A Mediocre Remake That Taste like Plain Water
I am sure many who had watched this should either have watched the hong kong or early china remakes. I personally had watched the 1997 remake where we have Felix Wong, Benny Chan and Stephen Fan as well as The 2013 version from Wallace Chung, Kim Kimkibum, and Han Dong. Both of these are pretty good remakes though I lean more towards 1997 version but hey...2013 is not bad either, but not perfect.So, acting.. The Qiao Feng of this remake seems really lack of leadership energy, and he seems to more like...he was paid to do what he is supposed to do..nothing more, nothing less...thats the actor for Qiao Feng. As for Duan Yu, he is supposed to be comic relieve of the story, due to his playfulness but this version makes him more childish and really weak as well. The one who played Xu Zhu is fine, I would say. Wang Yu Yin of this drama is kind of a hateful character and I felt that this role has always been challenging for any leads before Janice Man. Dont see her excel in this, which is a waste. Special Shoutout to A-Zhi. I never think that I will dislike (99/100) the character in this remake, damn annoying to the brim. Based on previous remake, they should have learn to make more likeable but nahhhhh its a competition.
Now, what I see apart from acting is how storytelling is done because lets be honest, you want to tell a story that satisfy your audience and leave them hanging like a loose branch. I like how they give audience a glimpse of all the characters at the first episode. In fact, its really cool to see Xu Zhu and Duan Yu very early in the series and slowly brings them into the bigger picture. What really triggered me was truly the last episode. OMGawd! they could have taken the last episode to fix a few more of their issue like fixing Duan Yus remaining story arc and give him that sweet ending he has been earning. 2013 failed to do so, and 2021 would happily followed suit. Come onnn, I heard that one of the version where Duan Yu married all three of his love interest...but if not, why not have that episode to have all his other sisters reunite and live happily ever after as a family....oh well, suspense ehh...not a good one.
Also, special complain. Fighting scenes...sucks unless youre a fan of slow motion martial arts, then you will like it.
Overall, its a remake that boasts nothing, just like an ensemble of more pretty faces with no hallow inside...but yeaa.
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Just... Meh
I'll start with I haven't watched the 2003 drama with this same title, so in case I missed out on something, it's because of that.I don't even know where to start.... It is my pet peeve when writers put so many events into a single episode of a drama and the whole drama then becomes PACKED. Let the plot brew and breathe for a sec, I can't keep up with you.
In the episodes I watched, there was mostly Duan Yu plot and honestly, they could've just cut this story out and call it "the ridiculous adventures of Duan Yu". His plot in those episodes was just.... Crazy. When he found out about the first half sister, okay, when he found out about his second half sister drama minutes moments after, I was just "well.... O-kay? Weird" And when there was the indication of a third half sister because apparently every woman who had a child with Duan Yu's father has a blood revenge on him and the Duan Family, I called it quits.
I put "not planing to drop drama" in the review but idk, I was thinking of dropping it after episode 4 already, then episode 6 and I don't know what kept me until episode 12. Very probably Bai Shu, even though characters like Duan Yu (dummies who are actually just too innocent and pure hearted for the world but gosh darn it, learn something from your actions at least???) are another pet peeve of mine.
There are some things I loved about this drama though, one is soundtrack, the music and singing matched beautifully to the scenery. Two is the what looks like warm autumn weather, when this drama was shot. And three is the teachings of the monks, my infj heart deeply appreciated those words.
I am curious about how this ends, might watch it until the end but right now, I am so tired of Duan Yu diving head first into all of the deep and murky waters.
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Why to happily skip this drama
Please am begging you to skip this drama if uYou are not ready to stop watching cdrama cause that how this drama will make u feel all because of the main act boy the character is not the cute stupid type it's the stupid irritating annoying type that will make you imagine yourself inside the drama slapping that guy to grow up and not spoil other past wuxia heroes cause that the part the guy is playing ,dont know whether the director or writer thought ppl will like that style of acting from the main character dan or duan yu but its like an awesome drama with the most useless main guy character,loved him from love and redemption but the hatred I have for this character here is making me forget he is a good actor playing the most stupid role please if you have watched other martial art heroes film please skip this one it can make you stop watching martial art cdrama
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worst tlbb, 3 star in douban, cheapskate
i am a fan of tlbb. my warning, dun watch this. so many failures. Opening song so wimpy, first scene already set me off. the floor are concrete, everything feels like so fake. I hate the filming method: take part of body only. u see face only , next foot only, and so on, and camera shaking during fight scene. I can't enjoy this, This is CHEAPSKATE filming.Further more, the cast seems wrong, no chemistries and the plot... Sorry I cant continue, I got inner damage/nei shang, just vomitted too much blood.
The best one is still 2003 version or HK version.
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