Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Best of the Best (1989) Is a Horror Movie in North Korea

It's 4 degrees here as I write this, or -16 as they say in non-American. I just finished watching Best of the Best 1 and 2, with plans of watching 3 and 4 soon. For the uninitiated, Best of the Best stars Phillip Rhee, Eric Roberts, and Chris Penn, as members of a team of martial artists who battle Korea in a competition. They are coached by the amazing James Earl Jones. The film is heavily westernized and pretends everyone is there to see Eric Roberts attempt to speak English. The real star is Phillip Rhee, who can beat up everyone on the set. 

There exists an underground Kim Dong-un Cut version of the film which completely retells the story. I've been told the Obama administration added scenes of Phillip Rhee, now a Sith apprentice to Darth Vader, beating the crap out of everyone in North Korea, and kicking Kim Jong-old in the face, giving him his one and only loss ever recorded in the history of his life at anything, and right in front of his son, who cries and orders the world destroyed. This is why no one actually fears being nuked by their joke of a government. One day, and hopefully soon, they will get to see Best of the Best 2, the greatest sequel since Death Wish 3.  

Kim Jong-un does shrooms to sleep at night.