10-06-2012, 02:53 PM
Against DM's heated pleas, I did not see this in 3-D. I saw it on the DVD at home. But as part of the new movie distribution pattern, it came out right after it's limited release in theaters here in the US. They are using theatrical releases as adverts for the DVD release. Which is why Iron Sky is in my DVD queue.
So, not big fan of the Wuxia because I probably don't have enough background to understand them. Don't like wire work, especially when you combine it with CGI characters to make it look super fake. And it wasn't in 3-D, so where does that leave me? I guess with the story.
I kind of like what the story was supposed to be but they didn't pull it off. There were a lot of warring factions but you didn't see them interact all that much. Lots of scenes of talking and exposition. My favorite group were the Tartars especially that tattooed female leader. She seemed to be having the best time in the movie.
My most confusing point was the twin aspect of it all. Call it profiling, but I have a hard time keeping the characters straight in a Chinese movie. So, when you start talking about how one guy looks just like another guy, I get lost quickly. I'm thankful for the guy with the mole because identifying him as a baddy was easy. Or maybe it was the fact that the twins didn't look all that alike, because one had incredibly long hair. Or maybe I had the wrong guy as the potential twin?
There was just too much talking interspersed with silly fights. My favorite was the ability to break your sword apart and fling the fragments at your opponent. Who, if good enough, would capture the shards in his cape and fling them back at you. In a similar vein was the one girl who had a million knives on her and could use the hooks on the handle of the knife to catch other thrown knives and redirect them. so you would throw a knife at a knife embedded in a beam. The second knife would get caught on the first knife's circular handle with it's circular handle and then spin off in another direction.
I say wait until this movie is back in the theaters to see it in 3-DImax.
So, not big fan of the Wuxia because I probably don't have enough background to understand them. Don't like wire work, especially when you combine it with CGI characters to make it look super fake. And it wasn't in 3-D, so where does that leave me? I guess with the story.
I kind of like what the story was supposed to be but they didn't pull it off. There were a lot of warring factions but you didn't see them interact all that much. Lots of scenes of talking and exposition. My favorite group were the Tartars especially that tattooed female leader. She seemed to be having the best time in the movie.
My most confusing point was the twin aspect of it all. Call it profiling, but I have a hard time keeping the characters straight in a Chinese movie. So, when you start talking about how one guy looks just like another guy, I get lost quickly. I'm thankful for the guy with the mole because identifying him as a baddy was easy. Or maybe it was the fact that the twins didn't look all that alike, because one had incredibly long hair. Or maybe I had the wrong guy as the potential twin?
There was just too much talking interspersed with silly fights. My favorite was the ability to break your sword apart and fling the fragments at your opponent. Who, if good enough, would capture the shards in his cape and fling them back at you. In a similar vein was the one girl who had a million knives on her and could use the hooks on the handle of the knife to catch other thrown knives and redirect them. so you would throw a knife at a knife embedded in a beam. The second knife would get caught on the first knife's circular handle with it's circular handle and then spin off in another direction.
I say wait until this movie is back in the theaters to see it in 3-DImax.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit