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james belushi is involved in this pseudo-intellectual attempt and just sleep walks through the movie.
the same applies for the other "actors."
the plot is quite silly and tacky.
whih in itelf is not such a crime, but towards the end, the tremendous plot-twists get very tiresome and boring.
however, the movie does manage to generate some interest in the middle.
in all worth a lazy watch on a really boring day, but don't fret if you miss this one.
a rather lame 4!
If you can imagine Mickey Mouse as a New York street pimp, or John Wayne as a Communist spy, then you might believe Pat Boone as a juvenile delinquent on his uncle's farm in Kentucky and you could conceivably enjoy this movie.
This film is so stupid that it isn't even campy for a mid 1950s sexless love story.
And the problem is that Hollywood made such a big deal about Pat Boone's refusal to kiss a woman not his wife on screen before its release that the audience knows he won't kiss Shirley Jones so you cannot build any anticipation for the "screen consummation" of their love.
It's sort of like watching a western in which the cowboys don't have guns.
The story is pointless.
Even the title song is sung with pained enthusiasm.
April Love belongs in the worst film bargain bin along with Ishtar and Plan 9 from Outer Space.
I really wanted to like this western, being a fan of the genre and a fan of "Buffalo Bill," "Wild Bill Hickok," and "Calamity Jane," all of whom are in this story!
Add to the mix Gary Cooper as the lead actor, and it sounded great.
The trouble was.....
it wasn't.
I found myself looking at my watch just 40 minutes into this, being bored to death.
Jean Arthur's character was somewhat annoying and James Ellison just did not look like nor act like "Buffalo Bill."
Cooper wasn't at his best, either, sounding too wooden.
This was several years before he hit his prime as an actor.
In a nutshell, his western shot blanks.
Head up the pass and watch another oater because most of 'em were far better than this one.
I have always admired Susan Sarandon for her integrity and honesty in her private life as well as her talents as an actor.
I therefor found it strange that she would appear in a film that so distorted that facts.
Her character's rescue from the South Pole was done by a Canadian charter company from Edmonton, Alberta flying a Canadian designed and built Twin Otter aircraft.
The trip had been turned down by the US Airforce, Navy and Coast Guard as beyond their capabilities.
The same company staged a similar rescue a few years later to bring out a man from the South Pole base.
I feel that the film fairly represented a very gripping subject and documented a very courageous woman facing a frightening task.
I fail to see why the producers would find it necessary ignore the bravery of the rescue pilots and show the rescue plane as a USAF Hercules.
Warning Spoilers following.
Superb recreation of the base in Antarctica where the real events of the film took place.
Other than that, libelous!
, scandalous!
Filmed in Canada;
presumably by a largely Canadian crew and cast.
I caught the last half of this film recently on Global television here in Canada.
Nothing much to say other than how thoroughly appalled I was at what a blatant piece of American historical revisionist propaganda it is;
and starring Susan Sarandon of all people!
I can only assume that Canadian born director Roger Spottiswoode was coerced to make the USAF the heroes of the film when in fact the real rescuers where a small private airline based in Calgary;
Kenn Borek Air.
OK first of all the video looks like it was filmed in the 80s I was shocked to find out it was released in 2001.
Secondly the plot was all over the place, right off the bat the story is confusing.
Had there been some brief prologue or introduction the story would've been better.
Also I appreciate fantasy but this film was too much.
It was bizarre and badly filmed.
The scenes did not flow smoothly and the characters were odd.
It was hard to follow and maybe it was the translation but it was even hard to understand.
I love Chinese epic films but if you're looking for a Chinese epic fantasy film i would recommend the Promise (visually stunning, the plot is interesting and good character development) not this film.
Beware you will be disappointed.
Zu Warriors most definitely should've been an animated series because as a movie it's like watching an old anime on acid.
The movie just starts out of nowhere and people just fly around fighting with metal wings and other stupid weapons until this princess sacrifices herself for her lover on a cloud or something.
Whether this princess is a god or an angel is beyond me but soon enough this flying wind bad guy comes in and kills her while the guy with the razor wings fights some other mystical God /Demon/Wizard thing.
The plot line is either not there or extremely hard to follow you need to be insanely intelligent to get this movie.
The plot soon follows this Chinese mortal who is called upon by this god to fight the evil flying,princess killing bad guy and soon we have a very badly choreographed Uwe Boll like fight scene complete with terrible martial arts on a mountain or something.
Even the visuals are weird some might say they are stunning and colorful but i'm going to say they are blurry and acid trip like (yes that's a word!).
I watched it both dubbed and with subtitles and both were equally bad and hard to understand....
who am i kidding i didn't understand it at all.
It felt like i was watching episode 30 of some 1980's anime and completely missed how the story began or like i started reading a comic series of 5 at number 4 because i had no clue how this thing started where it was going or how it would end i was lost the entire time.
I can honestly say this was one of the worst film experiences ever it was like watching Inu-Yasha at episode 134 drunk...
yeah that's right you don't know what the hell is going on.
Don't waste your brain trying to figure this out.
This is not so much film as big budget children's television.
As far as I can tell, the villain is a giant swarm of chocolate covered espresso beans.
This theory seems to be verified by the fact that the subtitles refer to it as 'Insomnia.'
When it's first mentioned that a civilization had been wiped out by insomnia, I thought "Wow!
A nihilistic martial arts film!"
but no such luck.
Although you have to consider it experimental cinema when the villain is strangled by an old man's long, white eyebrows.
Zu Warriors makes exactly the same amount of sense whether the subtitles are on or off.
That's not a good sign.
I found the special effects to be somewhere between Ray Harryhausen and Xena: Warrior Princess.
Primitive.
Watched this on DVD in original language with English subs.
Either the subtitling was very poor or the actual dialog doesn't make much of story and give any character development.
There are quite a few HK stars in this but the movie doesn't need their presence to make it better or worse.
It's just bad.
The bright and colorful scenes done in CG are attractive for the sheer colors and brilliance but it can get overwhelming before long.
If anything this makes me think of a child's movie with its nonstop barrage of cg, fight scenes, and crap plot.
I'm certain I grasped what took place in the film but the whole delivery of the story was rather lousy.
"Spielberg loves the smell of sentiment in the morning.
But sentiment at the expense of narrative honesty?
Nobody should love that."
- Lucius Shepard "The Color Purple" takes place in the Deep South during the early 1900s, and tells the story of Celie and Nettie, two African American sisters.
The film opens with the girls playing in a field of purple flowers, an idyllic haven which is promptly shattered by the appearance of their stepfather.
This motif innocence interrupted by men permeates the entire film.
The film then launches into a series of short sequences.
Celie is revealed to have been twice impregnated by her stepfather, gives birth in a dirty barn, has her newborn child taken away and is forced to marry a local widow named Albert Johnson, a violent oaf who rapes her repeatedly, forcing her to cook, clean and look after his children.
All these horrific scenes are given little screen time, and are instead surrounded by moments of pixie-dust cinematography, a meddlesome symphonic score, incongruous comedy and overly exuberant camera work.
The cumulative effect is like the merging of a Disney cartoon and a rape movie, a jarring aesthetic which caused Stanley Kubrick to remark that "The Color Purple" made him so nauseated that he had to turn it off after ten minutes.
Ten minutes?
He lasted a long time.
The film is often said to deal which "racism", "sexism" and "black culture", but this is not true.
Alice Walker, the author of the novel upon which the film is based, claims to be a bisexual but is actually a closet lesbian.
Her book is a lesbian fantasy, a story of female liberation and self-discovery, which paints men as violent brutes who stymie women.
For Walker, the only way out of this maze is for women to bond together in a kind of lesbian utopia, black sisterhood and female independence celebrated.
Spielberg's film, however, re-frames Walker's story through the lens of comforting American mythologies.
This is a film in which the salvific power of Christianity overcomes the natural cruelty of men.
A film in which Albert finds himself in various ridiculous situations, moments of misplaced comedy inserted to make him look like a bumbling fool.

james belushi is involved in this pseudo-intellectual attempt and just sleep walks through the movie.

the same applies for the other "actors."

the plot is quite silly and tacky.

whih in itelf is not such a crime, but towards the end, the tremendous plot-twists get very tiresome and boring.

however, the movie does manage to generate some interest in the middle.

in all worth a lazy watch on a really boring day, but don't fret if you miss this one.

a rather lame 4!

If you can imagine Mickey Mouse as a New York street pimp, or John Wayne as a Communist spy, then you might believe Pat Boone as a juvenile delinquent on his uncle's farm in Kentucky and you could conceivably enjoy this movie.

This film is so stupid that it isn't even campy for a mid 1950s sexless love story.

And the problem is that Hollywood made such a big deal about Pat Boone's refusal to kiss a woman not his wife on screen before its release that the audience knows he won't kiss Shirley Jones so you cannot build any anticipation for the "screen consummation" of their love.

It's sort of like watching a western in which the cowboys don't have guns.

The story is pointless.

Even the title song is sung with pained enthusiasm.

April Love belongs in the worst film bargain bin along with Ishtar and Plan 9 from Outer Space.

I really wanted to like this western, being a fan of the genre and a fan of "Buffalo Bill," "Wild Bill Hickok," and "Calamity Jane," all of whom are in this story!

Add to the mix Gary Cooper as the lead actor, and it sounded great.

The trouble was.....

it wasn't.

I found myself looking at my watch just 40 minutes into this, being bored to death.

Jean Arthur's character was somewhat annoying and James Ellison just did not look like nor act like "Buffalo Bill."

Cooper wasn't at his best, either, sounding too wooden.

This was several years before he hit his prime as an actor.

In a nutshell, his western shot blanks.

Head up the pass and watch another oater because most of 'em were far better than this one.

I have always admired Susan Sarandon for her integrity and honesty in her private life as well as her talents as an actor.

I therefor found it strange that she would appear in a film that so distorted that facts.

Her character's rescue from the South Pole was done by a Canadian charter company from Edmonton, Alberta flying a Canadian designed and built Twin Otter aircraft.

The trip had been turned down by the US Airforce, Navy and Coast Guard as beyond their capabilities.

The same company staged a similar rescue a few years later to bring out a man from the South Pole base.

I feel that the film fairly represented a very gripping subject and documented a very courageous woman facing a frightening task.

I fail to see why the producers would find it necessary ignore the bravery of the rescue pilots and show the rescue plane as a USAF Hercules.

Warning Spoilers following.

Superb recreation of the base in Antarctica where the real events of the film took place.

Other than that, libelous!

, scandalous!

Filmed in Canada;

presumably by a largely Canadian crew and cast.

I caught the last half of this film recently on Global television here in Canada.

Nothing much to say other than how thoroughly appalled I was at what a blatant piece of American historical revisionist propaganda it is;

and starring Susan Sarandon of all people!

I can only assume that Canadian born director Roger Spottiswoode was coerced to make the USAF the heroes of the film when in fact the real rescuers where a small private airline based in Calgary;

Kenn Borek Air.

OK first of all the video looks like it was filmed in the 80s I was shocked to find out it was released in 2001.

Secondly the plot was all over the place, right off the bat the story is confusing.

Had there been some brief prologue or introduction the story would've been better.

Also I appreciate fantasy but this film was too much.

It was bizarre and badly filmed.

The scenes did not flow smoothly and the characters were odd.

It was hard to follow and maybe it was the translation but it was even hard to understand.

I love Chinese epic films but if you're looking for a Chinese epic fantasy film i would recommend the Promise (visually stunning, the plot is interesting and good character development) not this film.

Beware you will be disappointed.

Zu Warriors most definitely should've been an animated series because as a movie it's like watching an old anime on acid.

The movie just starts out of nowhere and people just fly around fighting with metal wings and other stupid weapons until this princess sacrifices herself for her lover on a cloud or something.

Whether this princess is a god or an angel is beyond me but soon enough this flying wind bad guy comes in and kills her while the guy with the razor wings fights some other mystical God /Demon/Wizard thing.

The plot line is either not there or extremely hard to follow you need to be insanely intelligent to get this movie.

The plot soon follows this Chinese mortal who is called upon by this god to fight the evil flying,princess killing bad guy and soon we have a very badly choreographed Uwe Boll like fight scene complete with terrible martial arts on a mountain or something.

Even the visuals are weird some might say they are stunning and colorful but i'm going to say they are blurry and acid trip like (yes that's a word!).

I watched it both dubbed and with subtitles and both were equally bad and hard to understand....

who am i kidding i didn't understand it at all.

It felt like i was watching episode 30 of some 1980's anime and completely missed how the story began or like i started reading a comic series of 5 at number 4 because i had no clue how this thing started where it was going or how it would end i was lost the entire time.

I can honestly say this was one of the worst film experiences ever it was like watching Inu-Yasha at episode 134 drunk...

yeah that's right you don't know what the hell is going on.

Don't waste your brain trying to figure this out.

This is not so much film as big budget children's television.

As far as I can tell, the villain is a giant swarm of chocolate covered espresso beans.

This theory seems to be verified by the fact that the subtitles refer to it as 'Insomnia.'

When it's first mentioned that a civilization had been wiped out by insomnia, I thought "Wow!

A nihilistic martial arts film!"

but no such luck.

Although you have to consider it experimental cinema when the villain is strangled by an old man's long, white eyebrows.

Zu Warriors makes exactly the same amount of sense whether the subtitles are on or off.

That's not a good sign.

I found the special effects to be somewhere between Ray Harryhausen and Xena: Warrior Princess.

Primitive.

Watched this on DVD in original language with English subs.

Either the subtitling was very poor or the actual dialog doesn't make much of story and give any character development.

There are quite a few HK stars in this but the movie doesn't need their presence to make it better or worse.

It's just bad.

The bright and colorful scenes done in CG are attractive for the sheer colors and brilliance but it can get overwhelming before long.

If anything this makes me think of a child's movie with its nonstop barrage of cg, fight scenes, and crap plot.

I'm certain I grasped what took place in the film but the whole delivery of the story was rather lousy.

"Spielberg loves the smell of sentiment in the morning.

But sentiment at the expense of narrative honesty?

Nobody should love that."

- Lucius Shepard "The Color Purple" takes place in the Deep South during the early 1900s, and tells the story of Celie and Nettie, two African American sisters.

The film opens with the girls playing in a field of purple flowers, an idyllic haven which is promptly shattered by the appearance of their stepfather.

This motif innocence interrupted by men permeates the entire film.

The film then launches into a series of short sequences.

Celie is revealed to have been twice impregnated by her stepfather, gives birth in a dirty barn, has her newborn child taken away and is forced to marry a local widow named Albert Johnson, a violent oaf who rapes her repeatedly, forcing her to cook, clean and look after his children.

All these horrific scenes are given little screen time, and are instead surrounded by moments of pixie-dust cinematography, a meddlesome symphonic score, incongruous comedy and overly exuberant camera work.

The cumulative effect is like the merging of a Disney cartoon and a rape movie, a jarring aesthetic which caused Stanley Kubrick to remark that "The Color Purple" made him so nauseated that he had to turn it off after ten minutes.

Ten minutes?

He lasted a long time.

The film is often said to deal which "racism", "sexism" and "black culture", but this is not true.

Alice Walker, the author of the novel upon which the film is based, claims to be a bisexual but is actually a closet lesbian.

Her book is a lesbian fantasy, a story of female liberation and self-discovery, which paints men as violent brutes who stymie women.

For Walker, the only way out of this maze is for women to bond together in a kind of lesbian utopia, black sisterhood and female independence celebrated.

Spielberg's film, however, re-frames Walker's story through the lens of comforting American mythologies.

This is a film in which the salvific power of Christianity overcomes the natural cruelty of men.

A film in which Albert finds himself in various ridiculous situations, moments of misplaced comedy inserted to make him look like a bumbling fool.