i am pro-homosexuality, and i think wind & cloud should just get it on already
Note: This is a rant and contains spoilers.
So I watched The Storm Warriors II at TCM yesterday with ST, Kim, KY, Horng and Sotong. I’d wanted to catch this one ever since I saw the trailer which was pretty good. The first movie was quite decent too. So sat down in the cinema hall, movie trailer, advertisement, movie trailer, advertisement, advertisement, KFC advertisement, movie began, watch watch watch…
What.The.Fuck.
I can summarise the movie into this equation: Great special effects + damn lame storyline + damn lame posing + kindergarten acting + unbelievably stupid script + what the hell why did they slow-mo everything?!? + waste of good actors = The Storm Warriors II.
Fans of the comic book would appreciate this movie? Yah whatever, eat my shoe. I’m a huge fan of Tolkien’s LOTR and I’d be seriously pissed off if the movie trilogy strictly adhered to the books. Sure, you’d be able to see Tom Bombadil on screen, but that means you’d need to block out 10 weeks of your life to watch the whole damn thing.
Everybody was just cashing paychecks. Simon Yam looked damn stupid. They could have replaced Nicholas Tse with some unknown and it wouldn’t have mattered. Whoever played Lord Wicked failed big time. Hello, you need someone with a booming voice to play that role. Kenny Ho as Nameless didn’t have enough presence. But his disfigured disciple was good.
And the women… omaigod… they rank among the top most annoying bitches in Hong Kong cinema history.
As for Wind and Cloud, I know they are supposed to be damn cool with their long wispy hair and lean muscular bodies. But every other scene of them slow-mo was damn too much lah! Turn this way must slow-mo. Turn that way must slow-mo. Bring down the blade to attack the other got at least 5 slow-mo shots.
And the prolonged looks of hurt and despair omaigod…
Then at the last part where Cloud jumped down the cliff and Wind recovered the good side of himself. Damn sad that Cloud didn’t kill him as he’d told him to. After all that damn powerful martial arts and bloody fighting kling kling klang klang here and there, stupid Wind cannot get out of his Nightmare’s (Second Dream) grip. Wah lau that made me so mad.
Great CGI effects though.
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This post cannot contain spoilers…because the movie had ABSOLUTELY NO PLOT.
Honestly I didn’t find the CGI that great either, or perhaps it was just overhyped.
It’s 2009, what they did with this movie is nothing new anymore.
Ok, good to read this. I can skip this movie then.
lol yah it was damn shit, just shit.
couldn’t believe i would walk out the cinema before a movie ends. Not so me at all. it was so bad that I don’t bother knowing the ending.
I watched the ending ok, and I’m still not really sure what happened and frankly – nor do I care!
Well based on the comic. Wind and Second Dream will get marry and have a child call Change Wind (whom was later separated with his parents when he was just born. Kidnapped by Tuen Long) and Cloud survived the fall but got amnesia, saved the people that lived by the village. Married a village girl there and had a son named Sky. And the story goes on…
Wah if LOTR had all the damn freaking songs the hobbits were singing, I tell you, we’d be sitting there for 2 months wei
You’re lucky. You didn’t have to sit through the directors and actors hyping up the movie like it was the greatest movie ever. I had to hold back sniggers everytime they mention FANS OF THE COMIC WILL LOVE IT. Yeah right.
LOLLLLL, eh slowmo effects was supposed to make it more interesting.. e.g the movie 300, got slowmo at every stab and slash where butler attacked.. =P.. but of course, with butler’s hot body at that time, they should slow it down even more..
but really.. so many people said it sucked, i kinda wanna watch it just to see how bad it sucked.. =\
Is there somewhere I can get the English version of the comic?
I for one am still annoyed that they cut out the House of Tom Bombadil. It’s, like, the whole point of the entire trilogy!
Why did they wait a decade to make a sequel to Storm Riders?? That itself probably made this one a pointless exercise..
I did a major ROFLMAO act when Nameless kungfu-sworded some unidentifiable chicken scrawl on the mountain and Cloud was all: Master, WTF is that word? Nameless was still trying to be cool and say shit like, this word doesn’t exists yet, so I will name it POWER.
I kinda passed out after that scene. (I did)
*ROFLOL*
it was indeed, an awful movie!
and so was the stupid KFC ad!
oh thank goodness…. save UP my money…. hey, have u watched AVATAR??? good cinematography, good storyline, handsome hero, beautiful heroine… what else can u look for in a movie, huh?