Crime Zone (1988)

A low budget David Carradine film produced by Roger Corman. Blade Runner meets The Terminator meets 1984. Hilariously bad. Highly recommended with friends and drinks. At one point a woman kicked open a door with a machine gun, back-lighted with blue light while wearing leather with synth score, and shouted "show me your dick!!" and the VCR actually broke. We were watching it on a VHS. But we burst out laughing so much that it took us almost 15 minutes to retrieve the VHS tape with knives and pens and repair the mangled tape. It will probably never play right again. But man was it worth it.

Ip Man (2008)

Me and my friend tried to watch Enter the Dragon after the masterpiece of Crime Zone, but it was a cantonese dub. Mildly dismayed, we checked out Netflix. No Enter the Dragon right now, surprisingly. But they did have a semi-biographical film about Bruce Lee's master. I said, "meh." My friend replied it starred a guy named Donnie Yen. That immediately had my attention and I informed him that we better watch this thing. It was incredible. Great fights, but a really interesting story, and Donnie Yen gives a great performance as usual. If you want a good kung fu film that isn't too over the top but just exagerated enough, this is for you. A really surprisingly good movie. It's more of a period film than a martial arts film, but however you classify it it's pretty well made. A very interesting story about how a humble chinese guy in the 1940s invented his own martial arts school without really meaning to.