Yeah, both Chinese and English subs. You often get that with movies that were made in Hong Kong - Chinese subs so that both Cantonese and Mandarin speakers can get it, and English subs because HK has English as an official language, too. I haven't looked into where 30,000 Miles was made, but I'm guessing a Hong Kong studio was involved.
It's hard to imagine it'll get a big international release. That's a shame, because the movie is decent, but it is entirely dependent on watchers knowing a bunch of Tang poets and poems. For example, one of the big laugh moments is when the hero runs into an annoying little kid, and he turns out to be Du Fu. That's really only funny if you've learned Du Fu poems at school, particularly the ones where he complains about being old. Plus, it's a three-hour animated movie. Too long for kids, too animated for adults. So I can't see it having really wide appeal outside China, unfortunately.
But it's bound to turn up on streaming somewhere fairly soon.
how did you watch it? did you just buy it or? I was trying to find a free stream but could not...
I saw it in the cinema.
It had english subs in theatres in China? Hoping for wide international release, but who knows...
Yeah, both Chinese and English subs. You often get that with movies that were made in Hong Kong - Chinese subs so that both Cantonese and Mandarin speakers can get it, and English subs because HK has English as an official language, too. I haven't looked into where 30,000 Miles was made, but I'm guessing a Hong Kong studio was involved.
It's hard to imagine it'll get a big international release. That's a shame, because the movie is decent, but it is entirely dependent on watchers knowing a bunch of Tang poets and poems. For example, one of the big laugh moments is when the hero runs into an annoying little kid, and he turns out to be Du Fu. That's really only funny if you've learned Du Fu poems at school, particularly the ones where he complains about being old. Plus, it's a three-hour animated movie. Too long for kids, too animated for adults. So I can't see it having really wide appeal outside China, unfortunately.
But it's bound to turn up on streaming somewhere fairly soon.