First Trailer For Supernatural Kung Fu Film PAINTED SKIN Arrives!

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1. Rhythm-X 08/12/2008 @ 2:26pm

   How long, for that matter, has it been since Bey Logan mentioned Dragon Dynasty acquiring BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR in passing on his blog only to have nothing ever come of it?

   I point this out only because I can’t actually comment on the PAINTED SKIN trailer, as it doesn’t play. Other videos in the Twitch Player work, but not that one.

2. kenixfan 08/12/2008 @ 2:54pm

   Yeah, didn’t work for me either.  Here’s a link to a You Tube one:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ykXBpdfRQ

   The English title cards make me wonder if this is a fan-translated trailer or something?

   Looks pretty weak to me—I’m getting sick of Donnie Yen now, esp. after Empress; and Zhou Wei is a decent actress but this just isn’t doing it for me.

   Makes me want to dig out my old Bride 1 and 2 Taiseng DVDs instead.

3. kenixfan 08/12/2008 @ 2:56pm

   Ooops, I meant Zhao Wei; was thinking of Zhou Xun probably.

4. Todd Brown 08/12/2008 @ 2:59pm

   Whoops, uploaded the wrong version.  It works now.  And no, not a fan translation ... this is basically one of the promo sales videos they had in Cannes.  Looks much better in better resolution ...

5. iamsheep 08/12/2008 @ 5:38pm

   I was doing post-production on a TV show when this was being filmed on a closed set in Hengdian (southern China). All I know about the production was that they had a lot of money (compared to the show I was working on) and it was being edited on set with a macbook pro. I know the boom operator and he said it was a typical hong kong wire-fu film. This story has been made several times I think. I’m not sure how this will turn out but the trailer looked quite...meh.

6. The Amazing Psycho Per 08/12/2008 @ 5:41pm

   Mmm… I hope it does look better in better resolution… For now it has a TV series vibe to it… Not that there is anything wrong with TV series but I think it is legitimate to expect better cinematography from a theatrically released movie.  I really hope it is THIS video that has quality issue.

7. Novastar 08/12/2008 @ 5:56pm

   It Looks like they’ve shot the movie in HD. The bride with white hair makes a come back. First we saw her in ‘The forbiden Kingdom ,now in this movie.

8. The Visitor 08/12/2008 @ 6:55pm

   the music is so ... 80s synth and all. hehehe.

9. cjhobbies00 08/12/2008 @ 7:12pm

   UGH...this is a dud, i’m 99.9% sure.  The acting was suspect by all parties involved, the atmosphere nowhere near dark enough for the story being told.  Cheap cgi instead of creative makeup.  And I had such high hopes for a real HK style film.  Sad that I might die never seeing another “real” HK film again.

10. zen99 08/12/2008 @ 7:18pm

    maybe worth checking out simply for the overwrought sound design.

11. Rhythm-X 08/13/2008 @ 12:04am

    That music sucked.  That looked watchable, but it certainly didn’t seem like anything to write home about.  That was directed by Gordon Chan?  Looks extremely digital and rather cheap.

12. DrBaltar 08/13/2008 @ 2:18am

    Diabolical subtitles, bad trailer....it would be a nice surprise if the film is any good.

13. M@rc 08/13/2008 @ 3:54am

    Damn, how disappointing. Hopefully it’s the trailer that’s bad, not the movie itself.

14. studboi69 08/13/2008 @ 12:27pm

    Wow this is a terrible trailer. Now I realize the Chinese can’t match the high-quality trailer production skills of Hollywood, but this is just plain sad. The lazy synth music, the Powerpoint-ish text cards, the lack of epicness. Even an amatuer film student could make a better trailer than this. I just hope that it isn’t indicative of the film’s quality.

15. ChevalierAguila 08/14/2008 @ 1:59am

    “Now I realize the Chinese can’t match the high-quality trailer production skills of Hollywood”

    That was sarcasm....right? I mean, hollywood movies have good trailers? They are usually quite awful.

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