#i mean its called detective chinatown. its about two chinese dudes going around the word solving crimes

[astranauticus]

not to beat a dead horse but im watching todd in the shadows' debunking james somerton video and for some reason the one that really got to me was him disproving the 'detective chinatown 3's box office numbers were faked' claim with just .... no? it was just a really popular movie?

#asto speaks #like honestly i laughed like i think i watched that video with that claim in it before i watched the detective chinatown movies but like #its SUPER plausible for that movie to do absurdly well like a. the detective chinatown series is INCREDIBLY famous and popular in china #like the first two movies were MASSIVE smash hits #b. the lead actors are all super famous? like liu haoran is one of the big rising movie stars in chinese cinema #and this is the franchise that more or less made liu haoran #and wang baoqiang is also a *super* famous movie actor #also as far as i can tell dc3 being the japan one and therefore tsumabuki satoshi was gna be it also probably helped #oh thats another funny detail bc a LOT of people were there for the gay ship of liu haoran and tsumabuki satoshis characters #like dc2 set up their r/s but hiroshi noda (tsumabuki's character) wasnt that big in it but he was supposed to be a much bigger role in dc3 #like yknow. ironic in context #also 'holiday weekend' doesnt quite capture the impact that is 'released on lunar new year weekend' #like that is THE blockbuster time slot of the YEAR #especially since detective chinatown is such a. idk whats the word. patriotic sort of series #i mean its called detective chinatown. its about two chinese dudes going around the word solving crimes #also dc3 is riding the high of dc2 which was 70% shitting on america by volume #(also the movie that ruined welcome to new york by taylor swift for me wonder how much they paid for the rights to that) #i mean i dont *like* dc2 but i have to acknowledge that it was probably the most popular detective chinatown movie #like the detective chinatown movies are perfect lunar new year movies like day after the family gathering dinner and you got like #all these people and nothing to do like ok lets go watch a movie thats 30% cool people doing cool things 70% bullshit slapstick comedy #so yknow. this is really obviously a movie that was primed to do super well in every possible way of course its numbers are gonna be good