Are you Sick of Chinese Movies?

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I am so sick of Chinese Action Movies that are here in Canada--all basically go over the same old plot--followed by some *new and cool* fighting.

How about you?

[d_jedi]

Last one I saw was Hero.. I thought it sucked..
Only good movies are Jackie Chan ones.. they're funny, at least :->

[Dymis]

I liked Hero, and I like House of Flying Daggers as well. HoFD seemed boring until the end where it was like.... so THAT'S what this is about. I thought the action was nicely done, I don't want to say anything about this, less it ruin it the WOW factor (at least for me, since I'm an anime fan).

The ones brought here I've had no problems with, unless you count ones like Twin Dragons... *shudders*.

Now, the ones in Hong Kong, they're getting worse and worse. It's like games in North America. They'll flood you with games which suck, but you need to look hard to find the good ones.

[Degenerate]

Hero was crap. However the chinese movies they release here are generally better than your averaged flick released today.

Wait until you see Infernal Affairs.

[felixdd]

Wait until you see Infernal Affairs.

Ngaw Hie Chai Yun! :cool:

[kawai]

Hero was crap. However the chinese movies they release here are generally better than your averaged flick released today.

Wait until you see Infernal Affairs.

infernal affairs is the best chinese movie man, bar none

HoFD is just like infernal affairs.. sort of, didn't like it.

[Degenerate]

Ngaw Hie Chai Yun! :cool:

Sor Keung rules

[plucky duck]

Didn't like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Hero has similar shooting style, so didn't bother watching it. And it was mandarin only.

Infernal Affairs is one of them rarities.
New Police Story is another one of them.

House of Flying Daggers was ok, wasn't really into it.

HK movies, although I do watch a lot of them, pale in comparison to what Japanese and Korean movie industry has to offer.

HK soap operas I prefer better. Some of them have big big casts and big budget. If anybody remember "At the Threshold of an Era", that was a big production over 50 chapters in 1st segment and another 50 chapters in 2nd segment. I prefer soap opera over movies as there's so much time and space for characters to develop and things to happen. I can easily watch 10hrs of it in a day. You so want to know what's going to happen next or how the character develops and what he goes through. You simply can't do that in a 2hr theatre movie.

[yatko]

Interesting the first two mentioned are my favorite movies. I don't watch them for the fighting scenes though. There is some more. May be it is totally different athmospehere/culture for me.

Didn't like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Hero has similar shooting style, so didn't bother watching it. And it was mandarin only.

Infernal Affairs is one of them rarities.
New Police Story is another one of them.

House of Flying Daggers was ok, wasn't really into it.

HK movies, although I do watch a lot of them, pale in comparison to what Japanese and Korean movie industry has to offer.

HK soap operas I prefer better. Some of them have big big casts and big budget. If anybody remember "At the Threshold of an Era", that was a big production over 50 chapters in 1st segment and another 50 chapters in 2nd segment. I prefer soap opera over movies as there's so much time and space for characters to develop and things to happen. I can easily watch 10hrs of it in a day. You so want to know what's going to happen next or how the character develops and what he goes through. You simply can't do that in a 2hr theatre movie.

[plucky duck]

yatko, may I ask what ethnic background you are?

I guess perhaps I've seen wire stunts in too many chinese movies, so those action scenes and purdy backgrounds don't do anything for me.

And why the hell are my parents watching the Pokemon movie right now??? :eek: Damn, they must be bored!!

I generally like Stephen Chow movies. They're stupid nonsense, yet funny. :D

[Headhunter]

My personal view; most movies in most cultures are crap. The percentage of quality in North America ("Hollywood") just tends to be a tiny bit higher, from "atrocious" to "pretty bad".

[siriuskao]

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon sucks. However it seems most non-Chinese like it.

if you are looking for action, iron monkey is pretty good. Actors in there really know martial arts (Donnie Yen)

[deep]

Iron Monkey definitely had better action, but Crouching Tiger Hidden Hidden Gerbil had much better cinematography, acting, dialogue, and plot. Definitely one of the finer foreign movies of any genre I've seen. Hero was fine, but not incredible.

[gilboman]

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I am so sick of Chinese Action Movies that are here in Canada--all basically go over the same old plot--followed by some *new and cool* fighting.

How about you?

the same can be said about any "hollywood" movie...probably even more so..esp the romatic comedy's and actions are all pretty much recycled plots with different actors and better special effects

such is the nature of the movie business.

[Mgz]

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I am so sick of Chinese Action Movies that are here in Canada--all basically go over the same old plot--followed by some *new and cool* fighting.

How about you?


BLAME ONLY YOURSELF for picking and reading boring books, my friend :mad:

Hero, HOFD are crap cuz it is HK/CN movie TARGET to Western audience, so they slim this piece, cut that piece so (hopefully) yo can get some clues about it..

let's see

Attack the gas station (comedy - Korean)
Hana-bi (yakuza Kitano style)
2046 (starting the ultra hot Zhang Zi Yi ;)
Infernal Affairs TRILOGY ( it is considered as Godfather trilogy for HongKong movies industry)
Fulltime Killer
...
..
.etc

none of those so far have made into the US threatre, so stop blaming and go straight to yesasia.com (or other side that ya prefer and order those movies, or heading to some other site that start with supr ;)

[eelfliw]

If you want interesting Chinese movies, and get a SMALL dose of reality, just watch the recent Taiwan elections. There's so much theatrics and good acting by the canditates that it easily beats any Hollywood or Bollywood movies. :)

[plucky duck]

Anybody watch that korean movie "Please Teach Me English" ? Now that movie is damn hilarious!! :cheesygri

[nx2k]

infernal affairs is the best chinese movie man, bar none

HoFD is just like infernal affairs.. sort of, didn't like it.
you've got to be kidding man....that movie wsa not that great.
actually tvb recently did a tv series that was similar to infenal affairs, but the plot was well thought out and was a lot more exciting....except the end, so infernal affairs isn't even the best of its kind.
now i agree with you the cast contributed a lot to the movie but the movie itself was not that great.
the only one that had story development and was a real movie was part 2. everything else sold based on the cast.
you need to watch more movies if you think that's the best.

[sfu_lifer]

Oh if you want a tremendous amount of crap to good ratio, try the Bollywood movies. UGH. Very hard to find a gem in there.
I like Japanese Soaps. Barely 20 eps for even the longer ones and they do a great job developing the characters.

[vancitypimp]

hear korean movies are all the rage in japan. I dont mind the current chinese movies in north america, although after a while all that bamboo and wire work is gonna bore you.

[cmge]

naw i dont think i can get sick of it... i mean its a good alternative to North American movies being relesed rite now and etc...

Japanese and Korean movies are really good as well... so if yer sick of Chinese movie give those a shot...

[tinlunlau]

Infernal Affairs was one of my favorite trilogies in the last few years. i was tempted into buying the trilogy box set but seeing the size of the darned thing and then, there's the cost. i backed out.

the only chinese movie i'm anticipating right now is none other than Kung Fu Hustle. I just wish Columbia would, at least, release it a little earlier than the suggested March 29th, 2005 release. (and it's a limiited release to add at that)

[milhaus]

The reason that so many Chinese people dislike these movies is because they generally have bad taste in movies. And I'll use the "I'm Chinese" defense on this one. Jackie Chan? Give me a break . . . talk about tired plots and action scenes?

Basically, Chinese audiences don't see cinematography, allusions, themes: they go to see plot and stars (not acting either). Now, I have to say that the ending of HoFD was the most ridiculous I've seen in a long time.

[tinlunlau]

HK movies have been infested with TWINS....and Ronald Cheng (whom i actually don't mind....dragon loaded was hilarious)

[-=Wraith=-]

this is my opinion as a chinese guy:

1. chinese movies released in north america are way too "artsy"...ie.. crouching tiger, hero, HOFD, etc...sure they have action, but way too "artsy" and too much flying around. IMO chinese martial arts tv series > movies

2. chinese police/crime/action/suspense movies are great and there have been many amazing releases in the past few years, most notably infernal affairs trilogy

3. and yes, TWINS HAVE MADE TOO MANY MOVIES! i was watching "Moving Targets" (which was a great movie) on OMNI tonite and one of them was in it...although it was a minor role

[tinlunlau]

"Moving Targets" was loosely based on an old TV show starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung.

Gillian Chung was basically playing Maggie's old role. it's pretty hard for Ah Gil to fill Maggie Cheung's shoes...

[spike-spiegel]

this is my opinion as a chinese guy:

1. chinese movies released in north america are way too "artsy"...ie.. crouching tiger, hero, HOFD, etc...sure they have action, but way too "artsy" and too much flying around. IMO chinese martial arts tv series > movies

2. chinese police/crime/action/suspense movies are great and there have been many amazing releases in the past few years, most notably infernal affairs trilogy

3. and yes, TWINS HAVE MADE TOO MANY MOVIES! i was watching "Moving Targets" (which was a great movie) on OMNI tonite and one of them was in it...although it was a minor role


Yes, Twins have been in too many movies and they arent actors... but they're cute so I'll watch it anyways! (this is shared by many other chinese)