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Watched this last night starring RZA

Total hokum even worse than Crouching Tiger

Not sure why Crowe took a role in this film

Any post containing the words `even worse than Crouching Tiger` negates itself. Look up Wuxia.







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I like Martial Arts films

However people flying through trees takes the ****

I repeat, look up wuxia.

Do you think it takes the **** when Superman flies or Spider-Man crawls up walls? Same thing.







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This item was edited on Wednesday, 12th December 2012, 12:01

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Chris Gould says...
Do you think it takes the **** when Superman flies or Spider-Man crawls up walls? Same thing
Science Fiction Charactors as opposed Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. They didn`t need to fly around on wires

Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan

both had used wire work in their movies ;)  along with film speed manipulation :)

that said,  i`m 30 mins into this movie,  & it`s a real pile of **** so far....

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Science Fiction Charactors as opposed Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. They didn`t need to fly around on wiresI take it you still haven`t looked up wuxia then? If you had you`d realise that it is a genre of cinema that has much in common with our current superhero films. The characters in it are supposed to be capable of superhuman feats - it`s fantasy. These are not Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan films (although as Ogster says they both stared in films that feature exaggerated martial arts); they are meant to be able to leap enormous distances, skip on water, perform feats of strength and incredible acrobatics etc. Kill Bill is a western film with wuxia elements (although it`s not a period piece so it doesn`t really count), and this is another (inferior) attempt.

Some memorable wuxia films are the aforementioned CTHD, Curse of the Golden Flower, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Musa, Zu Warriors, Wu Ji (The Promise), and Detective Dee. Forbidden Kingdom is a better American example and even Kung Fu Panda was a sort of wuxia film.

There are many, many more examples and some of them are damn fine films.







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This item was edited on Thursday, 13th December 2012, 13:14