That's right...Dogs. No Gods here.
Over the years this American has watched plenty of Chinese "Gung Fu" movies that most Americans probably have not ever seen. The storylines and Chinese mythology are usually fantastic.
Laste Saturday when channel surfing I saw there was something called League of Gods starring Jet Li on the commercial free channel. YAY! I missed hearing about this one. It's Chinese! It's filled with Chinese thespians! It's Jet Li! What could go wrong?
The answer is "everything went wrong." As other reviewers have noted the story is a mess.
Some note that Americans just don't get the Chinese mythology that the story is based upon. The problem with that argument is that LOG has no actual story. It is a pastiche of CGI after CGI after CGI with nothing really tying it together
During the filimng of the original Dawn of the Dead Tom Savani and crew wondered "how can we ceatively kill zombies?" They came up with the screwdriver in the ear and other methods and George Romero worked those actions into the script while keeping the plot line intact. That's what makes DOTD work so well. One doesn't even notice the special effects.
LOG looks like a bunch of animators sat around and said "how can we make cool animation scenes" and all the animation scenes were just thrown together with no storyline. Not only that the creativity of the scenes drops down to Adam Sandler level. "Oh look! How cute! Kung Fu Baby with Kung Fu pee and Kung Fu fart!" No...it is not cute...it is pathetic.
Save your time. Watch The Legend of Fung Sai Yuk or The Bride With White Hair or The Killer Meteors or so many others instead. Watch the Drum Dance in House of Flying Daggers. The creativity and Chinese lore in all of them put LOG to shame. This is just a bunch of loud pointless CGI craptology.
Over the years this American has watched plenty of Chinese "Gung Fu" movies that most Americans probably have not ever seen. The storylines and Chinese mythology are usually fantastic.
Laste Saturday when channel surfing I saw there was something called League of Gods starring Jet Li on the commercial free channel. YAY! I missed hearing about this one. It's Chinese! It's filled with Chinese thespians! It's Jet Li! What could go wrong?
The answer is "everything went wrong." As other reviewers have noted the story is a mess.
Some note that Americans just don't get the Chinese mythology that the story is based upon. The problem with that argument is that LOG has no actual story. It is a pastiche of CGI after CGI after CGI with nothing really tying it together
During the filimng of the original Dawn of the Dead Tom Savani and crew wondered "how can we ceatively kill zombies?" They came up with the screwdriver in the ear and other methods and George Romero worked those actions into the script while keeping the plot line intact. That's what makes DOTD work so well. One doesn't even notice the special effects.
LOG looks like a bunch of animators sat around and said "how can we make cool animation scenes" and all the animation scenes were just thrown together with no storyline. Not only that the creativity of the scenes drops down to Adam Sandler level. "Oh look! How cute! Kung Fu Baby with Kung Fu pee and Kung Fu fart!" No...it is not cute...it is pathetic.
Save your time. Watch The Legend of Fung Sai Yuk or The Bride With White Hair or The Killer Meteors or so many others instead. Watch the Drum Dance in House of Flying Daggers. The creativity and Chinese lore in all of them put LOG to shame. This is just a bunch of loud pointless CGI craptology.