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    Kung-Fu Zombies Don't Shamble Or Run... They Hop!

    Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat

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    Image of GuardianOfChaos GuardianOfChaos
    11/09/09

    In reply to Kung-Fu Zombies Don't Shamble Or Run... They Hop!
    I love this movie. My favorite moment is when they ask how he can fight so well without overheating his body. "My Father Trained Me.....Like A Horse" Not as in trained really hard, but literally like a horse. #zombies
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    Image of fistrodisco fistrodisco
    11/04/09

    In reply to Kung-Fu Zombies Don't Shamble Or Run... They Hop!
    It could be worse: they could hip hop!

    (ducks and covers) #zombies
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    Image of PlaidNinja PlaidNinja
    11/04/09

    In reply to Kung-Fu Zombies Don't Shamble Or Run... They Hop!
    I think those are vampires. I learned recently that Chinese vampires hop:

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    Jiang Shi (traditional Chinese: or; pinyin: jiāngshī; literally "stiff corpse"), sometimes called Chinese vampires by Westerners (despite the fact that they might bear a closer resemblance to zombies), are reanimated corpses that hop around, killing living creatures to absorb life essence (气/氣qì) from their victims. #zombies
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    Image of Bob Lu Bob Lu
    11/04/09

    @PlaidNinja: I'd say for Chinese, traditionally zombies and viampires are pretty much the same thing. As reanimated corpses, Jiang Shi are like zombies. As blood, or "qi" suckers, they are like vampires.

    And I must point out the fact that western zombie are translated as "Jiang Shi" in Chinese language, while vamires are translated as literally "blood sucking monster". #zombies
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    Image of PlaidNinja PlaidNinja
    11/04/09

    @Bob Lu: Ah, ok. I have to be honest, I have no idea. My experience is limited to Wikipedia and half a film I happened to see on one of the Chinese channels. It was supposed to be martial arts/horror, but all the hopping turned out to be pretty damn funny. #zombies
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    Image of Bob Lu Bob Lu
    11/04/09

    @PlaidNinja: Yeah most of the Jiang Shi movies looks funny nowadays (although many of them are meant to be sort of funny. It is part of what Hong Kong movies were like).

    Personally I will suggest "驅魔探長" (Magic Cop, or "驅魔警察" in Mainland China) if you want to see a little more modernized Jiang Shi movies. It's a 1990 movies so don't expect too much but it does incorporate already awesome Hong Kong style Kung-Fu fighting and well-developed Hong Kong style cop/detective movie with more stylish Chinese zombies (and zombie lords) nicely.

    [www.youtube.com]
    Here is part of the final scene of the movie, in which the detectives found the shrine of the zombie lord (who killed people, turn them into zombies and use them for drug trafficking) and defeated her. The zombie lord here is not fully your traditional Jiang Shi but you can still find some Jiang Shi characters. For example (at least in its true form) the Jiang Shi can't see living people, but can follow living thing's breath. So one of the ways to escape Jiang Shi is holding your breath.

    [www.youtube.com]
    And this is one of my favorite. There is no Kung-Fu fighting in this scene and little special effect, but when you figure out what's going on you really can feel the intense of the spiritual fight between the detective and the zombie lord. #zombies
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    Chuck promoted this comment Bob Lu was starred Bob Lu was unstarred
    Image of PlaidNinja PlaidNinja
    11/04/09

    @Bob Lu: Wow, thanks! I'll check these out later tonight. #zombies
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    Image of Bob Lu Bob Lu
    11/04/09

    In reply to Kung-Fu Zombies Don't Shamble Or Run... They Hop!
    Traditionally in China, when a person dies they/their family want the body be buried with the family. So if someone die in a place far from their home, someone else will have to transport the body. And if the place is a mountain area, it will be hard to transport it with a stretcher or in a coffin. So those who are in charge of transporting the bodies (very often Taoist priest, as shown in those Hong Kong zombie movies) will stick two bamboo sticks through each of the long sleeves of every dead body's clothing, make a string of standing, hand-stretching dead people. And priests will carry the bodies by carrying the ends of the banboo sticks on their shoulder. In the dark it looks like the dead people were jumping, leaded and followed by priests. That's how the legend of Chinese zombies come. #zombies
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    Chuck promoted this comment Bob Lu was starred Bob Lu was unstarred
    Image of Cal Hawks Cal Hawks
    11/04/09

    In reply to Kung-Fu Zombies Don't Shamble Or Run... They Hop!
    Anyone who likes this should also check out Mr. Vampire.

    Zombies and Vampires are mostly the same in China, it would seem. #zombies
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    Image of Guang Guang
    11/04/09

    @Cal Hawks: pretty much. There are a lot of these old Hong Kong "ghost" movies. The monsters hop with their hands stiffly in front of them, and poke holes in people with their hands as well as bite people. The way to stop them is to stick some kind of yellow Buddhist temple-paper on their forehead. #zombies
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    Image of Bob Lu Bob Lu
    11/04/09

    @Guang: The paper is more Taoist. It is sort of like written spell. Sometimes you can cast a spell with it (usually by burning it), sometimes you keep it as a charm. I actually have one in my car for good luck and another (with different spell) in my wallet as a protection against bad spirits. Can't say I believe these but since my family gave them to me I just keep them. #zombies
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    Chuck promoted this comment Bob Lu was starred Bob Lu was unstarred
    Image of Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!! Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!!
    11/04/09

    In reply to Kung-Fu Zombies Don't Shamble Or Run... They Hop!
    It's only missing one thing:

    River Tam #zombies
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    Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!! was starred Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!! was unstarred
    Image of Supernatural_Canary Supernatural_Canary
    10/28/09

    In reply to Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat
    You know it’s a bad sign when visuals like this start to seem a tad cliché. Every angle is extreme, every bit of lighting a stark chiaroscuro of black-and-white, every action sequence broken into stuttering real-time and slow-motion. It seems to me that whenever there’s a deficiency of story, it’s compensated for with this kind of flashy, self-conscious, worn-on-the-sleeve overload.

    I certainly love the idea of sci-fi samurais (what self-respecting movie geek wouldn’t?), but I personally don’t care for this trend where films are made to look like moving comic-book panels. #cupoftears
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    Image of Forsakenchild Forsakenchild
    10/27/09

    In reply to Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat
    A quote from the director:

    "Hi Guys,

    I'm very happy to see that The Cup of Tears film trailer is now out there and been seen by people.

    Just to clear things up... This is a stand alone trailer, done on a budget of 20k Euro. If you are expecting Hollywood for that money then you will be disappointed. The film is a homage to Manga and took almost two years to make. Each matte painting I did myself. Compositing and 3d was completed by Windmilllane Post Production, Dublin.

    If you would like to see a film like this get made then please send it on to others. The more people that see the trailer the better chance I have of making the film a reality.

    Regards

    Gary Shore"

    [www.joblo.com] #cupoftears
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Forsakenchild was starred Forsakenchild was unstarred
    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10/27/09

    In reply to Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat
    I wasn't impressed. There was too much stuff crammed into each frame and too much was happening in each scene. It was like those fan trailers that show up on YouTube all the time just with better effects. #cupoftears
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    Image of ianken_ms ianken_ms
    10/27/09

    @Bill-Lee: You're like the guy who told Mozart his music had too many notes....
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    Image of Space2099 Space2099
    10/27/09

    I hate to break it to you but you sound like a really old person. I know that when you get old it's hard to focus on more than one thing at a time. You have my sympathy. #cupoftears
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    Bill-Lee promoted this comment Space2099 was starred Space2099 was unstarred
    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10/28/09

    @Space2099: Did you think that up by yourself or did your mommy and daddy help you? #cupoftears
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10/28/09

    @ianken_ms: No, I just know the difference between good film making and rubbish. #cupoftears
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    10/27/09

    In reply to Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat
    Its Sin City with ninjas!!!! Does Marv play a Shogun warrior?? #cupoftears
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    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was starred CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) was unstarred
    Image of pixysix pixysix
    10/27/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I was thinking 300 with ninjas.

    What do you wanna bet that the geisha does a pointless, slo-mo titties dance like the oracle scene from 300? #cupoftears
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    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) promoted this comment pixysix was starred pixysix was unstarred
    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    10/27/09

    @pixysix: Im betting she does. I wonder how over the top the blood spillage will be too!! Its not a bad thing.....but its gonna happen!!! #cupoftears
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    Image of pixysix pixysix
    10/27/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Also, maybe a randomly unexplained battle rhino will come charging in all awesome and you'll be all "Oh! Shit just got re... oh.... o.k. it's dead now... humm" #cupoftears
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    Image of antpwny antpwny
    10/27/09

    In reply to Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat
    Did anyone watch the Samurai 7 anime remake in recent years? It had the futuristic feel to it as well. #cupoftears
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    Image of Godmars Godmars
    10/27/09

    @antpwny: That's because it was in the future. #cupoftears
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    Image of antpwny antpwny
    10/27/09

    @Godmars: Not the future ENOUGH! :o but yes it was #cupoftears
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    ThisDudeRufus promoted this comment antpwny was starred antpwny was unstarred
    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    10/27/09

    @antpwny: But it was in that anime way that bugs you at certain points. Like, they had a chocobo express for mail? They seriously didn't have a freaking telegraph? #cupoftears
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/27/09

    @ThisDudeRufus: Well, it was also pretty lousy, no argument here. #cupoftears
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    10/27/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: It's true, I only saw it because it was based on Seven Samurai. I would watch a dog hump an armadillo if you told me it was based on something by Kurosawa. #cupoftears
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    Image of Srynerson Srynerson
    10/28/09

    @ThisDudeRufus: I would watch a dog hump an armadillo if you told me it was based on something by Kurosawa.

    That's in the director's cut of Sanshiro Sugata. #cupoftears
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    10/27/09

    In reply to Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat
    LOL @ The Spirit reference.

    Here's what Ebert thinks about that: "There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material." #cupoftears
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat
    Wow! Some parts reminded me of Sin City. #cupoftears
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    Image of Nasdaf Nasdaf
    10/27/09

    In reply to Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat
    wait - outerspace?

    what? #cupoftears
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    Nasdaf was starred Nasdaf was unstarred
    Image of Alessar Alessar
    10/27/09

    @Nasdaf: It sounds like maybe a sleeping beauty type curse sends some samurai into stasis and they wake up the future.... #cupoftears
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    10/27/09

    In reply to Hyper Stylized Samurai-In-Space Film Is A Gorgeous Kick To The Throat
    Uh. okay. Some parts look great while others look like a very slick commercial.

    I think certain genres will be able to use this technique better. I think the trailer for Assault Girls looks great an it has a similar feel. #cupoftears
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