‘No, I don’t have a daughter for you to marry and we’re not going on a road trip to hand out wedding invitations. This isn’t that kind of Journey.’ Photos: GSC Movies
CGI-heavy blockbusters from China, Hong Kong, India, or any other Asian countries for that matter – except for maybe Japan and South Korea – have always been hit-and-miss affairs.
Despite scoring US$168mil in China alone, there’s no denying that 2014’s The Monkey King was plagued by cheap-looking and even just plain bad CGI and visual effects, not to mention a slapdash narrative that barely made sense despite being based on something as familiar as Wu Cheng’en’s classic novel Journey To The West.
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