The budget for this movie was literally 75k. I don't think a 100 million dollar budget can produce the music , ambience , and sheer awesome of this movie today!!!
I was 6 years old watching this on tape at my aunts house. I was soo inspired that I took on a life long martial arts & body building. Thank you so much Van Damme 😊🙏🏼💪🏼
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I was in Middle School when this came out, must have watched it 100s of times, maybe even more. Inspired me too! In my 40s now and still training. Just wish I hadn't slacked on training from 27 to 37, was hard to start again. Thankfully, Bloodsport is still inspiring!!
The camera angles, cuts, the pacing, are truly amazing, that is how a martial arts movie should be done, not the constant cutting every second, crazy shaking that is done nowadays.
Yeah, this here is the old style, same to Jackie Chan. Today, in all these MARVEL-movies etc., Batman and whatever, they shake around to hide that the actors have no clue what they are doing.
Didn't realize how low key racist this movie was. They made Black guys stupid like they can't fight. But in real life they rule the fighting world. Lol
@@jamesonbrown7123 You're a fucking idiot...you only see racism against blacks and can't see racism anywhere else? It's all throughout the movie against every race...is it even "racism"?...Jesus H Christ
yeah... but it's important to know that we humans did not become top of the food chain coz of our physical capabilities... on the contrary, it's our brain power and the ability to create tools to do the fighting for us that did. Bruce Lee might look very intimidating and he would win in some underground 1 on 1 competition... but he's not a killer... put him in the battlefield and he would be dead in 3 hours.
Would have been interesting to see the fighters in that movie actually go at it, most of them were dancers etc because of the budget apparently(the quick fight montage), Bolo Yeung would have destroyed everyone in that movie lol
The movie's total bullshit, and Frank Dux is a pathological liar, but I guess we all believed it for a while. far too much cocaine was being sniffed in the 80's.
John O'Neill Some of the other CREWS about the area were for Mortal Kombat, Me and my Pals where Street Fighter kids. But I know what you mean bro. 🖒hehehe
@@wesleywarsmith1113 Let's be honest, the Street Fighter movie was pretty terrible! Which, to a kid who was a huge fan of the game was massively disappointing!
Bolo was more than just an action villain. He could actually act with his facial expressions and be menacing just by the way he looked
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Van Damme's best films all had Bolo in them as the main baddy, and for good reason. The speed that man had for his size is insane. You felt every punch he threw.
FYI. In real life he is actually a very nice guy. Usually the best villain is a nice guy. Another example is Richard Tyson in Kindergarden Cop. All the Kids had really problems to act scared in the scenes with him, because he is really a nice guy. Same goes with Bolo.
The under-rated thing about "Bloodsport" was how well-directed it was. Newt Arnold had been an assistant director for Godfather II and other movies, going back decades. Even if you don't like martial arts, it's very professional. Van Damme would have been smart to make more movies with him.
The “Aaaaaaaaaaggghhh” noises Van does after delivering a particularly effective strike accompanied by the pop eyed manic expression last longer than the actual fight.
Ya know, in all the interview transcripts I've ever read of his, they never mention the whole scream/quick edit/10 minute sequence each time he does it 😆
daniel perez Back then there was actually way more true western martial artists with better skills that tried to break in Hollywood. However many of their acting ability was very poor and no charisma. Propaganda from critics gives jcvd and seagal a bad name. Truth be told though, there is a reason why they were able to break into mainstream as opposed to everyone else. I always tell people imagine someone else like a don the dragon or billy blanks as Frank dux. It no longer would be the same movie.
Not to forget this were real skills and not the special effects they use nowadays.. it looks all fake nowadays while in the '80 and '90 it was so realistic and natural..
Van Damme was the main actor of Bloodsport, which is in my opinion the greatest martial arts film ever made (also with great soundtrack by any measure, great scenes and a lot of humor and sad and happy moments) I think he was the right guy for the film-though I don't think that any other film he made afterwards was unique or even good (and back in the early 90's I watched almost everything he made).
Van Damme in his prime, his screen presence was like no other, he had the look, he had the moves, he was smooth, but deadly, he had it all Hollywood was ready to eat him up, but his cocaine addiction ruined his career, I think off all the great movies he didn't make that he would have made if he just had stayed clean and didn't get addicted to drugs, his movie resume would be so much more, I love all his movies in his early career when he was with Golan Globus making Cyborg, Bloodsport and Kickboxer, those where the movies that shot him to fame, then later on he did Universal Solider, Hard Target and Death Warrant a three picture deal with Columbia would have made him the king of Hollywood but he wanted to much money and the studio said forget about it. Still his movie list is awesome, Timecop, Replicant, Double Impact, Double Team and so many others. He is still my idol and I'm in my mid 30's and grew up watching him in Cyborg, Double Impact and Universal Solider.
I totally agree my man. Great post. In my mid 30”s as well and he was an still is my idol too. It is to bad about the addiction issues he faced which I didn’t even know about until a couple years ago.
there one movie JVD DIRECTED " QUEST " FAILED COMPARISON TO BLOODSPORT 1989 FAILED MOVIE OF JVD , BUT ANOTHER MOVIE SCOTT ADKINS " BOYKA " HAS SAME JVD BLOODSPORT APPEAL!
80s and 90s were beautiful time. less resources back then but more time with less distraction to perfect whatever you was good at and more privacy. they werethe last eras that produced an abundance of individual character
Van Damme's fight wailing made him unique and distinctive in this film. Whenever someone hears a kungfu wail, everyone thinks, van damme, it added emotion and suspense to the fight scenes, especially the final fight against Bolo when hes blinded by chalk.
@@Leynx-Et-Fenrir true lol so the game was probably aiming to be like bloodsports. But what did the makers of the street fighter movie aim at 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ one of those franchises where the animated movies are way better then the real movies
This movie used to be on Pluto TV all the time back in 2020. I watched it every single time I saw that it was on. I miss those days. Come on, Pluto TV. Bring back Bloodsport!
Hands down the best Van Damme movie that was EVER made, and to say this movie is a masterpiece would be a huge understatement, because it’s a fucking legend. ⚔️💪🏻⚔️
When I was a kid, this was my most favourite movie , I am from Russia (born in the USSR), after watching this movie I told myself, someday i should go to Hong Kong. Now I live in Shenzhen and see Hong Kong every night from the bank opposite. This movie totally changed my life :)
I like how Jackson, a fellow fighter who may have to fight Frank later on and probably knows he'll lose to him, is Frank's biggest cheerleader right from the start. Ray's just there to have fun, and he plays real, real hard.
And Van Damme hasn't had a movie worth a louse turd every since Frank Dux ,Victor Moore , and the Black Dragon society cut him loose from their association since JCVD screwed Frank out of his money.
