan_runs_ Great, thank you!

Fun idea! The analogue connector makes me think there wouldn't be any proprietary issues, but I'm definitely out of my depth with stuff like that.

yw, happy to help!

Excellent, happy to have helped!

Happy it helped!

Hello my friend! Jackie definitely made some smart changes with this one, I didn't talk about it but apparently he added the entire Sally subplot too, otherwise it was pretty much just him and Aiello kickin around. I REALLY need to look up Clouse, he obviously makes a splash with Enter the Dragon (which I haven't actually seen in its entirety, glaring omission there) but then also directs some real "questionable material," let's say, not the least of which includes Game of Death (which I have seen??), so yeah there has to be a story with that guy. And hey, the fact that The Last Dragon isn't everybody's cup of tea should not come as a surprise to anybody, I also welcome your thoughts anytime Mitch! (from the comments)

@@ryan_runs_ hello mate, I honestly can't watch Game of death again, I think it's Bruceploitation at its very lowest. I recently watched Fearless hyena 2 which was a film Jackie walked out halfway through making and director Lo Wei completed using similar techniques (look a likes) that for me is a pretty good film. We need a catch up mate, always happy to speak with you.

I mean it's hard to get lower than using actual footage if him in the casket, won't ever be watching that one again either. Pleasantly surprised Fearless Hyena 2 is worth a watch though, I had kind of written off the sequels after hearing about that mess. The third sounds like a complete disaster. Will send a message this week about chatting soon!

Oh yeah, safe to say stuff from The Last Dragon will be popping up in my brain for years to come

I just watched the trailer, sold!

Good people, good convos, honestly my forum-posting pretty much began and ended with that site!

Seemed like the best choice of course

Mitch! I very much get the selective viewing thing now, I do it with games too, and everything else for that matter. 10 years (or so) ago I just kinda realized that I was never going to see and/or play it all, but luckily it's also part of the reason I go hard on recommendations from friends, yourself included, because rain or shine that thing will bring people together! Even for a movie like The Last Dragon :). Unfortunately you have yet to recommend a bad movie so I have to go out and find them on my own! What was the underground thing you experienced becoming the next big thing?

@@ryan_runs_ Grunge mate mainly. I bought Bleach before Never mind was out. I saw Nirvana in 91 when they were unknown, a year later they were the biggest band on the planet. Grunge was my punk rock and musically it's how I probably identify. I have seen a couple of Yuen woo ping films lately, Miracle fighters and Buddhist fist are superb, definitely recommend - Shaolin drunkard is toilet. I have also been watching a fair bit of Jackie Chan too. We should catch up soon mate for a chat.

If you cant have a good time watching The Last Dragon... it might be time to take up model trains.. or crocheting. Like Pauline Kael said... and I'm paraphrasing.. "Movies are so rarely high art that if you cant appreciate great trash, you probably shouldnt watch films at all."

Great example, I was never in on the ground floor but seeing some of those obvious garage bands sell a zillion albums was definitely somethin else, that's pure 90s right there

Well said! To each his own and all that, and of course I've been guilty of piling on here and there, but more often than not there's something to appreciate, some little piece of a person that's worth a second look, and Last Dragon has far more than a few imo

Happy to help!

6 feet for the USB-C cable, 51 inches for the built in cable attached to the big buttons.

@ryan_runs_ thank you.

I was surprised by a few of them myself!

Anytime my friend!

That was a fun listen. I gotta have each of you guys on my show some time!

Can't speak for Adam other than to say "he's pretty agreeable" ;) but sure, anytime!

@@nerdyneo21 Forgot to reply to this, but like Ryan said I'm agreeable, happy to chat sometime.

Happy to help! I am also very glad it didn't have to be one take!

Glad you figured it out, it's been a while and I couldn't remember for the life of me :)

Back right before I leave again! Yeah I can't tell if this movie feels like a victory lap/end of school party or if it's just that effortless for Lau Kar-leung at this point. Going to say it's a bit of both! Must be second nature to him at this point if this is what he does when he's badgered into making something! Honestly I didn't mind Hsiao, but I'll admit he's basically one note until the very end. Great end tho. Re: China's past by way of Lau Kar-leung, I believe it! Despite the endless entertainment his work does also feel respectful, even reverent. I touch on it for a second in the video, but even if it's categorized as "folklore" that's obviously still very valuable, and rich in cultural knowledge and/or history, whatever you want to call it. It's a big part of why I love it!