Help me remember an old movie about fighting and has mazda commercial music

DarkManX

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the movie is from the early 90's about some guy that wanted to teach some bad kids some form of martial arts. it also had music from some mazda commercials (like the zoom zoom zoom song) does anyone remember the name of the movie? I havent seen it for ages, I had it on VHS but cant find it :(
 
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Only the Strong - it stars Mark Dacascos, he's Filipino, if I'm correct (and he's in Brotherhood of the Wolf). Anyhoo, the martial arts used in that movie is capoeira, a Brazilian martial art used by slaves and disguised as a dance so that the plantation owners don't know (if you've played any of the newer Tekkens, Eddy Gordo uses the same style) - historically, a lot of the techniques used high kicks to attack the slavedrivers on horses and handstands because they were shackled - and still do. By the way, the reason I bring up his nationality is that his base style doesn't seem to be capoeira (which isn't) becasue he looks a little stiff doing it compared to the people who are actual mestres (at the very end). And the "Mazda commercial music" is used in Capoeira before Mazda picked it up, just so you know.

Very pretty style, acrobatics, and uses a lot of movements to trick the opponents (as opposed to the "minimalist movement" school of thought in martial arts, ie Karate, Wing Tsun Kung Fu, etc.) . . . hope it helps :D
 

weirdichi

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Haha! That movie rocked! I have it on VHS also. Snother one of Marc's movies you should check out is Drive. It's a silly B movie, but it's pretty cool for a B movie. Don the Dragon Wilson ain't got nuttin over Marc Dacascos! :)
 

DarkManX

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yep thats it.. cant find the tape or find it on any p2p program :( gonna have to rent it ro buy it.
 
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"pretty good for a B-movie" is like saying "pretty tasty for garbage" . . . ;) (But then again, I enjoyed Barry Gordon's The Last Dragon ;) does that make me a hypocrite? )

Anyhoo, I was suprised by it too when I watched it this summer - it doesn't have the "invincible superhuman", a la (some) Jet Li flicks, element in the movie at the end (although, at the end . . . hmm
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DarkManX

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local blockbuster has it.. ill have to search my VHS library a lil harder 1st.. gotta be there somewhere.