Evil Genius

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:10 pm**

Well, I have to admit, Flying daggers wasn't that good today...now that I knew the outcome, but I remember that I was quite thrilled the first time. A martial arts movie packed with a tragic love story? Yeah, gimme more!

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:25 pm**

Shaka Zulu wrote:

But Flying Daggers needs to be dissed as hell. Average movie that is of inconsistent quality throughout the movie. Started interesting and was cool, but turned out to be quite dull.

Well I wasn't going to bring up Flying Daggers because I'm still holding "The Returner" against Takeshi Kaneshiro. Onimusha is such a badass game for one that lasts a little longer then a movie.

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:40 pm**

The Returner was a masterpiece compared to Flying Daggers.

That movie proved thier is a reason why Hero,Hidden Dragon was good.

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:41 pm**

Did you say Hero was good?

Ha, what a joke.

The emperor's a fucking douche warlord. Sure, he unified China, but with an iron fist and killed and wiped out tribes and factions to do so. He will also be remembered for being scared of dying and sending some other douche to look for some immortality crap and then that douche would set off to Japan, which was supposedly filled with magical herbs and shit. But yeah, movie was crap, in my opinion.

I thought Hidden Dragon was pretty good, but felt that it was made for foreign audiences then the Asian market.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:04 am**

Eldo wrote:The emperor's a fucking douche warlord. Sure, he unified China, but with an iron fist and killed and wiped out tribes and factions to do so. He will also be remembered for being scared of dying and sending some other douche to look for some immortality crap and then that douche would set off to Japan, which was supposedly filled with magical herbs and shit.

Qin shi huangdi, or who? That guy was crazy.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:45 am**

His tomb was filled with traps and shit like that too. While in life, he was lived in fear of dying, and in death, he died in fear. He had an immense ego to boot, and killed scholars and other educated people because he felt threatened by their presence and his authority undermined.

I'm not quite sure how he's a 'great' emperor for doing so. There are different interpretations of his character, some think he's great for unifying China, despite the countless bloodshed. That's what this movie is to me, I think.

And it wasn't a particularly good movie either.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:08 am**

I don't think anyone thinks the first emperor of Qin was a nice guy, but it's a strange phenomenon that his many major flaws will be overlooked for the fact that he created one "unified" China. And with Chinese nationalism on the rise it doesn't look like that will change anytime, soon.

Ying Xiong was a movie that carried some of that spirit, you may like it or not, but it's a fact.

This was what one guy wrote for The Emperor and the Assassin on IMDB:

Keep in mind, that in "China," or what we now know as China, the history of a dynasty was always written by the following dynasty. In this case, the Han wrote the history of the Qin. Whenever a new dynasty took power, they had to establish some sort of legitimacy, or prove that they held the "Mandate of Heaven." Those who wrote the history of the previous dynasty, who were comissioned by the new ruing dynasty, would often take liberty at embelishing the truth in order to make the previous ruler look as if they had lost the mandate of heaven. While Qin Shi Huang (the Qin emperor) probably was a megalomaniac, he probably wasn't as bad as the Han records make him out to be. Keep in mind that he unified a group of states, coinage, roads, measurement, etc... The only reason Han was a success was because of the Han's ability to capitlize on the accomplishemnts of Qin Shi Huang.

So yeah, I guess he was still not a nice guy, you don't become emperor for being a nice guy. Likely as not we'll never know just how much of a tyrant he was.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:30 am**

I guess people tend to figure that the 'ends justify the means'. This applies to that douche emperor, as well.

He wasn't as much a tyrant as Hitler, but in a way, some credit Hitler as a person who 'brought the countries together to fight against a global threat, and fueled the development of technology'. Can't remember what textbook it was from, but I called bullshit on that when a friend told me that (he was a German guy who said 'we warned the Jews to leave' at one point of our childhood, uh, heh...)

But yeah, don't let me derail this thread with my ranting. Uh, Ghost Rider looks shit at the moment. I'd love to see how Transformers turns out, I'm not completely sold on Prime. Hell, I'll probably go watch it just for Megan Fox, but I'll have to judge for myselves. Uh, I mean, me, myself and I.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:28 pm**

Saw Last King of Scotland. A very good and haunting movie. Even though though I havent seen the other oscar nominated male leads...I never been so sure of an actor winning the Oscar after merely seeing the first 2 scenes only. Amazing is too little to describe Whitakers performance.

Decent/disturbing) movie, with great performances.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:04 pm**

Anyone know a site i can download english subs?

I have Jet Li's Legend but the noob that made the torrent didnt have a sub in it.

I knew a site called extratitles or something but i dont remember it.

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:32 pm**

Check out; http://www.opensubtitles.org/

Bwaha, that's blaosh... Transformers... that guy, what's his face, Michael Bay (END OF THE WORLD), seems so incredibly epic without the addition of giant transforming machines who take advice from small children.

I hadn't heard of the Last King of Scotland, eh, will have to check it out. Got me cap reset, if you know what I mean, and can pilfer more now from the giant data-swamp in the pipes.

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:52 am**

Bridge To Terabithia: I usually don't see PG movies but this looks great.

The Number 23: Looks like a great film.

300: looks great as well.

Posted: **Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:58 pm**

Libaax wrote:Anyone know a site i can download english subs?

I have Jet Li's Legend but the noob that made the torrent didnt have a sub in it.

I knew a site called extratitles or something but i dont remember it.

For asian movie subtitles, Kloofy is the site.
Just checked it has 3 subtitles for that movie, find the one that match with your version. Make sure you know the good name, Legend of Fong Sai Yuk is the complete name.

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:07 pm**

Anyone seen ghost rider yet?

Posted: **Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:44 pm**

Its not out here yet but i plan to see even if its clear it wont be that good and Cage is totaly wrong for the role.

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:43 am**

Damien wrote:Anyone seen ghost rider yet?

Saw it, was horrible. Worst movie I've seen in the last 6 months.

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:58 am**

Finito wrote:
Damien wrote:Anyone seen ghost rider yet?
Saw it, was horrible. Worst movie I've seen in the last 6 months.

It does seem pretty shitty in the trailers.....typical Marvel based movie where they butcher everything about it and make it some cliche bullshit, in this case a lame "love story".

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:16 pm**

I haven't seen Ghost Rider (and probably won't now), but I have seen Epic Movie and it's likely just as bad. It was supposed to be hilarious, so aside from one or two cheap laughs, it was a major letdown. There's lots of "cameos" and lots of sexy women (the only thing that could ever hope to redeem it... but doesn't). It's just plain garbage really.

Easily the worst film I'll see all year.

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:08 pm**

Saw "in pursuit of happyness" yesterday. Nice drama movie, almost gave me the tears... not!

Anybody seen "300" yet?

Posted: **Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:25 pm**

300 isn't out until March 9th for the area I live in.

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:47 am**

This is by far one of my favorite 300 jokes I have seen. (Note: You'll have to look closely to get it)

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:30 am**

The map kinda looks like a face. Is that what it is?

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:33 am**

"redirected from Madness"

That's it.

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:48 am**

I dont get the comedy of it.. Is it supposed to be about the part in the trailers where that persian envoy is like "This is Madness!" . Or is saying that the whole battle of Thermopyles was madness?

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:12 am**

Buzkashi wrote:I dont get the comedy of it.. Is it supposed to be about the part in the trailers where that persian envoy is like "This is Madness!" . Or is saying that the whole battle of Thermopyles was madness?

The guy says "This is blasphemy! This is Madness" and Leondias replys "Madness? This is Sparta!".

Evil Genius

Movies of 2007