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The Legend is Born: Ip Man movie starts in Foshan, southern China in 1905. Ip Man (Dennis To) and adopted stepbrother Tien-Chi (Fan Siu-Wong) become students of Wing Chun Master Chan Wah-Shun (Sammo Hung). Then a year later the master dies and the school is acquired by his old friend Ng Chun-Sui (Yuen Biao).

In 1915, Ip Man captures the heart of Cheung Wing-Sing (Crystal Huang) while defending her in a fight, prompting jealousy from his childhood friend and fellow student Lee Mei-Wai (Rose Chan), who is secretly in love with him. Then Ip Man goes to Hong Kong for further his studies at a university where he meets old Wing Chun master Leung Bik (Ip Chun), who trains him new and powerful moves which never seen before in Wing Chun. But Ip Man is then punished as these new moves were considered unauthentic to Wing Chun. In the meantime of film, Japanese businessman Kitano (Louis Cheung) leads a group of Japanese smugglers. When the president of Tien-Chi’s company is assassinated with Ip Man recognizing Tien-Chi as main suspect, stir up trouble, and tension between the Chinese and Japanese reaches boiling point.

In the film, speaking of the fight scenes, there are lots of them sprinkled in the whole movie, demonstrating some of Wing Chun’s lesser-known moves, like wrestling and leg moves. Other martial arts like Karate, Jiu-Jitsu and boxing are also showing, all brilliantly choreographed by Hung.

The whole plot of the movie might be cheesy to some while the fight scenes are entertaining. It is almost a “boy meets girl” situation, when Ip Man infatuates the deputy mayor’s daughter Cheung Wing-Sing after he protects her from harm in a street fight. Then she tries to court him against the wishes of her father, but her efforts are hindered by Lee Mei-Wai, who has a crush on him.
As a part of the love story, the rest of the plot is entertaining and well paced, except for the ending, which feels slightly rushed, and rather clichéd and boring.

Source: http://theurbanwire.com/2010/06/24/the-legend-is-born-ip-man-different-actor-same-far-fetched-plot/

KICK-ASS tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero would, he chooses a new name — Kick-Ass — assembles a suit and mask to wear, and gets to work fighting crime. There’s only one problem standing in his way: Kick-Ass has absolutely no superpowers.
His life is forever changed as he inspires a subculture of copy cats, meets up with a pair of crazed vigilantes — including an 11-year-old sword-wielding dynamo, Hit Girl (Chloë Moretz) and her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) — and forges a friendship with another fledgling superhero, Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). But thanks to the scheming of a local mob boss Frank D’Amico (Mark Strong), that new alliance will be put to the test.

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