The Shadow's Edge is the best Jackie Chan film since The Foreigner came out. It makes me to forget such attrocities as Kung Fu Yoga, Bleeding Steel, Vanguard, Hidden Strike and Panda Plan.
Wolverine: Enemy of the State (comic book)
I think the first comic book story I didn't like was Wolverine: Enemy of the State. It was bad and boring and they dragged it out with so much padding like it is never going to end.
My problem is that a TV series writer (Mark Millar) wrote it and it was written like a Tv series. Well a comic book is not a TV show. Obviously. You cannot write a comic book like a TV show because with a TV show you get an episode every week. A comic book issue only gets published monthty at best or in every second month.
Each issue of Wolverine: Enemy of the State was like a bad anime episode what has got a lot of fillers and nothing interesting happens. Well with comics you have to deal with page count, efficiency, and time compression. Which means comics should be short and sweet. Each issue has to be meaningful to the reader otherwise it isn't worth to pick up and read a comic book.
Yeah I like fight scenes too but if the story sucks there is no point reading it. So in Wolverine: Enemy of the State the writing was bad. I also got bored with John Romita Jr's drawings. In the early 2000s they became so repetative like everything looked the same. He drew similar faces. There were only three types: a guy face, a woman face and a fat guy face. And pretty much that's it.
I also realised why I hate Man of Steel and Batman V Superman because they just go on and on and on without a good story or characters in a so boring way just like Wolverine: Enemy of the State.
I like good fight scenes too as everybody else. I am a Jackie Chan movie fanatic. But you cannot have just a bunch of characters fighting with Wolverine all the time. There is no meaning behind it. You have to have soimething else too.
Wolverine: Enemy of the State lost me when Wolverine became a bad guy. A puppet. They just went for shock value to shake up stuff but it didn't end up exciting.
John Romita Jr didn't even make the fights interesting. The only good stuff was when Captain America knocked Wolverine out. At least that was a surprise. I still liked John Romita Jr's style in Peter Parker Spider-Man at the end of the 90s and my all time favourite was how he drew X-Men and Spider-Man comics in the 80s.
Probably he got tired and burned out in the early 2000s like everybody else would when you have to draw for so many comics books simultaneously. However I think Wolverine: Enemy of the State became really old and really fast.
Jackie Chan Marathon: A Legend (2024)
This AI generated young Jackie Chan in A Legend (2024) looks bad or what? I get it that they wanted to de-age Jackie like the way he looked in the 70s (1976-1978). The eyes, eyebrows and mouth looks okay I guess, but the nose and the jaw line is messed up.
It looks weird and washed up. Some fine details are missing. Just look up a scene fron Drunken Master 1 and say if I am wrong.
It's some kind of uncanny valley. I still cannot see any future in AI generated movie scenes. The audience can tell there is something off.
By the way... Did you realize that Jackie Chan turned 70 this year?
If Jackie Chan wants to make movies where half of the movie is AI generated, just fucking retire, man.
He should have retired after The Foreigner to end with a high note. Or he should make dramas, thrillers with just a little bit of action.
With The Foreigner and Crime Story he proved he can do that. He proved can act. But he shouldn't do lame action scenes with bad CGI. The audienc can tell what is real and what isn't when the CGI is bad.
Jackie Chan can make movies with as less action as possible. In Shinjuku Incident he made a gangster film and his character couldn't even fight but it was a good movie. Anything but bad CGI effects. I don't watch Jackie Chan films for the CGI effects.
I am so tired of movies like Bleeding Steel, Vanguard, Kung Fu Yoga and Hidden Strike. Jackie Chan can do better movies that that and he proved that with The Foreigner.
A Legend (2024) is just a weird tech demo experiment that gone wrong and looks barely convincing. You can tell there are CGI effects and AI generated imagery. It looks as artificial as a video game cut scene from a video game. The de-aged AI generated Jackie Chan has as much life as a chopped down wood or a dead parrot.
And nobody thought this face looks wrong. It has to be a heroic scene but it is just laughable. I cannot take this seriously. AI generated movie scenes look artificial and fake. It is easy to spot that it is fake.
You know what? They should have got Jackie Chan's son, Jaycee Chan to play the young Jackie Chan's character because he looks almost exactly as him in his 30s. But I bet they didn't want to hire him for the film because he was busted possessing weed some years ago.
I've never thought there will be a Jackie Chan movie where I have to say I wasted about 90 minutes of my time. I wrote 90 minutes, because at least the last 25 minutes is a decent entertaining Jackie Chan movie. If they managed to make the whole film like that I wouldn't complain about it at all. Then that would be as good as Chinese Zodiac or even better.
Recently Jackie Chan's films reached such a low point. They are getting as bad as when Jackie Chan made movies for Lo Wei in the 1970s (from 1976 to 1978). I've never thought we will ever get back to such a low point of this kind.
Honestly the only one I really liked from his recent movies is The Foreigner. It had good acting, an exciting story and a little bit of action which was choreographed so well. Can't he just make films like that?
How to behave at the cinema?
I think the same rules sound be applied at the cinema as in theatres. Primarily, the emphasis would not be on appearing in a nice dress or something. Not to ruining the entertainment of others would be enough for me. if that could be achieved I would be happy.
Nowadays, it’s like a cinema has no policies at all and everyone can behave the way they want. The whole thing can be viewed on websites and the rules are even displayed on the wass next to the cashier. However it would be a pretty naive thing to assume that anyone is reading this. That's a shame.
Nowadays, it’s like a cinema has no policies at all and everyone can behave the way they want. The whole thing can be viewed on websites and the rules are even displayed on the wass next to the cashier. However it would be a pretty naive thing to assume that anyone is reading this. That's a shame.
Believe it or not oters would like to enjoy the movie the sme wa as you do. I have put together a policy that you can follow in order to surely become a useful and respected member of the society.
1. Be quiet!
I remember there were plenty of undisciplined kids on Harry Potter 1 at the time. They were so loud that I could barely hear anything from what the characters said. And nothing has changed since then. When John Wick was screened, I could barely concentrate on the film because they almost always chatted when there wasn’t an action scene. It wasn't that long, though. Just about 30 minutes, almost the third of its runtime. I don’t understand that someone can’t sit still, quietly, patiently for 101 minutes once they’ve paid the ticket price.
If you definitely have something to say and are unable to keep it to yourself, you can even whisper. As surprising as it may sound, it’s not just you sitting alone in the auditorium. If you talk out loud during the movie, you will disturb other people. Especially those people who are sitting in front of you. Isn't it worth discussing everything after the movie? Or if you don't care, why the hell did you leave home and pay for that in the first place?
It’s just one thing that people can’t be quiet during the previews or trailers because a few of them are still on their way to get to their seats, but during the film there should be silence. You wouldn't chat during a theatrical performance either, would you?.
If you definitely have something to say and are unable to keep it to yourself, you can even whisper. As surprising as it may sound, it’s not just you sitting alone in the auditorium. If you talk out loud during the movie, you will disturb other people. Especially those people who are sitting in front of you. Isn't it worth discussing everything after the movie? Or if you don't care, why the hell did you leave home and pay for that in the first place?
It’s just one thing that people can’t be quiet during the previews or trailers because a few of them are still on their way to get to their seats, but during the film there should be silence. You wouldn't chat during a theatrical performance either, would you?.
2. Tell your friend to shut up too!
3. Don’t any noise with a popcorn bag or withother stuff!
You can take corn out of that damn bag without digging in it for hours. It can be confusing az hell. Fumbling with a straw and wheezing are just a separate addition. And if that wasn’t enough, it can make a very nice sound if it takes someone hours to unwrap some rattling paper candy. It’s vital to suck something like that because of oral fixation during a movie.
4. Don’t put your feet on the chair in front of you!
Why?
1. Because it isn't nice. It's not the proper thing to do. It's a very bad habit. No one in the theater does the same.
2. Because you are not at home.
3. Because it bothers others sitting behind you while watching a movie.
1. Because it isn't nice. It's not the proper thing to do. It's a very bad habit. No one in the theater does the same.
2. Because you are not at home.
3. Because it bothers others sitting behind you while watching a movie.
+1 Kicking the chair is forbidden too because you are not the only person there in the auditorium..
5. Turn off your phone before the movie starts!
Don't push your mobile while watching a movie! Do you have any idea how annoying it is for the person sitting in front of you to have their display lit up? It can be very frustrating to watch from the middle row as the auditorium in front of me glows like a Christmas tree.
It's already distracting when the display glows in the same row as mine. If you've already bought that expensive movie ticket, do me and others a favor to make it last until the end of the movie without touching that thing! Otherwise, I will register you to a withdrawal cure. By the way, the use of video and audio recording devices (Well, cell phones are like that!) Is also prohibited by the cinema policy.
It's already distracting when the display glows in the same row as mine. If you've already bought that expensive movie ticket, do me and others a favor to make it last until the end of the movie without touching that thing! Otherwise, I will register you to a withdrawal cure. By the way, the use of video and audio recording devices (Well, cell phones are like that!) Is also prohibited by the cinema policy.
6. Don't go in and out constantly slamming the door each time!
The auditorioum is not a getaway house to go back and forth to the toilet or any other playes. You paid for the ticket so stay put on your seat then. hearing Slamming the door is very annoying and distracting at the same time. I rarely watch a movie for the second time at the cinema but I wanted to watch Avengers Endgame again. Well the experiance was ruined by a guy and his girlfrined who were leaving and entering the audiorium constantly. I wanted to tear his Marvel shirt off that guy so bad. So I had to had to watch it for the third time too because I didn't want that to be the last experience of that movie before its Bluray release.
Next time, please note that someone else has paid for the movie ticket too who is sitting in the hall with you. If you disturb others, it can really spoil a movie experience. I’m sure you don’t want to keep listening to paper rattles, nesting, and conversation for two hours either. Let’s take care of others and don’t spoil the fun for them!
Jackie Chan Maraton: Tűzsárkány (Fire Dragon, 1983)
Figyelem!
A Tűzsárkány című tajvani produkció a benne rejlő hülyeség hatására súlyosan károsítja az agysejteket, ezért óva intek mindenkit a megtekintésétől. Kérem, a folytatáshoz távolítson el a szobából mindenféle szúró-, vágó-, és lőfegyvert. Köszönjük és jó szórakozást kívánunk!
u.i.: Ja, és Jackie Chan-t nyomokban tartalmazhat.
Ma a Tűzsárkány című filmet szeretném a földbe döngölni, és a sárba taposni. Micsoda? Még soha sem hallottál erről a filmről? Addig jó neked. Készülhetsz a legrosszabbra. A címéből ítélve valami nagyon király dolgot vártam volna, de hatalmas csalódás volt. Régebben a tévében minden filmet megnéztem, amiben Jackie Chan akár csak pár pillanatra is feltűnt. Elég gyorsan leesett, hogy jó lett volna néha szelektálni a műsorkínálatból.
Szebbnél szebb borítók léteznek a filmhez. A Rettenthetetlen hiénából ollózták össze a borító képét. Még a lemezre is ebből a filmből választottak képet. Ha ez nem félrevezető marketingfogás, akkor mi?
A Tűzsárkány című jelenlegi agyalágyultság 1983-ban készült. Az IMDB-n sajnos (Értsd: hál Istennek) nincs fent. Ez a leghülyébb, legrosszabb hongkongi vagy tajvani akció(vígjáték), amit valaha láttam.
Körülbelül 18 évvel ezelőtt láttam először a Viasat 3-on. Azóta megnéztem még párszor, mert nem hittem sem a szememnek, sem a fülemnek, hogy ilyen hülyeséget össze lehet hozni. Ezt az életemből elvesztegetett időt sosem kapom már vissza. Még mindig kiráz a hideg, ha csak rá gondolok.
Ha a film önmagában még nem lenne elég rossz, az már csak az olaj a tűzre, ahogyan kinéz. Nem gondoltam volna, hogy vannak, akik képesek ennyire vacak kép és hangminőséget produkálni. A pan & scan megoldással 4:3-as csonkított képarány miatt nem látni a kép szélén álló embereket. (A pan & scan a következőképpen történik: végy egy szélesvásznú filmet, nagyítsd ki úgy, hogy a fekete csíkok eltűnjenek, és a kép teljesen kitöltse a képernyőt. Ez akkor igazán idegesítő, ha a szereplő beszélni kezd, csak féléig, vagy egyáltalán nem látszódik. Ez az akciójelenetek alatt még frusztrálóbb élménnyé válik. A kép olyan életlen, mint egy agyon használt, többszörösen újramásolt VHS kazettán. Nem is lehetne ennél homályosabb. Csoda, hogy látni valamit az emberek mozgásából.
A hangminőség egyszerűen csapnivaló, eléggé tompa, helyenként a zenék alatt torz. Súlyosbítja a dolgokat, hogy ehhez produkcióhoz méltóan pocsék magyar szinkron készült. Az angol hang ennél még egy fokkal rosszabb, mert a furcsa akcentus és a rossz hangkeverés miatt alig lehet érteni. A zene és a zörejek elnyomják a beszédhangot, túlharsogják a párbeszédek hangerejét.
Így ment le a Tűzsárkány film a tévében, és ilyen minőségben adták ki DVD-n is, ami elég szadista dolog a kiadó részéről. Viszont méltó módon papírtokos dvd-re száműzték, hogy a turkáló részlegben kísértsen tovább az idők végezetéig.
Csak utólag jöttem rá, hogy a Tűzsárkány csupán a Fantasztikus küldetés újravágott és módosított változata, mert az eredetit csak évekkel később láttam a tévébe. A Tűzsárkány című alkotást több különböző filmből fércelték össze, ezért a végeredmény és a megtekintés élménye valóságos pokoljárássá válik.
Godfrey Ho rémálmaiban sem tudna hasonlót létrehozni, pedig ő aztán nagyon ért a Ctr+C-Ctrl+V technikához. Egy rakás nindzsa filmet készített már így.
A recept lényegében itt is ugyanaz: végy egy celluloidra forgatott akármilyen alkotást és fűszerezd saját felvételekkel, melyek szerinted bele is passzolnak/illenek az egészbe. Végül tálald új címmel saját ízlésed szerint.
Szóval a Tűzsárkány jeleneteket tartalmaz a Fantasztikus küldetés (Fantasy Mission Force) című filmből. A lényeges különbség, hogy Jimmy Wang Yu jeleneteit teljes egészében kukázták. Jackie Chan pedig már csak két jelenet erejéig szerepel benne. A többi részt egyszerűen kivágták. A hézagok betöméséhez leforgattak némi tölteléket. Az új jeleneteket Chester Wong rendezte. Végül pedig eladták Jackie Chan filmnek, mert ez a fércmunka a Kung fu kölyök (Master with cracked fingers) esetében is aaaannyira bejött. Olyan jól át lehetett verni a kedves nézőket. Hiszen a dublőröket senki sem szúrja ki, ugye?
A Tűzsárkányban meghagyták a Fantasztikus küldetés jeleneteinek 75%-át, amely Lilly csapatáról szól. A hősnőt ismét Brigette Lin (Rendőrsztori) alakítja. A sztorin mindössze annyit változtattak, hogy a főhősöknek ezúttal nem túszul ejtett tábornokokat kell kiszabadítaniuk, hanem a nácik pénzét akarják megszerezni. Ja, és a nácik itt valamilyen okból kifolyólag kínaiak. A kínai náci párt ötlete több szempontból is lehetetlenül hangzik. Hogy miért, azt felesleges is lenne részletezni.
A meghagyott részekhez új „cselekményszálat” forgattak új főhősökkel. Íme az egyikük. Történetesen John névre hallgat. Nem volt valami jó biznisz Wang Yu-t és Chan-t lecserélni, hiszen John annyira karizmatikus és temperamentumos, mint egy szimpla fakaró. Fel sem tűnne a különbség, ha az helyettesítené őt egész végig.
Szóval a fickónak meg kell találna Lilly-t, mielőtt a rosszfiúk találják meg. Így hát mindenki üldöz mindenkit. John útközben nindzsákkal szövetkezik. A vezetőjük már ismeri John-t valahonnan. Már eleve barátok voltak korábban is, de azért a vezető emberei csak megtámadják Johnt, mert már régóta nem volt akciójelenet.
A film egyetlen színfoltja, hogy egy kis időre feltűnik Jackie Chan. Bár kötve hiszem, hogy kapott egyáltalán valami pénzt azért, hogy felhasználták a jeleneteit. Valószínűleg nem is tud arról, hogy ebben a filmben egyáltalán szerepel. Mindössze két bunyós jelenetét hagyták meg. Pár helyen pedig dublőr helyettesíti meglehetősen röhejes módon, de mégis főszereplőként van feltüntetve.
Ez még butább és őrültebb film, mint a Fantasztikus küldetés, amiből ezt a szemetet összevagdosták. Sem a valóság, sem a józan ész nem szabott határt a készítők fantáziájának. Sajnos. Általában a legjobb részeket a Fantasztikus küldetésből vágták ki, és amiket hozzá forgattak, zavaros, unalmas, hihetetlenül gagyi baromsággá teszik az összképet. A Fantasztikus küldetést még csak-csak összetartotta valami, de a Tűzsárkány hozzáadott jeleneteiben található párbeszédek hihetetlenül szaggatottak, és döcögősek. Ide még a Palmatex is kevés lenne. (Ez itt a reklám helye.) Olyan, mintha beszédközben megállnának kávészünetet tartani. Gyakran bukkannak fel emberek a semmiből, és a jelenetek sem valami logikus sorrendben következnek.
A sokkhatásból már csak akkor eszmél fel a néző, amikor meglátja a rövid végefőcímet, de akkorra már túl késő, mert tudja, hogy 84-85-75 percet elpazarolt az életéből.
Annyira vacak ez a film, hogy még a fanatikus hongkongi filmrajongóknak sem merem ajánlani, mert egyszerűen nem üti meg a mércét, hogy koherens egészként működjön.
A B-kategóriás akciófilm csak egy dolog, de azért mégis van egy szint, amit meg kell ugrani ahhoz, hogy elviselhető legyen az élmény. Ha a Tango és Cash a B-kategóriába illik, akkor a Tűzsárkány a Zs-kategóriát súrolja alulról. Végül is nagyon vigyázni kell, hogy az igencsak olcsó DVD-k közül mit választ az ember magának otthoni megtekintésre.
Jackie Chan Marathon: Dragon Blade (2015)
Director: Daniel Lee
Writer: Daniel Lee
Stars: Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Lin Peng, and Amanda Wang
127 minutes, 2015
Dragon Blade is a Chinese adventure film which takes place in the ancient times where every nation or race speaks in their own language except for the Romans. They learnt English for the sake of the movie.
We are in the first period of the Han Dynasty (48 BC). Jackie Chan's character is a commander who has a Hun heritage. He leads a special division of soldiers and helps the Chinese to protect and maintain the peace od the Silk Road between the all kinds of races living around the area. Due to a conspiracy he and his squad is wrongly stentenced on penal servitude. During their time they meet a Roman legion. They form an alliance which complicates the events even further. John Cusack and Adrien Brody play Roman generals in the film.
There were some quite entertaining moments like when the Chinese and Roman armies join forces to rebuild a wall around a huge building. The theme and imagery of the movie remembered me of Gladiator in places.
It was so nice to see John Cusack and Jackie Chan together in the same movie because I like both actors. However I just cannot say the same in case of Adrien Brody. It was written on his face that he didn't want to be in this movie at all. Even a wooden rod could have played the role of a mad Roman general much better than that. It would have been a much more believable performance.
In Dragon Blade I was interested in the drama and the fights too. Jackie had more action scenes than in Police Story 2013 Lockdown. This time the editing and the choreography of the fight scenes were much better. In Police Story 2013 Lockdown these ended up too fragmented.
However I didn't understand why were they trying to present it like a true story. We get a subtitle in the beginning which says "based on a true story". It felt like a fantasy sprinkled with just a few historical facts or real life events. It could have worked much better as a fantasy. This movie is based on true events just as much as 300. Dragon Blade is interesting to watch because of the performances and the action scenes even though it has got a naive story.
There were some quite entertaining moments like when the Chinese and Roman armies join forces to rebuild a wall around a huge building. The theme and imagery of the movie remembered me of Gladiator in places.
It was so nice to see John Cusack and Jackie Chan together in the same movie because I like both actors. However I just cannot say the same in case of Adrien Brody. It was written on his face that he didn't want to be in this movie at all. Even a wooden rod could have played the role of a mad Roman general much better than that. It would have been a much more believable performance.
In Dragon Blade I was interested in the drama and the fights too. Jackie had more action scenes than in Police Story 2013 Lockdown. This time the editing and the choreography of the fight scenes were much better. In Police Story 2013 Lockdown these ended up too fragmented.
However I didn't understand why were they trying to present it like a true story. We get a subtitle in the beginning which says "based on a true story". It felt like a fantasy sprinkled with just a few historical facts or real life events. It could have worked much better as a fantasy. This movie is based on true events just as much as 300. Dragon Blade is interesting to watch because of the performances and the action scenes even though it has got a naive story.
Dragon Blade was shown in the cinemas from the 18th February 2015, at the summer in that year it had its DVD release. The movie had its American premiere on 4th September.
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