Jackie Chan And Jet Li - The Forbidden Kingdom

[SodaPop]

I was next to a horrible group of kids who had seemed to have never seen a hong kong martial arts movie in their lives. It was annoying.

The guy next to me was texting the whole time, and his phone wasn't on silent, the guy behind me kept talking extremely loud, and some kid was crying the whole movie and the parents wouldnt take it out. I will go check it out again though.

 

[The Chris]

The guy next to me was texting the whole time, and his phone wasn't on silent, the guy behind me kept talking extremely loud, and some kid was crying the whole movie and the parents wouldnt take it out. I will go check it out again though.

Damn people these days. I look at movie going as a meditation like experience, and that needs people to ****!

 

[Kent Allard]

I saw The Forbidden Kingdom earlier today - fantastic movie and well worth seeing. I can't wait to see the what will make it as extras on the DVD.

 

[CBG]

I wonder how many deleted scenes are there. And there are deleted scenes.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Did they not have any bloopers Chan usually has bloopers at the end of his movies maybe on the dvd.
I am seeing it at the 12:30 PM showing tomarrow.

 

[louiebling$]

I loved it!!!! Effin awesome

 

[bullets]

It was good. I expected it to be a kid's film but i was there for the jet li / jackie chan showdown anyway. I didn't expect there to be so much good humor. Jackie really steals the show as lu yan / hop , his delivery was excellent . The golden shower was hilarious. I like that this film did give alot of homage to kung fu films and didn't totally disrespect them . Jackie chan and Jet li have good chemistry together, I'm praying for another collaboration . I kept thinking that Donny Yen should have been the villain .
There were some things that could of been better . The kid is definately not from south boston , the monkey king was a little too silly ( the little kids in the theatre loved him though) , tons of wire work , and the bully in the beginning seemed to ridiculous with that gun.
It was enjoyable and the action was mostly fun , it was really cool to see li and jackie fight each other. also the kid was believable , even in his action scenes , good stuff.

 

[CBG]

Monkey King is suppose to be silly though. That's how he is in the stories.

 

[CBG]

Monkey King is suppose to be silly though. That's how he is in the stories.

 

[bullets]

Monkey King is suppose to be silly though. That's how he is in the stories.

so it works out allright it that department.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

this will probably end up winning the weekend. it made about 7.5 million on friday alone while forgetting sarah marshall made a little under 6 million.

this should finish with about 17 million or more for the weekend.

the only way i don't see it winning the weekend is if fsm has a strong Sat and Sun.

 

[louiebling$]

Yea that's where goku got his happy go lucky attitude it was adapted from the monkey king... so the monkey king was perfect kinda like watchin goku on the big screen

 

[블라스]

Heh loved it so much, will see it again for sure. Also, the DVD is a must get.
Ni Chang (the witch) = :heart: :heart:

Here's Colling Chou a.k.a Ngai Sing (The Jade Warlord) being hilarious...

 

[Sloth7d]

What was ruined? Expectations?

Just because a movie isn't quite what you expected, that doesn't mean it's not a good movie. I honestly didn't know what to expect, but the first trailers made it very obviously that it would be a kind of modern day warp back into time dreamworld sort of movie.

-TNC

Ya see, I didn't see those trailers. I'm your average modern day guy, who only saw the tv commercials which don't even show the true main characters face once, but mostly show Jackie Chan and Jet Li. However, it would take more than mis leading me for me to condemn a movie. Bridge to Taribithia is proof of that, a movie I really liked. However, the plot of THIS movie itself pretty much didn't make any sense at all and was sort of rushed. Certain developments with the characters were forced at times, not to mention Jet Li's dialogue was darn near cringe worthy at times to the point where I couldn't tell if it was him over selling the line or the writers for their choice in words. The entire movie itself even felt fake, since it seemed like the entire beginning was tacked on just to add the feel of a high school nerds daily drama to this, like they're planning to do with the soon to be DBZ movie, saddly. It felt like this entire movie could have gone on without it, but, alas, to get the appeal of these little teenagers they felt they had to add this part of the plot in. In any case, I felt the only thing this movie had were good fights. Period. That's it. I hated almost everything else. But that's just me.

 

[Sloth7d]

Monkey King is suppose to be silly though. That's how he is in the stories.

Yeah. I wonder how some people missed that, but then I guess you'd have to be big on anime to have come across a monkey king reference before this movie.

 

[strikezone89]

so is it worth paying the money to see?

 

[The Apatow Crew]

this took the number 1 spot with a little under 21 million.

 

[cyborg ninja 14]

I thought it was a fun and entertaining movie. I like the elements of the kid in the fish out of water situation, so I did like the overall mass appeal. Getting to see two of the biggest Martial arts stars of our time onscreen and fighting each other was one of those "wouldn't that be awesome if this happened one day?" movie senarios that finally came true. I'm a bigger Chan fan, so seeing him in his Drunken Master mode was nostalgict:

 

[KenK]

I'm surprised it beat out Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

 

[boydston_14]

I'm surprised it beat out Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

I'm not. FSM looks like it's funny (and I want to see it, don't get me wrong) but The Forbidden Kingdom looks to be a lot better. After all, it is Jackie Chan and Jet Li together in the same movie.

 

[The Chris]

I'm not suprised. I was more suprised that people were predicting Forgetting Sarah Marshall to win opening weekend. I think they were both great, but Forbidden Kingdom was pg-13, and had two stars that a lot of people have wanted to see together since forever. I don't think sarah marshall's commercials were very good, the movie was much better than the ads.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I'm surprised it beat out Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

I'm not not that oplayed th e tv spots on like every friggen damn channel.

plus it get released in over 3,000 theaters and got double the shotimes as FSM so i'm not.

A PG-13 movie is always gonna win out over a R rated movie.

like with next week i'm sure baby mama will win over harold and kumar 2. since harold and kumar is r rated whike baby mama is rated PG-13 and obviously trying to be a knocked up rip-off since its from the same company universal.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

I liked this movie sure it was no hero or crotching tiger or anything but it was a good fun flick and the best current Jackie Chan movie in a while. The fight scene with Jet was his best kung fu in a while. I heard people say they didn't like this movie Chan and Li but they looked like they had fun making it. I'd like to see more with them together. The kid was bad at first but his character grew on me. Also when an actors does't like ther film sometimes that means two thing the want it to seem not good and surprise people or they are just a hard critic of there own work.

 

[bullets]

I didn't like the boy that much at first either but his character also grew on me.

 

[Nightmare]

Im suprised this beat our FSM, i thought this would bomb actually...

Anyone know how much FSM made?