Progress Update #1

Nee hǎu

Well, today is week 8 of the Jet Li tribute and so far, things are going well. I haven't missed a movie, I've maintained my snacks of spring rolls with Pepsi, and my Jet Li t-shirt is looking great as always!


However, me being me, I haven't been able to maintain my bLog about this adventure. Well, rest assured I have not forgotten about my online fans! Hopefully I will be able to start writing about this journey and get you all caught up in the next few weeks - there is much to share and some great kung fu to discuss.


Until then, know that I will in a few hours I will be sitting in front of my television with a big cup of cold Pepsi, some spring rolls fresh from the oven, and Jet Li beating up American criminals so much they follow him around, begging to become his students.


Gosh I am looking forward to watching The Master again tonight!

Welcome (Again!) to the Temple of Jet Li

Last year I had a plan: to watch and enjoy the works of Jet Li in chronological order once a week for 52 weeks. It was a good plan.

Alas, I failed at this plan.

I wasn't able to source a copy of one of the documentaries in time, and thus my whole idea spun out of control. No meditation was able to put my Chi at ease. Thus, the plan was placed on hold. But during that period of inaction, I explored my options and worked to make this work. And now I have a new plan.

And this time, it is better than the last plan!

Which probably means I'll fail even more miserably than last time - but that could be part of the fun. Other than a shrine to Jet Li and his universally destructive awesomeness, this website could just end up being a testament to my commitment to failure! Either way, I'm here and I am going to make this work.

So today being Jet Li's 53rd birthday, I will now start watching 53 weeks of his wonderful works as follows:

Shaolin Temple

Kids From Shaolin

This is Kung Fu

Martial Arts of Shaolin

Born to Defend

Dragons of the Orient

Dragon Fight

The Master

Once Upon a Time in China

Once Upon a Time in China II

Swordsman II

Tai Chi Master

Fong Sai Yuk

Fong Sai Yuk II

Kung Fu Cult Master

Last Hero in China

Once Upon a Time in China III

Shaolin Kung Fu

The Bodyguard from Beijing

Fist of Legend

The New Legend of Shaolin

High Risk

My Father Is a Hero

Black Mask

Dr. Wai in "The Scripture with No Words"

Once Upon a Time in China and America

Hitman

Lethal Weapon 4

Lee-Thal Weapon

Romeo Must Die

The One

Kiss of the Dragon

Modern Warriors

Hero

Cause: The Making of Hero

Cradle 2 the Grave

Jet Li: Rise to Honor (PS2 Video Game)

Unleashed

Fearless

The Warlords

War

The Forbidden Kingdom

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (PS2 Video Game)

The Founding of a Republic

Ocean Heaven

The Expendables

The Sorcerer and the White Snake

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate

The Expendables 2

Badges of Fury

The Expendables 3

Fengshen Bang

The delay in my plan has actually resulted in many things working out for the better: the release of Fengshen Bang was pushed back to October this year, so it would not have been released in time to make the schedule, adding The Mummy video game to make 53 makes a lot of sense, and I've since not only purchased a region A blu-ray player for some of these titles, but also the majority of this collection in general. Plus Born to Defence has been added to Netflix - uncut and in the original language - so I won't even need to worry about messing around with the aspect ratio on my DVD for that one.

So let's do this!

Pre-Marathon Progress Report #3

Six more DVDs arrived today - including A Grand Collection of The Shaolin Temple (The Shaolin Temple and Kids From Shaolin in a fancy slipcase). Awesomeness.

Things are shaping up nicely.

Now less than 9 weeks until start time...

Pre-Marathon Progress Report #2

My VCD of the original Hong Kong version of Fist of Legend arrived today.

Today is a very good day!

Pre-Marathon Progress Report #1

As a warm-up to this great event, I watched Hitman tonight. Such a great movie; I enjoy the comedy elements of Honk Kong action films such as this.

Made some more orders with my pay this week and toying with picking up a blu-ray player with multi-region capabilities, as it would mean blu-ray copies of The Master, Dr Wai and The Warlords. The Warlords is awesome and I think it would be worthwhile to have the full uncut version in glorious HD (as opposed to heavily edited UK DVD I currently own). Dr Wai and The Master aren't as important, but they would no doubt look better than any DVD version available.

Still holding out hope I can find a Mei-Ah anamorphic release of Shaolin Temple. If anyone is able to help a brother out and point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the Temple of Jet Li

The mission of this website is to chronicle the adventures of Jet Li as he battles humans across Earth. Sometimes they are bad, sometimes they are good. Sometimes they are different versions of himself. But it is always exciting.

My goal is watch each Jet Li film in chronological order, one per week beginning April 26 2015 (Jet Li's 52nd birthday), then do a bit of a write up here. However, since there is not quite 52 films I will also include documentaries and the video game, Rise to Honour. So 52 Jet Li works over 52 weeks to celebrate his 52nd birthday.

For the films, I plan on sourcing the most complete versions possible, so hopefully this site can act as a resource not just for reviews, but also anyone looking to get the best DVD or blu-ray of a particular film from the extensive Jet Li catalogue.

Welcome!