Just saw brotherhood of the wolf and I loved it!

[ShinHakkaider]

Only "McG" (Charlie's Angels) really seems to GET Hong Kong action filming --

D00d...Youre kidding me right?

He's got the BASIC elements of wuxia down, but the fight scenes in CA left ALOT to be desired. Only the ally fight between the Angels and the Thin Man had any semblance of excitement for me. The rest of it was, well, flat.

I know the hatred for this movie runs deep, but the fight between Neo and the Merovinigan's Cronies in The Matrix Reloaded was an example of a fight scene done VERY WELL. Multiple Combatants, Neo uses multiple weapons as well as empty hand, the enviornment is actually used to some effect, no excessive cutting, all immediate combatants are in the frame and you can SEE What they are doing and NO CGI. The movie may not have floated a lot of peoples boat, but hands down, head and shoulders above the burly brawl, that was the best martial Arts fight in an American made action movie that I've seen since the last Matrix.

And yes I know Yuen Woo Ping was the fight coordinator for MR, but his brother Yuen Cheung-Yan was the fight coordinator for CA. In fact the fight between Drew Barrymore (when she's tied to a chair) and those thugs is borrowed directly from one of Yuen Woo Ping's movies, Iron Monkey. And it's not done half as well in CA as it was in IM.

 

[Darth Shoju]

I gotta say I really enjoyed this movie as well. I've seen it twice now and it was enjoyable both times. The presence of the Kung-fu didn't bother me. They never bothered to explain it, so it leaves the viewer to decide where Mani learned it from. I didn't think it was terrible kung-fu either; I've certainly seen movies with much worse 'fu than that. I liked Mani's character in general, liked his personality, but the fact that he was a big cliche did kinda bug me. I watched it with my fiance who is Aboriginal and she was rolling her eyes at his character's stereotypes. But overall I loved all the characters and thought this movies was pretty good. I'm definately buying this on DVD (when I get money )

 

[Dinkeldog]

Arrr!

I'm boarding this thread and sailing for the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books, Movie and TV forum where you landlubbers can wag your festering gobs to no end. Any scurvy dog that objects can walk the plank (or send an e-mail).

1. Yes, I know talk like a pirate day is the 19th, but it's midnight somewhere and tomorrow I might not have any access, so I'm taking advantage of today while I can.

2. Why resurrect a year-and-a-half old thread? New threads are cheap to start.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

I'm blown away that people could even stomach this crap movie much less say it was great.

Story sucked
fight scenes sucked
special effects sucked
dont know the term but visual imagry sucked
acting well maybe lost in a language differences but seemed to suck

 

[Shard O'Glase]

D00d...Youre kidding me right?

He's got the BASIC elements of wuxia down, but the fight scenes in CA left ALOT to be desired. Only the ally fight between the Angels and the Thin Man had any semblance of excitement for me. The rest of it was, well, flat.

I know the hatred for this movie runs deep, but the fight between Neo and the Merovinigan's Cronies in The Matrix Reloaded was an example of a fight scene done VERY WELL. Multiple Combatants, Neo uses multiple weapons as well as empty hand, the enviornment is actually used to some effect, no excessive cutting, all immediate combatants are in the frame and you can SEE What they are doing and NO CGI. The movie may not have floated a lot of peoples boat, but hands down, head and shoulders above the burly brawl, that was the best martial Arts fight in an American made action movie that I've seen since the last Matrix.

And yes I know Yuen Woo Ping was the fight coordinator for MR, but his brother Yuen Cheung-Yan was the fight coordinator for CA. In fact the fight between Drew Barrymore (when she's tied to a chair) and those thugs is borrowed directly from one of Yuen Woo Ping's movies, Iron Monkey. And it's not done half as well in CA as it was in IM.

Maybe MR had the best HK like marital art fight in years for an american movie, but best martial art fight scene in years goes to the borne identity when the 1st assassin shows up IMO. This is partially influenced by it being the 1st movie in years that I'd seen that hadn't done slow motion which I've gotton very sick of.

Then for action scenes while the HK style is fun I think the american die hard like styles are just as fun. Unrealistic because the good guy never dies sure, but at least the moves themself look semi realsitic. And depending on my mood it determines wheter or not I want to see the super powered HK style or the low powered american style of fight scene.

 

[LoneWolf23]

I'm blown away that people could even stomach this crap movie much less say it was great.

Story sucked
fight scenes sucked
special effects sucked
dont know the term but visual imagry sucked
acting well maybe lost in a language differences but seemed to suck

Well, apparantly a whole lot of people disagree with your opinion.