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May. 5th, 2020 10:59 pmI have now seen both Untamed tie-in movies!
The Living Dead is the one in which Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui go on a ghost-fighting adventure and, unfortunately, I did not think it was much good at all.
Some facts about The Living Dead:
- the town in which Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui find themselves were apparently famous for making lanterns for the Wen clan ... last year. The film takes place postcanon. The Wens have been defeated for sixteen years. Nobody finds this at all confusing but us.
- the most prominent NPC has an elaborately tragic tale to tell about his beloved sister. Wen Qing's name is not mentioned one single time.
- relatedly, Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui do not have a single conversation about their shared history or any of the things that tie them together
- the most prominent NPC has like half an hour of extensive backstory flashback
- Wen Ning has two minutes of character development in the film in which to be mildly sad about being a zombie
- Lan Sizhui has no minutes of character development, none at all
( spoilers )
Fatal Journey is the one where the Nie brothers go on a road trip to fight their ancestors' bad decisions and it is significantly better in that the characters we know a.) act like the characters we know b.) have significant emotional development based on, in fact, their characters and c.) occasionally form a gratuitous human pyramid!
I actually really enjoyed many things about this film, including:
- the fact that Nie Huaisang does quite a lot of things that are useful and absolutely none of them are fighty
- genuinely adorable and emotionally affecting Small Nie Brothers flashbacks
- it's very funny that the Nie tomb inexplicably opens up into the Mines of Moria
- truly amazing special effects
- seriously I'm not sure I've ever laughed so hard during a fight scene
- WHEN MINGJUE'S HAIR SPONTANEOUSLY UNBRAIDS ITSELF AND EXPLODES IN A TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE POOF
- I DIED
( spoilers )
things I did not enjoy about this film:
- Nie Huaisang's wig for this movie has no braids in it? I don't understand?? costumers why
The Living Dead is the one in which Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui go on a ghost-fighting adventure and, unfortunately, I did not think it was much good at all.
Some facts about The Living Dead:
- the town in which Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui find themselves were apparently famous for making lanterns for the Wen clan ... last year. The film takes place postcanon. The Wens have been defeated for sixteen years. Nobody finds this at all confusing but us.
- the most prominent NPC has an elaborately tragic tale to tell about his beloved sister. Wen Qing's name is not mentioned one single time.
- relatedly, Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui do not have a single conversation about their shared history or any of the things that tie them together
- the most prominent NPC has like half an hour of extensive backstory flashback
- Wen Ning has two minutes of character development in the film in which to be mildly sad about being a zombie
- Lan Sizhui has no minutes of character development, none at all
( spoilers )
Fatal Journey is the one where the Nie brothers go on a road trip to fight their ancestors' bad decisions and it is significantly better in that the characters we know a.) act like the characters we know b.) have significant emotional development based on, in fact, their characters and c.) occasionally form a gratuitous human pyramid!
I actually really enjoyed many things about this film, including:
- the fact that Nie Huaisang does quite a lot of things that are useful and absolutely none of them are fighty
- genuinely adorable and emotionally affecting Small Nie Brothers flashbacks
- it's very funny that the Nie tomb inexplicably opens up into the Mines of Moria
- truly amazing special effects
- seriously I'm not sure I've ever laughed so hard during a fight scene
- WHEN MINGJUE'S HAIR SPONTANEOUSLY UNBRAIDS ITSELF AND EXPLODES IN A TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE POOF
- I DIED
( spoilers )
things I did not enjoy about this film:
- Nie Huaisang's wig for this movie has no braids in it? I don't understand?? costumers why
