Ip Man (2008) teaser trailer

luckystars · Post by **luckystars** » 06 Oct 2008, 16:58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59siapCCusc

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 18 Nov 2008, 20:11

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRjwHNpDrNg

Doesn't look to exciting.

I'm starting to wonder if Yen and Yip ever manage to do anything even half as good as SPL.

Beat TG · Post by **Beat TG** » 18 Nov 2008, 20:45

will be as great (or even better than) as SPL? we'll see... it certainly has the potentials.

but this looks much better than DTG and Flash Point combined, no doubt.

luckystars · Post by **luckystars** » 18 Nov 2008, 21:14

I hope so coz I thought DTG + FP = W.A.N.K.

Beat TG · Post by **Beat TG** » 19 Nov 2008, 11:25

The same trailer in better quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvh_r0_b3tc

Beat TG · Post by **Beat TG** » 20 Nov 2008, 17:58

Once again the same trailer but in original Cantonese language: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYjy69ignPM

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 20 Nov 2008, 19:52

I thought Flash Point was quite good

luckystars · Post by **luckystars** » 20 Nov 2008, 21:57

I thought it was truly bad for the most part, with a great finale

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 20 Nov 2008, 23:50

Flash Point was OK. I didnt really care about the story or the characters TBH, but the few fight sequences were pretty good, and the movie just looked very good.

It's nowhere near as good as SPL though.

eon · Post by **eon** » 22 Dec 2008, 03:44

I managed to catch half of Ip Man at a Cinema in Singapore a couple of days ago. I had to leave for the airport, so had to go early.

Of what I saw, it was pretty freaking awesome, and the people I was with (who saw it all) said it was excellent.

Great fight scenes, some good humour, and a good story to boot.

Can't wait to be able to watch the rest of it. :p

Even though I only saw half of it, I think I like it better than SPL, which I very highly regard! Flash Point I watched the other month, and it was good, but a rung or two below SPL.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 13 Jan 2009, 09:15

Sequel confirmed.

4/5
Very good film. Donnie Yen's performance was terrific here. The supporting cast was mixed bag, Simon Yam was dependable as ever. The guy playing the Japanese general was okay, as was the out-of-towner Northern-style boxing bully.

It's nice to see filmmakers who KNOW how to shoot action properly. I'm so sick of Hollywood's recent trend of shaky camerawork, close shots and lightning fast editing. It's f**king horrible most of the time, only Paul Greengrass (Bourne 2 & 3, United 93) has been able to make that style work and not seem like a turgid mess of lazy filmmaking.

Sammo's fight choreography was absolutely top notch here, much better than his efforts in Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle (Actually I thought that film was really poor, not funny at all. 2/5.)

The plot of "Patriotic martial artist vs. Foreign meanies" is utterly cliched though, but it's one of the tropes of the near-contemporary period martial arts sub-genre, so it's entirely forgivable.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 13 Jan 2009, 23:16

Another trailer here:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YkHmYJmfu ... re=related

Is the story like "Legend Of a Fighter" or "Fist of Fury", its about Bruce Lee's mentor/tutor and as you say Eva it has a "Patriotic Chinese v Foreign bad guys" story which is like a lot of MA 70's films (Hapkido, Fist of Fury etc)

Looking forward to it

Joppers · Post by **Joppers** » 14 Jan 2009, 16:45

I'd agree with the 4/5 score.

The fight scenes are superbly choreographed, and whilst the plot feels cliched, it is very well acted for the most part. It was a breath of fresh air to see minimal use of wires too!

I certainly think this is the best film Donnie has done, and I would say that it's now my favourite Wing Chun film .... sorry Warrior's Two!

Quick question, I presume that the original dialogue track for this is Cantonese?

eon · Post by **eon** » 15 Jan 2009, 12:16

I managed to watch what I missed at the cinema - yup great movie...

Joppers, original language is Mandarin.

luckystars · Post by **luckystars** » 15 Jan 2009, 13:18

Can't wait for an official DVD of this so I can finally see it!

Beat TG · Post by **Beat TG** » 15 Jan 2009, 18:06

eon wrote:original language is Mandarin.

That's the dubbed China version. The movie is in Cantonese.

eon · Post by **eon** » 17 Jan 2009, 07:02

Ahh interesting, I saw it in Singapore at the cinemas but couldn't remember if it was in Cantonese or Mandarin... so I had a look at the dvdrip that is out there, and the words seemed to match the voices, so just assumed Mandarin was the original language!

Wikipedia confirms Cantonese too.

eon · Post by **eon** » 27 Jan 2009, 13:36

Well it's now available to pre-order on most asian dvd/blu-ray stores... (dddhouse.com would be my choice), but holy crap the Blu-ray is expensive, especially against the Aussie Pesos :p What a shame, I want this movie on Blu-ray, but I'm not willing to spend the amount of money for it. :\ Could I be sacrilegeious and buy the DVD? :p

Release date is Feburary 13