Wednesday, February 11, 2009

House of Flying Hormones

This movie was absolutely ridiculous. It was also somewhat ridiculous at some points.

I watched a dubbed version. I wish I had gotten it with subtitles because whenever they do something like yell or cry or any noise that isn't talking it sounds like a joke. Also I can't help but wonder what they were really saying, cause you know they had to change the dialogue so it fit the times when their mouths were moving.

I liked the fight scenes, but what's with all this flying around. Old school Chinese movies like Shaolin vs. Wu Tang manage to have sweet action that isn't impossible, but there seems to be a trend of Chinese movie makers to want to have all their ancient warriors flying around. Who knows, before long people might start to believe this and think back in the day chinese people could fly. Its pretty ridiculous to combine history and fantasy though right? It'd be like if last of the Mohicans had the british army flying through the treetops.

I think there was an equal number of sex scenes (or attempts at sex scenes) to fight scenes. I don't know if this was because of a surplus of sex or a deficit of action, but either way it was imbalanced. Oh and I think all but one of the scenes involving dubbed kissing noises was an attempted rape. So maybe they were all meant to be fight scenes except the one.

I didn't like all the special effects like the computer graphic stuff. Do they think I wanted to see a close up of a CGI dagger that boomerangs around people's necks? Yes, they do. Do I? No. Show me some more cool sword fights or even some flying, but don't cut away from the action to fill the screen with a fake flying dagger.