Carlos T
Filme: MAgnificent Butcher Assistido: 25-12-23
Elenco: @sammo_hung_fanpage yuen Biao, Kwan Tak-hing, Hoi Sang Lee,....
Modelo: #artesmarciais #ação #action
Duração: 1h 48m Ano: 1979
Minha opinião: Para quem assistia Faixa Preta na Band ver os filmes antigos de Kung-Fu, Karate é como entrar em uma máquina do tempo. E assistir a este filme como os filmes de Jackie Chan, Jet Lee, Gordon Liu, Sonny Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi e claro não podemos esquecer do mestre Bruce Lee. Sammo no inicio de sua carreira empre fez o comédia kung-fu como o filme Operação Operação Gordo e vários filmes junto com Jackie Chan. E aqui é um filme muito divertido com senso de humor que bem temperado com as lutas. Aqui a estoria conta Porky que é um lutador mediano que esta separado do seu irmão a anos e ele e sua esposa esta a sua procura, mas ocorre uma atrocidade onde ela é morta e a culpa recai sobre Porky e ele tem que provar a verdade, porem o verdadeiro responsável e o filho de um mestre. E assim ele de corre com boas cenas de lutas e muita risada para dar. Bons tempos que não voltam mais.
Roteiro e enredo simples e ingênuo, mas eficaz.
Vale apena assistir? Sim para quem curte.
Nota: 8,5
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03/12/24
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DanTheMan 2
A spiritual successor to Yuen Woo-ping's earlier triumph, Drunken Master, The Magnificent Butcher does take a while to get going but once it does, it doesn't let up. Its action is consistently wonderful, often the result of a misunderstanding due to Sammo Hung's character being too impatient to hear the whole story leading to a series of unfortunate events throughout. The combination of Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao is always a treat and here it's no different, but as a comedy film first, the tone is right down the middle, featuring everything from fart jokes and the Popeye theme to an incestuous rape which drastically changes the direction of its story, if a little clumsily. Regardless, what The Magnificent Butcher does offer is Woo-ping patterned precision and creativity when conducting a fight scene with the two different tones of the movie offering such visceral moments of martial arts excellence.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
07/10/23
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Magnificent Butcher is a great entry from Sammo Hung's golden era of movies, and I would consider it among the best if not for the surprisingly tonally inconsistencies within the narrative, which features everything from an old drunk making jokes at a guy trying to hang himself all the way to an out-and-out rape/murder of a main character, with a bunch of kung-fu hijinks to fill out the bulk of the screentime. Now, true, there is a common storytelling approach that is particularly commonplace in Asian action cinema: If you want the audience to cheer when your villains are taken down, you make them as despicable as possible. And I will credit the movie in that it does legitimately pull this off; it just feels really out of sync with with is otherwise a very upbeat movie. Still, one goes to see a Sammo Hung movie for the comedy and the action, and these do carry the movie -- it's moderately funny, and the fight choreography and execution is absolutely stellar. The action was choreographed by both Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo Ping, two of the best choreographers in the history of cinema, so it certainly makes sense that the fighting is some of the best you will ever see, and even if the rest of the movie flat-out did not work at all, this would still make the movie ultimately worth seeing (sorta like Tony Jaa's The Protector). It's breezy, for the most part, the main hero is enjoyable, and the climax is intricate, entertaining and cathartically satisfying - As such I recommend it to all genre fans. It's just not good enough to win over non-fans.
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01/23/23
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Some silly humor and good kung fu make for a memorable film.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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Old school Kung-Fu directed by Woo-Ping Yuen, who also directed Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978) and Drunken Master (1978) which were Jackie Chan's breakthrough hits. Here, Sammo Hung takes the "loser" role previously occupied by Jackie, although truth be told, Sammo was in the industry a lot longer and apparently assisted Jackie to get his first parts (earlier they had both been part of the same Peking Opera troupe as children). Sammo plays "Butcher Wing" who finds himself in a mess of trouble when the evil son of a rival kung fu school kidnaps his long-lost brother's wife. Fortunately, Sammo has a strong ally - the "Beggar King" (according to imDb) who was supposed to be played by Simon Yuen (the drunken master himself, the old man in both of Jackie's earlier films, and the father of director Woo-Ping Yuen) but he died of a heart attack during this film. Fortunately, his replacement, Mei Sheng Fan, is pretty great in the trickster role as well. The film is filled with fantastic hand-to-hand combat, replete with amazing and strange falls/jumps/punches with animal names/farts in the face etc. There are some epic battles between the heads of the schools and also their strongest pupils. Sammo, who was always overweight, holds his own, comically but effectively (later he went on to be an established director and producer in Hong Kong and then a star of his own American action show, Martial Law). So, the film is great fun and funny too - until it isn't. There is a problematic scene where the bad guy kills one of the lead female characters in the midst of an attempted rape. Of course, this establishes him as really bad and perhaps reminds us that all this kung fu fighting (with fake blood and all) is actually pretty violent and bad. But playing rape and murder for laughs isn't right and although the scene is just a couple of minutes in an otherwise enjoyable film, it rankles. It makes you wonder about our culture (not just HK culture) then and now - certainly there were plenty of harsh horror films that contained similar material. Was it acceptable? Is it OK to look away and recognise that this is/was just play-acting? Since the evil act was punished, is it okay to have been included? These are deeper questions than the Magnificent Butcher is able to answer. Perhaps it is better simply to watch Snake in the Eagle's Shadow or Drunken Master instead.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/04/23
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just ok period piece chop sokky pic
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01/21/23
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