I'm quite pissed. Jet li hasn't had a large role since awful mummy 3, and this isn't any better. Just like the expendable movies, dragon gate, badges of fury, and sorcerer and white snakes, his role is essential a 5-10 minute cameo. I've been following his movies since I saw try father is a hero, but I'm done.
I'm more concerned with the jerkoffs complaining about the CGI in the film. FILMS HAVE CGI IN THEM GET THE *beep* OVER IT YOU WHINY PRIKS!
shareThat happened to be the big major problem in movies today - especially among the commercial movies: They are most of them all face and no heart. This movie in particular kinda shows one of the social problems in China... Overpackaging.
Seriously, 98% of this movie was CGI... and pretty lame at that(Gods of Egypt was the same formula but that CGI was unconventionally awesome) as well. CGI can only count as the frosting on a cake and people eat cake mostly for the bread beneath the frosting, and this movie got next to none of that!
(As it's almost Mid-Autumn I reference this:)Packaged mooncakes in China have nicely craf-- no, manufactured casings but with only that teeny tiny bit of actual mooncake inside, created solely to rake in money, and that's exactly what this movie is!
The content was messed up as well. Since when did any of the Chinese legends have Minas Tirith or Fornost knockoffs? Spaceships, evil dragons... did any of the crew ever READ the original legend(or at least know the story plot)? If they were gonna make a movie out of a well-known legend at least they got to have the decency to make it right, as opposed to this abomination!
As for...
FILMS HAVE CGI IN THEM GET THE *beep* OVER IT
This film is more animation with living actors like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". than an actual live-action film. If you fail to see this... well, I doubt if you really seen this movie.
shareWho Framed Roger Rabbit was a legitimate classic. Even as a animation/live-action hybrid this movie failed to stack up to 5% of Roger Rabbit. How DARE you compare Roger Rabbit with this garbage!
shareOh well, fanboy of Jet Lee with big butthurt on a loose. I think your opinion is obviously lame. I see most of China movie 2015-16, and this film even better than last Monkey King.
shareI meant that in a comical way but obviously you're too stupid to see that. I can totally see why the lame, fourth-world, all-face-and-no-talent Chinese film industry stayed where it is. Pit 90% of Chinese films against even a Hallmark TV movie and the latter wins every time!
shareThis film is not better than Monkey King 2.
shareHallmark and lifetime and co's are down to earth that's for sure.would i have paid to their movies at the cinema.YOU MUST BE MENTAL!lol.
shareI could live with the CGI but as you say the rest of the movie sucked. I am watching a TV adaptation of the story done in the 2000s and the CGI is absolutely terrible. The show itself isn't great either, the acting and the way they adapted it sucks. It's like they managed to make it as unexciting as possible, plot points are repetitive and dull. The main characters are mostly rather annoying and unlikeable. However, it is still better than League of Gods. It was like video game cut scenes.
The designs were ripping off Hollywood movies and didn't even make sense. They stuck out like a sore thumb. Such a waste of money and all those famous artists (although half of them can't act anyway).
The problem is not the CGI it's the bad CGI that is so utterly pointless.
The entire movie is just fluff without any substance at all. It feels like an attempt to cram as much CGI into it as possible (no matter how cheesy) while ignoring the story entirely.
I can sum the entire movie up with 3 words: Made in China
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Prepare to be judged....with a FGM-148 Javelin!
For those who feel that every movie must meet some lofty undefinable set of standards, this might be a loser film. True, there is a high probability that no one is going to claim this is the best film ever. But I enjoyed watching it, had a few laughs, and never thought of not finishing it.
I have noticed that those who scream about "CGI" have never opened Maya, Max, Lightwave, modo, C4D or any of the other 3D software studios to understand just what is involved in the production of "CGI". If you understood just how difficult it is to master the avalanche of processes involved, you might have a little more respect for it when it is well done. But it's so much easier just to sit and grumble about it, so that is all you do.
Some of you people seriously need to get over yourselves, especially if no one is paying you for your opinions.
I'm quite pissed. Jet li hasn't had a large role since awful mummy 3, and this isn't any better. Just like the expendable movies, dragon gate, badges of fury, and sorcerer and white snakes, his role is essential a 5-10 minute cameo. I've been following his movies since I saw try father is a hero, but I'm done.
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He is the white haired old man. You should be able to recoqnise him when he turned younger and younger.
But this is a bad movie overall. It left a bad taste in my mouth.