New, English Narrated Trailer For Stephen Chow’s CJ7!

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1. Rhythm-X 01/10/2008 @ 12:57pm

   That’s a reasonable trailer, though perhaps a bit too much information and I feel rather like I already watched the first half of the film now.  Like KUNG FU HUSTLE, I think Columbia Pictures would be better equipped to handle this in the US than Sony Classics is.  Classics doesn’t sell lowbrow very well - they’re an outfit who’s optimized to get people to watch Kim Ki-Duk movies and WHY WE FIGHT.  When they try and go into “wacky action comedy” mode, it feels unnatural and forced, like Warren Beatty rapping in BULWORTH.  Chow is a Eighth Level Grand Master of the lowbrow.  Columbia Pictures knows how to do lowbrow and mainstream marketing.  They excel at it.

2. The Visitor 01/10/2008 @ 6:03pm

   the horrid English narration doesn’t do it justice at all, cos the Cantonese dialogue is really hilarious.

3. ChevalierAguila 01/10/2008 @ 6:50pm

   Gotta love the Shaolin Soccer bit, this looks really fun. A shame indeed that american studios have no idea how to market movies, but anyway.

4. gr67 01/10/2008 @ 8:23pm

   It really pains me to see American companies try to deal with a good asian film. They seem to take a great deal of time copying the stories of good films from Asia (infernal affairs -> the departed), but when it comes to marketing them in North America they don’t do particularly well. Its a shame, someday maybe.

5. chowchow 01/11/2008 @ 8:13pm

   i’m miffed, i live in los angeles and was eagerly waiting today hoping to see the film.  once again, sony posted incorrect information on its website.  don’t they know he’s got a large asian audience in the states?  grrrrr!  i keep on checking lammele’s and other websites but can’t find which theatres is showing this film

6. Joey Fernandez 01/13/2008 @ 1:50am

   test

7. AHTB 01/13/2008 @ 1:12pm

   There’s a english subtitled version available on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZePBF0bBdz8

8. Todd Brown 01/15/2008 @ 3:47pm

   New poster in the stills gallery.

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