Movies in General
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Colonel
It looks cool. I don't know what they say since I'm in my office and have my speakers off, but it looks cool. I think one of the biggest problems with these ancient epics is that they try to side-step the horseback fighting. Two generals would normally cross blades once and then immediately jump off the horses and fight on the ground, which is kinda lame. The amazing horseback fighting has been described in details in many of the popular Pingshu version of many novels. However, no movie has been able to show this fighting style visually. The new 3 Kingdom TV series attempted to show this in some of its signature fights. It looks kinda cool. I just hope they show the horseback fighting in a cool way in movies...
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
Dont you guys get sick of that genre of film?All those fighting skills only made possible by the skills of the cinematographer, gets a bit repetitious iIMO. Still I suppose I should understand , after all I never got sick of Clint Eastwood and his "Are you feeling lucky" or "Make my Day" lines, I was watching a whole bunch of them and the spaghetti westerns, boy are they lame if one compares them to todays movies. In the light of the J20 i even suffered watching firefox again for the dozeneth time.
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
That was a pretty good movie I felt it gave the viewer a Pakistan perspective on whats afflcting their country
Spartan95
Junior Member
Hey, its entertainment! lol
It's also China's reply to western superhero movies (kind of anyway). While western movies have superheroes like Superman and Spiderman, Chinese movies have folk heroes like Ip Man, Chen Zhen (made famous by Bruce Lee), Wong Fei Hong, etc.
solarz
Brigadier
I'm just tired of watching all that wire-fu. They need to bring back the good old days where martial art choreographies relied on skill instead of camera work, wires, or worse, CGI.
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
I remember that person from the fifties. I cant remember who played him though. No doubt one of Shaw Brothers proteges. But even in those days they could leap over courtyard walls and what not. I use to drool over actresses Lin Dai and Betty Loch Ti?but they acted in Mandarin speaking films though. THere use to be another actress I would drool over though I cant remember her name, extremely elegant I thought and if I recall she played the central womans role in :"The Dream of the Red Chamber"? I once saw a Chinese made version or based on "Thief of Baghdad" at least thats what I thought it was , as it had flying carpets and a middle eastern type ambiance to it.
Superman? nah in my day it was cowboys and Indians. We use to watch them in short weekly serials at the local where the hero would find himself "up the creek without a paddle" and one was urged to come back the following week to see what happened.
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ABC78
Junior Member
China's movie going market is growing and Hollywood wants to get in on it. But China has a 20 foreign movie cap. Could China's 20 foreign movie importation cap help Asian actors(specifically Chinese) get more work in Hollywood? I saw a discussion about China's 20 foreign movie limit and one of the ways to get around that is to film in China. And if the movie isn't made in China getting a popular Chinese actor/actress in a Hollywood movie might help that movie get selected for one of the 20 spots.
Spartan95
Junior Member
This looks like a year of big budget Chinese block-buster movies. From the top of my head, there are:
1. The Lost Bladesman. About General Guan Yu during the 3 Kingdoms era.
2. Xinhai Revolution. Directed by Jackie Chan. Likely to be released to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the revolution. ()
3. A Chinese Ghost Story (倩女幽魂). A re-make of an '80s classic with Crystal Liu (刘亦菲) as the female lead.
4. Journey to the West. Big budget movie with an all-star cast, with Donnie Yen as the Monkey King, Chow Yun Fatt as the Jade Emperor, etc.
5. The Warring States.
6. Nanjing Heroes. A movie by Zhang Yimou set during the Nanajing Massacre starring Christian Bale (from Batman Begins & The Dark Knight).
Hong Kong is also hard at work shooting what is being touted as the 1st 3D adult movie in the world (Sex & Zen 3D).
All in all, a rather eventful year for Chinese cinema.
1. The Lost Bladesman. About General Guan Yu during the 3 Kingdoms era.
2. Xinhai Revolution. Directed by Jackie Chan. Likely to be released to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the revolution. ()
3. A Chinese Ghost Story (倩女幽魂). A re-make of an '80s classic with Crystal Liu (刘亦菲) as the female lead.
4. Journey to the West. Big budget movie with an all-star cast, with Donnie Yen as the Monkey King, Chow Yun Fatt as the Jade Emperor, etc.
5. The Warring States.
6. Nanjing Heroes. A movie by Zhang Yimou set during the Nanajing Massacre starring Christian Bale (from Batman Begins & The Dark Knight).
Hong Kong is also hard at work shooting what is being touted as the 1st 3D adult movie in the world (Sex & Zen 3D).
All in all, a rather eventful year for Chinese cinema.
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