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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
Nov. 6th, 2012 11:57 pmJet Li in big martial arts movie in 3D. I don't have 3D to watch it in but it was clearly made for 3D. Flying Swords at your FACE!!! A minute where they haven't made you duck is clearly wasted! *sigh*
It was sort of a heist movie crashed into some politics with eunuchs and saving the girl. There were far too many sides in this movie to keep track of. The English language trailer divides them into 3, good bad ugly, but there's a lot of different bads and most of them fought each other and there was one guy who had a look alike and a lot of times they were pretending to be each other and I think one battle had like 5 teams and I don't even know. There was fighting! It was epic!
Plus there was this seriously insane fight in the middle. There's the evil eunuch (well, the most evil eunuch, there were quite a lot of them), and there's Jet Li, and they're having a big fight when a tornado comes. And Jet Li is like 'you think you're all that? come have a fight in the tornado!' And he rides off into it, and the bad guy follows, and then it's all swirly flying and they're still having a huge martial arts duel. It was awesome. And then a house crashed into them and I LOL and get distracted by Oz jokes. But that made it more fun.
Also there were some seriously kick arse women. All the sides had kick arse women, so they weren't even stuck being evil women this time. They all had different fighting styles and good tricks. And it wasn't women being stuck being saved by men, women saved women and women saved men. All the good things.
And I might mock the 3D, but there were some really cool things done with the flying weapons. Granted, most of them looked at physics and laughed, but there was a lot of bouncing weapons off other weapons or swinging things around someone's neck on the way to go kill someone else or just knocking things out of the air by spinning cloaks or chains around and it was pretty cool.
I liked it. ... I might have to rewatch it with a score card, but I think I liked it.
It was sort of a heist movie crashed into some politics with eunuchs and saving the girl. There were far too many sides in this movie to keep track of. The English language trailer divides them into 3, good bad ugly, but there's a lot of different bads and most of them fought each other and there was one guy who had a look alike and a lot of times they were pretending to be each other and I think one battle had like 5 teams and I don't even know. There was fighting! It was epic!
Plus there was this seriously insane fight in the middle. There's the evil eunuch (well, the most evil eunuch, there were quite a lot of them), and there's Jet Li, and they're having a big fight when a tornado comes. And Jet Li is like 'you think you're all that? come have a fight in the tornado!' And he rides off into it, and the bad guy follows, and then it's all swirly flying and they're still having a huge martial arts duel. It was awesome. And then a house crashed into them and I LOL and get distracted by Oz jokes. But that made it more fun.
Also there were some seriously kick arse women. All the sides had kick arse women, so they weren't even stuck being evil women this time. They all had different fighting styles and good tricks. And it wasn't women being stuck being saved by men, women saved women and women saved men. All the good things.
And I might mock the 3D, but there were some really cool things done with the flying weapons. Granted, most of them looked at physics and laughed, but there was a lot of bouncing weapons off other weapons or swinging things around someone's neck on the way to go kill someone else or just knocking things out of the air by spinning cloaks or chains around and it was pretty cool.
I liked it. ... I might have to rewatch it with a score card, but I think I liked it.