The best of this week's web to help the afternoon glide smoothly by.
Plus: Bret Michaels has new health issues, Jean-Claude Van Damme goes the reality route, Glee takes a trophy from Modern Family.
When the western martial arts movie scene was becoming stale, with the same old bland shennanigans, it was all starting to get old, fast. It had been 12 years since Bruce Lee had left the big screen and a large hole needed filling. Van Damme brought to the scene what other martial arts actors couldn't, charisma. This along with his incredible flexibility (5 years of ballet) and excellent Karate skills, transferred really well to the screen. His first big role was in the 1985 movie No Retreat No Surrender, starring as the bad guy. He really stood out, but it wasn't until he approached Producer and Director, Menahem Golan; impressing him by performing a spinning kick over his head, that he was given the lead in Bloodsport, which for many years was the second most successful martial arts flick ever. His career continued to progress peaking in 1994 with the movie Timecop which took $100,000,000 worldwide. With a new generation of people coming through wanting a different kind of movie he was relegated to straight-to-DVD affairs. He doesn't spew out an endless line of forgettable movies though, making only one a year max, and with the recent high acclaims of JCVD he has had a resurgence. His movies may not be Oscar worthy but they are stylishly action packed and certainly entertained me as a teenager...oh who am I kidding, they still do.
Oh, please mr.Van Damme, dont kick my ass, i swear, i dont hate America! Jesus mother of christ, dont you see he is just another one "superman" who kicks 10000 asses in every film? This one and his friends (siegal, norris) are the dark page on America's cinema, a cinema wich has great films. Sorry, but this is the truth. Greetings from Greece.
Im looking forward to all of his new movies that will be comming out in the future his movies are always interesting and suspensful also love the violence in the movies. cant really complain on his movies they're all great to watch not like some other actions i tried to watch
Jean-Claude Van Damme a bodybuilder and kickboxer. It evidently wasn't in the genes; Van Damme's father was an accountant and flower salesman. Taking up the study of Shotokan karate at the age of ten, He went on to win the middleweight championship of the European Professional Karate Association, where he thrilled one and all with his 360-degree leap-kick.
Cashing in on his fame, the 18-year-old Van Damme launched the California Gym in Brussels. When he moved to L.A., he had 7,000 dollars to his name and spoke only French and Flemish. At first, he took many odd jobs, the least prepossessing of which was as a carpet layer. Van Damme's first film was a bit part in Chuck Norris' Missing in Action (1984). Groomed for stardom by Cannon Films' Menahem Golan, Van Damme became a big box-office commodity via such epics as No Retreat, No Surrender (1986); Bloodsport (1988); Cyborg (1989); Kickboxer (1989), which he co-wrote; Lionheart (1990); and Universal Soldier (1992). Fully cognizant of his own histrionic limitations, Van Damme didn't branch out into comedy or "sensitive" roles as has Arnold Schwarzenegger; when starring in the popular futuristic-action film Timecop (1994), Van Damme wisely left the acting to villain Ron Silver.
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