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Grrl Power #1192 - Cornhole-quan-do
🕑 Added 2023-09-28 10:00:05 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
Sydney's ADHD is such that she can't even stay on topic when she's mad at someone. Well, sometimes she can, but the finger-in-the-butt tactic for dogs begs discussion about extended tactical options.
Honestly, a lot of movie fight scenes are fairly boring because they're all so similar. Two guys slugging it out is forgettable because we've all seen it a thousand times. The only things that stand out are unusual moves. That's why the fight in They Live was so memorable because it was a scuffle, not two guys throwing punches six inches over the other guy's head. (That's another thing that bugs me about fight scenes, but I digress.) It's why John Wick and his point blank gunplay is memorable, why Ong Bak was memorable. Nobody throws elbows in Hollywood films. It's also why almost everything Jackie Chan did was memorable. Yeah, he punched and kicked, but he also launched wooden clogs at people and fought drunk and grabbed dudes by their ties and dove through ladders and fought with those short Chinese benches. For the love of god, don't let Jackie Chan near a short Chinese bench during a fight. I couldn't find a better fight with a bench on youtube, so here's an actual good fight sans bench. (BTW, pay attention to the fact that there are extras lying unconscious around that scene trying not to flinch while those two go ham five feet from them. They're the real heroes.)
And just for fun, here's the awesome fight against his own bodyguard Ken Lo in Drunken Master 2. Which as it happens does have an unusual chin to the eyeball move. Honestly, with just the right amount of stubble, that could be a crippling move. You almost never see eye-gouging, probably because it's viewed as a dishonorable tactic, so you don't want the protagonist doing it, and you don't get the antag doing it because you don't want the protag getting blinded.
Understand I'm not advocating for more fingers in the butts during hollywood fight scenes specifically. But... it would be pretty fucking memorable.
Comments
Thomas Hodson-Cottingham
Is the guy with white/grey hair and the maroon trousers Astarion from BG3?
Sardines are us
since the vote incentive is now 2 months overdue - how about modifying some of these for fan service?
Afunnythinghappedtome
Dabbler: [shudders] Max: What? What is it? D: I...sense that a million hormones cried out...and were suddenly squicked.
Ashley Tattersall
I did see the finger move used in a brittish series called Plebs. Was used against a lion. It certainly lost all intrest.
