Thursday, August 15, 2019

BRUCE LEE: THE MAN, THE MYTH

bruce lee: the man, the myth movie poster
BRUCE LEE: THE MAN, THE MYTH


With all the talk lately about Bruce Lee and his appearance in ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD it's probably not a coincidence that this has popped up on the (really, really cool) free streaming app Tubi. (To be fair, it's also on Amazon Prime but it was noticing the Tubi listing that prompted this post.)
 
Our small, southern town didn't have a true 'grindhouse' theater, but it did have the 'old' theaters downtown versus the 'new' theater by the mall.

The new theater got the bigger mainstream releases while the downtown theaters got, well, stuff like this. Those are also the theaters where I saw THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and CALIGULA and BASKET CASE and the like.

Those movies, my dad took me to see. But this one - dad was off stationed in Turkey for a year and somehow I got mom to take me to this one. She stayed up in the back and let me go down closer to the front where I liked to sit - one very young, very white kid in a crowd 100% older and probably 90% non-white.

One of the best, most memorable movie-going experiences of my life.

Won't be quite the same, but here's a direct link to the film on Tubi:
https://tubitv.com/movies/282408/bruce_lee_the_man_the_myth