jackie's new one Rob-B-Hood

[doug maverick]

this was gonna be the reunion of the three brother's but sammo left the productions:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Lu1zv-EXfU&mode=suggested&search=donnie%20yen

[jethro]

chinese daddy daycare?

[GeneChing]

See THE MYTH: Jackie Chan's Stir-fries HERO, MUSA and Lara Croft Chop Suey Style by August West (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=658). There's Project BB, Kung Fu Panda, Joe's Last Adventure, and Rush Hour 3. I've heard that Joe's got canned. I've also heard that Tucker is being offered significantly more than Jackie for Rush Hour 3. Panda is a cartoon. BB, or now Rob-B-Hood is the most interesting in my mind.

[jethro]

kung fu panda LOL!!!!!!

Rush hour 2 surprised me. There is one thign that will get me to watch RH3-they need billy chow.

PS-right now you are like, wtf. I am just saying I want some actual kung fu in RH3, that would be nice. Cause daddy day care certainly looks like it has some. :D

And I was gonna comment more on daddy day care but I got stuck on this picture and I need to see the myth now!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[doug maverick]

man nobodies up on martial media like me(**** i was even up on the fist and sword series, on your ezine gene, i was either in directed or co-choreographed ike three of those film mentioned, jose figaruoa is the man) anyway about rush hour three,a friend of mine is being submitted for the su yun part so that character from part one might return, also an old and i do mean old friend is returning in this flick it's rumored that van **** will be playing a role in this film a character named bruno cavalary, the film it self takes place in paris where lee and carter get into some mess as usual. now as for the pay thing although tucker is getting payed ten mil more then jack! my homie jackie got them gross points so he stands to make more cash at the end(considering that both films combined have grossed about a billion bucks) anyway i'll post more info when i have it!!!

[jethro]

I liked teh apearence of ziyi zhang in 2 but if that woman from myth would be in rush hour 3, I would see it opening night.(I haven't done that since flying daggers). But nobody will get hunted down as long as fearless comes here:mad:

Also doug, seven swords 2???????:confused: ?????:confused: :eek:

[doug maverick]

there ironing out the script, trying to make it shorter so they could tell the story, so there's no info yet look for it in 07, the only thing we know is that lau kar leung probably will be replaced don't know why. and it's even rumored that the man himself donnie yen will take over as action director. but if martial history is what your craving wait for battle at redcliff john woo's new joint, everybody and there momma is in this one from jet to chow to ziyi(at least thats what imdb is saying). later for now

[GeneChing]

Rush Hour made $244,386,864 worldwide. Rush Hour 2 made $347,325,802. So it's more like $600 mill. As for Red Cliff, rumors are flying about the cast. But rumors are only rumors. Just look at Sammo dropping out of Rob-B-Hood for example. I heard that Tucker was offered twice as much as Chan, but Chan was offered more back end residuals. We'll see how it all pans out in the end. One JC movie at a time...

Jethro - search imdb (http://imdb.com/title/tt0425637/) like doug maverick said.

[jethro]

sorry, I didn't see doug said to check imdb so I went there and is red cliffe seven swords 2? It doesn't look liek it since woo is directing it, but I am really lost now:confused:

[doug maverick]

i was merly stateing that if you were looking for those type of martial history films then redcliff is one to see.

[jethro]

Yeah, SS 2, I am always looking for that. John Wo movie looks good, should be an epic if it has a story:p Let em know when you got new word on it:)

[Shaolinlueb]

i thought seven swords was ok, nothing spectacular

[jethro]

Not gonna get the $40 colector's edition, huh:p

[GeneChing]

rob-b-hood (http://rob-b-hood.jce.com.hk/en/main.html)

[GeneChing]

Rob-B-Hood is bad. Real bad. It's the worst HK Chan project in a long, long time. I was nodding off, struggling to make it to the finale fight (and it wasn't very late at all). The film clocks in at about 2 hours, which is an hour and fifty minutes too long.

There's two nice stunts - almost subtle in their death-defying execution - nice to see Jackie still has skillz at 52. There's also two nice fights - the finale fight in a freezer and a well-choreographed fight in a claustrophobic HK apartment - plus a few short fights that are decent and one that's just silly (a trampoline fight in a mothers-to-be school - why a trampoline? I don't know). Jackie still has the most imaginative fights - agile stuff, with good tension and fight plot progression. This is one to just skip to the fight scenes.

Then there's the hour and fifty minutes of this absurdly bad movie that goes everywhere but forward. Lots of baby in jeopardy stuff. Lots of senseless twists. People call each other '*******' a lot in this film and for good reason. All the characters are reprehensible (except the baby). Chan tries to show some acting chops, but you're totally unsympathetic to his plight. There's some goofy comedy that almost works, but a lot of dirty diaper fu with **** flying all over the place. Yuck. Such a disappointment. You can see how it might have worked if Yuan and Sammo were on board as the criminal threesome, but without them, it collapses entirely. Yuan's in there, but not significant.

[Li Kao]

Wow, I'm discouraged now after reading that kiss of death Gene -- though I didn't exactly have high hopes after reading the plot to this one. It's a shame that Jackie is now making crap movies in HK too -- oh, how the mighty have fallen.:(

[jethro]

It does sound average at best but I have to see it for Jackie and Yuen Baio.

[doug maverick]

yuen has a small role in this. orginally it was suppose to be jackie, sammo, and yuen but sammo droped out and yuen's part was changed. even if the film sucked(which it did it was horrible, we should coolectively ***** smack jackie for this one) i would've still seen it just to watch those three again.

[Li Kao]

Well, I've seen every movie Jackie has been in so far, so I'm not about to stop anytime soon. I think he deserves the support just based on his past body of work. Obviously, when the movie was first being pushed, the thought of a 3 Brothers reunion was enough to get my interest -- I'm sure a lot of us were hoping for another Wheels on Meals or Dragons Forever. It's a bummer to find out Sammo dropped out and Yuen got a bit role... though maybe it's for the best and who knows, maybe they will get together on a more worthy project in the future.

[GeneChing]

...except the porn one (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showpost.php?p=726745&postcount=4). :eek:
I'm still loyal to Jackie. He can turn in a stinker like this one, or Medallion (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=391) or Tuxedo, (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=300) now and again, and I'll still watch him. I totally agree wit Li Kao on this. Jackie has earned our respect like no other. He's life and limbed for the martial film genre since before people like Tony Jaa or David Belle or Sebastien Foucan were even born, and he's still doing it. FWIW, the fights and the stunts in Rob-B-Hood are solid, especially for a man of 52. It's just the rest of the movie is a disaster.

I was initially really excited about the possible reunion, but Rob-B-Hood is a film based on that reunion and you can sort of feel it implode as it fell apart. There are three main characters, and I kept thinking, dang, if it were Jackie, Yuan and Sammo, this could have totally worked. Anyone who's been watching kung fu films has seen this sort of on screen implosion before. Michelle Yeoh's Stuntwoman is a classic example (she took a hard injury in production - the fall is graphically shown in the NG - and the movie takes a totally different turn after that because she was injured). Another classic is OUATIC3, where Tsui and Jet split half way through the film and the movie just sort of breaks down into chaos at the end. Hong Kong never lets go - once production begins, even if it totally collapses in the making - the film goes on.

Here's to hoping the threesome reunite soon. It would be a great film to see.

[jethro]

OUATIC 3 was horrible.