An action film sub-genre dominated by action to varying degrees and contain numerous martial arts fights between characters who are martial artists.
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Sci-Fi Martial Arts Action Movie with androids and a female lead
Looking for an older most likely 1990's science fiction movie that has a female lead who learns martial arts from an android. I remember the movie was set in post apocalyptic world and had a bit of a ...
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Trying to identify a martial arts movie where one team hand their medals to the other team
This was a martial arts movie, I remember that it was team-based: members of teams fight against each other one-on-one and win points for their team, the points determine the winning team in the end. ...
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Is the martial arts choreography in the 2010 remake of Karate Kid realistic?
I am looking for an authoritative reference that supports either the plausibility or implausibility of the moves and techniques used by Jaden Smith / Jackie Chan in the remake of the Karate Kid.
It's ...
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Karate movie where fight takes place in gym
There was a Karate movie I remember seeing as a kid where it was 2 guys, 1 a serious fighter the other was comic relief fighter and extremely funny (may not translate well with age I suppose). ...
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Did Keanu Reeves actually know martial arts when he acted for the movie “The Matrix”?
Did Keanu Reeves actually know martial arts when he acted for the movie "The Matrix"?
If no, how did he act in the movie?
Do he actually know any kind of Martial Arts?
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Looking for a documentary series on martial arts
Looking for documentary series on martial arts:
Probably 2000-2006
I think 1 host (martial artist) traveling the world to see all kinds
of styles
In the episode in Korea at the end he performed a ...
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What is the purpose behind “wax on, wax off” in Karate Kid?
In The Karate Kid, his first lesson is cleaning and waxing his masters car. His master tells him to "wax on, wax off". Is the purpose of this simply to teach him the value of hard work?
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Is the street fight in “They Live” the longest clocked street fight in a film?
Now discounting satires or films that are specifically about fighting...
Is the brawl between Nada and Frank in "They Live" the longest non-stop fight in a film?
It's clocked at around 5 minutes of ...
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Identifying martial arts movie (possibly with bodybuilders)
I'm trying to find an asian (I think) movie that I watched when I was a kid back in the 90's. The movie itself may be from the late 70's -80s. It had some crazy fights in mid air and what-not, it was ...
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Identify 1970s Martial Arts movie: 2nd place Hero goes on quest. Disqualified Hero follows, takes over quest.
Guy fights to be the guy that gets to go on quest. Guy gets disqualified. 2nd place guy goes on quest. Disqualified guy follows along until first guy gets bumped off. Disqualified guy takes over. It ...
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Trying to identify a martial arts movie, I thought it was called “The Golden Arrow”
Hi I'm trying to identify a martial arts movie, I thought it was called "The Golden Arrow".
I saw it sometime in the early 90s
I can't remember all that much, but the scene I remember is when the ...
