Huge Monsters In Purple Pants
My favourite item from yesterday’s skim through various comic sites was Tom Spurgeon contrasting The Incredible Hulk and Sammo Hung. I can only imagine The Incredible Hulk would have benefited by having Sammo play the lead.
I’ve been on a big Sammo kick these past few days, watching his earlier work like Enter The Fat Dragon and My Lucky Stars. Up until recently I only knew Sammo through his association with fellow China Drama Academy students Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao. It was S.P.L. that prompted me to look deeper and discover his talents not only as an actor, but behind the camera as a stunt choreographer and director, as well. This inadvertently lead me to the discovery that there was a Martial Law/Walker, Texas Ranger crossover, a portion of which you can watch above, if the very thought of such a thing simply existing hasn’t made you lose your shit already.

June 20th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I think I’d like to see Sammo play Kingpin, actually, except Kingpin rarely gets to move around much.
Enter the Fat Dragon is a work of genius - the extras on that DVD were pretty hypnotic, too. A parody against rip-offs… weird concept.