10-18-2023, 09:43 PM
Rewatched as part of my John Woo prep for a potential request. It gives me an excuse to rewatch a lot of these, but some of the best ones aren’t readily available on any of my streamers. This was on Amazon Prime and it’s the western version, edited down to 1 2+ hour film. It still rocks. Lots of talky talk strategizing than some of the finest ancient battlefield scenes ever. I think they tripped some horses tho. Heck, they killed a stuntman.
Notes:
Massive film. Ancient battlefields with massive armies on a gargantuan scale (abetted by some cgi fleets and such)
Super sword and spear sanguineousness
Stunning panoramas
Zither duel between kongming v Tony Leung
I wonder if this is confusing not knowing the characters
The details of strategy like the novel
When guan Yu takes on a huge army alone, things get cooking.
Using plague as a weapon
Distracting beauty and the art of tea
Kongming is so badass as the master strategist
So many fire stunts
Notes:
Massive film. Ancient battlefields with massive armies on a gargantuan scale (abetted by some cgi fleets and such)
Super sword and spear sanguineousness
Stunning panoramas
Zither duel between kongming v Tony Leung
I wonder if this is confusing not knowing the characters
The details of strategy like the novel
When guan Yu takes on a huge army alone, things get cooking.
Using plague as a weapon
Distracting beauty and the art of tea
Kongming is so badass as the master strategist
So many fire stunts
Shadow boxing the apocalypse