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Its a great FAKE movie.. 10 for fun factor.. 1 for Biography

posted 6 years ago by ShadowTek (19)
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Re-post of a tiny IMDb review:

ShadowTek here...

Well.. if you want a fun movie to watch.. its a great and entertaining movie.. it really is.. if you want to watch a biography about Bruce Lee.. 99.9% of this film is fake and 100% of the film is an insult to his legacy.. cause almost NOTHING in this film is true...

1. There was never a fight with Navy guys as the movie shows in the beginning..

2. As above that was not the reason he left.

3. The Lee family was RICH.. and Bruce was far from an only child. So that whole "saved up money" and the "cops were called so you have to go" crap was just that... crap.

4. He did work at a restaurant.. but the fight in the movie never happened. The loan never happened.

5. The whole racist thing in college never happened. That was propagated by among others the Lee family.

6. The stop teaching white people and black people is fake.. thus the whole underground fight stuff is 100% fake.

7. Um. Bruce hurt his back weightlifting.. not in some secret underground fight.

8. There was never a re-match in some ring.. in fact as the reason for that rematch never happened.. well.. do the math.. He did attend that event mentioned however... he demonstrated his 1-inch punch and his one and two finger pushups.. that video is all over the place.. yes you can find it online.. lots of versions of it.

9. He never wrote or published a book.. his wife did from notes he made after his death.

10. The fight on the set of the Big Boss movie (I think that was the movie set in they were saying took place) never happened.. not in that or any other movie.

11. The whole chasing Bruce down scene to make movies in Hong Kong.. see a pattern here? Never happened.

10. The entire movie is 100% fiction.. literally NOTHING in the movie happened..

In other words.. the entire movie is fake.. nothing in the movie actually happened... BUT.. if you look at the life of Bruce Lee from an alternate universe of what COULD have happened.. well.. it is a great movie in that aspect :)

ShadowTek

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Yeah...we know.

But autobiographical movies tend to be pffft anyway.

Even Birth of the Dragon was laughable.

But I enjoyed it more than most of the “Bruceploitation” movies I grew up with.

🤷‍♂️

[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

But, Holly was precious in that circa wardrobe.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Had the movie been realistic it wouldn’t have been as entertaining. Imagine replacing the 2nd fight scene with him about to weight lift and his wife yelling over that, not as dramatic.