The best Jean Claude Van Damme movie ever??

[Alobar]

I couldnt pick one, because they are all just so amazing. Hopefully you guys can settle this question tho, because I lay awake at night wondering about this.

[Pocket Trips]

there is no such thing as a "best"... they ALL suck!

[Ianco15]

Bloodsport was awesome. Street Fighter is one of the worst movies ever made.

[IronDragon1]

If you don't vote Bloodsport you're nothing

[bernie]

The only one I didn't fall asleep during was bloodsport.

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[Boris]

bloodsport kicked ass.

[Alobar]

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there is no such thing as a "best"... they ALL suck!

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OMG, are you serious?!!? Jean Claude Van Damme is the greatest action star of ALL time!

[Dr. Strangelove]

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there is no such thing as a "best"... they ALL suck!

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OMG, are you serious?!!? Jean Claude Van Damme is the greatest action star of ALL time!

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http://www.jiggscasey.com/images/movies/bloodsport-chongli.jpg

You're next!

[Phoenix1010]

This is Bloodsport all the way. Kickboxer gets honorable mention because of the bar scene where JCVD gets drunk and does a horrible horrible dance before beating up some guys. One of the funniest moments in unintentional comedy history.

Bloodsport wins because of Bolo and the guy who does the monkey style fighting, along with all kinds of other awesomeness.

Double Impact and Lionheart were both kickass when I was a kid as well. Streetfighter was a turd.

[rusellmj]

What was the one where he travels to the orient to compete in an invitation only tournament? Fighters with different disciplines from all over the world like Thai kickboxers and Chinese Kung Fu experts. Was that Street Fighter?

[Jazza]

this is like making me watch 10 gay porn movies, and then asking witch one is the best

that said i picked blood sport

[peachy]

wow...i never realized he did this many awful movies...who kept payin him?

[JaBlue]

You're missing In Hell with Lawrence Taylor (yes, the giants linebacker). That sucker went STRAIGHT to tape!

[Ulysses]

Bloodsport 1. Kickboxer 2. That's all that matters.

[-Skeme-]

Wow. Bloodsport and it's not even close. At all. Although, I do have to admit that Hard Target had it's moments. He choked a rattlesnake and punched it in the face. Then he pulled off the rattler with his teeth. It doesn't get any better than that.

[Cyrus]

was buzzing a person's doorbell at two in the morning because he wanted to ask information?

The Belgian charismatic actor was buzzing and buzzing but the personn upstairs was drunk and would not respond. Finally he comes to the intracom and yells "WHO THE HELL IS BUZZING MY DOORBELL AT TWO IN THE MORNING???"

Up comes the polite reply by the international movie star, "Jean Claude Van Damme".



"I'LL COME DOWN AND BUST THE LEGS OF ALL FOUR O'YA, OKAY??"

[bdk3clash]

Kurt Thomas owns Jean Claude Van Damme.
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Remember: If you're an Olympic gymnast, you should probably only engage in combat in towns where everything happens to be shaped like gymnastics equipment.

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Also, only suckers walk down the stairs on their feet.

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[Uethym]

Bloodsport all the way, but in a distant second I'd put The Quest, largely because (a) it had almost the exact same plot as Bloodsport, and (b) some of the fights at the end were well filmed and edited. The final fight was horrendous, though.

[jakethebake]

How is Maximum Risk not on this list? It pwned!

[samjjones]

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Bloodsport 1. Kickboxer 2. That's all that matters.

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Double Impact. Twice the Van Damme = twice the shittiness. Plus, you get token foreign blonde with HUGE knockers, and such classic lines as "Do I look like I would wear black silk underwear?"

[chaas4747]

His best stuff was when he was the Alien in Predator. Ever since then it has been down hill.

[Duke]

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What was the one where he travels to the orient to compete in an invitation only tournament? Fighters with different disciplines from all over the world like Thai kickboxers and Chinese Kung Fu experts. Was that Street Fighter?

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No, that was Bloodsport.

~D

[Duke]

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Bloodsport 1. Kickboxer 2. That's all that matters.

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Hard Target had some good cinematography. It was one of the first films Woo directed over here. He used a lot of the same techniques as he did in Hard Boiled.

But then again, that was really a John Woo movie that happened to have Van Damme in it.

~D

[nicky g]

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What was the one where he travels to the orient to compete in an invitation only tournament? Fighters with different disciplines from all over the world like Thai kickboxers and Chinese Kung Fu experts. Was that Street Fighter?

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No, that was Bloodsport.

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I Haven;t seen Bloodsport, but his perfectly describes the plot of the Quest too. Except the fighters are all kinds of absurdness: a Chinese snake-stle guy, who is pretty cool, an enormous Turkish wrestler whom Van Damme beats in the final despite being outwieghed by about 10-1, and best of all, a bull-fighter, representing Spain.

[Duke]

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What was the one where he travels to the orient to compete in an invitation only tournament? Fighters with different disciplines from all over the world like Thai kickboxers and Chinese Kung Fu experts. Was that Street Fighter?

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No, that was Bloodsport.

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I Haven;t seen Bloodsport, but his perfectly describes the plot of the Quest too. Except the fighters are all kinds of absurdness: a Chinese snake-stle guy, who is pretty cool, an enormous Turkish wrestler whom Van Damme beats in the final despite being outwieghed by about 10-1, and best of all, a bull-fighter, representing Spain.

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Good call. The bull fighter was money.

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[MrWookie47]

Yeah, I haven't seen Bloodsport. I've seen the Quest, and I would have voted for it if it was on the list. The ridiculous fighters, especially the bullfighter, were pretty funny.

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Bloodsport all the way, but in a distant second I'd put The Quest, largely because (a) it had almost the exact same plot as Bloodsport, and (b) some of the fights at the end were well filmed and edited. The final fight was horrendous, though.

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The Quest was a terrible movie, but great to watch. Some of the fight scenes were awesome as hell. The tiny asian who kept switching styles each match was great.

Lionheart wasn't bad, by the way.

[swede123]

Clearly Bloodsport is the correct choice. However, Time Cop was pretty enjoyable. The scene when he standing in a kitchen, and a guy shoots a taser at him and he jumps up and does the splits on two counter tops is pretty bad-ass.

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[kerssens]

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How is Maximum Risk not on this list? It pwned!

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Yes!! I was trying to remember the one with Natasha Henslrtitsrige (sp?)

[thatpfunk]

Wow I can't believe no one gives Kickboxer any love. That movie is freaking amazing- Jean Claude dances while drunk, kicks down trees, avenges his paralyzed brother, gets tormented by a little asian martial arts master, AND its a "true" story. I don't know if the world will be lucky enough to ever see another star quite like JCVD.

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Interesting fact: Tong Po from Kickboxer was Paredes from Bloodsport. Parades was the guy who got his shin kicked out by Chong Li.

[willie]

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lionheart.

[jakethebake]

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lionheart.

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Better than half those listed! I own this one and forgot all about it. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[willie]

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lionheart.

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Better than half those listed! I own this one and forgot all about it. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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glad i'm not the only one who knows about this.

bloodsport is best, but i think that lionheart is my second favorite jcvd movie..

[Phoenix1010]

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Wow I can't believe no one gives Kickboxer any love. That movie is freaking amazing- Jean Claude dances while drunk, kicks down trees, avenges his paralyzed brother, gets tormented by a little asian martial arts master, AND its a "true" story. I don't know if the world will be lucky enough to ever see another star quite like JCVD.

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I forgot about the tree kicking scene, that was awesome too. The brother was just annoying though, and nowhere near as cool a sidekick as the big hairy guy from Bloodsport.

As for the true story, I think you might be confusing Bloodsport and Kickboxer. I've never heard of Kickboxer being a true story, but Bloodsport was based on the real life Frank Dux, who is supposed to be the only American ever to win the Kumite, and supposedly set a bunch of records in the tournament. I say supposedly because it's widely believed that Dux is a mental case who just made up a bunch of stories about himself and sold them off. It's interesting stuff actually.

As for the similarities between the Quest and Bloodsport, it's not just a coincidence or lazy writing. The Quest, which was written by Dux, was originally supposed to be a higher profile, higher budget retelling of the Bloodsport story, and was originally titled "Kumite." That script was reworked into a new (but amazingly similar) story and renamed "the Quest," and Dux got almost zero credit for it. He took Van Damme to court and lost.

[Phoenix1010]

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Jean Claude Van Damme is the greatest action star of ALL time!

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[Your Mom]

Glad to see that 2+2 did not mess this one up. I will watch Bloodsport every time it is on tv, no matter what.

[samjjones]

http://loserville.us/~chad_ghost/bloodsport8.jpg

You FEAR!

[Your Mom]

CHONG LI! CHONG LI! COHONG LI! CHONG LI!

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Did you intentionally not include Breakin'? If so, that's really funny.

-2kF

[Blarg]

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this is like making me watch 10 gay porn movies, and then asking witch one is the best

that said i picked blood sport

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That said it just about perfectly.

[bdk3clash]

The best part of Bloodsport is when Frank Dux breaks the record for fastest victory in the Kumite and they instantly display the new record with the time down to like a tenth of a second on the hand painted scoreboard.

[SpearsBritney]

As a kid I loved Bloodsport, but whenever I see it on tv I laugh my ass off at how unbelievably cheesy it is. They all suck.

[Ringo_Mojo]

I vote Hard Target for the best Wilford Brimly performance EVAR.

[Blarg]

Hard Target is the only one I would voluntarily watch more than once.

[jakethebake]

Did anyone ever see this low budget bomb?

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/19/15/60m.jpg

Van Damme plays the bad guy and some teenager kicks his ass with the help of Bruce Lee's ghost...hilarious! /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Diplomat]

FYI, Bloodsport is on Spike right now.

-Diplomat

[EliteNinja]

You guys forgot about Knockoff with Rob Schneider!
I give that movie honorable mention.

http://www.jiggscasey.com/images/movies/bloodsport-chongli.jpg

"You break my record (points to the scoreboard).
Now, I break you (points to Dux),
like I break your friend (points to knee with Jackson's headband)!!"

[thirddan]

i haven't read all the posts, but you guys are obviously not van damme fans...

first, bloodsport is obviously the best...
but a distant second is "no retreat, no surrender" van damme as the bad guy who torments a dojo, can life get better?

[Jack of Arcades]

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van damme as the bad guy who torments a dojo, can life get better?

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Well, yeah, or else it'd be #1.