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Let's talk about someone I'm totally fan of. Probably you heard something or someone told you about Jackie Chan. Since veeery young, I was watching every movie that TV3 played. TV3 usually had one Jackie Chan movie a week, normally on Fridays but not definitely on the hour that the paper said. I had to watch a lot of times the PumpNseel Ad (or something like that). Lot of time watching the same Ads waiting to enjoy a great movie after it. Sometimes the movie was just after, sometimes the movie was cancelled. That really was a lot of time watching the TV from 1am to 5am waiting for the movie, at the age of 10-11. So, from these days, movies like Project A (the bicycles fight part, and the clock part), Armour of God (begining, end part), Police Story (everything!!), Drunken Master (chair fights, end part)... These movies were rocking my days!! Also, I was a big fan of City Hunter (Ryo Saeba) Character. So, as soon as I knew that Jackie did the movie of City Hunter, I probably was the happies boy in the whole earth. Tho I didn't see the movie :D (Now, I've seen the movie (bought it on Amazon some years ago, and have to say that is not really my favorite, but is interesting anyway.. my favorite will be probably Project A).

Later on, I met a vietnamese friend that was giving me movies of him. And since then, I watched some of the Holliwood movies he did, but as you can guess, is not the same..

Somehow, with broadband at home, and thinking what to download, I decided to download all the movies available from him. I watched/bought some years ago the Jackie Chan: My Stunts VHS, and was very interesting to see all the tricks, but since this weekend I wasn't able to see Jackie Chan: My Story.

Woahh! So impressive, on the outtakes you always see the accidents he have but they don't explain nothing about it. On that movie he explains everything. He explains how he started with Bruce Lee, how the martial arts cinema was almost dead after Bruce Lee die, and how he was able to grow in that moment and continue what Bruce Lee was doing. And then, everything he did for each movie. And that's the most impressive part, as you can see how in movies like Police Story, he have 3 big accidents (the last scene is soooo weird!).

I think that someone that likes to do that special film doing the action scenes by himself, giving that quality to each movie (the fx won't be never at the same level of that IMHO as nobody is risking his live doing it..), with a movie career with 100+ movies, and almost die in some of the movies (no kidding). He deserves RESPECT!

Go Jackie go!