Secretly, Furtively

Heyyyyyy peeps!

I went to see The Forbidden Kingdom the other day. I had heard from some of my friends that it was pretty lame, but I decided that I would ignore their advice and go see it anyways. It turns out... it was a decent movie. The movie has gotten so much media attention as of late because it marks the first time that Jackie Chan and Jet Li have appeared onscreen together... ever! As you well know, these two characters are huge azn kung-fu movie stars, and I'm betting that many people went to see this movie just to see which of them would win in a fight. Turns out that they're not actually fighting each other, and that both of them play a secondary role to Michael Angarano who plays a geeky white boy named Jason Tripitikas.

I won't totally spoil the movie for you (if you're intending to see it) but I will divulge the fact that the movie is based loosely on the Chinese legend of the Monkey King; a fabled warrior who wielded a staff and could summon monkey minions by plucking out hairs from his head. Yeah. Anyways, Jason is magically teleported to ancient China where he finds himself burdened with the task of returning the Monkey King's staff to... the Monkey King (who has been imprisoned in stone by the Jade Emperor). And so begins his journey. Sounds kind of like LOTR right?

Anyways, the acting isn't the greatest but it's not nearly as bad as Kenny said it was. I'm guessing that Kenny was biased because, being azn himself, a film about a white boy by a white director would not interest him in the least. So go see this movie... it's worth it. Sort of. But you know, you could just watch it online for free because as we all know... only suckers pay for movies =P.

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As you may have noticed, I have added some music to Up the Ante. The song playing is You Don't Miss Your Water (Until the Well Runs Dry) by Craig David. I have no idea why I chose this song... probably because I heard it on someone else's blog one day and decided to put it on mine. Anyways, I am well aware of the fact that having music playing incessantly on a blog can be incredibly annoying (especially if you hate Craig David... RAWR), so you can go ahead and turn that off right at the bottom of my blog.

kamster

p.s. it is interesting to note that the actor who plays Golden Sparrow in The Forbidden Kingdom, Yifei Liu, is the same actor who plays... the main character in The Return of the Condor Heroes, a truly good azn movie.