Chinese film, television, music

[tamsen_ikard]

I am still waiting for Chinese movie industry to come up with a movie similar to Wolf Warrior 2 or Operation Red Sea. For me, those were the peak of China's war/action movies and had huge global implications due to the confidence and message it was sending to the world. Its been very tame in the last few years. Historical War movies simply do not have the same excitement.

Nothing beats the emotional peak of seeing Chinese Ships launching missiles and taking out foes for the hero in Wolf Warrior 2. That was the highlight. We have not seen anything like that ever since.

 

[Quan8410]

I am still waiting for Chinese movie industry to come up with a movie similar to Wolf Warrior 2 or Operation Red Sea. For me, those were the peak of China's war/action movies and had huge global implications due to the confidence and message it was sending to the world. Its been very tame in the last few years. Historical War movies simply do not have the same excitement.

Nothing beats the emotional peak of seeing Chinese Ships launching missiles and taking out foes for the hero in Wolf Warrior 2. That was the highlight. We have not seen anything like that ever since.

How about doing it for real. Not in movies only. It can boost confidence better and send message better.

 

[TPenglake]

I am still waiting for Chinese movie industry to come up with a movie similar to Wolf Warrior 2 or Operation Red Sea. For me, those were the peak of China's war/action movies and had huge global implications due to the confidence and message it was sending to the world. Its been very tame in the last few years. Historical War movies simply do not have the same excitement.

Nothing beats the emotional peak of seeing Chinese Ships launching missiles and taking out foes for the hero in Wolf Warrior 2. That was the highlight. We have not seen anything like that ever since.

Its been tame because Chinese audiences got tired of those movies.

Outside of the patriotism sugar rush those movies had absolutely nothing going for them if we're talking plots, characters, and the filmmaking was at times Bollywood level. Those aren't my subjective thoughts, that's Chinese people's overall mood to the genre and they vote as much with their wallets. And currently their wallets say they want plots, characters, and competent filmmaking.

 

[Temstar]

Dubbed Nezha 2 is getting some attention now, even among the normies.

 

[vincent]

Good review from Canadian state media

 

[TPenglake]

Dubbed Nezha 2 is getting some attention now, even among the normies.

Wow, worth buying on blu ray is his second highest rating.

While I doubt Nezha 2 will break the box office, the mythology being too convoluted for Westerners to understand, I think at this point its guaranteed to at least be on the status of a niche art house success and introduce a decent number of folks to the potential of Chinese animation.

 

[Nevermore]

Neither the Chinese version or the Netflix version has gotten to that point in the story yet when the droplet is featured.
Uh, spoiler alert.

(off topic for the thread, so I'll leave it here)

Oh no, I should probably delete my previous reply. I accidentally spoiled part of the plot.

 

[GTI]

Watch out for Sophons as well. That's how China stole and knows all about that uber-duper western tech.

Rumour has it that PLARF has recently established the Dimensional Strike Brigade, we may even see some DF-∞ relativistic projectiles on one of the trucks.

 

[Maikeru]

I believe it's available on Amazon (with English subtitles). Very detailed and faithful adaption (30 episodes), but only covers the first book.

I would recommend with 2 caveats. Firstly, they omitted the CR denouncing/lynching scene, which is pivotal to the story and why the antagonist invited the Trisolarans to Earth in the first place. Second, they really, really should have got a better actor to play Colonel Jessup, a key character in the final third of the series.

 

[AndrewJ]

Oh! I must admit I haven't seen the Chinese version of the film yet. Can you recommend it? I only saw the Netflix serie ...

I believe it's available on Amazon (with English subtitles). Very detailed and faithful adaption (30 episodes), but only covers the first book.

Free version with English subtitles are already available on Youtube. (30 episodes for S1)

IMO it filmed much better than the Netflix one. Just look into the comment section.

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