By Rob Bricken in
Movies
Tuesday, Mar. 9 2010 @ 4:07PM
The first two Bryan Singer-directed X-Men movies were all right, but I'm afraid compared to this new trailer for the Hong Kong flick Future X-Cops, they just don't hold up. I mean, both X-Men and X-2 had a severe lack of:
• Cyborg hitmen
• Bulletproof metal bat wings
• Men with multi-headed dragons for arms
• People throwing occupied roller coasters at each other
• Andy Lau pulling off M. Bison's Psycho Crusher move
• Andy Lau also driving a flying mini-jet into a woman, then proceeding to drive it and her through three or so walls
• Some dude spinning a Ferris wheel around -- by hand -- so fast that the cars fly off
Advantage: Future X-Cops. Sorry, Wolverine. I'm afraid you're no longer quite the best at what you do. (Via Gamma Squad)
18 comments
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DoctorSmashy said:
The dragon arm guy looks badass.
Minus points for stealing the Wanted bullet.
Supermarioman said:
It should be a legal obligation for everyone to watch this movie.
DoctorSmashy said:
The dragon arm guy looks badass.
Minus points for stealing the Wanted bullet.
Xenos said:
Meh. I think it looks as overblown and soulless and X-men 3. It looks less like a movie and more like a kid playing with action figures, a comment a friend made which I found to be the best review of X-Men 3.
DoctorSmashy replied to Xenos:
I actually wrote the script and story for X-Men Origins: Wolverine while playing with my action figures as a child.
mrm1138 said:
Referring to X2: X-Men United as just "all right" is blasphemy of the highest order. I order you to watch X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine on repeat for 24 hours straight as penance.
clashcty said:
Cheese aside, this looks like fun.
bathingape said:
meh...just meh... Looks like an Asylum movie.
dnwilliams said:
So bad it's god from the title up.
Monkey boy said:
So you're a fan of so-bad-it-looks-like-a-cartoon cgi? Maybe it's supposed to be cheesy but meh...looks kinda lame to me.
Evil Monkey Pope said:
We would've had bulletproof metal batwings in the X-movies already if they had gotten to Archangel. Speaking of which, there's a great Archangel joke in The New Tick #2.
Kris replied to Evil Monkey Pope:
Exactly what I was going to say. :P
Kris replied to Evil Monkey Pope:
Also, New Tick? What? Where? From Whom?
Redion replied to Kris:
Benito Cereno is the writer, and it's pretty funny. only two issues so far. the issues are expensive though, 5 bucks a pop. but its bi-monthly or so.
HBCat said:
Er... did anyone else notice that the clingy lady was grabbing onto the dude's EARS while trying to kiss him (@1:45min)???? I guess she really didn't want him to pull away huh?
lokifire said:
So Andy Lau is a cyborg. That explains SO MUCH.
Alien Rope Burn said:
Wonder if there's any relation to the old HK badfilm "Future Cops", which has the exact same plot, only in that one, the villains and heroes from the future are ripoffs of Street Fighter characters who gain their powers from microchips embedded in them. No, really.
It was also, by default, the best Street Fighter movie ever. No, really.
... which also starred Andy Lau, so I'm thinking there's a relation, though the previous film was a copyright-violation masterpiece, so it looks like they're at least divorcing from doing an obvious rip again.
PossibleMisnomer replied to Alien Rope Burn:
I honestly thought this was about Future Cops.
It is the best SF movie ever, especially if you watch it with bad English subs. The scene of Ekin Cheng's Ken blowing up a convenience store by hucking hadokens at Jacky Cheung's Guile is a must-see.
Also, Chingmy Yau is a pretty sexy Chun-Li.
