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I was a huge fan of JCVD growing up. I remember when Bloodsport was on TV and my dad would call me over and we'd watch it together and I thought "holy fuck this guy is badass!".

JCVD was actually my first inspiration to get in shape/bodybuilding. Even before I found out who Arnold was. His physique in Bloodsport was my benchmark for how I wanted to look (even today!). Sure, by today's standards some of his movies may be considered "cheesy" but the guy was an incredible influence on many people all over the world . Not only that but he;s been through some terrible drug problems, a shitty divorce, and still came out on top.

Post some of your favorite clips from his movies or quotes or whatever you feel like in this thread. I hope to post some later myself

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One of my favorite ads.



His daughter, Bianca Bree, knows how to do the split well too. Must run in the family.

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(03-14-2016 03:19 PM)Latinopan Wrote:  

(03-14-2016 11:18 AM)RaccoonFace Wrote:  My compatriot Jean-Claude Van Damme talks about Donald Trump in the following video and actually mentions names like The Rothschilds, Rockefellers and terms like globalism/globalists live on TV:

I always been fan of Van Damme, I always wondered why such famous actor in the 80s and 90s suddenly was gone and we never knew about him, now we can see why, he knows the game and speaks the true, he said he was blacklisted in Hollywood, if he openly says Rothschilds, Rockefellers on TV, imagine if he was allowed in America TV.

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JCVD is inspiration and alpha.

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For those that want to read an extensive article on the Street Fighter movie he was in (it mentions him banging Kylie Minogue and showing her "his Thailand", his drug issues, etc) and how the whole production went horribly wrong in so many ways:

Street Figher: The Movie - What Went Wrong

Despite as cheesy as it was, I loved Bloodsport while growing up and watching it on TV in what felt like every other month. It was really exciting to see far away exotic locations (Bloodsport was filmed in Hong Kong I believe) in the pre-internet era; despite things still being filmed and produced with a Hollywood perspective. I don't think the younger folks these days can truly understand or comprehend how cut off from the rest of the world you really were before the internet, youtube, and cell phones. When you saw something from the other side of the world, that might have been your only real limited glimpse of it for a very long time.

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Kickboxer (1989) was THE SHIT!

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JCVD vs Stallone happened 25 too late, but was still entertaining

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Great thread... +1 from me

I grew up watching all his movies. As a kid I used to get to rent movies on VHS on the weekends at this little gas station near my house and I would always pick a JCVD movie even if I had already seen it 100 times. He motivated me to go out into the woods and kick dead trees down and that is a valuable life skill....





Universal solider was pretty epic. Dolph Lundgren played a great villain protagonist

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I'm also a big time JCVD fan, and feel he is very underrated as far as 80's action stars goes (Chuck Norris being incredibly overrated). He's always been my favorite, partially because of his sort of underdog status.

I don't know if any of you have heard of it or seen it, but check out his movie "JCVD" - it's an interesting and sort of artistic and dramatic film where he really stretches his acting muscles instead of just his real muscles. It's a great movie if you're really a Jean Claude fan.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130988/

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I like where this is going!

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Double Impact!!!!

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The dude is a legacy. And undoubtedly a Trump voter.

His co-star from Street Fighter, age 48 in the photo, is a total wall survivor too. Oh and he hit that shit.

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Didnt a forum member run into him in Montreal and he was stark drunk doing his kickboxing dance?

Damn I wish I had the link

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I loved watching JCVD's movies when I was a kid. Definitely agree he is quite underrated, as far as 1980s action stars are concerned.

And his daughter is a real cutie. WB.

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Anyone else watched the pilot episode for his new self-parodying TV series on on Amazon (not sure if the show has actually been picked up)?
The full episode is on YouTube (some sound problems for a minute or two near the start when I watched it, fine after that), pretty funny.

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There is nothing not to like about this guy.

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I had a real size poster from him in my room when I was a kid. Bloodsport, Karate Tiger and Kickboxer I have seen a million times. Even have the DVDs. He was my No. 1 action hero. The muscles from Brussels!

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It's about time we had a thread dedicated to the Muscles from Brussels.

I've seen no mention of the movie JCVD. Jean-Claude plays a fictional version of himself and shows some real acting chops. Some well-regarded critics anticipated an Oscar nomination.

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I grew up watching Bruce Lee's movies in the 1970's, then JCVD's flicks in the 1980's. They both influenced me in taking up martial arts & weightlifting.

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And yes - I watched every single one of these. And he inspired me to learn to do the splits ;-)

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(09-21-2016 03:36 PM)la bodhisattva Wrote:  I've seen no mention of the movie JCVD. Jean-Claude plays a fictional version of himself and shows some real acting chops. Some well-regarded critics anticipated an Oscar nomination.

Ahem.

(09-21-2016 12:35 PM)General Stalin Wrote:  I don't know if any of you have heard of it or seen it, but check out his movie "JCVD" - it's an interesting and sort of artistic and dramatic film where he really stretches his acting muscles instead of just his real muscles. It's a great movie if you're really a Jean Claude fan.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130988/