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Here's why I try to avoid contact with CNN, the following was featured in their "Screening Room" as their top 10 kung fu films.

1. Enter the Dragon - This is a decent start, it's not my favorite kung fu movie but it's a great flick and had a huge impact on the movie industry.
   
2. Ong-bak - First of all there's no kung fu in this movie. The fight direction is a blast and in a world of CGI it's refreshing to see someone take on the old "no wires, no stuntmen" Jackie Chan challenge but there's little in this that hasn't been done better elsewhere.
   
3. Wong Fei Hung (Once Upon a Time in China) - I guess the author of this article decided he needed a Tsui Hark movie and decided to just pick the one he'd heard of the most.
   
4. Kill Bill 1 & 2 - I think there's about 9 minutes of total martial arts between both movies, nearly all of it supplied by Gordon Liu who doesn't have a single movie he starred in on this list.
   
5. Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) - This isn't even the best wire-fu movie of the last 5 years but I guess lots of people saw it so that makes it worthy of this list.
   
6. The Karate Kid - Again, no kung fu in this. Weak martial arts but decent acting and 80s camp value win the day for this one.
   
7. Ging chaat goo si (Police Story) - Jackie Chan has been in almost 100 movies and at least half of them are honest-to-god kung fu movies. Police Story is not. I love Police Story but to have that be the only Jackie Chan movie on this list is almost criminal.
   
8. Shogun Assassin - I'm beginning to wonder if this guy [who isn't credited by name] knows the difference between China, Japan and Thailand. This film is a blast but it's not a kung fu movie.
   
9. Siu lam juk kau (Shaolin Soccer) - They could have at least picked Kung Fu Hustle for this one since it's, ya know, mostly a kung fu movie.
   
10. The Matrix - None of the "new" fighting effects/direction in this movie hadn't been done by Yuen Woo Ping in another movie. Again, there's under 10 minutes of martial arts total in this.

Zero Shaw Bros. movies. No movies starring Gordon Liu. No movies starring Donnie Yen. No Sammo Hung at all. The only Jackie Chan movie is Police Story. Here's my 10-minute list of 10 movies better than almost everything on this list:

1. Shaolin Master Killer
2. Drunken Master II
3. Five Deadly Venoms
4. Fist of Legend
5. Iron Monkey
6. Pedicab Driver
7. 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
8. Wing Chun
9. Chinese Super Ninjas
10. Fearless

Note to CNN's editors: typing "kung fu movie" into Google doesn't count as writing.

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Thanks to greatn on the Something Awful forums for a follow-up to his brilliant analysis of the March primaries.

TIMES TEN!

Obama did just that last night in Nc and kicked Hillary(Vegeta's) ass.

But then she went Oozaru mode and turned into a giant ape, inceasing her power level by 20 to try and beat him in Indiana. But high black turnout(Yajirobe) cut off her tail and with the spirit bomb it was essentially a tie and she barely escaped with her life.

Now Obama has to train in 100 times gravity(Kentucky and West Virginia) but he's the nominee basically.

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