Honestly? I'm a huge Jackie Chan and Jet Li fan, and I've been eagerly waiting for their collaborative project for much of the 10+ years that they were talking about it. However, I've been following this film and feeling somewhat worried doing so. That the Weinstein company is behind it is one worrying sign. The plot summaries are another. To top it all, both Jet Li and Jackie Chan have given chinese-language interviews and have basically said "this movie is catered towards a western audience, they're really not worth seeing for a Chinese audience", which from past experience and reading through the lines translates into "it's a cheesy B-flick by brainless American Hollywood execs who don't care enough about the movie to take it seriously."
I can just hear the faceless Hollywood executive now: "hey, let's make a cheesy poorly plotted movie and introduce all sorts of exotic-sounding pseudo-chinese concepts and assume an American audience is too dumb to care about it! But wait, we can't have J&J be the protagonists even though this is their movie, because the dumb American audiences must have a familiar white face as a protagonist otherwise they'll never see the movie! So let's throw in some random time travel and parallel universe shifting in for the hell of it!"
I'm probably still going to see it. Maybe I'm wrong and I'll be pleasantly surprised and they'll have made a good movie. Plus even if they don't we've still been waiting like 10+ years for the Jackie Chan/Jet Li matchup so hopefully it'll turn out well.
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prismakaos) wrote2008-02-18 04:25 pm
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I can just hear the faceless Hollywood executive now: "hey, let's make a cheesy poorly plotted movie and introduce all sorts of exotic-sounding pseudo-chinese concepts and assume an American audience is too dumb to care about it! But wait, we can't have J&J be the protagonists even though this is their movie, because the dumb American audiences must have a familiar white face as a protagonist otherwise they'll never see the movie! So let's throw in some random time travel and parallel universe shifting in for the hell of it!"
I'm probably still going to see it. Maybe I'm wrong and I'll be pleasantly surprised and they'll have made a good movie. Plus even if they don't we've still been waiting like 10+ years for the Jackie Chan/Jet Li matchup so hopefully it'll turn out well.
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