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This is the funniest movie I've ever seen


History:
I watched this movie when I was a kid, pretty much everyday, especially in the summer. This movie was my training for becoming a ninja. So I would wake up in the morning, put on the movie and study, study hard. I would look away, as I pushed a coffee mug off of the table to see if I could catch it without looking. I was a serious ninja, and this was a serious movie. Hell, it was a documentary to me.

Present:
20 years later, I buy the DVD. 2 years after that, I still can't stop laughing. In all honesty, I have never ever approached the amount of laughing watching another film as I have with this masterpiece. Every minute provides another ridiculous:

costume
line
scenario
actor
stunt car (its the same car in every scene)
fight
indian
bad prop

I cannot relate to you, dear readers how amazingly perfect this movie is. It's intention was serious and the fact that it aimed so high and hit so low, yet still touches me as one of the most amazing films of all time is just mind boggling.

This is a BAD movie; the acting is terrible, the costumes are laughable, the story is fluff and the stunts redefine sub-par. I have no reason for liking this movie at all yet it is easily the most entertaining movie I have ever seen.

I'm perplexed.

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couldn't of said it better than that. The INDIAN, The COWBOY, the FIGHT SCENES. Revenge of the Ninja, *beep* fantastic.

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I loved this film when I first saw it as a kid, I was 13 in 1983 and can remember my first viewing. Rented it form the local shop and, think I watched it about five times before returning it. Rented it loads in the summer holidays too, and me an my mates were convinced we were all going to train to become Ninjas when we left school.

Funny how things turn out in reality, it's 2007 now, I am an I.T. manager (for my sins) and that film is now painful to watch. I should of never bought it last month on DVD, and left my memories of this one in the past.

Regards
Chris

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'Yes' to everything you said. But the scary part is that this is "Crouching Tiger"-quality compared to "American Ninja," which came out around the same time.

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I agree with everything the OP said and yet, I still love it more then anything... The Indian is phenomenal.... The dude who yells "Holy Sh!t" in the jerry lewis voice before the van hits the door of the car always gets me. The hot tub sex assassination. I mean, it gets better by the minute. Especially when the detective shows Caifano the bodies of his nephew and his girlfriend stuck together and Caifano says, "He was a good lookin' kid..." Brilliance.

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This movie was spectacular only because it was so damned violent and it was all about revenge---this is basically the paradigm for every Mel Gibson film out there. I'd recommend Kill and Kill Again as a similar guilty pleasure in case you haven't seen it.

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Yeap, this is one of the most hilarious movies I've ever seen. XD

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It's very difficult to decide what score to vote this movie on imdb. To be realistic about the film's quality I should probably rate it around a 3/10, but I gave even the abominable CG movie "300" a 4/10 and this entertained me SOOOO much more ever since I first watched it on Betamax (I probably still have that used rental store Beta tape in storage somwehere) and cable tv back in the 80s. For entertainment value I'd like to give it a 8 or higher. I love this cheesy awful movie more than I should, which has so far kept it a place in my top 500 favorite films list in my imdb profile. I have said it many times on imdb: "Sam Firstenberg is practically the Ed Wood Jr. of 1980s ninja movies".

Let's end the format war now and get this bad boy out on BluRay in its original aspect ratio with some good extra features!!!
[edit: The format war is over, so where is my Sho Kosugi Collection BluRay box set?]

Sure youtube probably has lots of videos of incompetent yellow belt martial arts wannabes flailing epileptically in clips where they think they will someday be the next Chuck Norris or other martial arts star (I hope they're not delusional enough to think they'll be the next Jet Li, Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee), but I think there is a sad lack of loving parodies of 1980s ninja movies on youtube -- I someday intend to help correct this by making my own intentionally bad ninjas and trampolines short movie epic.

Repeat after me in an uber serious Sho Kosugi impression: "...but Braden is my friend", then glue a mock-up shuriken to your friend's forehead and drizzle some ketchup on it and film them staggering backwards. Ah, the 80s...


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If you're watching 'Fullscreen' DVDs, you aren't getting the whole picture.

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You forgot Sho Kosugi wearing eye liner.

Enter the Ninja was my personal "ninja training" film, not that it was much better.

LOL.

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Yeah you're right, but the final fight scene was really good.

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agreeee.....
funniest movie EVER!
still haven't found silliest trash film than this :)

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What about the goons dressed like the village people in the playground ?

"We're all afraid of the dark inside ourselves."

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I love this movie as much now as I did when I was a kid, just for different reasons. Back the early to mid-eighties I thought ninja's were the coolest thing ever and watched every movie I could get my hands on. Now i love it it simply because, like many movies, it fits the category of so bad it's good.

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What about the goons dressed like the village people in the playground ?


So many hilarious scenes to love in this movie 

Very good. But brick not hit back!

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