Just Finished Watching Shaolin Soccer...

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<div class="IPBDescription">Fun!</div><a href='http://us.imdb.com/Title?0286112' target='_blank'>Shaolin Soccer</a>

- It wasn't as funny as I thought it would be, but it was still hellishly fun. You can tell whenever they use CG to do the scenes, but even when you do, it still look pretty damn amazing.

I've also been thinking about several of the live action movies based on animes slowly starting to cascade iinto theaters, and looking at the CGs that they use, I think that it could actually be made to look good. Not that I'm a die-hard fan of DragonBall Z, but if they employed the same people who did the CG in Shaolin Soccer to do a live action DBZ movie, I think it would look pretty sweet...

Anyone else seen it?
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    I haven't seen it, but I've sure heard about it.
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  • FlyFlownFlyFlown Join Date: 2003-04-26 Member: 15847Members, Constellation
    Heard a lot about this film, some says its damn cool, some others hated it... Id like to see it, prolly gonna watch it on next friday :|
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  • AgentOrangeAgentOrange Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9244Members
    This is easily the coolest movie EVER made! I can't wait for the american release. Soccer + Ninjas = WIN!
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  • Dirty_Harry_PotterDirty_Harry_Potter Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9500Members
    only seen some clips of it when a friend of mine watched it....looked damn cool - at least if your into asian pwn'ing techniques. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • BigMadSteveBigMadSteve Join Date: 2003-02-12 Member: 13472Members
    I watched the trailer just there. Damn it looks good. Do you know that it actually got banned in China?
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  • Red_WizardRed_Wizard Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16241Members
    I loved the movie, though the version I had was the original Chinese with Japanese subtitles, so I didn't understand too much of the story.
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  • HWGuy_in_a_CanHWGuy_in_a_Can Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13397Members
    I saw the one in the original Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles. Essentially, the main character is a graduate of Shaolin kung fu and is seeking to popularize the martial art. He teams up with a former soccer player who is now crippled because of a bad deal in his younger days and together, with their ragtag soccer team, fight and battle their way to the soccer championship. But danger lurks in the form of American genetic engineering...

    Usually, films from Hong Kong have really awful special effects, so it was a real surprise to me when I first saw it. A really funny film, definitely made funnier by actually understanding what the characters are talking about thanks to subtitles.
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  • OkaboreOkabore Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9505Members
    I have seen it with english sub. Great film, one of the funnier Hk-action movies I have seen that wasn't by Jackie Chang.
    But stay away from the trailer and if you can stay away from english dubbing.
    The trailer is actually one big spoiler. Thankfully I had seen the movie before the trailer but if you watch the trailer then there isn't much need to watch the movie.
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