PerveeSage
05-11-2008, 09:03 PM
Went back 5 pages and didnt see this posted yet.
Which is quite unfortunate cause that must mean its not such a popular movie. It might not have been so action packed, but it was truly a good story, as opposed to the bad movies that have been coming out so frequently.
As someone who does brazilian jiu-jitsu I really enjoyed this movie for what it tried to convey, although i could see that if a person who knows nothing about jiu-jitsu saw the movie, he may not like it so much because he did not understand what it was about.
Redbelt i suppose is not just what jiu-jitsu is about, but what martial arts are about, what it should be about, and what it is to most people these days.
Martial arts in todays world has become mostly about making money, selling arobics to people and calling it how to fight, so the "instructor" can get rich off of it.
What this movie is about is a man who holds true to his philosophy that its not about making money, but truely teaching people how to defend themselves. In his struggle to keep true to his philosophy, the main character fights to publicly announce the truth about a fixed fighting circut, and in doing so he achives...
the end of the movie, which i will not spoil. All i will say is the main character achieves the ending, because he has truly learned the difference between martial arts for money and martial arts for the good of his students.
Which is quite unfortunate cause that must mean its not such a popular movie. It might not have been so action packed, but it was truly a good story, as opposed to the bad movies that have been coming out so frequently.
As someone who does brazilian jiu-jitsu I really enjoyed this movie for what it tried to convey, although i could see that if a person who knows nothing about jiu-jitsu saw the movie, he may not like it so much because he did not understand what it was about.
Redbelt i suppose is not just what jiu-jitsu is about, but what martial arts are about, what it should be about, and what it is to most people these days.
Martial arts in todays world has become mostly about making money, selling arobics to people and calling it how to fight, so the "instructor" can get rich off of it.
What this movie is about is a man who holds true to his philosophy that its not about making money, but truely teaching people how to defend themselves. In his struggle to keep true to his philosophy, the main character fights to publicly announce the truth about a fixed fighting circut, and in doing so he achives...
the end of the movie, which i will not spoil. All i will say is the main character achieves the ending, because he has truly learned the difference between martial arts for money and martial arts for the good of his students.