Member DiP Posted May 5, 2014 Member Share Posted May 5, 2014 (edited) The sequel, now helmed by Raymond Yip (The Warlords, Bruce Lee, My Brother), will reunite Donnie Yen with co-stars Wang Baoqiang, Eva Huang, Yu Kang, and Simon Yam. Action film veteran Yasuaki Kurata is also set to star in the film. Release date has been set to around December 2014. Source: http://www.filmsmash.com/?p=17172 Edited October 10, 2018 by DiP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted May 5, 2014 Member Share Posted May 5, 2014 Is Raymond Yip now directing it because the first one has had pretty bad reviews? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted May 5, 2014 Author Member Share Posted May 5, 2014 One might see it that way hahaha I think Yip was attached from the very beginning when the first film went into production last spring and before they announced that it was going to split into two films. It just wasn't publicized much until now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted August 18, 2014 Author Member Share Posted August 18, 2014 According to Mtime and Sohu, the film is getting released in China/HK on October 19 (October 17 to be correct since 19th is a Sunday). Sources: http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmovie.mtime.com%2F209599%2F (Rough translation) http://movie.mtime.com/209599/ (Original) http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fyule.sohu.com%2F20140818%2Fn403530802.shtml (Rough translation) http://yule.sohu.com/20140818/n403530802.shtml (Original) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted October 10, 2018 Author Member Share Posted October 10, 2018 (edited) 4 years after it was announced, it's finally coming out on November 8 in China (a bit earlier in SE Asia). It has also been re-titled to Iceman: The Time Traveller. Edited October 10, 2018 by DiP 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator thekfc Posted October 10, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 10, 2018 Finally!!!!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted October 10, 2018 Member Share Posted October 10, 2018 This can't be good. It took them four years to release it. Surely that's a bad sign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Ah_Tao Posted October 10, 2018 Member Share Posted October 10, 2018 YES!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted October 11, 2018 Author Member Share Posted October 11, 2018 8 hours ago, Drunken Monk said: This can't be good. It took them four years to release it. Surely that's a bad sign. I heard rumors of the movie being banned. God knows if it was because of time travelling (I'm not joking) 🤣 That being said, I think the crappy special effects already tells that it's going to suck. However, glimpses of action scenes in there still makes me wanna give it a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member slinky#1 Posted October 11, 2018 Member Share Posted October 11, 2018 Quote I heard rumors of the movie being banned. God knows if it was because of time travelling (I'm not joking) 🤣 I blame Ancient Aliens. haha About the trailer, ugh... I'll probably see it just for Donnie, but ugh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator thekfc Posted October 11, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 11, 2018 18 hours ago, DiP said: I heard rumors of the movie being banned. God knows if it was because of time travelling (I'm not joking) 🤣 I read about that a while back. The reason: They say that it "disrespects history". https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/china-bans-time-travel https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-bans-time-travel-films-177801 An interesting read. https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/asia/china-banned-on-tv-censorship/index.html 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mark187 Posted October 27, 2018 Member Share Posted October 27, 2018 Blu-ray is already announced for a February release date in the US from Well Go. I hope they just release Triple Threat on Blu-ray in time for Christmas at this rate and skip theaters 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mark187 Posted November 3, 2018 Member Share Posted November 3, 2018 https://screenhk.wordpress.com/2018/11/01/iceman-the-time-traveler-2018-review/ first review I see gives it zero stars 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted November 3, 2018 Author Member Share Posted November 3, 2018 Yeah, that's what I expected. I still wanna see the action scenes though, even if it means the choreography being restricted to weapon fighting. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted November 6, 2018 Author Member Share Posted November 6, 2018 The movie is doing poorly at the box-office, and as a result the production company is putting the blame on none other than Donnie himself to which Donnie has angrily responded with legal action. https://www.jaynestars.com/news/iceman-production-team-slams-donnie-yen-for-prima-donna-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-802789 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted November 6, 2018 Member Share Posted November 6, 2018 Well Go USA actual release date for Iceman: The Time Traveller on Blu-ray is Feb 12, 2019. Info at https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Iceman-The-Time-Traveller-Blu-ray/220036/ Alternate titles listed are the one in Chinese - Bing feng: Yong heng zhi men - and this title in English - Frozen: Eternity's Gate. Makes it sound like a Disney rip-off. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted November 18, 2018 Member Share Posted November 18, 2018 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted November 20, 2018 Member Share Posted November 20, 2018 Add Frozen Hero II to the alternate titles for Iceman 2. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donnie-yen-sues-frozen-hero-2-producers-defamation-1162506 Will the lawsuit publicity help sales for the North American Blu-ray release of Iceman 2? Or will it emphasize how poorly the movie performed at the Chinese box office? What are the consequences for Donnie Yen's future film releases: Enter the Fat Dragon, Ip Man 4, Mulan, and two movies still in pre-production - Crossfire and Sleeping Dogs? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mark187 Posted December 22, 2018 Member Share Posted December 22, 2018 This is already getting a Blu-ray release in HK on December 28th. Still no Blu-ray release date for Big Brother!!! I heard on Facebook well go will release it in April but I sure hope the HK version is out way sooner 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted December 22, 2018 Author Member Share Posted December 22, 2018 Yeah, I wondered what ever happened to the HK bluray release of Big Brother. I hope it gets released soon. As for this movie... I guess I'll pass it for now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted January 7, 2019 Member Share Posted January 7, 2019 Iceman: The Time Traveler movie is reviewed here - https://asianfilmstrike.com/2019/01/06/iceman-the-time-traveler-2018-review/ "Law Wing Cheong's Iceman 3D was, at the time, the most ambitious project of Donnie Yen's rejuvenated career as a leading man... was conceived as a one-off, until a spiraling budget... and the necessity for ever more reshoots led to the decision to release the film as a two-parter... The Time Traveler starts with a good ten minutes of recapitulating the events of the first film, with ample plot holes papered over very, very thinly: there's a lot of questions about how characters got from where they were at the end of the first film, to where they are at the beginning of this one - questions that will never be answered (not that anyone is likely to lose sleep over this)... Random scenes are tied together with narration (sometimes, inner thoughts heard in voice-over...), crude CGI and green screen abound (an entire fleet of Japanese pirates is seemingly conjured with After Effect and a dozen extras, sets are empty, a pointless love triangle is conjured out of thin air... characters are oddly retconned... and there is very little fighting until the final twenty minutes (even then, it's glaringly obvious that Donnie Yen and Yasuaki Kurata, who go against each other for the whole finale, were never on set at the same time)... Let's talk about those final twenty minutes... It has to be seen to be believed, and trying to describe it would not only result in our deep frustration, but it also would rob viewers from an oddly transcendental, overwhelmingly nonsensical experience... Donnie Yen, having visibly lost any sense of personal investment in the film, does the bare minimum... Old pros Yasuaki Kurata and Chen Kuan tai are called upon to add weight to the stakes, but they can't do much." 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted May 28, 2019 Moderator Share Posted May 28, 2019 It took me a few months to build up the courage to see this one, but it got to the necessary level in the end. I posted a full review over at COF, which you can check out here - http://cityonfire.com/iceman-the-time-traveler-2018-review-iceman-2-sequel-ii-donnie-yen/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Secret Executioner Posted May 28, 2019 Member Share Posted May 28, 2019 Not sure why, but @One Armed Boxer's review makes this film appear like a so-bad-it's-awesome film at points - in spite of some obviously terrible/cringeworthy stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted May 28, 2019 Author Member Share Posted May 28, 2019 Still haven't watched the whole thing but I did watch the action. There's some bad ones (especially those with bad CGI) but also some good ones so overall it's not as bad as reviews are making them out to be. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted May 28, 2019 Member Share Posted May 28, 2019 On 11/6/2018 at 1:32 AM, DiP said: The movie is doing poorly at the box-office, and as a result the production company is putting the blame on none other than Donnie himself to which Donnie has angrily responded with legal action. https://www.jaynestars.com/news/iceman-production-team-slams-donnie-yen-for-prima-donna-behavior/comment-page-1/#comment-802789 Yeah, because the success of a movie relies purely on it's star. When things go well, they praise the star and never mention the many other people involved. Then it appears to be the opposite, if a film fails then bame it on a single director or actor. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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