Wed 19 Dec 2007
The Warlords
Posted by Kim Schiefer under experiences in China
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I saw the hugely anticipated movie The Warlords on Sunday. It was all in Chinese with only Chinese Subtitles. I couldn’t find any theater in Beijing that showed The Warlords with English subtitles. There is ONE theater for expats that show Chinese movies with English subtitles however I just found out it is closed for renovations until January 2008, great…So I decided to watch the movie anyways, I was with my Chinese friend who could translate any of the necessary conversions to inform me of what the hell is going on. Plus it’s an action/war movie, how hard could it be to understand, one guy is mad at another guy so they’ll fight. Pretty simple.
So the movie was really good even though I only understood 5% of it. Action scenes were intense and well choreographed, and Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Takeshi Kaneshiro were all good actors. I definitely recommend this flick, “a very man movie”, as my Chinese friend says.
Hey, I recently saw the Warlords movie too and it was pretty good. Just FYI there’s a movie theater across from 双安商场 called 华星国际影城 or UME Cineplex Beijing. It has English subtitles for some of its films.
Hmmmm thanks for the advice. I actually just found another theater close to my apartment in Dongshisitiao that has English subtitles. I want to see Assembly soon.