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This premiered at Cannes in 2008. Sammo Hung plays an aging wushu coach. There are 6 wushu champ kids trying to make it to sports college. It's filmed in the north, and almost catches the harsness of a Chinese wushu school, but it cleans everything up for PRC consumption. There's a stupid subplot - or maybe it's the main plot - about child kidnappers. It's never clear what they intend to do with the kids or why the cops can't catch them when they know where their lair is, or why more people are upset when kids are kidnapped in broad daylight, but it gives Sammo a good excuse to show everyone who's boss with that fat front kick of his. Sammo's still got it. This film is one of those could-have-beens. My mind was reeling with alternative story arcs and ways to make this film better with what they had. But it went the direction of a rather insipid PRC formula flick. It showcased wushu well.
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I've got the camera. Let's make a movie. You probably know some kids that could be in it. And you could do the Sammo roll. What do you say?
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The entire Brotherhood of Doom could be the villains. We already have a good "villain" name for our group. We could use sarcasm as our main weapon.
Of course, the last time I worked in a G-Man film, DM broke my nose.
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Suffer for your art, dammit.
And I just checked with the Vegas oddsmakers about the chances for a complete Doom get together to make the Wushu movie and it seems the snowball is winning.
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Now is the Time of the Snowball - time to strike, coldly! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-HA!
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LB broke it when he kicked my ass and your nose was too far up my butt.
No wait. That's not what happened.
It was all a scam to get Lance to kick LB in the 'nads. We even bribed some chick to convince them that the stunt would work. How did your nose get involved?
Back OT, the thing about Wushu is it skirts an environment that I've always thought would be a ripe setting for a great movie. There's nothing like a Chinese martial arts school - hundreds of kids stuck in a godforsaken hell hole, forced to do martial arts all day. It has such potential.
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