10-28-2010, 03:15 PM
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Those of us who remember the Fant-Asia wave of the '90s - and that's probably just ED, CF & LCF - this film revitalizes the genre. And it's from the King of Fant-Asia, Tsui Hark. Tsui did OUATICI & II, Swordsman, Chinese Ghost Story, Zu Warriors, and worked a lot with John Woo. We loved those movies but now their special effects are horribly dated. Well, Tsui just entered the CGI world big time with Dee. Dee is an old kung fu tale, imagine a medieval Sherlock Holmes that does kung fu and magic. It's very entertaining - like a comic book film with glaringly overdone heroes and villains, super saturated color schemes and a lot of flying about. The fight choreography was done by Sammo Hung, so it's also entertaining. It's high fantasy wire work, with strange kung fu physics (kung fu physics are like looney tune physics - where looney tunes are all rubbery, kung fu defies gravity). Most of all, it takes a few unexpected turns, just like the old Fant-Asia story arcs used to. Long live Fant-Asia 2010!
Tsui just signed Jet for a 3D Fant-Asia flick based on another classic kung fu tale. I'm looking forward to that a lot now. Dee would have been even better in 3D.
I have a ripped DVD of Dee that's a little stuttery, but it has subs and i deem it DOOMworthy. I've been wanting to present y'all something that's up-to-date Chollywood, and this is a good example.
Those of us who remember the Fant-Asia wave of the '90s - and that's probably just ED, CF & LCF - this film revitalizes the genre. And it's from the King of Fant-Asia, Tsui Hark. Tsui did OUATICI & II, Swordsman, Chinese Ghost Story, Zu Warriors, and worked a lot with John Woo. We loved those movies but now their special effects are horribly dated. Well, Tsui just entered the CGI world big time with Dee. Dee is an old kung fu tale, imagine a medieval Sherlock Holmes that does kung fu and magic. It's very entertaining - like a comic book film with glaringly overdone heroes and villains, super saturated color schemes and a lot of flying about. The fight choreography was done by Sammo Hung, so it's also entertaining. It's high fantasy wire work, with strange kung fu physics (kung fu physics are like looney tune physics - where looney tunes are all rubbery, kung fu defies gravity). Most of all, it takes a few unexpected turns, just like the old Fant-Asia story arcs used to. Long live Fant-Asia 2010!
Tsui just signed Jet for a 3D Fant-Asia flick based on another classic kung fu tale. I'm looking forward to that a lot now. Dee would have been even better in 3D.
I have a ripped DVD of Dee that's a little stuttery, but it has subs and i deem it DOOMworthy. I've been wanting to present y'all something that's up-to-date Chollywood, and this is a good example.
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