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audoldends · 4 years

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King’s Avatar is amazing

SO if you’ve followed along with my screaming for the past couple days first, thanks that must’ve been really annoying, second, I’ve decided to condense and organize my thoughts on The King’s Avatar because I realized about half way that I’ve been thinking of everyone in terms of dogs and screaming so....

FIRST story, A+ amazing incredible. Found family out the wazoo with a solid and surprisingly believable esports plot. Like I was seriously impressed by the amount of detail put into the game itself and not just in terms of the cgi, cool down times, icons, hp bars, there are so many little details on the set of the game I’m blown away by that alone. The plot is solid with some really great pacing. Even when nothing is technically happening progress is always being made at least on a character level. Everything always felt super grounded. Like apart from the ridiculously large buildings for esports training nothing felt insanely implausible. Ye Xiu was strong but not OP ridiculous you are already dead strong which just made everything even better because I could definitely see something like this happening is Overwatch or League.

SECOND music and cinematography. My god was this amazing!!! There’s this really specific track that plays during battles and that I just can’t fucking get enough of! Everything is integrated so well and the shots are just so fucking nice to look at!! They also fully took advantage of the cgi to create some really great shots in game while still making it feel like a video game. 10/10

THIRD AND THE BEST PART characters. The characters are the heart and SOUL of this series and my god are they done well. Everyone and I mean EVERYONE is given some sort of empathetic pull. Everyone feels so real and human. There’s no weird unnecessary hatred between the top players it’s all mutual respect and friendship. People who have known each other for years FEEL LIKE THEYVE KNOWN EACHOTHER FOR YEARS!!! There empathy and sympathy and everyone makes choices for a reason and those reasons are always so grounded you can believe every single one of them.

Earlier I said I’d ended up think of the characters as dogs because I just kept going “he’s like a puppy!” Every time someone new was introduced. With a few NOTABLE exceptions, behold the dogs of King’s avatar.

Ye Xiu: scheming puppy useless outside of video games

Qiao Yifan: PUPPY BABY BEST BOY!!!

Tang Ruo: sulky puppy who thinks it’s bigger than it is but is still pretty big. Definitely a lesbian

Chen Guo: an excitable puppy who can’t always remember what to do but goddamn is she willing to try. Tang Ruo’s girlfriend

Bao Zi: not a single brain cell in sight. The dumbest dog you’ve ever seen, the kind that runs into walls because he can’t figure out how to stop when chasing a ball

Luo Ji: the smartest puppy. Math puppy who is the softest lil bean. Needs love always.

Wei Chen: old dog that barks way to loud but knows how to play super well, even if he does need to take super long naps afterwards

An Wenyi: a puppy who just needs love to turn into a pile of happy goo. Occasionally lashes out but always comes back looking for friends.

Wu Chen: a good boy even if he does occasionally break stuff. Always ready to be a good boy, a helpful boy, soft dad dog

Mo Fan: a cat who wandered into a house of dogs

Haung Shaotian: yippy loud barking puppy whom a love with my whole ENTIRE HEART AND SOUL

Yu Wenzhou: scary smiling boy

Han Wenqing: big scary boy

Zhang Xinjie: schemey boy who is not afraid of the big scary boy

Su Mucheng: the smartest, prettiest girl

Chen Yehui: rat bastard boy

Tao Xuan: rat bastard man

Sun Xiang: chihuahua who barks a lot and thinks it’s a big dog. Toll angry who experiences SO MUCH GROWTH

Qiu Fei: a puppy who keeps tripping on his own two feet as he runs to be a vicious attack dog. Smoll angry who accidentally befriended a toll angry and doesn’t know what to do with it

Qiao Shiqin: a respectful schemey boy who somehow adopted a toll angry boy and is a proud dad of his growth

Blue river: dumb baby who keeps getting lead in circles

Gao Yingjie: definitely in love with Yifan

Wang Jiexie: not a bastard as originally thought

Little moon moon: the og fan whom we must support otherwise the dumb dog would fall down the stairs in an attempt to bark at the door

Ye Qiu: gullible boy who just wants his id back and for his brother to let their parents bother HIM for a change.

I know I’m probably forgetting people but these are the big ones. I could scream about them individually and maybe I will but not here.

Tl:dr Kong’s Avatar is an amazing show and @weilongfu should expect my letter from courts for compensation for emotional damage soon.

#king’s avatar #the king’s avatar #cdrama #i need a season 2

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365days365movies · 3 years

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January 9, 2021: Kung Fu Hustle (Epilogue)

92%.

Yup, giving this the The Nice Guys treatment! This movie is awesome, and you need to watch it. You shouldn’t even have READ my recap if you haven’t seen it. But even then, WATCH THIS MOVIE. It’s a lot of fun! Watch it with friends if you can!

But, OK, what’s the deal with that missing 8 points? Here you go, just like The Nice Guys review.

Cast and Acting: Almost perfect, with a few characters that felt unnecessary and a little annoying (the sidekick of Brother Sum, mostly). Standouts were Bruce Leung (the Beast), Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu (Landlord and Landlady), and Stephen Chow (Sing, and the director of the film). 9/10

Plot and Writing: Amazing, even though I’m sure I missed stuff because I don’t speak Chinese, and subtitles never capture all of the subtle nuances of film in other languages. Giving this one a 10/10, real talk.

Direction and Action: Action was AMAZING. Effects WERE NOT AS AMAZING. And the direction, courtesy of Sing himself, Stephen Chow, was good! Still, though...those effects didn’t age well. In fact, they’re weirdly inconsistent in tone. Some effects are straight-up cartoons, and some of them are cool and gritty, and some tow the balance. Kind of put me off, just a touch. So, yeah, 8/10.

Production Design: Here’s another slight flaw. This movie took place in the 1940s, and I’d be lying if I said I could easily tell. To be fair, I don’t know what 1940s Shanghai was like, but this didn’t feel as authentic as The Nice Guys to me. I also feel like I’ve seen Chinese movies from different time periods that still feel like this movie. So, yeah, a couple points off for that. However, costuming definitely some credit. The Landlady’s kind of iconic. 9/10.

Music and Editing: 10/10, no question AT ALL. The music was very memorable in this movie, and some of the action perfectly accented it. The Harpist’s fight is the best possible example, which makes sense because they literally use music to fight! COME ON! How could I not give this movie full marks for Music!?

This movie is great. WATCH IT. I know I’ve said that many times at this point, BUT I MEAN IT SO HARD, GUYS.

At this point, I’m not sure where to go from here. I mean, I have a plan, but it’s hit a snag. I was hoping to finish the action-comedies with Jackie Chan’s The Legend of Drunken Master from 1994, but it’s apparently not on Netflix anymore, and I can’t find it anywhere else.

I could go with Police Story...but I think I’ll hold off on that one until later this month. So, instead...let’s take a break from comedy, and officially enter the world of kung fu and martial arts films, shall we? And from my angle...there’s really only one place for me to start.

January 10: Enter the Dragon (1973)

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