Hua Qian Gu (2024)

Good acting in a rather mediocre screenplay

I should mention that I have watched the drama before watching the movie. Even though it's been a while, it definitely helped me understand the plot. And this is where the major fault of the movie comes in, in my opinion. While trying to include many of the major plotlines and best-known scenes, the connections between these scenes feel really rushed and under-explained. Basically, the makers have tried to condense a 58-episode drama into a 1.5h movie. I think, if I didn't know the rough plotline, I wouldn't have been able to follow what's happening. If they had made the movie longer, it would really have helped.

In contrast to what I read in some of the comments the acting by Chen Duling, Li Chengbin and Mao Zijun is good, though. Considering the material they had to work with it's really impressive actually. In fact, I prefered Chen Duling's Xiao Gu to Zhao Liying's (even though she's doing a great job), because her Xiao Gu was not as over-the-top girly innocent (you know what I mean) as Chinese dramas will sometimes have it. I also liked that they left one scene in that was censored in the 2015 version, even though it feels like the script doesn't really explain what's going on.

CGI isn't great and the entire plot feels rushed and some scenes disconnected, but the cast really saved the show. So, in my opinon, it's still a movie worth watching but it won't change your life. I'm gonna look for more dramas with the lead actors, though.

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The Journey of the Flower Movie

All thought i watched The Journey of Flower Season 2 (Chinese sequel) The Journey of Flower 2015 (Chinese spinoff)
The Journey of Flower (Chinese remake) i wanted to mention first that I watched all three of these when they came out and back then it was really popular. Second this is what i will be reviewing the movie off of because1 they did the remake cause it was a popular drama back then. Before i write my review, i like to mention that i heard some rumors about the original cast did not want to do the remake due to there heavy scheduled. The only one that was available actor Jiang Yi Ming who played Mo Yen who played Bai Zi Hua sec brother and head one in charge.
So lets all say we know how remakes go most the time the remakes are always not so good. Lets start with the story line, of course the story line will be good if they had followed completely by the original series. One major wrong doing of this whole movie was the fact that it was way to rushed. If i was watching just this story for the first time i would not get the story at all. So i will tell you the reason behind why i think its was rushed in the movie. Yes the 58 odd ep all having around 45 mins compared to compressing all those episodes into a 2 hours movie it was not enough to know each character properly and what they had to do with the story line. they cut out MoYen story line which confused me at first and got me wondering why was he so bossy and in charge.
The movie tried to include way to many important plotlines and scenes from the drama. Even a couple scene that i watched seemed so rush that i could not understand what they were trying to do with the story line and the plot ,even after watching the dramas. In my belief if they would have maybe done a longer movie or made it into a shorter drama series instead of the 58 maybe 30 it might have made a little bit more since. To me it seems as though they were rushing the whole thing like they did not want to do the movie in the first place and it was just a place holder for actor to just get paid. I also think that if i did not watch the original i would not have known what the story lie was in the first place. Another thing to it the CGI was okay but not as good as it was the drama.
The actors seem to be saying there lines and all was good but i did not feel to much emotions like i did for the first one your suppose to feel bad for the heroine and she was slightly funny yet silly in character where as the new actress took the character as not so timmed and it did not feel like she was in love or liking Bai Zi Hua. Little pet/child Tang bo was rushed to like i don't remember that guy giving her Tang BO as a gift and i Don't remember Tang Bo drilling and going boy crazy over the mentor disciple. All in all ii would not recommend the movie to someone i would recommend the drama. One last word the actors did the best they could with what script lines they had.

Chen Du Ling aka Hua Qian Gu was in the Until The End of the Moon and i really liked her in that and also Love in Flames of War that was a really good role for her this movie role for her it really let me down and i just think it was the fact that the movie was rushed.

as far and Toby Lee aka Bai Zi Hua i watched him in Arsenal Military Academy he did a very awesome job along side BaiLu that how i got to know his acting and though will let see if hes done any movies when i found out he was staring in the Journey of the flower movie i was skeptical but when i finally watched it it did not live up to my expectations again maybe cause it was rushed but his acting allong with the whole cast was a little above par but that is it.

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