#american ninja 3: blood hunt

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Remembering cult film icon Steve James on the anniversary of his date of birth. (1952 - 1993) Here's some American Ninja fan art to celebrate!

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American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

Let me preface my review of American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt by saying that I have seen the first in the series, but not the second. Is it possible that I missed something along the way, that I would recognize this as a masterpiece if I had seen each instalment in the franchise? No. The connection between this film and the other so thin it's barely worth noting. Even if it featured characters you cared about, the performances are appalling, the action scenes laborious & badly choreographed, the plot idiotic and the camera work amateurish. You’ll struggle to stay awake.

Martial artists Sean Davidson (David Bradley), Curtis Jackson (Steve James, reprising his role once more) and Dexter (Evan J. Klisser) learn of a powerful terrorist known as “The Cobra” (Marjoe Gortner). He plans on selling a new super virus to the highest bidder. To prove its effectiveness to the sceptical General Andreas (Yehuda Efroni), "The Cobra" infects Sean. Now, time is running out for him... and the world.

We’re scraping the bottom of the outhouse with this plot. "The Cobra” is finalizing his deadly virus because General Andreas doesn’t understand how biological warfare exists, he demands to see its effectiveness. What better way to prove your weapon will kill anyone and everyone who gets infected than by using it to kill the greatest martial arts fighter on Earth? Of course, that begs the question. How do you determine who the greatest warrior is? By throwing an endless amount of cartoon ninjas - the kind who always dress in black and insist on wielding medieval weapons against potential fighters - against a bunch of guys participating in a nearby martial arts tournament. Whoever beats the most gets the title, I guess.

Even if the set up made sense, the execution is awful. Most of the dialogue is dubbed over, probably because the original actors were either barely intelligible thanks to their accents, or so awful even shoddy filmmaker Cedric Sundstrom cringed. It makes you wonder what their performances were because nobody is convincing. Not when they’re following the script and certainly not when they’re improvising dialogue on the fly.

If at least the action scenes were good, but they aren’t. There’s no tension or excitement as our three heroes casually bat away black-clad morons in broad daylight. They’re so unconcerned with their opponents our heroes don’t even bother to hold onto the weapons they grab to defeat them. The camera always seems positioned at the wrong angle, or slightly too far, making you wonder if this wasn’t everyone’s first foray into motion pictures. It’s improved none by the climax, which features that trademark ninja magic courtesy of Chan Lee (Michele Chan), who comes in, solves every problem at the last second and makes you wonder why anyone bothered.

There’s something exhausting about a plot that only continues because the villains are too stupid or too stubborn to pick up a gun. The “who cares?” story, the flat characters and the general lack of ambition will have you pining for the good old days of American Ninja, and not because Michael Dudikoff is gone. The only good scene in American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (what does that title have to do with anything?) features a small plane landing on a moving flatbed truck. It’s got nothing to do with martial arts, but that’s some damn good flying. (On VHS, May 27, 2018)

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“I mean, does it have to be ninjas?”

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Spin-Kick Vindication

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American Ninja 3 : Blood Hunt

Canon’s Ninja Franchises Part Two American Ninja OK, so American Ninja three starts off with some assassins at a boxing match in 1979. Are you sure this isn’t Daredevil? No wait, they’re thieves… And the kids’s dad gets gunned down… okay, so it’s Spider-Man…Right? I’m distracted, because The killer looks a lot like Uncle Leo from Seinfeld (he’s not, it’s just a look). Anyhow, this results in the…

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American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (Cedric Sundstrom, 1989)

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Do you still have the list of movies that inspired ST4? I had a picture of it but I lost it and I haven't been able to find it since. Please and thank you in advance.

Yep!

Long post warning lol

300

2001: A Space Odyssey

47 Meters Down: Uncaged

12 Monkeys

28 Days Later

13th Warrior

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Altered States

Amelie

American Sniper

Analyze This

Annihilation

Aristocats

Armageddon

Assassins Creed

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Arrival

Almost Famous

Batman Begins

Batman V. Superman

Basket Case

Battle at Big Rock

Beauty and the Beast

Beetlejuice

Behind Enemy Lines

Beverly Hills Cop

Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey

Billy Madison

Black Cauldron

Black Swan

Boondock Saints

Borat

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Burn After Reading

Broken Arrow

Blade Runner

C.H.U.D

Con Air

Cast Away

Congo

Constantine

Children of Men

Cabin in the Woods

Crank

Casablanca

Carrie

Crimson Tide

Clueless

Dukes of Hazzard

Don’t Breathe

Death to Smoochy

Doom

Dark Knight

Dogma

Deep Blue Sea

Dreamcatcher

Drop Dead Fred

Die Hard

Die Hard 2

Die Hard 3

Don’s Plum

Dances with Wolves

Dumb and Dumber

Edward Scissorhands

Enter the Void

Ex Machina

Event Horizon

Emma (2020)

Forrest Gump

Fargo

Fisher King

Full Metal Jacket

Ferris Bueller

Fallen

Fugitive

Ghost

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Ghostbusters

Good Fellas

Girl Interrupted

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Get Out

Good Will Hunting

Hackers

High Fidelity

Hellraiser 1

Hellraiser 2

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Hidden

High School Musical

Hurt Locker

Heat

Hunger Games

Highlander

Hell or High Water

Home Alone

I am Legend

It’s a Wonderful Life

In Cold Blood

Inception

I am a Fugitive from Chain Gang

Inside Out

Island of Doctor Moreau

It Follows

Interview with a Vampire

Inner Space

Into the Spiderverse

Independence Day

Jupiter Ascending

John Carter of Mars

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

James Bond (All Movies)

Julie

Karate Kid

Knives Out

Kingsmen

Little Miss Sunshine

Labyrinth

Long Kiss Goodnight

Lost Boys

Leon: The Professional

Let the Right One In

Little Women (1994)

Mad Max: Fury Road

Magnolia

Men in Black

Mimic

Matrix

Misery

My Cousin Vinny

Mystic River

Minority Report

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Neverending Story

Never Been Kissed

No Country for Old Men

Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

North by Northwest

Open Water

Orange County

Oceans 8

Oceans 11

Oceans 12

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ordinary People

Paddington 2

Platoon

Pulp Fiction

Papillon

Pan’s Labyrinth

Pineapple Express

Peter Pan

Princess Bride

Paradise Lost

Primal Fear

Prisoners

Peter Jackson’s King Kong

Reservoir Dogs

Ravenous

Rushmore

Road Warrior

Rogue One

Reality Bites

Raider of the Lost Ark

Red Dragon

Robocop

Shooter

Sky High

Swingers

Sword in the Stone

Step Up 2

Spy Kids

Saving Private Ryan

Shape of Water

Swept Away

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Superbad

Society

Swordfish

Stoker

Splice

Silence of the Lambs

Source Code

Sicario

Se7en

Starship Troopers

Scrooged

Splash

Silver Bullet

Speed

The Visit

The Italian Job

The Mask of Zorro

True Lies

The Blair Witch Project

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Tangled

The Craft

The Guest

The Devil’s Advocate

The Graduate

The Prestige

The Rock

Titanic

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Fly

Tombstone

The Mummy

The Guardian

The Goofy Movie

The Peanut Butter Solution

Toy Story 4

The Ring

The Crazies

The Mist

The Revenant

The Perfect Storm

The Shining

Terminator 2

The Truman Show

Temple of Doom

The Cell

To Kill a Mockingbird

Timeline

The Good Son

The Orphan

The Birdcage

The Green Mile

The Raid

The Cider House Rules

The Lighthouse

The Book of Henry

The A-Team

The Crow

The Terminal

Thor Ragnarok

Twister

The Descent

The Birds

Total Recall

The Natural

The Fifth Element

True Romance

Terminator: Dark Fate

The Hobbit Trilogy

Unforgiven

Unbreakable

Unleashed

Very Bad Things

Wayne’s World

What Women Want

War Dogs

Wedding Crashers

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Welcome to Marwen

Wet Hot American Summer

What Lies Beneath

What Dreams May Come

War Games

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Weird Science

Willow

Wizard of Oz

Wanted

Young Sherlock Holmes

You’ve Got Mail

Zodiac

Zoolander

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a flood of blood (blossoms) to the heart

by me :) aka @coyotecrackers

CHAPTER 3 IS UP NOW! - Danny learns more about Jake. Jake learns more about Danny. And where is Spud?

Summary:

Danny Fenton is tasked with investigating a warehouse full of blood blossoms. Jake Long is also tasked with investigating a warehouse full of blood blossoms. What happens when fate (and a warehouse full of blood blossoms) brings these young heroes together?

Tags: crossover, minor injuries, minor violence

Current WC: 10.8k

Chapters: 3/?

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This is a Danny Phantom and American Dragon: Jake Long crossover fic, all born from the amazing art created by @ryd3rthest4r for Ecto-Implosion 2023

Find their art here:

Tumblr || Instagram || Ch 2 of the fic on AO3

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Chapter 3 Sneak Peak:

There’s a dragon in front of him. An honest-to-god, real-life dragon. With bright red scales, green hair, wings, and a tail. Definitely not a ghost. He doesn’t look like a ghost. Plus, Danny’s ghost sense never went off.

And the dragon is also maybe a shapeshifter? Who can change at will, no amulet needed, unlike Dora. He doesn’t see a trace of the kid who had just grabbed him, only his friend, who was now approaching them with caution, flashlight back in hand.

He called himself “the American Dragon”, like Danny is supposed to know what that is. He feels a little bad; the guy clearly hasn’t met many people who don’t know him.

The pain of the blood blossoms around is ever-present, so it’s hard for Danny to do much thinking at the moment, too focused on gritting his teeth and not passing out.

“Well, uh,” the dragon continues, haltingly. “My name is Jake, I guess. I’m the American Dragon.” He rubs at his neck with a clawed hand. “Which means it’s sort of my job to protect magical creatures. Like you.” He studies Danny, reptilian eyes zeroing in on the wound in his side, which is still sluggishly leaking ectoplasm. “Did the Huntsclan do that to you?”

Danny hugs his side a little tighter. “If you’re talking about those crazy guys in ninja outfits that are trying to hunt me down. Then, yes.”

Jake snorts. He holds his hand out again, and this time Danny takes it, pulling himself up with effort. He grunts as his side pulls uncomfortably. He holds on to Jake’s scaly arm for support, blinking away the darkness in his vision. He finds it surprisingly stable and pleasantly warm to the touch, compared to his own icy cold hands.

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Saturday, June 01, 2024 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

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EPSOM DERBY (SN360) 11:00am

WNBA BASKETBALL (SN1) 12:00pm: Sky vs. Fever

US WOMEN’S OPEN (TSN2) 1:00pm: Second Round - Part I (TSN2) 3:00pm: Second Round - Part II

MLB BASEBALL (SN) 2:30pm: Pirates vs. Jays (SN Now) 4:00pm: Rays vs. Orioles (TSN5) 6:30pm: Reds vs. Cubs (SN1) 10:00pm: Yankees vs. Giants

NHL HOCKEY (CBC/SN) 8:00pm: Game 6  - Rangers vs. Panthers

TO ENGLAND, WITH LOVE (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm:   As far as Ali's concerned, she has it all. Until a mysterious quest sends her from Los Angeles to England on a treasure hunt through history and she finds herself opening up to old and new loves all over again.

SHADOW MAN: WILLIAM STEPHENSON AND THE ART OF POLITICAL WARFARE (Super Channel Fuse) 8:00pm:   A British undercover agent, William Stephenson, is on a secret mission in the USA during the Second World War; he aims to convince Americans to join the war against Hitler's Germany.

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN/TSN4) 8:30pm: Game 6 - Timberwolves vs. Mavericks

THE BOOGEYMAN (Crave) 9:00pm:  Still grieving over the recent death of his wife, a therapist and his two young daughters encounter a terrifying supernatural entity that preys on families and feeds on the suffering of its victims.

HOW THE GRINGO STOLE CHRISTMAS (Starz Canada) 9:00pm:  A Mexican father's Christmas celebration goes from merry to messy when his daughter shows up with her new boyfriend.

MLS SOCCER (TSN3) 10:30pm: Vancouver vs. Colorado

THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE BARN (Crave) 10:40pm:  Bill moves his American wife Carol and children Nora and Lucas to Norway where he's inherited a family estate. There, Lucas discovers a mischievous barn elf from ancient folklore living in the barn who plots to get rid of the American intruders.

JOKER (CTV) 12:35am:  Isolated, bullied and disregarded by society, failed comedian Arthur Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker.

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American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt

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American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1983)

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American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)

Jackson is back, and now he has a new partner, karate champion Sean, as they must face a deadly terrorist known as "The Cobra", who has infected Sean with a virus. Sean and Jackson have no choice but to fight the Cobra and his bands of ninjas.

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"It's time for action! Let's go!"