Iceman (2014) - Dvd Trash Review

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  1. Shale

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    Iceman (2014)
    DVD Trash Review by Shale
    August 2, 2015

    Have you ever bought a DVD that was so bad that you throw it away to save anyone else having to see it?

    Yesterday I went to Target to get a video and came across an interesting looking $10 Action-Fantasy video and got it. I always figure even if it is not worth keeping in my DVD collection I will donate it to the AIDS thrift store.

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    Well, at home I found out it was in Cantonese, but the dubbing was pretty good - tho the dubbed words were not the same as what the subtitles were saying. It started out pretty bad, like so many of those 1970s Kung Fu Hong Kong movies, but after a few minutes it had some humorous moments and fantastic fight scenes with wireworks or CGI, so I decided to continue watching it.

    I watched it to the end but it had no end. NOTHING was resolved. In times past I alluded to running out of film and stopping shooting. Since film is history, they must have just run out of money and did not finish the movie. I later learned that is pretty much what happened, but you'd think they could have done a quick resolution to whether the warriors got back to their battle in the Ming Dynasty or stayed in the present. Nada.

    I checked this movie online and found out that the Aggregate Critics on Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 20% Fresh, the same as did audiences.

    Here is more info from Wikipedia, where it is noted that the movie was way over budget which confirms my suspicion that it just wrapped abruptly before completion. Also, the Reception was consistent with my observations.

    So, I am throwing the disc away and keeping the plastic DVD case to replace any where the plastic cracks. Just a heads up for anyone else who sees this video. It was not worth $10 and is not even worth the $3 from the thrift shop.
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    [SIZE=12pt]Iceman (2014 film)[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=12pt](excerpts) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=12pt]Iceman, ... is a 2014 Hong Kong-Chinese 3D martial arts action-comedy film directed by Law Wing-cheung and starring Donnie Yen, who also serves as the film's action director. The film is a remake of the 1989 film The Iceman Cometh ...[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=12pt]Plot[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=12pt]Iceman revolves around a Ming Dynasty officer, He Ying (Donnie Yen), who was tasked with bringing a mythical time traveling device back to the Ming emperor. He was betrayed, and subsequently frozen. He Ying, Sao(Wang Baoqiang) and Niehu were frozen during a fight and were defrosted in modern day Hong Kong where they continue their battle.[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=12pt]...[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=12pt]After several hilarious encounters in the modern world including meeting May's mother, fleeing custody of the police (using his master martial arts skills), and the use of technology, He Ying starts to figure out who is ultimately hunting him down.[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=12pt]Production[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=12pt]Filming for Iceman began on December 19, 2012 in Hong Kong. Originally produced at a budget of HK$100 million, the production soared up to HK$200 million due to its slow paced filming and to cover the film crew’s insurance. Because the Hong Kong government did not approve the film to shoot at the Tsing Ma Bridge, an addition of HK$50 million was spent in order to build an imitation set of the Tsing Ma Bridge. Lead actor and action director Donnie Yen said that a seven-minute fight scene took ten days to shoot. Besides Hong Kong, a chunk of the film would also be filmed in Beijing.[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=12pt]Reception[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=12pt]The Hollywood Reporter writes "Plagued by all manner of production snafus and a ballooning budget, the problems show in the final product. Iceman is a fractured and often baffling martial “epic” that not even popular star Donnie Yen is likely to be able to save."[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=12pt]Screendaily writes the film is "beset by multiple problems, from a patchy incoherent script, to jarring shifts in tone and genre, and sub-par action and effects sequences that even the star presence of Donnie Yen may find hard to reconcile." Donnie Yen's performance won him the Golden Broom Award for Worst Actor.[/SIZE]
     
  2. Laci

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    It can't be worse than Spring Breakers,, that one with Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez from a few years back. I remember at the end, the girls literally shot everyone dead and that was the end of the movie. WORST.MOVIE.EVER.
    However there was bewbz.
     
  3. newbie-one

    newbie-one one with the newbiverse

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  4. Vanilla Gorilla

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    What was that korean one that had the Captain america guy on a post apocalyptic train

    It was kind od a ridiculous premise, but it was surprise of the decade, was actually a pretty good movie
     
  5. xenxan

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    ^^^^ Snowpiercer.

    Never new about it so just looked it up.
     

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