…Why is Matt Damon in this movie?
Now before you tell me Because they want Americans to see it let me remind you that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon grossed over 128 million domestic and there wasn’t a single white person in that anywhere. Heck, it wasn’t even dubbed. If you don’t think that a movie showcasing hot balloon-parachute Chinese silk-ninja versus giant ravenous maybe-dragon monsters can succeed with the American viewing public unless it’s got Matt Damon in it, then maybe you don’t really understand the American viewing public.
I’m not even fulminating about Matt Damon, here. He’s an actor, and this is a movie. Simple. Straightforward. Possibly superfluous, that’s all.
Moe Lane
Gentleman, I am afraid I have to invoke the Taggert protocol:
“What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is a goin’ on here?!”
Apparently the Chinese decided to make a movie about how the Great Wall was put up to help wuxia adepts keep giant ravenous dragon-like critters out of China. Which, you know, OK. I’m there. Nothing more is needed.
Weren’t the Mongols bad ass enough for them?
Matt Damon, you say? I’ll pass.
I dunno. He was good in Team America World Police.
Yeah, but his acting was kind of wooden though.
What use is a wall against a dragon? They can fly.
Lots of Chinese dragons are depicted as wingless.
I am wondering if they are supposed to be dragons or like the Tyrannasaurus/Velociraptor hybrids from that horrid Godzilla movie.
THERE WAS NO FIFTY-FOOT LONG, PARTHENOGENETIC EGG-LAYING GECKO GODZILLA MOVIE.
So .. you’re saying it was a mass delusion?
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Sorta like how everyone remembers Berenstein Bears, and Jar Jar Binks?
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Mew
As recompense for allowing the Taiyang Shen to assist in rescuing Matt Damon from Mars, we had to agree to him appearing in a Chinese epic.