"Be Water" - premiers tonight (9pm ET) on ESPN (Bruce Lee documentary)

[Baz]

Looking forward to this one!

[astrochex]

Thanks for the reminder. I keep seeing previews with much, new to me footage.

[masraum]

I’d like to see this. I’m a big fan. Unfortunately, I can’t imagine that thre’s much new that hasn’t been in any of the others.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by masraum

I’d like to see this. I’m a big fan. Unfortunately, I can’t imagine that thre’s much new that hasn’t been in any of the others.

I can only say that the 30 for 30 series is the best doc series I've ever watched. Everything they do is wonderful.

Do yourself a favor Steve and watch.

[rusnak]

Definitely a trail blazer. Way ahead of his time in so many aspects.

[Baz]

I enjoyed it and learned some things I never knew.

[masraum]

I'd definitely watch it if I could, but I don't have cable or ESPN.

[DWBOX2000]

1/2 hour to go. Hopefully gets better. This guy was a fighter for sure and not only with hands and feet. Impressive.

[Tobra]

It will be playing on regular TV soon enough, is it ABC or CBS that is mobbed up with ESPN? I think one of them is.

[DWBOX2000]

I don’t know much about him but I wish they had shown more on his training and competition.

[bkreigsr]

Best depiction I've seen to date was the 'fight' between Brad Pitt and 'him' in 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'
Thanks Quintin.
Bill K

[sammyg2]

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by DWBOX2000

I don’t know much about him but I wish they had shown more on his training and competition.

LOL, he was an actor and it was all make-believe.
No competition. it was stunt men. Staged. Phony. Fake.
But faked well.

[GH85Carrera]

And he died mostly because he had the sweat glands from his armpits removed. He did not like to have dark stains on his clothes under his arms on camera. He suffered a heat stroke in a recording studio a few weeks before he died.

Like so many others, he died due to vanity.

[Seahawk]

I watched it and, frankly, got very tired of the whining.

Not from Bruce, but from everyone else in the presentation commenting on Bruce's life.

Enough.

[RWebb]

He was one of the or most likely THE top martial artist in modern times.

They actually had to slow down some of the footage in his films.

He also created an electrical device that shot electricity into his muscles to work on his speed.

No one since has been able to be "the next Bruce Lee" - a certain former Beijing Opera performer likely did the best job, since he was smart enough to not try and go in a different direction: martial arts comedy.

[sammyg2]

Sorry, have to disagree.
ALL Hype created to sell movies and merchandise, he weighed almost nothing, stunts with stuntmen and NO COMPETITION, and the hype was all BS, no real martial arts anything, just acting.

Godzilla was made up too.

Fake Fake Fake Fake Fake Fake Fake

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Baz

Looking forward to this one!

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Nicely done. It looks like the cleaned up the film in the clips their used.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Sorry, have to disagree.
ALL Hype created to sell movies and merchandise, he weighed almost nothing, stunts with stuntmen and NO COMPETITION, and the hype was all BS, no real martial arts anything, just acting.

Godzilla was made up too.

Fake Fake Fake Fake Fake Fake Fake

[DWBOX2000]

Guy was obviously very athletic. If Chuck Norris said he was good, I am thinking he was good. Heck, didn't he get called in to defeat Godzilla when the military couldn't.