01-25-2017, 11:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-25-2017, 03:44 PM by Drunk Monk.)
You know what I like? Sword fights. So yeah, I liked this film even though it's cheesey and I don't really know what happened.
Sword Master is based on a classic wuxia novel - The 3rd Masters Sword. I've never read it. I'm not sure it's ever been translated. Wuxia is pulp fiction for China, so this is like a comic book movie. Lots of flying about and feats of superpower swordsmanship. There was a drunk swordsman with facial tattoos (or scars) who slept in a coffin, his toady lacky who collected the swords of his fallen, a central brothel location, a beautific village, giving poor villagers, a prostitute with a heart of gold, a reluctant champion, male sword clans, female sword clans, heavy-metal skull mask sword clans, cheesy CGI landscapes, gaudy sets and period costumes, a sword seduction fight, digital blood, lots and lots of sword fights. Some hysterical swordplay - stabbing 3 attackers like a shish-kabob, decapitation, being surrounded and spin cutting so fast as to break all their swords, practice on trees where logs are sliced into many pieces in air - yeah, gotta work on those Kung Fu techniques. There was also a lot of talking and a lot of characters and no subs so I don't really know what happened, but I did enjoy the flying swordplay and the general feel of how the wulin was portrayed. I'll have to see it with subs someday.
Trailer here: http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...7#pid24327
Sword Master is based on a classic wuxia novel - The 3rd Masters Sword. I've never read it. I'm not sure it's ever been translated. Wuxia is pulp fiction for China, so this is like a comic book movie. Lots of flying about and feats of superpower swordsmanship. There was a drunk swordsman with facial tattoos (or scars) who slept in a coffin, his toady lacky who collected the swords of his fallen, a central brothel location, a beautific village, giving poor villagers, a prostitute with a heart of gold, a reluctant champion, male sword clans, female sword clans, heavy-metal skull mask sword clans, cheesy CGI landscapes, gaudy sets and period costumes, a sword seduction fight, digital blood, lots and lots of sword fights. Some hysterical swordplay - stabbing 3 attackers like a shish-kabob, decapitation, being surrounded and spin cutting so fast as to break all their swords, practice on trees where logs are sliced into many pieces in air - yeah, gotta work on those Kung Fu techniques. There was also a lot of talking and a lot of characters and no subs so I don't really know what happened, but I did enjoy the flying swordplay and the general feel of how the wulin was portrayed. I'll have to see it with subs someday.
Trailer here: http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...7#pid24327
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
