The Forbidden Kingdom (April 18)
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The Forbidden Kingdom (April 18)
what do you guys think about this movie? jet li meets jackie chan right? but the overall plot concept seems totally cliched and the director of the movie doesn't seem like the type to direct a good martial arts movie...
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- John MacArthur
"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
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"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther
"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
- Dr. Joseph Ton, the exiled Romanian pastor (quoted by James Montgomery Boice)
"The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to condemn the whole world."
- John Bunyan
"If the Christian has lost sight of Calvary, that shows that he has lost his way."
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jon_jinn - Posts: 3261
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Jackie Chan said in an interview (with a Chinese newspaper, of course), that the movie kind of sucks and it's made for Americans. (Gotta love that he's so blatantly honest-- to Chinese people.)
That won't stop me from watching it, but I won't waltz in with hugely great expectations. Still expect the fights and the ambience to be good. Jackie Chan as a drunkard should be amusing.
That won't stop me from watching it, but I won't waltz in with hugely great expectations. Still expect the fights and the ambience to be good. Jackie Chan as a drunkard should be amusing.
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minakichan - Posts: 1547
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meh..looks ok i liked the looks of the posters but the trailers look very meh
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minakichan (post: 1215744) wrote:Jackie Chan said in an interview (with a Chinese newspaper, of course), that the movie kind of sucks and it's made for Americans. (Gotta love that he's so blatantly honest-- to Chinese people.)
ha ha ha! that's pretty funny! (considering i'm Chinese)
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"Sometimes we don't present the Gospel well enough for the non-elect to reject it."
- John MacArthur
"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll
"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther
"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
- Dr. Joseph Ton, the exiled Romanian pastor (quoted by James Montgomery Boice)
"The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to condemn the whole world."
- John Bunyan
"If the Christian has lost sight of Calvary, that shows that he has lost his way."
- J.I. Packer[/SIZE]
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"Sometimes we don't present the Gospel well enough for the non-elect to reject it."
- John MacArthur
"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper
"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)
"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper
"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper
"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul
"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll
"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther
"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
- Dr. Joseph Ton, the exiled Romanian pastor (quoted by James Montgomery Boice)
"The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin in it to condemn the whole world."
- John Bunyan
"If the Christian has lost sight of Calvary, that shows that he has lost his way."
- J.I. Packer[/SIZE]
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jon_jinn - Posts: 3261
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Okay, so in spite of all the negativity flying around this movie...
I completely loved it. Yes, it was very Neverending Story meets Fushigi Yugi (but also some LoTR thrown in there), and more than a little cheesy, but so what? Jackie Chan seems to have popped some stereoids or something since Rush Hour 3 and his epic fight scene with Jet Li was just all kinds of awesome. I was immensely pleased with this movie and would totally see it again/buy on DVD.
I completely loved it. Yes, it was very Neverending Story meets Fushigi Yugi (but also some LoTR thrown in there), and more than a little cheesy, but so what? Jackie Chan seems to have popped some stereoids or something since Rush Hour 3 and his epic fight scene with Jet Li was just all kinds of awesome. I was immensely pleased with this movie and would totally see it again/buy on DVD.
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I'll be seeing this movie this weekend. I think it looks like most of those flicks in this genre, very kung-fu-ish with a cliched but fun story. It kind of looks like the Wizard of Oz Asian style what with the Witch and everything. ^__^ Plus, I am biased I love Jackie Chan and Jet Li. They're just so darn cute.
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yukoxholic - Posts: 944
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I wasn't all that impressed with "Forbidden Kingdom". My girlfriend and I saw that movie last night. The fight scene between Jackie Chan and Jet Li was pretty cool, and there was one really funny scene that happens when they were in the desert, but overall I thought the film lacked the creativity that it needed.
Unless Jackie Chan is teamed up with the right actor (Chris Tucker and Owen Wilson), then the movie isn't as good as it should be. Chris Tucker was great at bringing all the humor to the "Rush Hour" movies and Owen Wilson has several good one-liners in "Shanghai Noon". With "Forbidden Kingdom", you had two Hong Kong martial arts masters teamed up and their was plenty of action, but the chemistry between the two were not there. I'm not trying to be evil, but that's what I think.
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FKeel - Posts: 11
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i must say, it was worth it just for the lines that jackie said when the boy asked him to teach him kung fu
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Deshi_calanor - Posts: 10
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It was ok. Soo many cliches though i understand kung fu movies have alot of cliches anyways but why use all of them at once XD.
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