01-10-2025, 01:16 AM
It’s troubling that this is the third time I’ve watched this film and I remembered so little of it. It’s still great - so visual and fantastic - but I was astonished that I didn’t remember the three-headed crane lion. You’d think that would’ve stood out. It was almost like watching it for the first time. That’s how I keep it fresh. To quote Garcia ‘major memory lapses help.’
Now I see how it sets up the threequel. The end credit scene is the intro scene of thr threequel. And Green Snake is more like a tangent, the sequel to Nezha that Light Chaser just inserted in between part 1 & 3 and could be completely ignored except that it’s so good. Now 3 feels like an obligation, something planed that they went back for, but they kinda phoned it in. No wonder it didn’t get picked up by any North American distributor. It’s so weak by comparison. Hopefully Light Chaser hasn’t lost their way because they’ve been on a roll.
In 2025 they plan to release Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, which is based on a classic collection of twilight zonish tales from the 17th century. There are like 500 stories and I’ve read a few translations but less than 100 or so. Not sure if this is part of the New Gods universe either. We shall see. I’ll have to hunt down Chang’An, which came out prior to the White Snake threequel.
Now I see how it sets up the threequel. The end credit scene is the intro scene of thr threequel. And Green Snake is more like a tangent, the sequel to Nezha that Light Chaser just inserted in between part 1 & 3 and could be completely ignored except that it’s so good. Now 3 feels like an obligation, something planed that they went back for, but they kinda phoned it in. No wonder it didn’t get picked up by any North American distributor. It’s so weak by comparison. Hopefully Light Chaser hasn’t lost their way because they’ve been on a roll.
In 2025 they plan to release Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, which is based on a classic collection of twilight zonish tales from the 17th century. There are like 500 stories and I’ve read a few translations but less than 100 or so. Not sure if this is part of the New Gods universe either. We shall see. I’ll have to hunt down Chang’An, which came out prior to the White Snake threequel.
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