Member Bravery Posted April 19, 2008 Member Share Posted April 19, 2008 I went into this movie looking to be disappointed, and I am happy to say I was not. They were really good in this movie. I actually watched this movie twice, once with my girl and once with friends. It is really a good movie. Nothing in it to wow me, but enough to keep me happy. As a side note, I did love the fights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Sifu Posted April 19, 2008 Member Share Posted April 19, 2008 Saw it, too much filler, but overall was very fun to watch. And I love how the film didn't try to take it self to seriously. Didn't focus enough on Jet and Jackie's character in my opinion. Great action, but I don't wanna reveal too much. Just remember: JET VS. JACKIE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Mark Pollard Posted April 19, 2008 Member Share Posted April 19, 2008 FK trailer and review threads have been merged. I just posted my review: http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=1605 In summary, I agree with Albert. Great flick all around although I felt like nickpicking a little on various elements that could have been improved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member HAZ Posted April 19, 2008 Member Share Posted April 19, 2008 I'm going to see this tomorrow & I'm kinda stoked!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Morgoth Bauglir Posted April 20, 2008 Member Share Posted April 20, 2008 yeah I knew I was in for at least a decent movie when I saw all those posters. They seemed to pay big time respect to Lau Kar Leung. I had to see 10 different photos of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Monk Sante Posted April 20, 2008 Member Share Posted April 20, 2008 Saw it and liked it! Remeber folks this movie is rated PG-13. Jet and Jackie (and double?) were awesome thanks to Mr. Yuen Woo Ping. I like what they did during the open credit sequence; they better give it up to the Shaw Brothers! Overall a good entertaining film, not the best but a good flick. Hope this will open the doors to more films but to a more mature audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted April 20, 2008 Member Share Posted April 20, 2008 who plays the bride with white hair type character, she looks damn sexy to me lol Ni Chang was played by Li Bingbing, who also appeared in Michelle Yeoh's SILVER HAWK as one of Luke Goss's henchmen (she was Michael Jai White's girlfriend in the movie) and DRAGON SQUAD as the girlfriend of the crime boss whom Michael Biehn hits on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member gorhama Posted April 20, 2008 Member Share Posted April 20, 2008 Saw it yesterday and loved it. Mark's review on the front page is spot on. Jackie and Jet made a great on screen pair not only in the martial arts aspect but in playing off each other. It was a joy to watch them fight but even more so to watch them act next to each other. I'm hope the DVD features so great behind the scenes stuff as it looked like they had a great time making it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted April 20, 2008 Member Share Posted April 20, 2008 I just wrote a profile on the main page of Morgan Benoit, the actor who played the film's bully, Lupo. He's got some mad skills!!! http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=1619 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Morgoth Bauglir Posted April 20, 2008 Member Share Posted April 20, 2008 Cool Albert. I do have to say I liked that last fight scene. There was one brief moment where Benoit threw some really fast punches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kungfusamurai Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 I saw this today and thought it was pretty good. It wasn't the best vehicle for a Jackie and Jet Li movie, but it did show those two can pull out some great stuff when fighting against each other! The story is pretty basic, and very predictable. I don't think it will appeal to a mass audience like they had probably planned it to be. The biggest obstacle, for me, was trying to understand some of the broken English dialogue. Perhaps the choice of words was bad, because many of them were difficult to understand. If they had spoken mostly Mandarin with English subs, I wouldn't have minded that. So that might be a problem for the audience, because if you can't understand what is being said, you miss some of the messages being conveyed. The action in the film is probably the only reason to really see this flick. It's well done, and while it does feature plenty of wire work, the choreography is very intricate full of really cool moves. Overall, it's worth checking out, but like I said, I don't see it appealing to a whole lot of people. Maybe it'll have the first weekend's box office because people saw the recent ads on TV and thought it was a strictly Jet Vs Jackie film, and didn't know it was a semi-kids movie. It'll disappear off the Top 10 pretty quickly. It sounds like they might have left it open for a sequel? I look forward to seeing Michael Angarano doing more films, he was really talented. I looked on IMDB to see if he had a martial arts background, but nothing is listed. KFS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member gfanikf Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 Actually it did 20.9 million and took the number one slot! http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2486&p=.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Bus Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 i liked the movie it was cheesy but the action was good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member wudangimmortal Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 thx the ID'ing li bing bing, gonna see the movie tomorrow probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kungfusamurai Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 How do they compile those box office numbers anyway? I guessed it would be #1 (I should have been more specific in my post when I mean to say it would take the Top of the box offices first weekend, but quickly disappear soon after) based on seeing how many screens it was listed as playing. But the theatre was quite empty when I was in it. Maybe 30 to 40% full. So is it based on actual ticket purchases, or projected purchases based on the number of theatres its playing in? KFS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator thekfc Posted April 21, 2008 Moderator Share Posted April 21, 2008 How do they compile those box office numbers anyway? I guessed it would be #1 (I should have been more specific in my post when I mean to say it would take the Top of the box offices first weekend, but quickly disappear soon after) based on seeing how many screens it was listed as playing. But the theatre was quite empty when I was in it. Maybe 30 to 40% full. So is it based on actual ticket purchases, or projected purchases based on the number of theatres its playing in? KFS Based on projected purchases - then the "adjustment" is made later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Tigerstyles Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 Jet Li's action adventure The Forbidden Kingdom has topped the US box office chart. The Rob Minkoff-directed movie held off competition from Russell Brand and Kristen Bell's romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which landed at two. Other new entries came from Al Pacino's crime thriller 88 Minutes in fourth spot and Nathan Frankowski's documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which went straight in at number nine. Last week's number one Prom Night slipped to third place. The top ten in full: 1. (-) The Forbidden Kingdom - $20,870,000 2. (-) Forgetting Sarah Marshall - $17,347,600 3. (1) Prom Night - $9,100,000 4. (-) 88 Minutes - $6,800,000 5. (4) Nim's Island - $5,650,000 6. (3) 21 - $5,500,000 7. (2) Street Kings - $4,000,000 8. (6) Horton Hears A Who! - $3,500,000 9. (-) Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed - $3,152,896 10. (5) Leatherheads - $3,021,840 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Sifu Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 The Forbidden Kingdom - $20,870,000 Pretty weak! Expected, AT LEAST, 30 mil! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member bboyninku Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 I really don't want to disrupt the whole entire positive vibe on this forum but I wasn't too impressed with The Forbidden Kingdom. I didn't go in expecting too much, but besides the good chemistry and comedic moments of Jackie and Jet, I thought the rest of the film was forgettable.. and yes this includes the choreography. Wirework felt awkward at times where one moment an exchange of good ground choreography would then end off in a 720 varial. Also it bothers me when I see doubles used excessively. I'm sorry guys, I really wasn't expecting too much but these little annoyances really bugged me. Besides The Banquet, I feel this is one of Sifu Wo Ping's weakest works both Hollywood and Hong Kong in the past few years. Please don't hate, but I felt House of Fury had more enjoyable choreography then this. Overall, decent flick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member David Rees Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 Any idea when this is out in the UK? DVD Players and Large Screen TV's..very low prices..click here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kingofkungfu2002 Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 July 11th for the UK, I believe By which time, it'll probably already be out on DVD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member David Rees Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 Damn why do we have to wait so long? Thank goodness for multi region dvd players... Hong Kong New DVD'S FROM ONLY $3.99!..LIMITED OFFER CLICK HERE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TripMasterMunky Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 I thought the movie was good, but I would've rather seen a more...serious sort of film. It is more family-ish. Not saying it's bad, I just would rather have it portrayed differently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kungfusamurai Posted April 21, 2008 Member Share Posted April 21, 2008 I really don't want to disrupt the whole entire positive vibe on this forum but I wasn't too impressed with The Forbidden Kingdom. I didn't go in expecting too much, but besides the good chemistry and comedic moments of Jackie and Jet, I thought the rest of the film was forgettable.. and yes this includes the choreography. Wirework felt awkward at times where one moment an exchange of good ground choreography would then end off in a 720 varial. Also it bothers me when I see doubles used excessively. I'm sorry guys, I really wasn't expecting too much but these little annoyances really bugged me. Besides The Banquet, I feel this is one of Sifu Wo Ping's weakest works both Hollywood and Hong Kong in the past few years. Please don't hate, but I felt House of Fury had more enjoyable choreography then this. Overall, decent flick. I agree that the movie as a whole wasn't all that great, and seeing Jet Li peeing on Jackie Chan was pretty funny, I don't know if Jackie realized it was the second time he got humiliated by Jet on film (the first being the film High Risk . But I thought the choreography, while not as tight and brutal as say Unleashed or Kiss of The Dragon, was still really well done. Yeah, there is a lot of body doubling, which I would blame on Yuen Woo Ping, who's being doing that since the 70s. But the hand to hand encounter between Jackie and Jet was really well done, considering these two men are physically past their prime. And Jet Li's command of the staff was nice to see. I think the movie could have been a whole lot worse, so that's why I'm just giving it a pass as opposed to a glowing recommendation. KFS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TheGrimReaper Posted April 23, 2008 Member Share Posted April 23, 2008 I'm still waiting for this movie to hit screens in Bulgaria, I don't have so big expectations, because I do not want to be disappointed a lot after the final credits - it happened on numerous occasions before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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