Ein Geheimbund versucht, den Kaiser von China zu stürzen. Dessen Sohn Yung Tsen lässt sich in den Orden der Shaolin-Mönche aufnehmen, in deren Kreis er die Anführer der mysteriösen Sekte vermutet. Um das Geheimnis der Shaolin zu lüften und die Zukunft seines Landes zu retten, muss Yung Tsen die sagenumwobenen 18 Kämpfer aus Bronze bezwingen.
Ein Geheimbund versucht, den Kaiser von China zu stürzen. Dessen Sohn Yung Tsen lässt sich in den Orden der Shaolin-Mönche aufnehmen, in deren Kreis er die Anführer der mysteriösen Sekte vermutet. Um das Geheimnis der Shaolin zu lüften und die Zukunft seines Landes zu retten, muss Yung Tsen die sagenumwobenen 18 Kämpfer aus Bronze bezwingen.
Sorry about that,was too lazy to write in english.
Here is a description about the movie but with alot of SPOILER;
Carter Wong plays Ai Sung-Chueh, a conniving prince who uses forgery, murder and deceit to become emperor. On hearing that the Shaolin monks are about to revolt, he enrols himself at their temple, determined to learn their kung fu secrets.
My DVD of 'Return of the 18 Bronzemen' describes this film as 'Old Skool Kung Fu'; reading between the lines, this means unimpressive martial arts, bad dubbing, unusually large eyebrows, wobbly music, a woman unconvincingly passing for a man, and lots of crap sound effects. Sure enough, the first half an hour or so delivers this in spades, but once the action moves to the Shaolin temple, where Carter Wong trains as a Shaolin warrior and attempts to pass the bronze-man test, things begin to get a LOT more entertaining.
Fans of creaky kung fu films will have a blast watching Carter as he battles robotic monks wearing gold lamé and cardboard armour sprayed gold, wanders through booby-trapped tunnels, and fights blokes coated from head to toe in metallic paint; I couldn't get enough of this guy as he repeatedly fails the test but keeps coming back for more. Finally, as he looks set to complete the challenge, he is thwarted at the final hurdle, after which the woman who unconvincingly passed for a man earlier in the film turns up once again, unsuccessfully tries to kill him, and the film abruptly ends".
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Watching things I should probably have seen long ago, and first films I had seen since the last time I posted here.
Smokey and the Bandit. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076729/
Save people a search for the song, though I would actually say it has some light spoilers for the film.
Had a good time with that one. Could pull out various plot holes and silliness but was having a good time so did not care.
Rewatched Safe 2012 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1656190/
Probably still my favourite Jason Statham film with him as lead action type. Not sure why the IMDB ratings mob there seem so down on it.
Never played a Dragon Quest game once in my life but i still checked out Dragon Quest Your Story and it was pretty good.
Definitely one of the better looking CG-animated films out there, i find it a lot more expressive than most of the samey-looking garbage we get from Illumination and Disney nowadays. The twist at the end was also pretty cool.
Let's bring this back.
Thought I was going to watch more films this year (was not going for the film a day thing but could have been close at the start there). Apparently not as this is the first in well over a month.
If someone distilled quirky indie film into something and then added water back in you would have this. By no means bad, indeed serviceable film is a step up for most Amazon/Netflix/non traditional streaming platform efforts (this is an Amazon one), but lacks any kind of bite, send up, satire or edge that most similar indie films seem to aim for (watch something like The Brass Teapot, The Way Way Back, Ruby Sparks, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl... and this and yeah it will not stack up all that well. If you are looking for a time repeats/time loop story then far better takes on that down to that Stargate episode ( https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/time-loop-movies-tv-episodes/ seems a reasonable start for such a list, though I have not seen several of them and really don't care for source code. Would also want to add Day Break from 2006 to that - was cancelled and not long after became one of the first things like this to get a streaming finish, previously "webisodes" was about as good as anything there got for online stuff).
That said I will at least give a spoiler as some might like to watch it and I figure it deserves that much at least.
Guy (late teens) and somewhat drifting is stuck in a time loop not of his doing. Seemingly the only one aware, and butterfly effect not a thing, he goes about his day with almost precognition which is amusing enough. Eventually he meets a girl of the same age with the same situation, in a "what a twist" moment she is the protagonist and we eventually learn this is the day her mother dies rather young of cancer and she is repeating the day. After some very mild what you would do in such a scenario, and some even milder contemplations of the physics and metaphysics, they decide to make a list of all the "perfect things"/perfect moments (random happenstance and cool things, if you are at the right angle, that might have otherwise gone unnoticed) that happen in the immediate area. Turns out the best way to get over your mother dying young is to get under someone else so aw they eventually fall in love after sage words from her dying mother, guy learns to be a bit less self absorbed somewhere in it all as well but that was almost an afterthought.
Directing, dialogue, cinematography, sets, acting... all serviceable enough (you get the standard incredibly witty repartee from teenagers problem but I can live with that).
Also rewatched Dr Strange. Still one of Marvel's better efforts (almost as though character development and magic systems with rules that serve to reinforce the story is a thing that people like) but never going to be my favourite.
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