Who is your favourite Martial Arts Movie Actor/Actress?

[myusername]

And another poll.....

This is a spin off from my other poll on favourite movies. This time please vote for your favourite martial arts actor/actress out of the bunch on offer in the poll and post telling us why.

As ever I am sure there are some dreadful oversights and your favourite may not be included in the poll. If this is the case, please post and tell us who you believe is the real greatest martial arts movie star is but please also say who you voted for in their absence.

I'm really enjoying reading the responses to these polls and hopefully this thread will be fun and introduce people to actors and movies they haven't yet seen but should definately check out!

(It takes a little time to write the poll after submitting the thread so if you are reading this before the poll is added please be patient and revisit to vote, cheers :))

[myusername]

I have opted for Jackie Chan because I feel he has both excellent martial arts skills and comic timing! (I love Bruce Lee but he loses points for all his wailing!!!).

[newGuy12]

Jet Li because of his performance in the Lethal Weapon movie.

[terryl965]

Cindy Rothrock but she is not on the list

[terryl965]

By the way you left out all the power rangers

[still learning]

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Bruce Lee realize fitness and endurance...was a big KEY in surviving a brawl!

READ the article! ..........Aloha

[JadecloudAlchemist]

Jackie Chan I voted for and the new movie with Jackie and Jet is going to be great.

[grydth]

I have opted for Jackie Chan because I feel he has both excellent martial arts skills and comic timing! (I love Bruce Lee but he loses points for all his wailing!!!).

He got my vote for the same reasons, plus he comes across as a real human being and I believe he does his own stunts.

[myusername]

Jackie Chan I voted for and the new movie with Jackie and Jet is going to be great.

Jackie Chan and Jet Li are making a movie together? I didn't know that!! Do you know what its going to be called?

[myusername]

By the way you left out all the power rangers

LOL! :D

[myusername]

Cindy Rothrock but she is not on the list

I didn't know who this lady was, so I looked her up! Wow! I can see the attraction..ahem.

[JadecloudAlchemist]

Jackie Chan and Jet Li are making a movie together? I didn't know that!! Do you know what its going to be called?

Here you go

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Jackie-Chan-Vs-Jet-Li-Trailer-6936.html

It is called the Forbidden Kingdom

[Kingindian]

Michelle Yeoh not in the list?

[arnisador]

Chuck Norris! Good martial artist, bad actor.

[myusername]

Michelle Yeoh not in the list?

Michelle Yeoh is definately there and doing well with 2 votes!

[Kingindian]

Michelle Yeoh is definately there and doing well with 2 votes!

whoops yeah...
she's pretty good at movie

[frownland]

Had to vote for Jackie. Amazing athlete and brilliant comic actor.

[YoungMan]

Don't have one. If I HAD to choose, probably Jet Li because of his intensity and philosophy.
Most of the people listed look horrible on screen and can't act. If a movie comes on TV I'll watch out of morbid curiosity; but I'd rather practice than watch some movie actor (and I'm being generous with that term in some cases) throw subpar technique.

[Steel Tiger]

Jackie Chan and Jet Li are making a movie together? I didn't know that!! Do you know what its going to be called?

I like Jackie and Jet a lot but had to go with Donnie Yen. Loved his work ever since I saw In the Line of Duty IV back in the mid '80s. He was great in New Dragon Gate Inn, Once Upon a Time in China II, Hero and check him out in Seven Swords.


By the way Jackie and Jet's new film is called The Forbidden Kingdom and is a version of the Monkey story (Journey to the West, Sun Wu Kung, whatever you might know it as). Jackie will be playing the monk and Jet will be Wu Kung himself.

Jackie also has Armour of God III due for probably 2009.

Also watch out for Jet Li in the third Mummy film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor where he will be playing Qin Shi Huang.

[JadecloudAlchemist]

So Jet Li tried to kill Qin Shi Huang in the movie Hero and now he is Qin shi Huang in another movie that is funny.

[exile]

Michelle Yeoh's warmth, the intensity of her anger and grief, and her desperate ferocity in the combat scenes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, put her in a class by herself. Watching her, it was hard to believe she wasn't her character, the courier and master fighter Yu Shu Lien.

[Sukerkin]

Whilst I was very tempted to vote for Jackie, for the sheer physical skill and commitement he brings to his roles, in the end I had to go for Michelle. Rob said it so well with regard to Crouching Hamster but I elaborate a little when I say that Jackie masters the comedic and Michelle mistresses the dramatic.

[Steel Tiger]

So Jet Li tried to kill Qin Shi Huang in the movie Hero and now he is Qin shi Huang in another movie that is funny.

You got it!

[lowkickr]

I can't help myself, I have to go with Chuck Norris. All of those movies in the 80's man I loved them so. LOL. Good acting or bad, those movies always got me pumped.

[Tames D]

Anna Kournikova.http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Brian S]

I can't help myself, I have to go with Chuck Norris. All of those movies in the 80's man I loved them so. LOL. Good acting or bad, those movies always got me pumped.


Me too!!

Plus I know him personally. I met him on the set of Walker, Texas Ranger. He offered me a position as a stuntman and I gladly accepted. After a few conversations with him he gave me a total gym, the best piece of furniture I have ever owned. You can now see my upper body between 2 and 4a.m. on saturday nights doing infomercials to sell the total gym.

[exile]

Me too!!

Plus I know him personally. I met him on the set of Walker, Texas Ranger. He offered me a position as a stuntman and I gladly accepted. After a few conversations with him he gave me a total gym, the best piece of furniture I have ever owned. You can now see my upper body between 2 and 4a.m. on saturday nights doing infomercials to sell the total gym.

Please remove the fiction formatting code... I want the world I live in to be one where such things can actually happen! :lol:

[hapkenkido]

I voted for Jackie Chan, but who knows how big Brandon Lee would have been. I think he was really coming into his acting.

[Guardian]

Chuck Norris! Good martial artist, bad actor.

I agree with Good Martial Artist, blasphemy on you for the bad actor portion LOL LOL. Walker Texas Ranger was good, but then again, I'm bias.

[YoungMan]

Hate to say this, but Chuck Norris' technique was nothing to write home about. I was impressed as a 12 year old kid watching films; in retrospect I don't think he was that good.

[jackmcmanus21]

Chuck Norris! Good martial artist, bad actor.

Agreed, but I used to watch Walker Texas Ranger all the time and loved every second of it

[sgtmac_46]

You mean they actually continued making martial arts movies after 'Enter the Dragon'? Why?

[Twin Fist]

you know, most martial artists just cant act.

makes me a sad panda

And I know he isnt really a martial arts actor, but Chow Yung Fat's performance in Croutching tiger Hidden Dragon was really good

[Kingindian]

you know, most martial artists just cant act.

makes me a sad panda

And I know he isnt really a martial arts actor, but Chow Yung Fat's performance in Croutching tiger Hidden Dragon was really good

yeah right...
and for ground fighter...i think people wont watch action movie with long
ground fighting scene

[exile]

you know, most martial artists just cant act.

makes me a sad panda

And I know he isnt really a martial arts actor, but Chow Yung Fat's performance in Croutching tiger Hidden Dragon was really good

Glad someone else had the same response.

The star-crossed chemistry between him and Michelle Yeoh in that movie was electrifying I thought, and infinitely saddening. But in one sense CTHD isn't a MA movie any more than Saturday Night Fever is a disco movie. SNF was about a guy becoming aware—very slowly—of how you have to treat people over whom you have power, even if it's only by virtue of your personal charisma, and what happens if you abuse that power. And CTHD was really about the horrible destruction that people motivated by amoral boredom can wreak on much better people around them (kind of like Les Liasons Dangereuses), and also the danger that people face who rigidly suppress their humanity out of concern for abstractions like propriety and chivalrous honor.

I guess it depends on what you consider to be the defining aspect of a 'martial arts movie'. Is MA action the whole end and goal of the movie? Or does something count in which MA is a crucial part of the background, but the theme is about broader and deeper aspects of human life?

[Twin Fist]

see thats why i consider CTHD a modern masterpiece.

Ignore the love story, it is an epic MA film

Ignore the MS, it is an epic love story

and Michele Yeoh's performance was incredible

[exile]

see thats why i consider CTHD a modern masterpiece.

Ignore the love story, it is an epic MA film

Ignore the MS, it is an epic love story

and Michele Yeoh's performance was incredible

Yeah... that scene at the end—after two hours or so of stoic, grimly proper decorum—where, pleading with him to stay alive, she says, Pleave give me reason to hope! with that desperate intensity... really heartbreaking, and convincing in every way... it doesn't get much better than that...