Arghhhh......despite "knowing" that the movie was gonna be sucky, I still went ahead to watch it..... Cos, well.... I'm a sucker for science fiction stuff, especially when it features fighting scenes kung fu-style, or anything related to martial arts for that matter.....Plus, the trailer was kinda good (as with MANY other movies which inevitably fall under the don't-pay-for-a-cinema-ticket-for-this-F-Grade-shit category...) and I "convinced" myself that maybe I'll like it even when others didn't.....
Arghhhh I was delusional, I'm sure.....
The starting was pretty ok....they built up the atmosphere quite well, plus I like how Gianna look in the movie. But then. when it sorta reached this climax featuring the longest fighting scene in the entire movie, where Saya (the vampire slayer - Gianna) was fighting all those "demons" who simply look like a bunch of ppl going for a halloween party, I was going "WTF??!!" THROUGHOUT the entire scene...... I mean, really....WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!
And they had the balls to employ the same person who choreographed the fighting scenes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...... I mean, that blurdy fighting scene was barely WATCHABLE.... It was simply HACK.SLASH.HACK.SLASH.FUGLY-LOOKING BLOOD SPURTING OUT.HACK.SLASH.HACK.SLASH............ Plus their continual use of fast-forwarding and slow-motion annoys the heck out of me.... The minute you wanna pay attention to the fighting style, they go fast forward.... Then slow mo when blood spurts out.... Repeat that for about 10 to 15 minutes and you see what I mean when I say that scene ANNOYED THE HECK OUT OF ME.....
I actually prefered the fighting scene between Kato (the shifu) and the bad guys.... It reminded me SLIGHTLY of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.... Or the other movie featuring Andy Lau, Takeshiro (ahhh wad's his full name.... I can only remember the chinese one... Jing Cheng Wu) and Zhang Ziyi... I think the movie's called Flying Daggers or sth liddat..... The chinese name for that movie is Shi Mian Mai Fu.
And after all that ranting, I haven even gotten to the worst part.... Their fully transformed "demons" look more like the offspring between a hobbit and a lycan (from the Underworld series) with wings rather than proper demons, which was supposed to be integral for the movie, isn't it...? I mean, the whole movie was about fighting demons, AND YOU CAN'T EVEN MAKE SURE YOU GET THEM RIGHT???!!!
#%@&$*$^@#*$%@!&$#%@*@$^%@&!@^%#*@!^
I do like the japanese actress acting as Onigen though... She acts her part well, but her english is atrocious..... I dun understand why they can't just let her speak in Japanese and put in subtitles..... She IS Japanese afterall...... Gianaa's korean, but her first few speeches at the beginning was perfectly alright. But towards the end, the funny accent starts showing, but I'm not faulting her on that since it's never gonna be easy pronuncing a foreign language perfectly when you've only been learning it for a while..... I had the same experience with French....
Overall, the movie was pretty crappy.... I was already having the gut feeling about the "revelation" that came through at the end of the movie after barely sitting thru a quarter of it.... So there were really NO SURPRISES left... Couple that with EXTREMELY crappy CGI and sucky fighting scenes...... Ahhhhhhhh well you get what I mean....
But it was fun still cos I met up with Eugene, Bih Guok and Wong at Citysquare for lunch before the movie. And producing my NUS matric card got me the student price for the ticket too so it was only a RM6 crappy affair at the cinemas, which doesn't hurt as much as compared to if I were to watch it in Spore... :D
Drag Me To Hell is next!!! Then Transformers, then Harry Potter, then.......
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