doesn't he look like a damn catfish?
Last night's late night double feature was the 1-2 missing hand punch of Enter the Dragon and Death Race 2000. If I'd had a copy, I could've gone for a threepeat & watched Empire Strikes Back.
Bruce Lee is really the only reason to watch Enter the Dragon. The movie drags, esp. in the middle. It takes way too long to get to the action. And the plot's fairly incoherent. But it's interesting -- a completely different vibe than you get from Jackie Chan or Jet Li movies. The violence is sharper, faster, more abrupt. Plus there's tons of cheesy 70s camp value (John Saxon!! plus did I mention that the big bad has not just an artificial hand but a series of killer fake hands).
It'd been a long time since I saw Death Race 2000. I'd actually forgotten that several actors from Death Race 2000 show up again in Rock & Roll High School -- Woronov, Bartel, and, of course, the Real Don Steele, who'd be the same character if he hadn't died at the end of DR2K. Again, lousy w/ 70s camp. David Carradine (and his artificial grenade hand), Stallone, Fred "Gopher" Grandy as a Nazi racer. And lots of people getting runned over (sometimes in both directions) by crazy cars. It's like a lethal Wacky Races. I particularly love how the opening race track is shown with a bad matte painting backdrop of a futuristic cityscape but once the race gets on the road, everything looks exactly like the early 70s. When I was at the mondoplex the other day, I think I saw a poster for a DR2K remake. I just checked imdb and, yes, there is a remake due later this summer. From the auteur who gave us Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil. There's no way that won't suck. Two words: Roller. Ball.