Hong Kong action day

[avram]

Erik hosted a Hong Kong action movie festival at his place today, with Josh and Lisa bringing the DVDs. We saw Iron Monkey (great), Drunken Master 2 (really good), and (I think) part of a really awful dub of Drunken Master 6, and something very silly with three ass-kicking women and an invisible robe and a scheme to steal children and make a new Chinese emperor. There was another movie the others watched before I got there, and at the end we saw the first two episodes of Shamanic Princess, a pretty good anime series BSD had brought.

It seemed to me that the martial arts was choreographed at a much slower speed in the earlier movies, with longer pauses after moves. I suspect that audiences have gotten more sophisticated as time has gone on, better at being able to read rapid-paced action.