Finding Beauty in Bloodsport

Have you ever heard a song on the radio and just said, "God DAMN this needs to be in a montage."

No?

Well, I'll bet you five bucks that in 1988, Newt Arnold, director of Bloodsport, had that reaction when he heard Stan Bush's amazing ballad "On My Own-Alone".

Let's watch this masterpiece unfold right before our eyes.  Cue montage:

Wow.  Such feeling.  Such emotion.  Everything you want in a look-back montage.

This montage is after Frank Dux, played by Jean-Claude Van Damme, witnesses Chong Li break Ray Jackson's back with a devastating foot stomp.  At 00:44 take a look at Chong Li and ask yourself if you would want a foot stomp to the sole of your back from this behemoth.  Not good enough.  Have a tasty look at this picture. 

So now Dux is struggling with the injury to his buddy and the fact that his next opponent will be Chong Li.  What a perfect time for a montage.  I mean if they didn't do a montage at this point in the movie then they should have been slapped.

Let me ask you something. Is it manly to do a split?  Many would say no, no it's not. 

But let me ask you another question.  Is it manly to do a split on the ledge of a 40-story building?  If you tell me no, then I question YOUR manliness sir.  Shit, I'll question everything about you. 

This is what it would look like if we tried to do a split on top of a 40-story building.  So there, Van Damme passes the manliness test.